Scott Agness: Malcolm Brogdon and T.J. McConnell ruled out tonight vs Bucks. Two-way guard Naz Mitrou-Long may receive an opportunity. Myles Turner returns to the starting lineup.
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Roy Parry: The Magic have listed SG Terrence Ross as questionable on the NBA’s 1:30 p.m. injury report for tonight’s game vs. the Pacers. A league source said Ross will be a game-time decision. For the Pacers, Jeremy Lamb is out and Myles Turner is questionable. Both have ankle sprains.
Scott Agness: Myles Turner is questionable for Sunday in Orlando. Goga Bitadze (concussion), Jeremy Lamb (ankle), Sumner and Oladipo are out. Two-way guys are in Fort Wayne. pic.twitter.com/ot2rDBa4AP
Scott Agness: Myles Turner (ankle) is out tonight vs Pistons. No need to rush him back considering the early concern for the injury.
Rod Beard: #Pacers center Myles Turner is questionable tonight vs. #Pistons. Victor Oladipo, Jeremy Lamb, Goga Bitadze and Edmund Sumner all are OUT. #DFS
Scott Agness: Another game, another Pacers injury. Center Goga Bitadze has been diagnosed with a concussion and is ruled out of Friday’s game vs Pistons. Jeremy Lamb (left ankle sprain) will miss his second straight game. Myles Turner is questionable.
J. Michael Falgoust: Sabonis (left calf) is OUT and Turner (right ankle) remains OUT tonight. Sampson and Bitadze will start again #PacersHornets
Myles Turner out at least two weeks
Scott Agness: Pacers center Myles Turner has been diagnosed with a grade 1 right ankle sprain and is expected to be out for at least two weeks, league source told @TheAthleticIND.
Scott Agness: Myles Turner needs assistance to the locker room after he twisted his right ankle as Garrett Temple came around the screen. pic.twitter.com/gVl7HIyz6I
Scott Agness: The flu is going around the locker room. Myles Turner became the third different Pacer to miss practice time. Domantas Sabonis collided with Aaron Holiday during a scrimmage and had his leg looked at, but he appears fine.
Scott Agness: Myles Turner’s right ankle injury doesn’t appear to be serious. He also had back spasms so McMillan shut him down for the game. He has a week to get it right before the postseason.
Scott Agness: Update: Myles Turner, who missed the last two games, is available tonight vs Pistons.
J. Michael Falgoust: Myles Turner (hip) went through shootaround but remains a game-time decision. #PacersPistons
Scott Agness: Myles Turner will miss his second straight game due to a bruised left hip. He was on the court for some pre-game shooting.
Will Guillory: Pacers coach Nate McMillan says Myles Turner will not play tonight against the Pels due to a hip injury
J. Michael Falgoust: Note: Turner says his right shoulder that kept him out 4 games isn’t 100%. Still sore and will be tested v Embiid #PacersSixers
Scott Agness: Myles Turner is planning to play tonight vs Suns.
J. Michael Falgoust: McMillan in Turner: “He’s feeling better but he’s a no-go” … note: no X-rays or MRIs required. #PacersKnicks
Scott Agness: Myles Turner feels fine two days later. “No signs of a concussion and I’m thankful for that.” Surgery on his broken nose took 10 minutes. He will get fitted for a mask after practice.
Scott Agness: Appears surgery was successful for Myles Turner on his broken nose. (via Myles’ IG)
During Monday’s 116-108 win against the Atlanta Hawks, they found that out when Myles Turner suffered a broken nose and couldn’t return. His status for 2019 has yet to be determined though coach Nate McMillan is optimistic he’ll be available for the start of a five-game road trip that begins Jan. 4 at the Chicago Bulls. “The hope is that he doesn’t have a concussion but he can play with a broken nose,” McMillan said. “You just put a mask on, but if there is a concussion that’s something a little different.” Turner will be re-evaluated Tuesday and receive a mask to protect the injury.
Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner suffered a broken nose after he collided with John Collins during the Pacers’ 116-109 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday afternoon.
Scott Agness: Myles Turner (broken nose) will be re-evaluated tomorrow and be fitted for a mask. McMillan: “The hope is that he doesn’t have a concussion. He can play with a mask.”
J. Michael Falgoust: Myles Turner (facial contusion) is questionable to return #PacersHawks
J. Michael Falgoust: Myles Turner is OUT. He has a broken nose and will not return. Status beyond that not known yet #PacersHawks
J. Michael Falgoust: Myles Turner (ankle) did practice today and told me he thinks he’ll play Monday v #Jazz … thinks he should not have played in Charlotte #Pacers
J. Michael Falgoust: Turner (ankle) is OUT and Sabonis (ankle) is IN for tonight’s game and the likely starter. That pushes O’Quinn into the 1st center off the bench role #PacersSpurs
J. Michael Falgoust: Domantas Sabonis and Myles Turner (ankle) are questionable #SpursPacers
J. Michael Falgoust: For tomorrow in Charlotte, Oladipo is questionable (sore right knee) as is Turner (left ankle sprain) #PacersHornets
J. Michael Falgoust: Myles Turner (ankle) didn’t practice. Doesn’t sound serious #Pacers
Chris Miller: Myles Turner is out (ankle) vs. @Washington Wizards #WizPacers #DCFamily
Chris Herring: Nate McMillan said Myles Turner’s injury is a high-ankle sprain.
Josh Robbins: Myles Turner (elbow) will play for the Pacers tonight, Nate McMillan said.
Scott Bordow: Darren Collison and Myles Turner out for the Pacers
Turner sustained the injury in the Jan. 8 game vs. Milwaukee. He will not require surgery. He is currently outfitted with a brace for the elbow. He will miss the four remaining games of the current west coast trip and depending on how quickly the injury heals, he will be listed as week to week.
The Indiana Pacers announced Wednesday that center Myles Turner sustained a right elbow injury during Monday night’s game against Milwaukee. Turner is being evaluated and an update will be provided when available. Turner will miss tonight’s game against Miami and Friday’s game against Cleveland.
Sarah Todd: McMillan added Turner hasn’t been conditioning during his nearly two weeks out so he won’t be in game shape tonight. #Pacers vs. #Sixers
Scott Agness: Myles Turner, sidelined the last seven games due to a concussion, will play tonight in Philadelphia and come off the bench, per @Indiana Pacers.
Scott Agness: Myles Turner, who missed his 5th straight game, was in the locker room after the W. Smiling, upbeat, high-fiving teammates as they entered.
Brett Dawson: Pacers center Myles Turner still in the concussion protocol.
Scott Agness: BREAKING: #Pacers center Myles Turner has entered the NBA’s concussion protocol and won’t play tonight (POR) or tomorrow (MIA).
Candace Buckner: Myles Turner will get minutes tonight for the first time in six weeks. Vogel said he looked in good shape during practice, but rusty.
Candace Buckner: A few more specifics on Myles Turner’s recovery. #Pacers coach Frank Vogel said Turner will undergo X-Ray at end of December...
Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner underwent successful surgery Monday afternoon to repair a chip fracture in his left thumb, sustained during the first half of last Wednesday night’s game at Boston. The surgery was performed at OrthoIndy Hospital by hand surgeon Dr. Tim Dicke. Turner is expected to miss six weeks.
Myles Turner out 4-6 weeks
Indiana Pacers rookie center Myles Turner will undergo surgery Monday afternoon to repair a fracture in his left thumb, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Turner, 19, is expected to miss four to six weeks after surgery.
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Harrison Wind: Nuggets have assigned Jarred Vanderbilt to the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, the team announced. Rio Grande Valley plays Stockton Friday.
ShowtimeForum: The #Lakers City Edition this season will be a tribute to @Shaquille O’Neal as well as the great Dr. Jerry Buss 🔥 pic.twitter.com/eKVFcfavTg
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After missing the previous three games, LA Clippers All-Star Kawhi Leonard is planning to play in his first game with Paul George against the Boston Celtics on Wednesday, league sources told ESPN.
When Anthony was asked what he learned about himself during his layoff, he told The Undefeated: “How I’m able to motivate people. I think overall the way that I stayed strong in the fight. I stayed there. … Burning and all, I stayed there. I never wavered. I stayed strong and I hope that is motivation for everyone else.”
Anthony declined comment on the Rockets disaster on Tuesday night, but his longtime personal manager Robert “Bay” Frazier told The Undefeated that he believed his client was used as a scapegoat for a poor Houston start. “It was rough times when the [Rockets news] first hit,” Frazier told The Undefeated.
While Anthony was out of the game, he found peace being among his peers, including attending his close friend Dwyane Wade’s final career game last season and competing against the NBA elite during offseason pickup games. But when the NBA season started without him for the first time since he was a rookie in Denver 16 years ago, he began to ponder whether he would play in the league ever again. “It still doesn’t make sense to me, but I got to a point where I got some clarity with me and what I want and what my goals are,” Anthony said. “As far as anything else making sense, I’m past that. I’m done racking my brain. I spent half a year, almost a year thinking about that and trying to figure out why and what and when it’s going to happen. I’m past that at this point.”
Serena Winters: Josh Richardson is OUT tonight with right hip flexor tightness. He will be reevaluated tomorrow. #Sixers
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With NBA national TV ratings struggling again early, the league should consider some radical ideas to better position itself in the marketplace. One thought that has been broached in league circles, according to sources, would be to move the start of the schedule back to closer to Thanksgiving or, even more drastically, Christmas, in combination with a potential reduction from 82 games and some sort of in-season tournament.
A target date to institute this new thinking could be 2021-22 when the NBA celebrates its 75th season. It would make sense to potentially move to a 75-game season and introduce the still-to-be-determined tournament at that point. There are financial and scheduling issues that would have to be considered. Would the owners and players be willing to reduce revenue with fewer games? Would they be able to structure the season to have the Finals still finish in June? Would they be amenable to having the championship in July or even August?
Rim protection is the start of Holmes’ contribution. He averages 1.4 blocks per game this year but the effect of his pogo-stick energy in the paint goes beyond that. That’s true of all his traditional stats. Holmes is averaging 11.3 points, which ranks 30th among centers. His 8.2 rebounds rank 24th. While the mark of a good modern center may be the ability to stretch the floor with 3-point attempts, Holmes has yet to attempt one this year and has not shot a 3 since March 2018. Those stats only scratch the surface of Holmes’ impact on the Kings.
Jovan Buha: Ivica Zubac hinted that Kawhi Leonard and Paul George will make their debut together today: “Finally. It’ll be great. We’re really good with only Kawhi. We’re really good with only PG. You put them two together, it’s gotta be good. We’ll see it tonight. But I’m really excited.”
Tania Ganguli: After additional testing on his eye, Kyle Kuzma is expected to practice on Thursday and play Friday, the Lakers say. He has an eye abrasion after being poked in the eye.
The man who helped bring an NBA team to Orlando now wants to bring a Major League Baseball team to the theme park mecca. Pat Williams, a former executive with the NBA’s Orlando Magic, said Wednesday that Orlando was more deserving than a half-dozen other cities that have been mentioned as homes to potential MLB expansion teams in the future. Whether Williams succeeds is a tough call.
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Or even if he could see a return one day to the Bulls, who he led to the 2011 Eastern Conference finals. “I mean, like I always say, you probably have to ask (Chairman) Jerry (Reinsdorf) about that,” Rose said. “I have one more year on this deal. I’m here for two years. After next year, I’ll be a free agent. Who knows? That’s how I’m going to leave that.”
Now 31 and over eight years removed from becoming the youngest most valuable player in NBA history with the Bulls, Rose agreed with Perdue’s assessment that this may be the best he has felt mentally, physically and emotionally. “I believe so,” Rose said. “I’ve been through a lot. I was a kid when I first started off here. I was shy to the media. I didn’t want to talk to the media at all. It was a learning process. And I didn’t have a mentor at the time. (Agent) B.J. (Armstrong) could do all that he could do. But he never had the talent that I had or the spotlight that I had. He kind of let me just learn by actually just thrusting me in there and letting me figure it out myself.”
When Rose scored 50 points last season with the Timberwolves, the outpouring of praise from around the league felt universal. Rose’s ability to persevere and endure his physical travails to still impact games has resonated. “Me and BJ talk about this a lot and I think it’s the struggle,” Rose said. “Everybody struggles in life. A lot of people pretend and act like they don’t. And you wear a mask the majority of the day or a lot of people wear the majority of their life and try to hide the dark side or the down days. My down days were on TV. It was publicized. So I wasn’t able to hide like that. “I think that’s one of the reasons why I have a calm temper. Leading up to all (these) dramatics and me leaving and everything, the whirlwind I was in, the eye of the storm, I always stayed calm. I think that’s just part of who I am, my character.”
You’re out of the rotation since your first or second year in the league. How tough is that to deal with? Jose Juan Barea: It’s been tough. I’m coming off an injury, so maybe it’s a good thing that I get a little more time to get ready. But it’s definitely tough. I’m used to grinding and being in the fight with my teammates. But it’s a different situation and I understand that we got a lot of guys here, a lot of young, good talent. I just got to be ready. I was ready the other day, they put me in, I did a good job. So I just got to stay ready and wait for my time.
It is part of an evolution toward being a coach somebody? Jose Juan Barea: Yeah. I definitely keep learning. Obviously, I got a great relationship with [Mavs coach Rick Carlisle]. I just keep learning and I want to be on the coaching staff some day.
Chris Paul: Congrats my brother on being the FIRST player in NBA history to record a triple double against every team… and to do it in year 17 too! Continue to beat the odds @LeBron James #Brotherhood pic.twitter.com/nZ7143CGfZ
First things first — 3-pointers barely produce any more points than 2-pointers, on average. The league hits 35.2 percent of its 3s and 52.0 percent of its 2s last season, meaning both shots produced nearly identical expected returns – 1.04 points for 2s, 1.06 points for 3s. From that perspective, giving an additional shot for a shooting foul on a 3-pointer compared to a 2-pointer makes no sense — the shooter wasn’t likely to score more points on the initial shot.
In fact, check this out: That return on a three-shot foul is so excessive that, on average, committing one is about as bad as committing a flagrant! The second shot on a flagrant can’t be rebounded, so the two shots on average are worth 1.53 points for the offense. The team then inbounds on a dead ball, which is the lowest efficiency initial condition for offense – yielding 1.07 points per possession last season, according to our Seth Partnow. That brings our total for the trip to 2.60 points. So a three-shot foul hands the offense 2.56 points on average … and a flagrant gives it 2.60. It’s basically the same. Yikes.
So, summing it all up: The three-shot foul creates a massively disproportionate penalty to the crime committed, on a play type that officials have difficulty calling correctly. It also likely creates more contact and injury potential rather than reducing it, and incentivizes both boorish behavior and stylistic monotony that make the game less entertaining. The league can go back to three shots in the final two minutes to eliminate intentional fouling incentives late in games; we already have several other rules that change in the last two minutes. But for the first 46 minutes, it’s clearly a bad rule.
SLAM Magazine: Chicago’s City Edition jerseys. Absolutely beautiful. 📷: @Chicago Bulls pic.twitter.com/UD8WgtlUmx
SLAM Magazine: Are these the best jerseys in the league? 📷: @Denver Nuggets pic.twitter.com/uYAiSSnmtf
Kerry Eggers: Carmelo Anthony is still a big deal in the Big Apple. His return to MS Garden Jan. 1 has become 2nd most expensive home game for Knicks. Average purchase price for Knicks-Blazers through TickPick is $218 with “get-in” price of $189. Most expensive at $211: Knicks-Lakers Jan. 22.
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One thing that is clear is both sides appear committed to communicating, a factor Anthony said will be key as this agreement moves forward. He liked how the coaching staff talked to him about starting Tuesday during their own private workout. “Let’s be transparent,” Anthony said. “That was a miscommunication over the past couple seasons about what my role would be and what was expected from me. That was a big point in talking to those guys — ‘Let’s be transparent. There’s nothing I won’t be willing to do, but just let me know up front; whatever it is, just let me know. Put it all on the table and we will go from there.’”
Olshey, who orchestrated Anthony’s signing to mask the hole left by the injury to starter Zach Collins and the ineffectiveness of offseason signings Mario Hezonja and Anthony Tolliver, offered a quid pro quo to Anthony’s camp. “Carmelo needs an empowering and welcoming environment with a defined role that embraces his skill set on the floor and his presence in the locker room,” Olshey said. “And we need a player that can generate production from the power forward position, can alleviate defensive pressure on Dame and CJ and be trusted to make plays at critical moments in close games.”
Lillard talked about the hazards of trying to defend Harden when he’s getting the calls he often gets. “It’s hard to defend,” Lillard said, “When he’s driving to the basket, you don’t want to touch him. When he’s rising up for a three, you don’t want to get too close to him because he’s kicking his legs out and throwing his arms up on his follow-through, through your arms. If you get that type of whistle, it’s tough to defend.”
Off the top of his head, Carlisle can tell you how many followers Doncic has on Instagram. It’s three million and counting. And it’s a concern for Carlisle. “Social media has created really an undue pressure on guys like Luka to generate highlights,” Carlisle said. “[Fans] want to be seeing stuff every day on their phones.”
Doncic delivers those highlights on a regular basis — 40-foot fastballs diagonally across the court right into the numbers of an open shooter in the corner; perfectly timed lobs just over the hands of helpless defenders; no-look dimes after dribbling behind his back in traffic. And launching step-back jumpers, often from far beyond the 3-point arc — smiling and shrugging, in this case, at a trash-talking courtside fan in Boston after swishing a couple. “He’s one of those rare players that has not only an amazing imagination for the game but the skill and the ability and the wherewithal to pull it off,” Carlisle said.
Today, the Sacramento Kings unveiled the new Nike City Edition uniforms for the 2019-20 season with a refreshed look. Blending old branding and new branding, the new City Edition uniforms feature red, baby blue, white and gray. These colors have been woven through the franchise’s history and help represent the 35 years of Kings basketball in Sacramento – continuing the Proud Past, Proud Future focus. This refreshed City Edition uniform will flip to feature red as the primary color for the first time in Kings history and still don “Sactown” across the chest – the adoring nickname given to the city by Sacramentans.
TurnerSportsPR: Statement on behalf of Charles Barkley in response to tweet by Axios reporter Alexi McCammond: “My comment was inappropriate and unacceptable. It was an attempted joke that wasn’t funny at all. There’s no excuse for it and I apologize.”
Twenty-seven years later, the four-time NBA champion with the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony, alongside Mayor Ras Baraka, at an $80 million, 22-story building at 50 Rector Park in the Newark Downtown District. The development, known around town as “Shaq Tower,” is the first high-rise apartment building to join the city’s skyline in more than 50 years. The project came about as a public-private partnership between Shaq, the city, the state of New Jersey, New Brunswick-based Boraie Development and the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group. The new tower was also boosted by a $24 million New Jersey Department of Economic Development Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit. The building’s one million square feet of space includes ground-floor retail space and 169 residential units—with monthly rents ranging from $1,800 to $2,895—as well as a gym, co-working lounge, private dining room, sky deck and Amazon lockers.
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Otto Porter out at least two more weeks
Otto Porter Jr. underwent a repeat MRI on Tuesday, Nov. 19, of his left foot which revealed bone bruising not apparent on his original MRI and consistent with his ongoing symptoms. Porter will continue his current course of treatment and be reassessed in two weeks.
In June 2017, George was dreaming of different scenery. When the All-Star forward informed the Indiana Pacers that he wanted to be traded, reports came out that he wanted to return home and be moved to the Los Angeles Lakers. But George had another team on top of his wish list. “I wanted to be traded to San Antonio,” George says. “We wanted to go to San Antonio first, and we didn’t make that happen.”
A league source confirmed that the Pacers and Spurs talked, but San Antonio lacked the assets to pair George with Leonard. The Lakers also wanted George, but then team-president Magic Johnson would not trade the 2017 second overall pick (which would become Lonzo Ball) and Brandon Ingram, believing they could eventually sign George as a free agent. “As far as the Lakers, I wanted to go to L.A.,” George says. “They didn’t make that happen. They didn’t put nothing together. So that’s in the back of my mind [when I became a free agent]. That was in the back of my mind.”
Just three months before, they were meeting at an undisclosed location to hatch a plan. Leonard reached out to George “a good four or five days” before the July 5 trade, recruiting him to do what they couldn’t back in 2017 — join forces. “We met up and we talked,” George said recently. “Before the trade, [even] before everything was in talks.” Together, they have a chance to do something never done with the Clippers. “Paul has always been a player that I wanted to play with,” Leonard said while sitting next to George and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer back in July. “… And I think we got something special. We can make history here.”
Before the Oklahoma City game, Harris had been 1-for-24 on threes in his previous six contests. After Tuesday’s practice, Harris was asked if the last game was a confidence builder. He almost seemed surprised by the question. “It is the same thing like any other game. I have the most confidence in myself and my game and the work I put in, and I don’t let many things affect my mental state and where I am at,” Harris said.
“Even when I had a couple of bad shooting nights, I don’t really pay attention to any noise, as long as I can walk into our locker room and look every man in his eye, my teammates, and still have the support from them, and them understanding my game and pushing me,” Harris said. He said his teammates’ response to his performance Sunday meant the world to him. “The biggest thing with having a game like Cleveland was seeing my teammates be happy for that,” he said. “I am always putting in the work and I trust my work and I have confidence in myself and my game.”
