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Hamidou Diallo Rumors
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Position: G
Born: 07/31/98
Height: 6-5 / 1.96
Weight:198 lbs. / 89.8 kg.
Salary: $1,416,852
Born: 07/31/98
Height: 6-5 / 1.96
Weight:198 lbs. / 89.8 kg.
Salary: $1,416,852
Hamidou Diallo: RIP Pop 😢 Woo💫 Forever 🙏🏽
“We’re with him through his highs and his lowest points,” Thunder guard Hamidou Diallo said about Paul. “We know that this hit him hard, just because he’s been around the game so long and he’s actually had moments with him. “It’s pretty tough on him and his family. Their family bonded with each other, not only Chris. He had to be there for his family.”
Hamidou Diallo soared over Shaquille O’Neal in the defining moment of the 2019 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Diallo was crowned the champion, and it’s a title he’s willing to defend in February if healthy. “Of course,” Diallo told The Oklahoman on Thursday. “If I’m healthy, 100 percent. I’m a competitor.”
If healthy, Diallo said he doesn’t need an invitation to participate. “I won the dunk contest,” Diallo said. “I’m pretty much invited as long as everything goes smooth.” As for his biggest competition? “I’m the competition,” Diallo said. “I’m the winner. I’m the competition for them. I’m going in with the crown.”
Erik Horne: Hamidou Diallo, Danilo Gallinari and Dennis Schroder all available for the Thunder tonight, per Billy Donovan. Luguentz Dort back on assignment with the G League Blue.
Erik Horne: Billy Donovan said Hamidou Diallo has “responded well” in rehab after suffering a hyperextension sprain in his right elbow Nov. 22. Thunder are charting amount of shots he’s taking in post-practice.
Erik Horne: Hamidou Diallo has a hyperextension sprain in his right elbow and will be reevaluted in the upcoming days, per the Thunder. Diallo is out for Monday at Golden State.
Maddie Lee: Hamidou Diallo is available tonight vs. the Lakers, per Billy Donovan.
Jon Hamm: Thunder list both Hamidou Diallo and Andre Roberson as out for tonight’s game against the Lakers.
Erik Horne: Billy Donovan says Hamidou Diallo (knee soreness) is out tonight against the Clippers. Diallo will be re-evaluated before the Thunder plays the Lakers on Tuesday.
Erik Horne: Final: Thunder 115, Pelicans 104. Thunder finally wins a tight game, holding the Pelicans to four points in the final 4:03. SGA 23-8-4 Schroder 17-9-2 Bazley 17 p, 5 r Gallinari 16 p, 4 r Paul 15-1-9 Diallo 12-5-1
Maddie Lee: Hamidou Diallo (left ankle) is available tonight, per Billy Donovan.
Maddie Lee: Hamidou Diallo (left ankle) did not practice today, per Billy Donovan. His status for tomorrow’s game is TBD.
Thunder coach Billy Donovan warned that Bazley, like all young players, will have ups and downs during the season. OKC saw that with Hamidou Diallo in his rookie year last season. Diallo was averaging 5.4 points in 12.7 minutes per game through December, but as opposing teams got to know his tendencies better, Diallo fell out of the rotation. That’s normal. “He’s experiencing a lot of different things,” Donovan said of Bazley. “My biggest thing for him is, as he learns and grows and gets better and has some success, he needs to stay really, really humble. … And he’s got to stay eager to work and eager to learn. He’s got all the challenges, the difficulties, the adversities that come with being a young player. He’s going to have to have the resiliency to work through those things. If he keeps that kind of attitude, he’s going to really improve.”
Diallo said his elbow is great following surgery in April and a four-game run at the Las Vegas Summer League in which he averaging 14.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game. “I haven’t even noticed that I had surgery,” Diallo said. “I was just speaking with the medical staff about it. Pretty much don’t even feel it anymore, so it’s doing well.”
The highlight of Diallo’s first season was winning the 2019 Slam Dunk Contest at All-Star Weekend in Charlotte. But the soft-spoken Diallo is looking to follow that up with more assertiveness despite his age and inexperience. “Now that I’m in Year 2 just try to lead, be outspoken,” Diallo said. “Last year, I was pretty much just coming in and soaking it all in. This year, I’ll definitely soak some in, but this year I can speak my opinion.”
Second-year guard and Queens native Hamidou Diallo found out about his team’s off-season moves the same way the rest of the world did: on social media. When the Oklahoma City Thunder traded Paul George to the Clippers for a treasure trove of draft assets, then subsequently moved Russell Westbrook to the Rockets for Chris Paul, Diallo didn’t know any of it was coming. “No. No idea at all. That really hit home base,” he said after a visit to the National Basketball Players Association summer youth basketball camp on Thursday.
Hamidou Diallo: “I didn’t know anything. And, I mean, it’s the NBA. That happens. Different players move, sometimes bigger players, sometimes small players. It’s the NBA; it’s a business and you’ve got to look out for yourself.”
Diallo says he hasn’t spoke to Chris Paul since the trade, but he has a relationship with Paul after attending Paul’s youth basketball camp and working out with the All-Star guard in the past. He’s ready to get on the court with one of his idols, but until then, Diallo wants to improve in every area of his game, specifically his basketball I.Q. “I feel like that’s the biggest game-changer, just knowing the game and seeing out the floor, and sniffing things out before they can happen,” he said, before explaining: “Just watching film, and pretty much sitting there and breaking up film, seeing things that I was doing on the court.”
Maddie Lee: Thunder announced that Hamidou Diallo underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow today. He was listed as out last night with right elbow soreness. He’s expected to return to basketball-related activities in about four weeks.
Maddie Lee: Thunder listed Hamidou Diallo (right elbow soreness) as out for tomorrow’s game.
Erik Horne: The Thunder has recalled Hamidou Diallo from the G League @okcblue. Diallo had 26 points (10-for-17 FGs), eight rebounds and three steals against Sioux Falls on Tuesday.
Maddie Lee: The Thunder announced it has recalled Hamidou Diallo from the Blue.
Maddie Lee: The Thunder announced that it has assigned Hamidou Diallo to the Blue. He’s expected to suit up for their home game this afternoon.
You probably don’t know that Hamidou Diallo has beaten one of America’s most scintillating skywalkers in a battle for slam-dunk superiority. You probably haven’t heard that three years ago Diallo squared off with current Duke freshman Zion Williamson in a throwdown showdown and came away a winner, that at the 2016 Under Armour Elite 24 dunk contest, he beat Williamson in a spectacular final round. You probably aren’t aware of this because it is not, strictly speaking, true. “I won,” Diallo told The Athletic this week. “I had won. I just didn’t complete the (last) dunk. If I had completed the dunk, I would have won. But basically I won. I did everything to make me a winner up to that point. I just didn’t complete the dunk.”
Delk gives Diallo a shot on Saturday, if he can overcome the nerves that are certain to come with the bright lights of an All-Star Saturday night. And who knows? Maybe someday he and Williamson will meet again in a dunk contest. “You know you’re doing something as a high school kid when you’re getting the NBA guys standing up and making faces,” Delk said. “Those guys were doing it that night.”
Brett Dawson: The Thunder have recalled Hamidou Diallo following his game with the Blue today.
Royce Young: Hamidou Diallo wouldn’t give many hints about the dunk contest, but says he’s not a fan of props and that his favorite dunker ever is Zach LaVine.
Chris Haynes: Oklahoma City guard Hamidou Diallo is expected to compete in the Slam Dunk Contest at All-Star Weekend, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
Erik Horne: Steven Adams (right ankle sprain) and Terrance Ferguson (mid-back spasms) are both out tonight against the Magic. Nerlens Noel and Hamidou Diallo will start.
When Anthony Davis subbed in for the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday night at the 9:49 mark of the second quarter of their game against the Oklahoma City Thunder, it put a remarkable six former Kentucky Wildcats on the floor at the same time. The occasion was noted by their former coach, John Calipari in a post on Twitter soon after it happened.
Erik Horne: Queens native Hamdiou Diallo when asked what it felt like to originally be drafted by the Brooklyn Nets: “Uhh yeah … It was a cool … cool couple of minutes.”
Royce Young: Hamidou Diallo is available to play tonight. Terrance Ferguson is not.
Erik Horne: Billy Donovan said Terrance Ferguson and Hamidou Diallo (ankle sprains) are doing more in practice, but no update on when/if they’ll be available this week. FWIW, Diallo did a really nonchalant hammer dunk in post-practice.
