Jon Johnson: Ben Simmons, Shake Milton will play tonight
Storyline: Shake Milton Injury
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Jon Johnson: Shake Milton probable tonight. Trey Burke questionable(left calf). No word yet on Ben Simmons.
Jon Johnson: Ben Simmons questionable for tomorrow night. Al Horford out-planned. Shake Milton-doubtful.
Kyle Neubeck: Along with Ben Simmons, Shake Milton is out tonight and will be re-evaluated tomorrow,we’ll have an update on his availability then. Sixers say he participated in parts of team walkthrough today
Kyle Neubeck: Shake Milton underwent testing today and will be listed as out through Philadelphia’s upcoming west coast trip with a bone bruise and mild knee sprain in his left knee, I’m told. He will be re-evaluated following the trip, which concludes in Denver on 11/8.
Keith Pompey: Marial Shayok (knee) and Norvel Pelle (ankle) both practiced today and is listed as day-to-day. Shake Milton (ankle) didn’t practice and will miss Wedenesday’s game.
Derek Bodner: Shake Milton says he’ll be a full go for training camp and can play 5-on-5, but will have his workload limited and monitored.
Rookie guard Shake Milton suffered a spondylolysis (stress fracture) in his back during this year’s pre-draft process. He is proceeding with a rehabilitation program and will not participate in NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. Milton will be re-evaluated in approximately three weeks.
November 22, 2019 | 2:04 am UTC Update
Will Guillory: Source: Lonzo Ball will be active tonight. Plan is to bring him off the bench and play him about 20 minutes.
The Utah Jazz announced today that the team has signed forward Juwan Morgan. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not released. In a related move, the team has waived forward Stanton Kidd.
Anthony Slater: Warriors listing Draymond Green as questionable for tomorrow’s game against the Jazz. Sat yesterday in Dallas with right heel soreness.
Gina Mizell: Monty Williams says Ricky Rubio (back spasms) is out tonight vs. New Orleans. Tyler Johnson will start at point guard. #Suns
James Ham: As of today, it appears that Trevor Ariza will miss the entire four game road trip for Sacramento while recovering from a groin injury and attending to a personal issue. Two-way player DaQuan Jeffries traveled with the team on the trip.
November 21, 2019 | 11:22 pm UTC Update
Of Japanese descent, he then become the first Asian player in professional basketball history — appearing in three games for the New York Knicks in the 1947-48 season when the NBA was known as the Basketball Association of America.
Roy Parry: Magic forward Aaron Gordon has been diagnosed with a right ankle contusion after his MRI today, a team official said. His return will depend on how he responds to treatment.
Roy Parry: Gordon will be out for Saturday’s game against the Pacers, according to a team spokesman.
Jay Allen: #Blazers say Hassan Whiteside (right hip) will not play tonight vs. the Bucks. Anfernee Simons (left ankle) has been upgraded to probable. @RipCityRadio620
A judge in Tennessee has dropped a human trafficking charge against former NBA player Jim Farmer. The Dothan Eagle quotes defense lawyer Worrick G. Robinson IV as saying a court dismissed the charge against the one-time University of Alabama standout on Tuesday.
November 21, 2019 | 10:23 pm UTC Update
Rod Beard: #Pistons Blake Griffin on his slow start this season, based on load-managed minutes: “It’s something I can figure out; I just have to be better – that’s the bottom line. I can’t play the way I’ve played the last two games and expect us to win.” pic.twitter.com/zEwXQA0p7x
Tim Reynolds: Saturday’s Heat game at Philly has been added to NBA TV.
November 21, 2019 | 9:07 pm UTC Update
Scott Agness: Oladipo spoke for 5 minutes but remains evasive in his answers. Still no timeline, but he’s playing most days, scrimming full court and without rest. “I don’t think there’s anything I can’t do in life so I guess y’all will be the judge when I come back.” McMillan: He looked OK.
Dave McMenamin: Kyle Kuzma says he tried to persuade the medical staff to clear him to return to the OKC game after he was scratched in the eye. “God gave me two eyes for a reason,” he says. He expects to play Friday.
Harrison Faigen: Kuzma said his eye only opened back up today. He’ll wear goggles for the foreseeable future. “Big Game Kuz, I like how that sounds,” Kuzma said.
Harrison Faigen: Avery Bradley will be re-evaluated the day after Thanksgiving when the Lakers return from their road trip. Alex Caruso has a right calf strain and is probable for Friday.
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.”
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…”
November 21, 2019 | 7:47 pm UTC Update
Nikola Vucevic out a month at least
Shams Charania: Orlando Magic All-Star center Nikola Vucevic will miss a minimum of four weeks with right ankle injury, league sources tell @The Athletic @Stadium.
Jason Quick: Thread on Damian Lillard back injury: He says he is hopeful to return Saturday at Cleveland. “I would be doing a disservice to my health if I just went out and played. It will stick around. Where we are now, the best thing is to get healthy, then we make our push,” he said.
Gary Washburn: Jaylen Brown on controversial foul on Paul George in loss to LAC: “I touched him but I barely touched him. I’m not trying to get fined but I baaaarely touched him. It wasn’t enough to make (the call), I think got bailed out a little bit. It was unlucky.” #Celtics
RJ Marquez: #Spurs point guard Dejounte Murray made it official today…he’s signed an endorsement deal with @newbalancehoops…DJ has been wearing @newbalance apparel throughout season. #GoSpursGo #NBA pic.twitter.com/Air3WCmkUn
November 21, 2019 | 7:11 pm UTC Update
Keith Kreiter: Congrats @juwanmorgan @IndianaMBB on your new deal with the #Jazz- so well deserved- special times ahead #NBAJourney #EdgeFamily pic.twitter.com/MlLAsj6toa
Tim Bontemps: Josh Richardson and Trey Burke are questionable for tomorrow’s game. Joel Embiid is expected to play both Friday against the Spurs and Saturday against the Heat.
November 21, 2019 | 5:40 pm UTC Update
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.
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.)
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?
“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.”
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.”
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.
November 21, 2019 | 5:05 pm UTC Update
Gasol’s goal is to remain in the NBA but Barcelona is ready to talk to the Spanish big man to understand if he is interested in returning to Europe to play and be ready for Tokyo 2020 when he will retire from International basketball. Barcelona owns Gasol’s rights in Europe and would love to bring the center back after his successful NBA career.
“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.”
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.”
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.
“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.”
Justin Kubatko: The @Houston Rockets James Harden is just the second player in NBA history to attempt at least 10 free throws in each of his first 15 games of a season. The other to do so is Wilt Chamberlain in 1962-63.
Howard Fendrich: Gregg Popovich, asked about the possibility of a female head coach in the NBA: “There’s no difference between a woman who knows the game and a man who knows the game. It’s just another prejudice that probably has to be overcome. …”
