JD Shaw: Golden State has waived Andrew Harrison, Kavion Pippen and Juan Toscano-Anderson, per a team press release.
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Misko Raznatovic: Mexican player, Juan Toscano signed Exhibit 10 contract with Golden State Warriors! #BeoBasket
Juan Toscano-Anderson will be in the Warriors traning camp roster, he confirmed to NBA.com.
January 24, 2020 | 2:36 am UTC Update
Chase Hughes: The Wizards bounced back against the Cavs to win 124-112 in the second night of a back-to-back. They are now 15-29 on the season and 5-5 in their last 10 games.
Kerry Eggers: Terry Stotts on Mavs’ All-Star Luka Doncic: “He’s in the MVP discussion. What he’s doing is remarkable for a 20-year-old 2nd-year player. He does everything for them. They have the No. 1 offense in the league & that’s mainly because of what he does. He makes his teammates better”
Brad Townsend: Doncic was scheduled to speak, but since bus arrived late he was anxious to get on the court and warm up. “I’m really excited, guys, thank you,” he said over his shoulder on way out of locker room.
Brad Townsend: Misunderstood earlier. JJ’s idea was to write Powell’s name on all the players’ shoes. “We’ve got to keep him around somehow,” Barea says. He spoke to today Powell, who still is deciding which surgeon to use.
“We’d gotten calls for years about Dirk,” he tells me, “and you say, ‘No, Dirk’s not on the table. We’re not going to trade Dirk.’” Cuban reminisces about some other potentially big Mavericks acquisitions that never came to fruition. He was rehearsing for his stint on Dancing With the Stars when he learned that Jerry Buss had talked Bryant out of demanding a trade to the Mavericks in 2007. In 2013, Dallas thought it had Paul Pierce in a three-way deal, but the third team torpedoed it. “Every team asks every team if they’d be willing to trade their star player,” he says.
He wishes the league would build out more streamable content in the offseason, like investing in The Basketball Tournament or the Big 3. “Right?” he says. “We should have NBA content year-round, but it’s beyond the definition of stupidity that we take our best players and we let them play for the Olympics, which is a commercial event.” In Cuban’s mind, basketball should be more like soccer. “What’s a bigger event, soccer in the Olympics, or the World Cup of soccer?” he asks. “Why can’t we do the same thing?”
I ask what the organization has done to improve, as Cuban pledged it would during his apology tour, and he gushes that the team’s new CEO, Cynthia Marshall, “changed the culture, she changed everything about the team.” But when I try to get him to elaborate on what some of the changes have been, he just repeats “everything” and adds that “people love working here, that’s the barometer,” a response that feels particularly vague coming from a guy who typically traffics in outspoken specifics.
January 24, 2020 | 2:28 am UTC Update
Micah Adams: Most years as leading All-Star vote-getter Michael Jordan – 9 LeBron James- 7 Vince Carter – 4 Kobe Bryant – 4 Julius Erving – 4 Dwight Howard – 2 Yao Ming – 2 Grant Hill – 2 Magic Johnson – 2 George Gervin – 2
Kerry Eggers: Terry Stotts thinks Trevor Ariza will be comfortable in @Portland Trail Blazers offense: “A lot of the actions he’s seen before. Since he’ll be out there with four other guys who know what’s going on, it shouldn’t be too difficult for him. For younger players, it becomes more difficult.”
Lonzo Ball’s per-game assist average was higher on the road than at home in his two seasons with the Lakers. In fact, his assist percentage has been higher on the road every season of his career. Once again, Ball isn’t unique in this phenomenon. Across the league, the home-court assist advantage—a consistent analytical assumption for decades, a staple of NBA scorekeeping—has all but disappeared.
According to an NBA spokesperson, beginning with the 2017-18 season, the league added a stats auditor to watch games at the replay center in Secaucus, New Jersey. Using a DVR-style device to review plays during breaks in action, this individual can serve as a fallback option in the case of a misawarded number in the box score. All decisions are made by the in-arena stats crews, the NBA official stressed, but the auditor can work in conjunction with them and recommend certain changes as the game speeds by. The more eyes, the official said, the better.
Or, remember that almost every prominent passer in NBA history collected more assists at home than on the road? One of the few exceptions is Steve Nash, who recorded 0.4 more assists per game on the road than at home. In Nash’s heyday, Phoenix employed one of the least-friendly scorekeeping crews for assists. Had he enjoyed a typical home bias over his career, he would have retired with upwards of 500 more career assists than he did, and he would move ahead of Jason Kidd (who enjoyed a typical 11 percent home-court assist advantage in his career) for eighth on the all-time assists-per-game leaderboard.
January 24, 2020 | 1:50 am UTC Update
After a week and further testing, Murray’s ankle injury is less concerning than it was the night of the injury, team sources told Mile High Sports. According to those sources, Murray has a low ankle sprain. There is no firm timetable for his return, but the Nuggets organization is not terribly worried about his ankle issue which is good news considering how much pain Murray was in after sustaining the injury and the fact that he put no weight on his left leg at all at the time.
Doug Smith: In the coming writethrough, Siakam on his late father, Tchamo: “I kind of hate, like, every time there’s a big moment, it feels like there’s something missing. But I know, I know he’s here, I know he’s watching me. I can feel his presence.”
Mike Richman: Stotts says Caleb Swanigan will get some real rotation minutes tonight. Sounds like the plan doesn’t include minutes for Wenyen Gabriel to be part of the regular rotation just yet.
Mark Berman: Russell Westbrook (@Russell Westbrook) & #Rockets hosted 2 kids from @MakeAWish Tues who wanted to meet their favorite NBA player. Russell: “I wake up every day trying to figure out how to help or improve somebody else’s life b/c of my position..It’s always a humbling experience for me”
January 24, 2020 | 12:50 am UTC Update
Mark Followill: It’s official. Luka is an All-Star game starter. The only other Mavs player picked as a starter through the fan voting process is Jason Kidd in 1996. Dirk was a starter as a replacement for injured starters in 2007 and 2010
Gerald Bourguet: Per NBA PR, Luka Doncic and Trae Young are just the second pair of 21-and-under starters in the All-Star Game (Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett in 1998). Also the first time with multiple-second-year players since Grant Hill and Jason Kidd in 1996.
Jonathan Feigen: James Harden selected as an All-Star for eighth time, second in franchise history to Haleem Olajuwon’s 12. Other starters from West: LeBron James, Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis and Luka Doncic.
Alex Kennedy: NBA players typically pick their friends/teammates rather than take the All-Star starter vote seriously. The following players received MULTIPLE player votes: Jordan Bone, Miye Oni, Ryan Broekhoff, Chimezie Metu, Jarrell Brantley, Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot, Chris Boucher.
January 24, 2020 | 12:24 am UTC Update
LeBron James to repeat as All-Star captain
Tim Reynolds: Rematch! LeBron James is the captain from the West. Team LeBron vs. Team Giannis again at the All-Star Game. James, as the leading votegetter, will pick first among starters. Antetokounmpo will have the first pick for the reserves.
Luka Doncic selected to first All-Star
Shams Charania: 2020 West All-Star starters: Dallas’ Luka Doncic Houston’s James Harden Lakers’ LeBron James (captain) Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard Lakers’ Anthony Davis
The streets of Chicago surely will be jam-packed with celebrities and basketball junkies come NBA All-Star Weekend in three weeks. On the court at United Center, this year’s threads will pay homage to the city’s popular alternative use of transportation — the transit line. Jordan Brand and Nike designers have developed a concept to incorporate all eight lines of the train, identified locally as the Chicago “L,” as the theme of each uniform color.
As a nod to the Chicago flag, the jerseys also will feature a six-pointed star with retro pinstripes similar to the alternate Bulls jerseys of the 1990s, plus silver satin on the letters and numbers based off the worn patina on the train.
January 24, 2020 | 12:11 am UTC Update
Mike Trudell: Frank Vogel said he’s pleased with the Lakers effort and record to this point, but is taking no victory laps at this point of a season where they have much bigger goals: “We’ve accomplished nothing.”
Mike Trudell: Anthony Davis will start tonight. Frank Vogel said AD tweaked the gluteus maximus area that kept him out recently last night vs. the Knicks, but he played through it and is good to play tonight as well.
Bryant still has informal conversations with Lakers’ controlling owner Jeanie Buss, general manager Rob Pelinka, LeBron James and young player Kyle Kuzma. He attended two Lakers games this season and attracted attention from NBA stars and fans alike. Yet, Bryant maintained he has “zero” involvement with his former team and has higher aspirations than chasing nostalgia.
Consider what Bryant experienced on his farewell tour during his final season with the Lakers in 2015-16. Teammates, team officials and opponents did not just shower Bryant with praise. Some of them also shared their misgivings. “ ‘I don’t know what you want to do when you retire,’ ” Bryant recited. “ ‘You’re going to go through a state of depression. You’re going to have an identity crisis.’ These are all things that were said to me because people were genuinely concerned.”
Bryant turned his head toward something he considered more meaningful. He stared at the Oscar, Sports Emmy and Annie Award that he won for his short film, “Dear Basketball”. “They’re at the top for me,” Bryant said in a wide-ranging interview with USA TODAY Sports. “It’s not something that was expected. As a kid, you kind of have the goal of winning championships and all these sorts of things. Being in the industry that I’m in now? It wasn’t something that was thought of me winning an Oscar.”
January 23, 2020 | 11:35 pm UTC Update
Ohm Youngmisuk: Anthony Davis will play tonight. Rajon Rondo and Kyle Kuzma are currently warming up and Frank Vogel expects them to play.
Shams Charania: Redemption year continues: Dwight Howard will make his first Los Angeles Lakers start of the season tonight in Brooklyn in place of JaVale McGee (sick), sources tell @The Athletic @Stadium.
The New York Knicks, the National Basketball Association’s most valuable team despite a string of losing seasons, are getting a makeover. The franchise known for stars like Clyde Frazier, Willis Reed and Patrick Ewing — and off the court for hothead owner Jim Dolan — is partnering with Steve Stoute’s Translation agency in an attempt to bolster its brand and strengthen its ties to the fan base.
Stoute, a lifelong Knicks fan whose clients have included the Brooklyn Nets, the NFL, AT&T, Anheuser-Busch and State Farm, will be a special adviser to the franchise that Forbes says is worth a league-high $4 billion. The team is 12-33 this season, better than only the Atlanta Hawks in the Eastern Conference.
Translation said it will utilize data and analytics — along with the team’s history, alumni, fans and iconic arena — to develop campaigns aimed at bolstering the brand. Stoute also will work to support the club’s executive team, including Dolan, in its branding and fan-engagement efforts.
January 23, 2020 | 11:25 pm UTC Update
Jason Quick: Blazers announce CJ McCollum is out tonight with sprained ankle. It will be his 3rd straight game he’s missed.
