Brandon Rahbar: “I think it’s much more likely that Chris Paul plays next season in Oklahoma City than he doesn’t. I would guess Chris Paul plays next year in OKC.” -Royce Young on the Daily Thunder Podcast
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In Cuban’s proposal, the top 10 teams from both conferences would qualify for the postseason and be re-seeded based on record. There would be two play-in matchups — either single games or a best-of-three series — pitting seeds 17 vs. 20 and 18 vs. 19. The winners would advance to play the 15th and 16th seeds for the final spots in the playoff bracket. The playoffs would then proceed with best-of-seven series.
John Wall fully recovered from Achilles injury
Fred Katz: John Wall: “I’m 110 percent. I’m healthy.” I will answer the follow-up, since he and the organization have said it 392 times: No, he does not plan on playing this season, even if there are more Wizards regular-season games to be played.
Marc Stein: Amid so much chatter about the dizzying number of schedule/playoff structure formats flying around the NBA this week: Some teams expect the NBA Draft to now land in September … with forecasts of free agency starting as late as Oct. 1 The line, of course, may keep moving
Jim Boylen to be fired soon?
Daniel Greenberg: @ChiSportUpdates “Behind the scenes they are ready to move on from Jim Boylen. The thing about this is timing and how they want to do this. The decision is all but made.” – @JCowleyHoops on the Chicago Bulls (Via Dan Bernstein Show on 670 The Score)
Andrew Lopez: Sense I’ve always gotten from talking to folks around the Pelicans organization was that the players wanted to play… but they also wanted a path to the playoffs. Dame’s comments this morning are what a lot of players feel I think: Give us a path to the playoffs or go with 16.
