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Other big names suggested as potential Knicks targets include Bradley Beal, Kyle Kuzma (expected to be a free agent this summer) and OG Anunoby. Generally speaking, the Knicks could be a suitor for the next star who demands a trade.
Source: Eric Pincus @ Bleacher Report

“You can’t wear 23 here because of Michael Jordan,” Jimmy Butler said in reference to the Heat organization. “Literally, Pat Riley retired it. But I will say this: Whenever I did come here, Pat told me that I could wear 23, but I said no.”
Source: Orel Dizon @ Heat Nation

It’s hard to imagine too many other aspiring business moguls making a similar fashion choice, but then again, most don’t have the body of a nine-time NBA All-Star, or the flair for fashion. It’s a fitting look for the 34-year-old Los Angeles Clippers point guard, who is straddling two worlds, playing out the final years of his NBA career while working tirelessly to build a business empire that he hopes will eventually eclipse his triple-double records on the court. “I want to be a billionaire,” Russell Westbrook says. Читать дальше...

Shams Charania: The Milwaukee Bucks are interviewing former Golden State coach Mark Jackson for their open head coaching job, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Jackson, who had a .526 winning percentage in three seasons as Warriors coach, was a finalist for the Kings job last year.
Source: Twitter @ShamsCharania

Ja Morant has been suspended from all Memphis Grizzlies activities after flashing a gun again on social media.

Juan Toscano-Anderson: Ja Morant friends really the police. Why they always recording?
Source: Twitter @juanonjuan10

Shams Charania: Ja Morant has been suspended from all Grizzlies activities after the Memphis star was seen flashing an apparent gun in recent social media video.
Source: Twitter @ShamsCharania

After the season ended, Morant was seen on one of his friends’ Instagram Live. The man was showing himself and Morant in the car. At first, the two are seen showing the sign of a gun with their hands. Moments later, Morant can be seen flashing what looks like a gun. It is currently when or where the video was taken. Earlier in the season, Morant got into trouble in early March after he hosted an Instagram live from a nightclub where he showed a gun to thousands of spectators. The team suspended the player. Читать дальше...

Klay Thompson and Draymond Green entered the 2023 postseason as the players with the best winning percentage in NBA playoffs history (minimum: 100 games played). That is no more after the Warriors’ second-round elimination against the Lakers. At No. 1 now is Ron Harper, a role player for both Bulls and Lakers, which is quite fitting given the list is filled with players from Chicago’s and L.A.’s dynasties at the top. (Not to mention Celtics and Warriors).
Source: Sam Yip @ HoopsHype

Klay Thompson and Draymond Green entered the 2023 postseason as the players with the best winning percentage in NBA playoffs history (minimum: 100 games played). That is no more after the Warriors’ second-round elimination against the Lakers.

Edwards plans on being in Minnesota for most of the summer, but there may be some international travel in his future as well. He could play in the FIBA World Cup for Team USA ahead of the 2024 Olympics, a source said.
Source: Chris Hine, Star Tribune @ Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Marc Stein: The Suns, league sources say, are expected to explore the feasibility of trying to lure Tyronn Lue away from the Clippers after tonight’s abrupt dismissal of Monty Williams as coach.
Source: Twitter @TheSteinLine

The Warriors are privately optimistic about their chances of retaining Green if he opts out of the final year and $27.6 million of his contract, sources say. Thompson and his expiring $43 million contract might make it seem he would be a logical trade candidate, but sources say Thompson still has strong internal support.
Source: Ramona Shelburne @ ESPN

“Man, I love Rudy. Me and Rudy got a great understanding,” Anthony Edwards said. “We talk all the time, and I think he can get a lot better as far as catching the ball, jump hooking. I tell him all the time, like ‘Rudy, I’m [going to] throw you the ball every time. I want you to jump hook or money dunk on somebody,’ and he be like, ‘I got you.’ This summer we’re going to get together and work on it. “… He told me to trust him, and I started trusting him and giving it to him and he’s making the right play. Читать дальше...

He also said he is planning on heading to France at some point to work with Gobert. From the outside, Edwards and Gobert didn’t always seem to be on the same page. Edwards seemed reluctant to pass to Gobert when working with him in the screen and roll game. Edwards said that wasn’t the case.
Source: Chris Hine, Star Tribune @ Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Draymond Green’s punch didn’t just knock out Jordan Poole. It laid bare the tension between the older championship core and the younger players the organization hoped would supersede them one day. And it has never really gone away, sources say, despite Poole’s relative silence on the matter this season. “I don’t speak on it much,” Poole told ESPN this week in his most extensive comments since the incident. “But I will say that … you’ve got to have a different level of maturity. “We had a season to play. Читать дальше...

Draymond Green: “Also know and pay attention to who they people that are saying the dynasty is over, it’s always the people that never been a part of a dynasty.”
Source: Bleacher Report