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Some sleuthing around and it became clear. Spencer Dinw…

1 year ago – via NetsDaily
Some sleuthing around and it became clear. Spencer Dinwiddie is part of a Harvard program for athletes that has previously included Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. According to Boston.com, “Crossover Into Business,” is a semester-long program at Harvard Business School taught by professor Anita Elberse. The program is designed to help pro athletes better prepare themselves for “business activities during and after their active sports careers.” In this year’s class, there’s Dinwiddie, the Celtics guard Kyrie Irving, Pistons center Zaza Pachulia, and Nuggets forward Paul Millsap.

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What is LaMelo’s relationship with Lonzo like? It seems like Lonzo could give him some good advice. Mirin Fader: “That is one of the most interesting things that I wish I had more space in the story to explore. Obviously, they’re close and they have a relationship, but I think they were much closer growing up than they are now. I found it peculiar when I asked LaMelo about the kind of advice that Lonzo gives him, he said something like, ‘Oh, just be yourself.’ I thought, ‘That’s cool, but I was more so wondering about what advice he gives on the court? What does he tell you about what it’s like bringing the ball up against the best defenders? What is it like defending [NBA players] every night for 82 games?’ He was like, ‘Honestly, I get that stuff from [his manager] Jermaine [Jackson].’ So, I’m not sure what that’s about.”
7 hours ago – via audioBoom

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Mirin Fader, continued: “Are they less close? Why is he closer to Jermaine? I think there was some untied threads there. Maybe it’s geography or proximity… But at the end of the day, he did stress, ‘That’s my brother, I love him, I respect him. I want to be better than him.’ But I do think he’s, in a way, closer to Jermaine in that regard. I don’t know if that’s because he’s spending every waking moment with Jermaine? But I think one of interesting things to come out of the piece about the relationship with Lonzo is when Melo said, ‘I watched how he (Lonzo) dealt with the Alan Foster situation’ – with the stealing money from him – and he said, ‘Everybody makes mistakes.’ So he’s looking at Lonzo as having made a mistake for trusting this guy, and I thought that was interesting…”
7 hours ago – via audioBoom

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November 21, 2019 | 7:47 pm UTC Update

9 hours ago – via KSATRJ

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Storyline: Sneaker Deals
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But on June 30, there was no five-year maximum offer for Butler, multiple sources say. Perhaps the Sixers pivoted after learning of Horford’s interest in joining. Perhaps they were concerned about tension between Butler and some within the team, including on the coaching staff. Maybe those two things were interrelated. Like every team chasing Butler, they probably wondered how he would age.
11 hours ago – via Zach Lowe @ ESPN

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They have so many coaches, Brown took the unusual step of excising some — the player development group, some strength and conditioning personnel — from his film sessions. That decision tears at Brown. “I don’t feel right about it,” Brown says. “I want the young coaches to hear my voice. But you reach a point where there are just too many people.” Team sources insist the decision is unrelated to leaks last January about Butler questioning Brown at a film session.)
11 hours ago – via Zach Lowe @ ESPN

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Butler didn’t publicly weep or need any heartfelt consoling, as Joel Embiid did in the immediate aftermath of that shot. But the pain was just the same, if not more, because Butler had never been closer to a possible ring at any other point in his first eight seasons in the NBA. “It just goes to show you how fragile life is. Not just basketball. Life,” Butler said in an interview with The Athletic. “How things can change in an instant, in the snap of a finger and it hurts because you think about what could’ve been. What happens if we win that game? Do we win a championship? Am I in Philly? All of these ifs. Who knows?
11 hours ago – via Michael Lee @ The Athletic

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“I don’t give a damn. I don’t,” Butler continued. “I ain’t battling a rep. If you’re one of my teammates, you know better than that. That’s the part that helps me cope with it all. If you played with me, ask my teammates that, like, we fuck with each other. If you don’t like me, you don’t like me. But to say that I was on your team and I did some bullshit to you? Nah. I was on some team and I didn’t have your back? Nah. That’s just not how I operate. It’s just not who I am. That’s why I don’t worry about nothing. I want all my teammates to be happy. If you feel like you don’t have a voice. I know somebody that got a voice. And his voice is loud. It may be taken as being challenging. It may be taken as being a team cancer. That individual is OK with it, because I know that you my teammate. You my guy. I’m rocking with you. I’ve always been like that. I’m always going to be like that.”
11 hours ago – via Michael Lee @ The Athletic

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Hachimura, who has drawn comparisons to Jabari Parker, Terry Cummings, Antawn Jamison and Pascal Siakam, among others, according to NBA pundits Hoop Scoop has contacted in recent days, recognizes that getting to the free-throw line on a consistent basis is something he needs to do more of. He’s only attempted 18 free throws, but made 5 of 6 against the Spurs. Being aggressive and scoring inside, even when contact is made by an opponent, is a priority. “Yeah, you have to,” Hachimura said, referring to completing scoring chances at the rim, according to The Washington Times. “Even if I get fouled, you have to go up strong.”
11 hours ago – via Ed Odeven @ Japan Times

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The Knicks had to really sink south for a coaching change to be made by Game 20. Indications are it was far-fetched for a change to be made this early anyway. Was owner James Dolan, who has given Fizdale private reassurances, really going to let president Mills hire a new coach from the outside on a long-term deal with Fizdale still having at least one season fully guaranteed on his pact for 2020-21? Sources indicated the major deterrent to making a change at Thanksgiving was the sketchy alternative of promoting one of the assistants – Jud Buechler, Keith Smart or Kaleb Canales.
11 hours ago – via Marc Berman @ New York Post

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Storyline: David Fizdale Hot Seat?
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11 hours ago – via Sportando

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Storyline: Pau Gasol Free Agency
“It’s so many good memories,” said Deng of his decade with the Bulls from No. 7 pick in the 2004 draft until a 2014 trade to Cleveland. “When you are going through it, you really don’t see it that way. You’re in the league, you’re trying to prove a point, you’re trying to be the best player you can be. Every day, ‘You can do this, you can’t do that, we need this, we don’t need that.’ You kind of forget the relationship you have and what you are building. And then you think back to Chicago and what it meant. I know we never won a championship, but there’s a lot of good memories of how hard we played, how hard we battled growing up in front of the fans; those are things you look back on. For me to be here 10 years is such a blessing.”
11 hours ago – via Sam Smith @ NBA.com

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But Deng did believe the Bulls would get that championship, and he believed it was in 2011 when they lost that conference finals to the Miami Heat or in 2012. “Everyone has their own opinion and I’m not taking anything away from the teams that won it that year,” Deng said. “But there’s two incidents that happened. People don’t remember with Omer Asik that season I think we won (62) games. Every time we had Omer play the whole fourth quarter, we beat Miami that year four times during the season and we won the first game (of the conference finals). But in the last few minutes of that game Omer broke his leg. I don’t know many people who know that story, but we really couldn’t beat the Heat without him after that. We all knew it in the locker room and we had a hard time doing it. I felt like we could’ve won that year. And then obviously the (following) year when Derrick got hurt I think mentally we didn’t prepare ourselves for what would happen if that happened.”
11 hours ago – via Sam Smith @ NBA.com

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The Portland Trail Blazers have completed the two-way transfers of center Moses Brown and forward Jaylen Hoard from the Texas Legends of the NBA G League to Portland, it was announced today by president of basketball operations Neil Olshey. In three games with the Legends this season, Brown, 20, has averaged 5.7 points (66.7% FG) and 4.7 rebounds. Brown (7-1, 245) has played in two games for the Trail Blazers this season, recording three rebounds in five total minutes.
11 hours ago – via NBA.com

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“Unbelievable. But we were talking about if he can keep this up, and I was like, ‘Yo, if somebody can keep this up, it’s him,'” said veteran Mavs guard J.J. Barea, who serves as a mentor for Doncic. “He plays on the ground. He’s super smart. He’s shooting the ball well. He’s finishing really well. I see him keeping it up. “It’s not hard for him to do this right now. He’s not forcing crazy s—. It’s just coming. That’s why I think he can keep this up. He’s making it look easy.”
11 hours ago – via Tim MacMahon @ ESPN

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