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Chris Kirschner: Hawks say Bogdan Bogdanovic, who’s been out since Nov. 27 with an ankle sprain, has progressed his activities to include individual on-court workouts. He will be listed as out for tonight’s game and his status will be updated as appropriate.

In addition: Rival teams are expressing interest in Hawks swingman Cam Reddish, but those teams believe Atlanta seeks a first-round draft pick for Reddish, sources said. Reddish is averaging career highs across several offensive categories this season, including 11.1 points per game and 37 percent 3-point shooting.
Source: Shams Charania @ The Athletic

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Fair point from Mr. Fisher here. It wasn’t too long ago that the Celtics were one of the most highly-promising young teams in the NBA. Since then, their development has stagnated and it has come to a point that there are now serious questions about this team’s core: “I think this is definitely the beginning of the end for the Jayson Tatum-Jaylen Brown pairing,” Fisher continued. “I don’t know if that will get broken up this season. But I think sometime in the next 12-18 months we’re really going... Читать дальше...

“I slept last night from 12 to 8 , I got up, ate breakfast and went back to sleep from 8:30 to 12:30 ,” James said after pacing the Lakers with 30 points on 12-for-20 shooting, 11 rebounds, 10 assists and three blocks in 37 minutes against Orlando. At 36 years, 346 days old, James supplanted Lakers great Kobe Bryant as the oldest player ever to drop a 30-point triple-double, according to research by ESPN Stats & Information. Bryant was 36 years, 99 days old when he had 31 points, 11 rebounds... Читать дальше...

Hyland doesn’t lack confidence – on or off the court. For example, he started some of his meetings at the NBA Draft Combine by rapping for the decision-makers in attendance. “I rapped for some of the teams; I have some songs that I’ve made and I did a little snippet of those for them, and they loved it!” Hyland told BasketballNews.com in July. “Just right off the bat, from the rip, I was rapping. I ain’t shy. They just loved me, honestly.”
Source: Alex Kennedy @ basketballnews.com

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Chris Vernon on Jamal Murray’s potential return: I ran into somebody last night that would know, and they told me February for Jamal (Murray).
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The New Orleans Pelicans may need an Excedrin with how many headaches they have been getting from Zion Williamson lately. Pelicans beat writer Jake Madison made troubling revelations this week about Williamson’s work ethic. He said in a tweet that Williamson has skipped workouts in his rehab. Madison also said that the former No. 1 overall pick fell asleep during a recent team film session.
Source: Larry Brown Sports

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The Orlando Magic (5-23) play against the Los Angeles Lakers (13-13) at STAPLES Center

Game Time: 9:30 PM EST on Sunday December 12, 2021

The Minnesota Timberwolves (12-15) play against the Portland Trail Blazers (16-16) at Moda Center

Game Time: 9:00 PM EST on Sunday December 12, 2021

Chris Haynes: Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard (abdomen) will make his return tonight against the Minnesota Timberwolves after missing the last five games, league sources tell @YahooSports.
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As training camps opened, there was a lot of attention on the small number of unvaccinated players. Did that annoy you? CJ McCollum: Yeah, it did. I feel like we were targeted. Obviously, people look up to us. We play a sport for a living. It’s entertainment. People looked at us as the bar. In reality, we are kind of the bar: We got 98 percent of our league volunteered to be vaccinated, whereas the public was 55 percent or 60 percent at that point. No one was talking about corporate America going through the same problem... Читать дальше...

The New Orleans Pelicans (8-21) play against the San Antonio Spurs (16-16) at AT&T Center

Game Time: 7:00 PM EST on Sunday December 12, 2021