32 Burst results for "Jeremy Grant"
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"jeremy grant" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"That's what I almost got to the point where I'm just accepting that jazz are going to make that move. But and I don't mean to laugh because it sucks when people get fired, but that was more just thank you. Yeah, that I was saying that there wasn't anybody else on the horizon when it's like I'm just assuming that's the way this is going with the jazz at this point. Sure. No over there. All right, let's move on. Let's talk a little bit about, well, Damian Lillard, this came out. Damian Lillard is pushing for a two way wing with size and then Keith you and I were laughing about this before we came on. It was Jeremy grant, Ben Simmons, Jalen Brown, there was the other one. Can you hear me? And Aaron Gordon, I'm like, one of those guys is available. So Damian Lillard wants Jeremy grant. And we've already heard the blazers connected with Jeremy grant. They were connected to Jeremy grant at the trade deadline. They've been rumored to be a team to watch to land him this summer. They got stuff at the trade deadline that maybe they can flip and try to get Jeremy grant from the pistons. I don't know why you even list the other names because they're not available. Jeremy grant is clearly the blazers you're going to go after Jeremy grant. This summer, do they land him? We'll see, but it's going to be a thing. Yeah, I mean, why not throw the bond on the list? Let's throw it. Anybody else? Jimmy Butler, they're interested in. Jason Tatum. Yeah, any two way wing wood size. It's the right path to if your intention is, we're going to flip this quickly and we're going to try to get back to being a playoff team right away. That's right path you need to put defense around Damian Lillard and ideally defenseless size because I already got he's not tiny by any means, but he's a smaller guard who has one of your starting spots locked in. It is interesting Jake Fisher bleacher report noted blazers not getting that pick from a pelicans because the pelicans jumped in the playoffs and now that pick goes to the hornets, that took a hit because it's just one last thing they can offer and trade because the pistons, it was well reported, the bulls made a run at Jeremy grant and they wanted the pistons wanted two first round picks or a first rounder and Patrick Williams. And that's because the bulls are obligations to the magic and the trailblazers. Or I'm sorry, maybe it's just the mat day can't remember which way that one went. But maybe it's just the magic, but anyway, the bulls had obligations out. Down the line, it's hard for them to give up too first rounders and one of their best young players..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"jeremy grant" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Because they're trying to see like, where's Brooklyn gonna be? But then they've got a game against Dallas, Dallas is certainly battling. They do have a game against the nets, which I could turn into a pretty big game. And then they have a game against the hawks, which the hawks are. They're not going to catch the Cavs, but they're trying to move up. They'd like to catch the nets or move past the hornets and host that first playing game of their side of that 9 ten matchup. So we do have a lot still going on there with teams that are fighting. So the cat cabs are going to have a bit of a tough challenge here the rest of the way. Yeah, and this has been such a great season for them. You hate to see it kind of fall apart here at the end, but I mean an injury to Evan mobley. If he's out a significant amount of time and he starts missing some, I mean, potentially the play in. That could be, that could be an early exit. I mean, he's that good. He could be a difference between an early exit and making it through to the next round. Yeah, what's unfortunate too is there was some years last week that Jared and I were just this earlier this week, Jared Allen is still having too much pain. It is finger for him to return yet. So they're kind of looking at it and saying, maybe we'll still get him back, but as of right now, you know, that they're not there yet. So that stuff. Good news, coming out of Cleveland. All right. Man, I hate all these injury updates because more often than not, they wind up being downwards, especially this part of the year where it's a lot of, okay, now we're not going to see this guy again this season. That guy's out this season. I mean at least we had the positive Paul George news, but still it's been rough on the injury front lately. That's for sure. I was saying you know what we should do maybe later this week when everybody's down to about 5 ish games, maybe Friday show. Maybe we'll really kind of lock in and try to make some predictions or something like that for what we think the final seeds would be. Because at least gives us something maybe to positive to look forward to. I don't know, maybe not. Maybe that'll turn sideways..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"jeremy grant" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Guys off the TV, please. My guess is because a lot of people are like, why is it not buck sixers, which is a huge game in the east. My guess is it's because the Mavs to have a 7 third. That's a very early star for them. It's only a 6 30. Local start. My guess is that's why to then push them back into their normal start times are 7 30 local, which is 8 30 eastern. So you'd be posting pushing the game back a whole hour. And my guess is that's why they're not doing it because people may have already done their plans and whatever. And that's why they didn't change it. But yeah, you're absolutely right. Nobody wants this. This was like remember for years when I was like, the Lakers couldn't get good in the Knicks can get good. And then both were playing on Christmas Day and we're like, what? Yes. What is this? Now I do kind of miss it because I was one of your scheduled in the family time. We made the catch a nap, one Christmas three. Yeah, I hear you, but it is what it is. All right, let's get to where do we want to go next? Well, Jared Harper to the pelicans on a two way contract. We talked about alvarado got bumped up to a full contract, so that frees up a spot for Jared Harper to get a two way deal. So he'll get a look there from the pelicans. And he had been with them earlier this season has been kind of on and off. He's been playing for the my favorite DET name, the Birmingham squadron of the G league. He had been playing with them all year. And then on Jose alvarado, just to kind of close a little bit of Luke because we've had some subsequent reporting on him. He got 1.5 million for the remainder of the season basically all the pelicans had left to give of their mid level exception they gave its alvarado. That's a deal. I mean, that's a huge bump because as an undrafted rookie, he would have been looking at about a 100,000 or so down the stretch here, a little over that probably about a 140,000 ish. So that's huge. That's why when you start to like, man, this dude did a four year deal. He might have been able to get something out of that and then he'll be fully guaranteed at about 1.5 million next year. And then into non guarantees and a team option on that final season. Right. Well, I mean, good for him. Good for him to land that communicate a cool story. All right, let's finish up. Hey, did you see their pelicans bio? I didn't. It was really cute. So you know, there was the whole thing with Jose alvarado, you know, Kenny shoot. That was like the whole thing that was out there. And it said, yes, he can shoot. And he got paid. That's what the chances are. Too. I thought that was pretty fun. That's cool. That's cool. Good job, pelicans. All right, let's finish up with this..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"jeremy grant" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"He's pretty good. He's a Ford with pretty good size. Can shoot the ball, do a little bit of putting it on the floor and those kind of things that can play some defense. So he's probably going to be a top 5 pick in the draft, so we're starting to see better players start to put their name in here. We'll see a handful more over the next couple of weeks, obviously. The final four Saturday and then the national championship Monday. So anybody still playing, we probably won't hear on them until this time next week or so. And we will start shifting towards a bit more draft coverage as we get closer to the actual NBA draft. But good note there. So positive. Positive injury news. Paul George. Upgraded to questionable. I've created a question. I mean, this is not only that. He can play reporting. There was a report. Sounds like he's going to play. Any kind of pre game setback. There we go. It's pretty huge. That could definitely add some intrigue into not just the play in, but assuming the clippers get through the play in now with Paul George. That, I mean, I'm not saying they would win, but like clippers grizzlies round one becomes more inch even clippers sons becomes more interesting in round one if that's when we wind up seeing. So that could be big for them. No, no. We haven't seen anything on Kawhi Leonard. In terms of him returning or anything like that. My guess is no. I would think so as well. But I'll say it's more likely that he comes back if Paul George is back, then if Paul George was out. I think if Paul George was out, then it's just a flat no, no matter what. Right. So we'll see what winds up happening there. But good news for the clippers and for their playoff prospects here again, not saying they're going to advance far or anything like that. But I mean, I think it makes them definitely more of a threat come play off time. Yeah, I mean, despite losing 5 in a row, because the pelicans, Lakers and all the spurs are starting to play better, but they were far enough behind. But the pumpkins and Lakers have been kind of floating through this back half here. The clippers are still four games up on the pelicans. So there are a couple of games away from locking into what will be the 8 seat because they're obviously not going to catch the Timberwolves. I don't even know if they still can. I'd have to do that math though. But they're not going to catch the wolves. So yeah, so they're going to be the 8 spots. So that gives them the two shots. They'll go on the road to whether it be Minnesota or if Minnesota can somehow catch Denver or Utah. In front of them, that they'll go on the road in that first one, and then they'll host the second game if they lose. So yeah, you're absolutely right. I mean, Paul George gives you a fighting chance in the series because they can definitely do some stuff. I mean, we saw them beat the jazz..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"jeremy grant" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"And that's why these teams are saying balance chuck these guys down. Absolutely. That's it exactly. And I saw the blazers and the thunder plate and the thunder actually won. And blazers fans were excited. Because they got that they got that loss that they wanted because right now the blazers are sitting down just half a game. Well, ahead of but really behind the Sacramento Kings in the tank race at the bottom there. So that kind of stuff matters. And that's also a factor here. When we see guys being shut down for the rest of the season, teams are trying to drop games where they can here. Speaking of which, Reggie Perry signs with the blazers because you do have to have a certain number of players in order to play a game and so they do pick up Reggie Perry, bring him in. This is a point where some teams are just bringing in some bodies. Every once in a while, somebody will click and great. Maybe you find something, but for the most part, guys are just trying to round out their rosters. Yeah, and as we said yesterday, we're getting down to it on ten days. You can always sign a ten day when there's at least ten days left in the season. So only a couple more days. For those, every once in a while, you'll see a guy still get signed for the remainder of the season and then the team might tack on a non guaranteed second year and then I can at least bring them to summer week in camp and those kind of things. And that could be ultimately what happens here with Reggie Perry if he makes it through the remainder of this year and then they re sign him. So yeah, I mean, they need bodies because last night I think drew Eubanks was the only player taller than 6 foot 6 that played for the blazers. The blazers yeah. They were very small throughout the course of that game..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"jeremy grant" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Tis the season for injury injury updates. That's the way it goes. But on that, let's just touch on that because I had a couple people ask you. Is that a thing? And it's because if you think about it, if you're to have a week to two week long injury, that's basically the season, the public is crazy in the background. But yeah, if you've got an injury that's going to take a week to two weeks to recover, you're down to it at the end of the season. Season ends on April 10th this year for the first time, all 15 teams will play on the 15 games featuring all 30 teams on the final day of the season. But yeah, that's why you're seeing these guys. Like, I've seen some people say, hey, a calf strain or a sprained ankle. That's not an injury that ends this season. Well, it is. There's only a week or two left. Especially if you're the Oklahoma City Thunder and you're not trying to win games. Exactly. And that's where you've got teams that are saying, well, what's the benefit? What's the benefit? Because we know that it's a thing where if a guy comes back from injury, let's say, let's say it's a strain calf, right? And so their favoring that leg sometimes you can create a higher probability of an injury elsewhere in your body because your favoring that particular body part, that leg. So you don't want that. You don't want a guy suffering another injury or a setback or something like that, heading into the off season. And if you're a team that's not really trying to win games anyway, there's just no incentive to put that player back out on the floor. You're better off just saying, okay, that's it. You're done. Let's head into the off season and start getting prepared for that. So that's where a number of teams are at. And I guess we'll kick things off there with Shane gilder's Alexander. Ankle, done. That's it. His season is over and he is an extremely talented young player, and the thunder is saying, look, we don't need to win games right now. Let's just call it a season for you. And we'll do what we can do in the off season and then come back next year. Yeah, a couple of things on this. So this is the list of guys who are out for the thunder for the rest of the year. Kind of at one point, maybe even a starting 5 for the thunder. Darius bazley, Lou dort, Josh giddy, she gives us Alexander Rome and Mike muscala, and it is not expected that Derek favors or Kendrick Williams will play. The rest of the season, even if they have not been officially ruled out. So yeah, so that kind of gives you a sense. That's why I said that blazers game was a little tough to watch because the blazers as we talked about yesterday ruled a handful of guys out, including use of nurkic, Anthony simons. They joined nasir little Damian Lillard Joe ingles as all as well. So and then Eric Bledsoe also ruled out and Josh Hart. I don't think it's been ruled out yet, but unlikely we're going to see him. Now, the other thing for the thunder is, here's where we're at standings. Why as we focus obviously a lot on the standings with the playoffs and playing, well, the other end matters too, because we're getting down to locking in our lottery positions. So we're going to do this in terms of losses because that's what we're really matters here. You've got the Orlando Magic and here's the rockets tied with 56 losses. You have the Detroit Pistons with 55 losses..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"jeremy grant" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Sign up today and win $200 in free bets when you place a $10 first time wager on a straight bed of parlay that's $200 that you can use for all the upcoming basketball action, including the men's basketball tournament. If you bet at least $500 during the first and second round of the tournament, you can get a trip to the 5 star rated win Las Vegas offer subject to change terms and conditions that win bed dot com must be 21 or older and present in a state where playthrough wind bed is available. If you were someone you know as a gambling problem called one 805 two two 4700. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the NBA front office show as always a ton of things going on in the world of professional basketball. We're going to dive into a quick reminder, do give us that 5 star rating over on Apple podcasts if you're a podcast person. Don't forget to leave us a review or if you prefer the video version of this show. Make sure you do subscribe and turn on those notifications as well. I'm Trevor lane. You can find me on Twitter at Trevor underscore lane joined by Keith Smith at Kate Smith, NBA. Keith, we're inching closer to playoff time. It's almost there. We're starting to see the playoff seatings kind of settle in a little bit. But we're also kind of at that point where it's like it's a couple of weeks before Christmas. Well, you just kind of want to hurry up and get there and get to the playoffs and enjoy what's going to be, I think, a pretty crazy stretch run for the NBA through playoff season. Yeah, it really is. We're down to it and it's getting some teams are getting pretty tough to watch. Is there wrapping up the evening? I was watching that blazers thunder game last night. And that's just there's not a lot to take away when basically no one is playing in those games there, but we'll see..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"jeremy grant" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Guys who's putting a little bit more pressure on his teammates on the coaches, maybe even on the front office to, hey, let's keep this going. We're finally becoming the team we thought we could be. Let's do this. And why that is probably a little bit more important is that means that it's not, hey, I don't just want to see a Dennis shorter salary dump at the trade deadline, like get us some help, let's try to improve this team. And I think that is, that's what's the best players on the team should do. They should be pushing teams to continually make the team better. As long as you don't get involved in, go get this guy go get that guy because that's when it can go sideways. Just put that pressure on and go from there. So not a huge story. A lot of people are taking it as jaylen Brown wants out or jaylen Brown says must win or I'm leaving. It's not that's not the story but the story is, you know, hey, there's starting to be a little bit of pressure from Brown and the reality is he's halfway through his contract that he signed his new deal that he signed kicked in last year. This is year two of it. So after this year, he's only got two more years under contract left, and that's about when we start to hear guys if they're in the position to put a little pressure on their organization. Absolutely. So we'll see where things go from there. Let's finish things up, though, with another wing player. Jeremy grant, welcome back. Yeah. Welcome back. Jeremy, it sounds like he might even play tonight. Obviously a major name out there on the trade market. We'll see how that might factor in to maybe how many minutes he plays and that sort of thing. But he could be back. He's expected to be back this week and could even play in tonight's game for the Detroit Pistons, nice to see him back out on the floor. Yeah, and let me use this as a little bit of a soapbox moment. The pistons do not need to nor will they showcase Jeremy grant. They may get him out there to prove, hey, he's southeast past the thumb injuries ready to go. But they don't need to say, hey, Jeremy, grant, you're going to play 40 minutes a night, so teams can really see how good you are. It's not how this works. Teams know who Jeremy grant is. They feel really good about Jeremy grant's skill set. They just need to maybe there might be a couple of cake. Can we see him play a couple games? I just want to make sure that thumb doesn't look like it's a mess. With that, but showcasing players is that is when it is a player who was not in the rotation at all, all of a sudden is in the rotation and playing 25 minutes a night in games and it's like, where did this come from? That's a showcase. Teams don't have to showcase because I've heard some people saying the Celtics push Dennis Schroeder to play so they could showcase him with boy the first trade value..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"jeremy grant" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"But regardless, we'll see. We'll see. People live show, we're saying whatever Matt's on, they lose. The Lakers lose. I don't know. Now Matt's gone and suddenly they win? Matt's never coming back at this point. Matt will Matt told us he will willingly sacrifice his own role on this show. If it means the Lakers win more games. So I like having mat on the show. So fingers crossed, hopefully, hopefully he doesn't go too far with that. Mooc Moore has said, given Mark Stein's report, oh, boy, here we go. The Lakers should try to go all in for Jeremy grant with the 2027 first, no matter what, should the pig be unprotected is the question, go all in no matter what. Yeah, so from what Stein is saying and by the way, I'm going to get into this, but then I'm going to talk a little bit of trade deadline. I'll do a little trade deadline PSA, public service announcement. But what Stein is saying is that the Lakers are definitely going after Jeremy grant. And pretty much the entire rest of the league though from what we've been hearing from multiple different people is that a lot of teams want Jeremy grant. There's a lot of and no surprise. He's an easy fit anywhere. You want a team that's going to play big? He can play there. One team is going to play small. He can play there. Play fast, he can play there, play slow, whatever. He can play in a lot of different systems. So a lot of teams want him, and he's on a pretty reasonable contract. So a lot of teams are very interested in Jeremy grant. It is a seller's market. There's not a lot of pieces out there on the market to go trade for. And so not surprisingly, Jeremy grant is in high demand. Now, what this means for the Lakers, though, is that they have to go all in order to try to get them. And for the Lakers right now all in equals Taylor Horton Tucker, Kendrick nun in the 2027 first. That's all you have to offer. Now, what mook Morris is saying is that you can add some protections to that. Let's say it's a lottery protected, 2027 pick. And then if it's in the lottery, then the Lakers get to keep their pick. That obviously is going to have less value to the pacers than say an unprotected pick, where the pit could be number one overall. And they still get it. So maybe there's some negotiating wiggle room there, but still a 2027 first round pick probably doesn't that and the pieces the Lakers have. I'm not sure that's enough to get the job done for Jeremy grant. Not with so many teams after him. If it does, great, but I would have to think that making that pick unprotected is almost going to be a must just to be in the.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"jeremy grant" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"What's the probability of Jeremy grant getting moved by the trade deadline now that miles Turner probably isn't a strong of an asset? Yeah, this is going to be one where you have to have a real good way to back door the negotiations because you want to have a sense of, hey, after next year, meaning the 22 23 season are you going to resign here? Can we get you to do an extension this off season? What does that look like? By all accounts, Jeremy grant wants paid, and Jeremy grant also wants to be somewhere where he's not the third fourth guy in the pecking order like he was in Denver. He wants to be a big featured player. That starts to take the destinations and you can really start to look around and say, I will take this team off the list because they can't do this. Take this team off the list take this team off the list. And then you're left with a much shorter list because I don't know how many teams SR review Jeremy grant as our number two on a title team. I think a lot of teams if you're our number three, you're a number four. Anything below that, yeah, we're probably really, really good. So that's where I think the challenge comes in for Jeremy grant is so you have to be really able to back channel that to say, all right, we what do we think in on this as far as the contract goes next one roll? Is he going to be happy here? Those kind of things, because otherwise, this is one where you could make this trade, then he's not happy, and then you deal with another year of unhappy and then he's gone. And that becomes a whole mass messing. And I'm not, I don't mean this as any criticism of Jeremy grant. I think his idea is fine. I think it's a little misplaced. I don't think he's quite that level of player..
BBALL BREAKDOWN Podcast
"jeremy grant" Discussed on BBALL BREAKDOWN Podcast
"Would need something, they wouldn't do it unless they're gonna get back something that really addresses one of their needs. I don't think that Kobe white does. I mean, a pic would help. But what do you think of? Yeah, I was thinking it from that perspective. Why would Memphis do that? Right. That's an interesting question. Yeah. But okay, but Joe, do you think that what's the biggest weakness for the polls right now they need to shore up defensive center or defensive end? Definitely our size. And I think most of us like to play that 5 outwardly, and if we get a four that doesn't mind being in the post plants with defense and kind of having that presence, it might assure him up to get a couple more free shots and that worked so hard to stretch the offense. We need yeah. They definitely need a little bit more depth depth in the big man. How could they get Jeremy grant? That'd be a good question. Well, they were talking about him or Harrison Barnes, and then they would package, you know, gosh, what was that package then for the bulls? Jones, who would you like better for them? Out of those two guys. Honestly, I don't have a problem with either. I just don't think they add up to what we need all the way. It would just be quick fixes, which again, I know Kobe might have some value and I love the story too, but I think we got some steam and we need to go full steam ahead before we blow this up and just know what we're doing this year. I hear you. Yeah, we talk about this last time, I think, right. You thought that Jeremy grant would be the better fit, right? Yeah, I think Jeremy grant would be a great fit there. I mean, he brings that defensive versatility that you want for that team. And that team, you know, I mean, they're great on offense. They have some great defensive players, but they're not really a great defensive team right now. Their defense doesn't match up to their offense. And they need some depth as well, but they're scary. Like no team wants to play them. I'll tell you that Jones in the playoffs, no team wants to play them. Right. But that said, the assets are not like, I don't know how many assets they might have, the package they could get something really great back. Especially with the Memphis because they're not going to do anything to mess up chemistry unless it's something that really makes sense for them. Yeah. That's just a pipe dream of mine. But the reason I don't think Jeremy grant's coming is we have a lot of guys around that height that range, and we might need someone a little bit more solidified out of 6 ten and even if Clark's not, he plays big. Like we need someone that can play big above the room. It's coming back. It was a couple months last time I checked it was supposed to be out for season, but I heard there's some new updates or something, but I haven't checked recently. I feel like he'll be out for a while. Yeah, I can check that while we're talking. But I don't know how much you'd expect from him at this point. We're missing all the time and having to he was on its way toward building to something, but we hadn't seen it yet. So if the best didn't believe in him, it could make sense for them, right? Oh, yeah. There could be some value, by the way, on that end, as far as from trade..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"jeremy grant" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Only shooting 29.5% from three. And that's on 3.7 attempts per game. So that's not very good. He's getting the free throw line less than four times per game. That's basically in line with where he's been first career. But he's playing a career high in minutes. He's taking a near career high as best I can tell in shots per game. Outside of a couple years ago. So that was a couple of years ago it was one where I'll say G zero. This guy maybe should be an all star. So that's your problem. This guy is a big role. And he's when you're shooting that much and you're shooting under 30% from three, that starts to become a kind of destructive player for you versus for the opponent. So that's just something to keep in mind as we talk about where his game has slipped a little bit. All right. Donovan Mitchell had some more comments about the Utah Jazz. We had the story the other day about Donovan Mitchell, perhaps someday wanting to go to a big market again. He's under contract for a few more seasons. So we're not saying this is happening tomorrow. Sure. But he did have some point in comments about the Utah Jazz and their defense in particular said they are fooling themselves Utah was not good last night against no against a bad pistons team that is missing Jeremy grant. And they lost by ten. That's not what you would expect. Despite the Rudy Gobert's out, we should note that. Sure, but they blew a 22 point lead. In that game, fell apart in that game to a piston scene that doesn't have Jeremy grant is not quite frankly they're not trying to super hard to win games. I mean, it was bad. They're defense was horrendous. 23 in the third quarter. 40 to 23. They look up 78 second half points to the pistons who are not a good offensive team. At all. They might have even been 30th going into yesterday. Let's check that and see. Okay. What I was going to say on that is they were 29th, but maybe 30th going in yesterday. But Mitchell is a big part of that. His defense was not good either. Getting blown by on the perimeter, guys, beating him off the bounce and those kind of things. I think that team has become very reliant on Rudy Gobert, cleaning up all the messes they make out on the perimeter. And what teams have started to do is teams are embracing the mid range against the jazz now because they know they can get by that first wave. They're not necessarily going all the way to the cup to challenge Gobert because that's generally doesn't work out so great for you. So why not take and live in that mid range a little bit more? And the pistons did some of that and then they really get downhill to the basket because Gobert wasn't there. So I think I get where Donovan Mitchell is coming from. I think his comments are all spot on. But include yourself in there and maybe he was. But the reality is, what's going to how this is going to be seen by folks is, hey, every single time we hear Donovan Mitchell story, it is not good. That's going to start to make people think. Maybe Donovan Mitchell is more gettable than we thought he would be or something like that. My guess is with Utah, it.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"jeremy grant" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"So would you take a flyer on Kevin Porter if he got released or traded? I would. I mean, sometimes the Lakers have taken on these guys who have had interesting pass. And sometimes it's worked out. We go way back in the day. You remember Isaiah JR writer? Yes. Remember that? Yeah, the Lakers brought him in. Dennis Rodman was a Laker at one point. Sometimes the Lakers take chance on these guys and sometimes it works. I mean, Dion waiters played some decent minutes for the Lakers. And you know, waiters island and all that kind of stuff. JR Smith came in. You've had some guys that have had some measure of success. Dwight, Howard, Dwight, Howard was seen as kind of a malcontent before he came to the Lake or somebody who would never accept being a role player. And he's been great at doing just that, just doing what the team needs him to do. So you never know, but I'd still be a little hesitant. I mean, it's kind of iffy because this is now the second situation where this because that's why he got traded from Cleveland. Yes, that's true. Yeah. So I mean, I liked K PJ coming out of the draft. So I'm a little biased here, but I think that would be fun to have the guy that played for USC back with the Lakers. But that's just good for you. But back to the question originally, yes, Christian wood was somehow available. I don't see why he would be. But if he was somehow available in the Lakers have a deal for him, assuming that the Jeremy grant trade that everyone and their mom is talking about doesn't go through, if you told me, well, we'll take THT from you guys and we'll give you Christian wood. I would say yes. If it was Christian wood or Jeremy grant, you're taking agreed. Can you imagine a LeBron, Stanley Johnson, Jeremy grant, and throw in two players of your choice there? That'd be fun lineup. That would be fun. Trevor ariza someone else? My thinking, I've got to come in here. My thinking with bronn and AD small ball is for a bigger trade coming that may involve us getting Jeremy grant and THT going up. Isn't any trade the Lakers do? Yes. He would have to be. You know, it's a small one. We have not done the master lock in the night. We need to do that before we call it a night here. And we've already gone way over time talking about team full of clone Lebrons and things like that. It sucks. And ducks. So let's talk about the master lock of the night. Let's get into it. What was the one thing that you would put in Chris, the masterpiece masters finishing hold? Chat, let us know your thoughts coming in from YouTube from Facebook from Twitter. What are you putting in the master lock tonight?.
Lakers Nation Podcast
"jeremy grant" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"You're hoping that he could return some of that value and continue to find a way to start knocking out threes again with being likely the third or fourth option on any given night. So yeah, I think you have to make that move. That tends to be what happens with players, right? When we see a player come into a team where they are, they go from being the first option on say a bad team, and they go to become the say third or fourth option or whatever it is on the team that at least has championship aspirations. I don't hesitate to call the Lakers a good team because we haven't seen that this season. But if you have a guy like Jeremy grant, who goes from being the first option to being the third option, maybe the fourth option, depending on what the lineup is, right? What usually see happen is you see the usage go down, the volume go down, so the number of tips go down, but the percentage will go up because the quality of looks is going to increase. They're going to be more selective with their shots, whereas on the team where they're the number one option, they're being asked to take a lot of bailout shots. Hey, shot clock's winding down. Well, you're our guy. So here's the ball. Go shoot it. Those are percentage killers. So you don't get as many of those. And so you see the efficiency come up. I think that's what we would see out of Jeremy grant. If the Lakers traded for him and you're expecting him to be a 20 point per game scorer, you'd probably be disappointed. But 15 ish points with good defense and helping you out on the glass and doing all those things the Lakers need. I think he could very easily give you that. Yeah, and again, going back to that year in OKC, the average 5 rebounds a game. And that's us a fourth option. I'm taking that along with again, the good three point shooting in solid to good perimeter defense. And then, oh boy, I mean, you could put him in a lineup with a him and liable LeBron and AD because I'm so sweet. That AD, the Lakers played as to play 80 at the 5. And I mean, that's what they want to do. And now I've said in other breakdowns, it baby gets dragged out to the perimeter. Now you have guys like whether if you do get Jeremy grant LeBron and other guys that they have that can rebound and not give up several offensive rebounds on one possession. Yes. Yes. I've got to come here Westbrook has been doing this this whole career. You haven't been paying attention, it's different when you're watching it every single night..
Lakers Nation Podcast
"jeremy grant" Discussed on Lakers Nation Podcast
"Would say, where do I sign? Right? He's right here. Does that then make it easier to go pursue a trade? Now again, Kendrick nun has not been a factor of this season because he hasn't played. He came off a health and safety protocols, but he's still dealing with the bone bruise. They're not expecting to see him until January. I know the Lakers were excited about signing him. But if you're getting, even if you're getting 85% of what you thought you were going to get out of Kendrick nun, does that make it just a little bit easier to package? Taylor Horton Tucker and Kendrick dawn and go get something. I wonder, I wonder, especially if it's like a two for one trait. People mentioning Jeremy grant, people mentioning miles Turner, people mentioning Christian wood. Does it make it a little bit easier to go get one of those guys if you know that with the extra roster spot, it's going to go to Isiah Thomas who's going to give you kind of what you thought you were going to get out of Kendrick nunn. And again, I can't give a definitive yes right now. Because we're two games in. We're two games into this Isiah Thomas ten day thing and all of that. But two games in he's already a starter, and I know the Lakers are an emergency situation, right? Again, they had four players that are regular rotation players tonight. So very strange times. It's not like Isiah Thomas came in played one game and then got promoted to the starting lineup of a fully healthy team. But still, they started him. They had him in during big moments. And so you got to wonder moving forward, if this continues, does this make it a little bit more likely that the Lakers find a trade? I think it's interesting. I'm not saying and again, I'm not ready to say yes. But it's something I think we got to keep an eye on with IT, because a lot of what he's doing out there, it's the stuff the Lakers we're going to look for from Kendrick nunn..
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"jeremy grant" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"Jumping into a game? I mean, does it really do we really just say the bucks are good and the pistons are bad? Like one 17 to 89 bucks. Still missing starters box. But yeah, they still missing starters, but the pistons are really bad. Jeremy grant kind of bounces back with 21 points, but Kate Cunningham, two for 14 from the field, including zero for 9. Yikes. That's not great. Still very early, and that's not reason to suddenly beat only two guys in double figures for the pistons in the game. The worst out of all 8 for 47 for three, if you take out Jeremy grant and Killian Hayes, who combine to go 6 for 12, they were two for 35. That's impressive. That's hard to do. That's yeah, Trey lyles was two for 8, Frank Jackson was over 5 Cunningham. We already said over 9 city bay, two zero for four, only two for 13 from the field overall yeah. Just about as bad a game as the pistons could play in the box did enough to win behind Yanis. And kind of munchkin type lineup. So his brother's not small because he's kind of bulky, but the NASA is starting at the 5 right now for Milwaukee. We'll see because there's no real clarity on holiday or Lopez. We now know Chris Middleton's going to fail for ten days. So at least, and we'll see from there. Let me ask you this. The pistons minus Jeremy grant or Killian Hayes, shooting from three in a three point shooting competition against blindfolded Steph Curry, who are you taking? Oh, that's a good question. I assume. He gets up and it's just muscle memory or the pistons, no blindfolds, just shooting. So like last night's pistons, staff takes 35, three pointers, staff. A hundred be crazy. I was thinking the same thing. Yeah, it probably. Now I'm caught on. That's a good question because now I'm wondering how it makes..
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Plenty at Stake for NBC as COVID Olympics Opening Looms
"For the upcoming summer Olympics, says Covid 19 already impacts at least one American team ABC, James Long ones in Tokyo, with more a week to go until the games and already covid is crushing Olympic dreams for American athletes. Washington Wizards Bradley Beal will not be going to Tokyo to compete in the men's basketball and has been placed under health and safety protocols at the team practices in Las Vegas. US. Filming weather bill has tested positive for Covid, but they have cancelled Friday's exhibition match against Australia. Another player, Jeremy Grant of the Detroit Pistons also put under protocols, but the coach says the team does still plan to compete at the Games. Covid is deadly. So the first thing you think about is not Well, I can get from my team anything about how they're doing with With their symptoms and what they're going through and case numbers are going up. Tokyo recording over 1000 cases a day for the past three days, the highest levels in six months. Tokyo 2020 publishing this positive case list more and more teams from around the world impacted and as things stand, all events are due to take place as planned. But if there are more athletes who test positive or contact tracing Think organizers here are going to have maybe to think again and respond further. Homo
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COVID's Impact on Tokyo Olympics Teams
"For the upcoming summer Olympics, says Covid 19 already impacts at least one American team ABC, James Long ones in Tokyo, with more a week to go until the games and already covid is crushing Olympic dreams for American athletes. Washington Wizards Bradley Beal will not be going to Tokyo to compete in the men's basketball and has been placed under health and safety protocols at the team practices in Las Vegas. US. Filming weather bill has tested positive for Covid, but they have cancelled Friday's exhibition match against Australia. Another player, Jeremy Grant of the Detroit Pistons also put under protocols, but the coach says the team does still plan to compete at the Games. Covid is deadly. So the first thing you think about is not Well, I can get from my team anything about how they're doing with With their symptoms and what they're going through and case numbers are going up. Tokyo recording over 1000 cases a day for the past three days, the highest levels in six months. Tokyo 2020 publishing this positive case list more and more teams from around the world impacted and as things stand, all events are due to take place as planned. But if there are more athletes who test positive or contact tracing Think organizers here are going to have maybe to think again and respond further. Homo
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Bradley Beal Out of Olympics for Health and Safety Reasons
"Friday's Olympic men's basketball tune up between the United States and Australia in Las Vegas has been canceled due to health and safety protocols USA basketball cited an abundance of caution in making the decision the news followed word that wizards all star guard Bradley Beal would miss the Tokyo games after being placed into health and safety protocols USA forward Jeremy grant has also been placed in health and safety protocols the Americans are still slated to play Spain on Sunday Friday's women's game between the US and Australia will be played as scheduled I'm Dave Ferrie
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
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"When the olympics start will be the most talented team in tokyo. Hands down no question. Most talented team in tokyo with the roster that they have but this is like a five alarm fire right now howard. This loss to nigeria. I don't care if they win the rest of these pre olympic games which will take place through next sunday. This has to make you nervous if you're a fan of the team because not only is it this. The loss to nigeria. But you go back two years ago at the world championships where you had a us team. That was good. Didn't have probably better team now than they were back in two thousand nineteen but all nba players. They finished seventh. They've been seventh at the world championships. You have the seventh-place finish the loss of nigeria. How concerned are you howard beck about. Usa basketball. It's just an exhibition game. Chris oh no no. It's not just an exhibition game. Stop this team was thrown together over the last however many weeks they had what like three practices. I think i'll ever. Us team is thrown together. What are you talking about. There's no team. There's no no mid season practices for usa basketball. No but the nigerian team has been practicing. What i'm saying is some of the play in the nba though wants win the nba nba. A few of them play in the nba but that team has had time together more so than the team. Sorry brown coaching. that team. That i missed was that a facsimile of mike brown on the bench all season long. What what are we talking about. The warriors have been out for like two months kris k. Okay so two months. that's what matters. That's that's the number three three practices. Also they're still missing. I believe at least three guys because they're playing in the finals right now. Booker middleton chris paul get it. Yes not chris. Ball's not playing a holiday with the the what holland is your holiday. Those those guys will matter especially given that middleton and holiday are to the better perimeter defenders that that team. Usa has and if you look at the rest of team usa's roster. I don't see a ton of great defenders. There there are a few. I think those three guys by the way are going to be exhausted by the time they get to. They may well be. They may will be so. We're going to judge them. Judging when their whole judge when the games matter to strange to me like we don't judge nba teams based on the preseason but we judge team usa based on these exhibition games. That they do going into international competition. I feel like it's thirty. One point favorites. Why why is there betting line on a freaking exhibition better training but a little league baseball. Now country degenerates damn right. I didn't mean chris i'm with. Let's go monday. Nigeria money line. I just. I can't get too excited about this. If they lose the rest of the exhibitions does that mean something. Yeah that might be alarming if they're if they're still struggling to find some cohesion. That could be alarming. But i mean the talent is obviously their talent alone doesn't win on the international stage in style of game is different team ball matters. Shooting matters like yeah. There's a bunch of budget stuff that comes into play. But i i find the panic over this loss or at least the outcry to be a little bit much. So you don't take into account the seventh-place finish in two thousand nineteen. I mean that to me. It's the it's not just as game. The totality of it right. Like and i don't know howard like so in the early two thousands the world kind of caught up to the us ninety to ninety six thousand us. Gold maps then comes the two thousand two world championships in indianapolis and that's seven. The place finish was one of the worst worst outcomes in at least recent usa history. They got it together after that. They hired jerry colangelo. They bringing mike chef ski. They get their act together. Two thousand six two thousand eight then. They run off. Three consecutive years are three consecutive cycles of gold. Medals is argon. Made that like the world's caught up again that somewhere along the way and the last four or five years. The rest of the world has once again caught up usa basketball. I'm trying to understand this. I mean that's close games in those olympics cycles. No question about it. But i can't imagine the oh eight. Twelve or sixteen team losing nigeria. I can't exhibition or otherwise. I can't see it happening. No team and the and the one that followed it were built around like lebron koby. Carmelo enjoying wait. I mean that that groups at another level like as good as this group is that we're seeing right now as talented as they are after k. D. tatum's really good damian. Lillard is great. I mean come arbit- tatum. Bill lillard auto bio levin. Draymond dream ends up there in years but one has won some things. Jeremy grant jeremy grant zach living out of like. These are guys who have done anything in the nba yet. But they're all stars most they're they're also but are they to level of lebron kobe now but do you think is that what you're saying then is that what you're saying to be at the level you need to have like i'm saying the crop to win. I'm saying that if we're going to start comparing the twenty twenty one team to the twenty eight a two thousand eight two thousand twelve teams there is. There is not an equivalent right now. Lebron kobe laurent cobaine weight. And plus what we what. We called olympic. Mellow like carmelo. Didn't have the success in the nba. That some of his teammates did but carmelo in terms of talent level and certainly has resume like that group was at a whole other level. That group is a different level than jason. Tatum bam outta bios. Zach levine. Okay so not saying that you necessarily should have to have that level of time firepower to win an exhibition game against nigeria. Or anybody else. But i am saying comparing usa to itself different iterations of team usa. This one is not that one. This is not as dominant group as the ones we saw in eight and two thousand twelve. It just isn't what do you do like. What's the solution here. Like i mean i jerry. Colangelo deserves an enormous amount of credit for rebuilding that program when it was at. Its nadir mitra chefs. He comes in enormous amount of credit for what they did. But as we sit here in twenty twenty one like it's almost to me howard like the usa basketball rebuilding. The program became cool. Like lebron wanted to do it. Chris paul like dwayne wade. These guys wanted to do it and then they did it. And i think playing for usa basketball didn't become quite as cool as it was fifteen years ago. Like is that what has to happen like does not need to have like a fifth place finish in tokyo for all of a sudden the next generation of a-list stars wherever that may be in two thousand twenty four to come back into the mix and is that the only way this team can win. I mean i think we need to pay attention to the overall context like obviously one. These olympics were supposed to happen a year ago. They're delayed a year because of covid got durant out of it though like that right. It's questionable whether these the olympic should be happening at all still but along the way because of these back to back brutal seasons and everything else like team. Usa doesn't have james harden right now. Doesn't have anthony davis because of the injury doesn't have steph curry doesn't have kyrie irving doesn't have lebron kawai again. If your argument is that the second or third tier it sounds like sounds like insulting. Somehow but if you're saying that the next wave believe after those guys should still be good enough to dominate on the world stage. Maybe but if the point is that the team as best are they still. Are they still able to win. Gold fairly easily. Your probably but a bunch of them aren't on this team right now because of injuries and just the stress of the last year or two so this this is not necessarily representative of the best of the best right now. It just isn't and yes. They should still be good enough to win. Yes the world has caught up to some extent. No the the group that at nigeria's put it put out there last week. Does not leap off the page improbably. Us should've still want it. But again i exhibition game after like three practices. Let's see what happens with the rest of this. This schedule out brought mellow back. I mean he's not what he was four years ago. Eight years ago twelve years ago but the guy knows how to play international basketball. He might have sat. maybe. I guess. I didn't really. I assume that he just want to keep. He didn't kind of like four formerly re retire from the olympics. But it'd be pretty much says like i'm done like lebron kinda did to get talked into it. I feel like. I don't know if i was if i was the usa team would try really hard to get carmelo blake because his style. Whatever it is to the nba is perfect for the national basketball. He's a really good or national basketball player. On this subject damian lillard. He spoke for the first time. Since the hiring of chauncey billips. Only listen to what little had to say about his future in portland. I'm prepared to go in and do my job every year. Like hopefully we make strides over direction and could become a better team a new coach notice. That's where i am. What soured it sounds like. Lillard is at least nominally on board with going back to the blazers. But if i'm a team out there with assets. I don't listen to that response and say well it's over damian. Lillard is back on the same page with the portland trailblazers. If i'm a team with assets i hold onto those assets because it feels to me like the blazers might be one like sixteen to start from blowing that whole thing up with louis mccollum on the way out the door so get the sense now. That seems more likely than not that damian lillard at blazers training camp. He's in ablaze uniform. He starts the season with the portland trailblazers. But if it doesn't work with chauncey billips early and you get close that trade deadline. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see portland decide. Look we've got a. We've got to do something here and opened the door for damian lillard trade. What do you think. I think that nothing has changed. I think that his remarks last week because he sounded a little bit lukewarm. Or just you know you hear one of two things. Well you want to hear one thing if you're a portland trail blazers fan or if you're just looking for any indication that lillard is all in your you want to hear him say listen. I know things are rough right now. But i'm all in you know this is. This is where. I want to be you to repeat all the usual talking points that you hear from players in his position and that we've heard from bradley beal that we used to hear from james harden houston. Which is a win in phil in city fill in the blank with the city. I want to win here. I don't wanna go somewhere else. You know we're going to get this right blah blah. He didn't go down the usual list. And so i think it left open. Some interpretation but getting has changed like the disappointment was clear when the season ended. Some of the things have happened since including obviously the the the train wreck away they went about the the coaching search and lillard. Being caught in the crossfire. There at feeling heat from fans about chauncey billips being selected and so. I don't think we should expect he's going to be rah. Rah right now The trailblazers have a lot of work to do. But we also have not even hit the summer yet. Like there's the draft hasn't happened yet. Free agency hasn't happened yet. There's there's a lot of work to be done. And i think if you're damian lillard which you're probably doing is internally saying here's what i need to see happen externally saying you know what let's let's wait and see i mean you see. He can't he can't say publicly the same things that he's telling say neal o'shea right about what the the state of the roster i i would think that there are some very impassioned debates or discussions being held behind closed doors about what they need to get this thing right and if they can't get it right the he might shift is his stance about staying there long term. But that hasn't happened yet that we know of. What do you think the most interesting potential conversation is amongst players over these next four weeks like i'm kind of curious what jason tatum bradley beal talk about. Tatum and beal close friends dating back to their highschool days both went to the same high school bill with something of a mentor to jason. Tatum actually got him involved with his trainer. Drew hanlin which helped. Tatum elevate his his personal skills and they've talked about how happy they are to be playing together. Played the all star game together for the first time beal last year of his contract. Like you know we've seen these conversations yield real tangible conversation. You'd like to be a fly on the wall on for any of these guys in the next couple of weeks. Yeah i mean look we. We have a history now going back over a decade. If we're to believe that the that the heels were formed in part through team usa activities. You know which is true which is true. That's that's yielded an extra things guy. You know guys who you mentioned. Tatum and bill because they were already friends but guys also become friends through this experience right and then they start getting the ideas about playing together. Like oh hey. This is a lot of fun. Let's do this again in the nba. So there's i'm i'm sure some of that is is happening. It always does. Who else in that group. I mean man. If any of these guys that'd be trying to recruit bam out a bio but he's too early in his in his contract with miami to pry him loose from there And you know the heater still a pretty potent team but you know jimmy butler is up there in miles and outta bios future won't necessarily be there forever. That's the way it goes in the nba. I think tatum has the potential to be like the biggest recruiter. They're like he's about to start the first year of his max level extension. He can recruit bill. But like you can also does damian lillard like. It's great to play in boston. I love it here. Answer some questions of my have a playing on the east coast for the first time. Like i think data might be boston's best asset at this point. Yeah again some of this comes down to bradley. Beal's coming up to that point where he has the leverage to task out because of his contract lillard under contract for several more years and so he's not in that position. So what if it says. Like i need to go like. I don't foresee the blazers being no finish your contract. Just don't see it. i think right. And they would work with him on a deal to sure but directing it is harder so beal can use the leverage of his free agency to say well if you send me to team x. I'm not gonna resign there. Which then blows up that deal and he can direct himself to the team he really wants to be at lillard would have a harder time to doing that. Because he doesn't have free agency looming two to play that card. Yeah well i encourage any reporter. That's in tokyo tatum. Beal and lillard talking to each other. Just take a picture and then let the internet go wild crazy because it will unquestionably last thing for you. Howard the breaking news. This week in the coaching ranks. Is that jamal moseley is headed to orlando moseley of course last with dallas. A really well respected assistant coach there. Who was a candidate for that. Maverick job before. It went to jason kidd my immediate reaction to that higher howard beyond i think being an excellent choice for orlando is that we're gonna look at at moseley and jason kidd on parallel tracks. The next couple of years moseley. There was a strong case to be made that he should have been elevated to that head. Coaching job he'd been considered for other head coaching jobs. Before most recently in new york he had by all accounts a great relationship with luka doncic i understand bringing kit in he's got a history with dallas and as riccar lau said publicly having a player that played the game like kid and having a player that plays the game like don-shik make some sense to pair those two guys together. But there's always going to be as i watched these two situations unfold. I'm gonna wonder you know. Did the mavericks make the right choice. Leading jamaa moseley go and bringing jason kidd in and there's so many variables in this the first being at orlando's in step one or maybe even steps zero of a massive rebuild right there in the negatives right now. I think there's still maybe more fat to trim on that roster before they really bottom out. Yeah and you know you talk about trying to build around. You know markelle foltz. And and jonathan isaac jonathan isaac for so long. They're getting hurt and he's a great player but they've loved writing in a weird way john stays healthy. He's still more of a complementary store right like he's he's a potentially defensive player of the year at some point. He's not a guy who you're building an offense around though and marquel foltz okay. He he got himself back on track in orlando. He has a career now where he didn't have one but he's not a foundational building block. Come on like that's crazy so the roster doesn't have much talent jamal. Moseley's is coming into a situation. Which a lot of first time head coach is committed to which is all right. There's a lot of work to do so You're gonna have to do a lot of development. You're going to have to take a lotta lumps in the win loss column. It's gonna be rough going for the first year or two or maybe three. Let's see how they can get things going. But you know as it has been a certain other like kenny. Atkinson came to look a completely hopeless situation in brooklyn but was known as development coach in atlanta. And sure enough. Everybody who went there. Joe harris spencer. Dinwiddie jared allen versus lower. First round picks. Guys who were you know whether they were reclamation projects whether they were low picks everybody seems to get better the second they went to brooklyn and play kenny atkinson and his staff congenial. Moseley have the kind of effect in orlando can the front office. Get him to kind of guys. That will thrive in that in that kind of environment and carve out careers from cells and carbon identities. Jamal moseley has a lot going for him. And we've heard like many great things about it but we often hear great things about assistant coaches who don't end up panning out so i always. We have to caution ourselves on these things. Because i thought. Brian shaw was gonna be a great head coach and he was. Everybody loved him all the players sung as praises when he was associate head coach under frank. Vogel indiana he goes to denver probably just the wrong guy at the wrong time but he hasn't had another shot since then but that went really badly. Brett brown was really great in in some respects for the for the early years of the process and then suddenly. It seemed like they'd hit some sort of ceiling. Eager kokoschka of had been talked about for years is a great assistant. Coach didn't work out. Swells head coach in phoenix. David dale bumpy ride in memphis and then disastrous in new york. We just don't know like luke walton. Another example like there are plenty of coaches who as their when their assistance. We hear and see the best of them and then you know some of them be go on it and have great success coaches. I mean tyler has been fantastic. Mike malone has been fantastic money williams. Nick nurse dwayne casey a lotta longtime assistance. Get their shot and then you know it. It works out in a dozen. It's all contextual. It's all just the opportunity you have the thing for dallas is. They went with a guy who has experienced jason kit. That experience was not necessarily good experience. Like i think most people around the would look at what he did in milwaukee in brooklyn and say. I'm going to steer clear. Maybe you'd rather have the the unproven. Jamal moseley versus the somewhat proven jason kidd but. I don't think we'll know what the right choice was there for a while yet. Because it's it's gonna take some time before we can evaluate moseley as head coach. I maybe jason kidd learned something in two years as an assistant. I mean that happens. You know working with lebron for entire for two entire seasons working under frank vogel maybe picked up some things that'll be useful to him as a head coach. Moseley to me. The key is giving him time. Like you've got to be committed to moseley for a minimum. I think of three years and more likely five years. And then you see what you have in head coach. You mentioned gore. I mean it's worked out for phoenix. Absolutely but i do think he got hosed out there i mean he only had one year on the job and that year was without deandra aiden chris. Paul had devon booker of course but that was not a good team that he was coaching. There i gotta get moses the because you want to see what the guy can do when you put that team in a position to win a great example to me is james breglio in charlotte. I mean berea. Was one of those guys assistant coach elevated to head coaching position in charlotte. Not great first couple of years there but when he was given players and chance to win he did pretty well. I mean up until lamelo ball went out the horns were really good team and i think they will be a good team. Going forward in part because of the borrego is a pretty good coach. I want to see this magic team. Invest heavily in jamal. The you're the guy developed these guys and we'll keep you around no matter what the won loss record says until you get a chance to win then you judge like brett brown six or seven days since brett brown left but i can see the for letting go of brett brown. I mean they had a talented team and to a degree the underachieved. But you've got to let the coach get a roster on that level before you really make any decisions about whether they can coach. Yeah well and that's the thing about. This is what set up says apart. I think the good organizations from the bad ones is that you you decide when you choose a guy. Especially if he's a longtime assistant not a guy with head coaching experience. And you've said we believe in this guy. This is somebody who's got a great trekker record as an assistant. We're going to first opportunity. It's your obligation to when you say investment. Yeah it's time investment. It's a give them all the tools to succeed. Give him the time to succeed. You've decided you believe in him. So stand behind that have the conviction to stand behind that and take some bumps along the way you know maybe maybe memphis and or the knicks should have stuck with david physed longer. You know we had heard nothing but great things about fiscal coming out of miami. Initially we may yet you know. Find out that he. He can be great head coach in the right situation. Maybe those worth rights situations. He might be one of those guys though. I love physios and assist one of those guys. Though the just the temperament is always important. Like the government like memphis yet. Some battles with market assault didn't work out your plus new york. You just might be one of those guys that doesn't have the right temperament to be is based on what we've seen a memphis in new york might be better suited for these ranks but if he succeeds in l. a. I think he'll get another chance right. Maybe i think the point being though that if you as an organization have identified a guy instead he we believe in him then. Okay then believe in him. Stick with them and make sure you've given them enough tools to succeed Is it a pulling the plug at the first sign of of struggle and that's what happens in the nba. too often. is that seems panic. You know the fans turn. There's some minor flare up. Oh the coach and player got into it. Whatever it may good teams that can happen on as well. And it's it's just. It's the way franchises. React so you have to know whether or not the guy is is is right and then stick with them. And so yeah. Let's jomo's should get a nice long here. She got a ton of latitude in orlando given where they are as an organization given the state of that roster. Yeah i agree. Howard enjoy milwaukee looking forward to hearing the conversation with the lazarus on friday. You can check podcast. Right here on the crossover feet again. Make sure you listen to howard's interview. Spencer dinwiddie from last week. It was really really strong. Enjoy -joy the mid west our. We'll talk when you're back on the northeast always a pleasure. My friend the newest player in the pre nba basketball landscape is overtime. Elite elite will begin playing sometime in the fall. And we'll be headlined by some of the top now. Former high school players in the country players would be paid minimum one hundred thousand dollars with some making north of that and have access to high level facilities training as well as educational programs to help. Get a better grasp on that. I'm joined by brandon williams the head of basketball operations for overtime. Elite and kevin ollie the former. Nba guard uconn. Coach was the head coach and director of player development bread. And i want to start here with you. Just kind of give me the ten thousand foot view overtime elite. What are the objectives. What what what was behind the formation of this league. I think any of us. Chris who've been around for a long time i've actually seen Sort of the downside of young players who entered into professional ranks to this point. It's been the nba Who are not ready. And so what does that mean you know not not ready to form and be stars or is it just not ready to be great teammates or is it not ready to be good partners. is sort of all that you know the idea that the work day is much longer than they know. And that there's more responsibility to be in a professional athlete The responsibilities to families and communities we just have to do a better job preparing them and here was an opportunity to be part of a program that wanted to address all that. It's not just about being a good player. It's like we wanna address the whole athlete. Hope so on. Three levels were hitting basketball. Easiest thing understand. I think businesses in our world is education And then there's brand you know. These young people now are moving at a speed that we aren't as older folks and they want to build things An earlier age particularly off the court so building a brand is important something that can last well beyond their tread on tire so we're hitting it in basketball business brand. That's that's that's really thirty thousand foot view. Kevin what attracted you to this job. Just like his dad is the whole person being able coach them from a mind body and soul Experience and understanding the mindfulness athlete I've seen it from a pro level. Got up tune into play thirteen years with twelve different teams so i understand like the different trials and tribulations you go through with a player not saying that these players are gonna go through that but is getting them more prepared if they do come into some certain situations where it's not typically going the right way. How can they manage that situation. So what they do today can echo into tomorrow and having the ability to kana paint on a black blank. Canvas is what a really attracted to me to to this you know. Ot league program we can take the player really shape the curriculum you not with teaching them about subjects. But we're really teaching them about themselves as well from media training From mental health issues. All the different things that come involved because we all know chris is stress. You know from success is a lot of pressures is a lot of people pulling at you. It's a lot of people won't certain things. But how do you deal with that from a player's standpoint where you can play when you get on the basketball court and half clear and not be caught up in the distractions of off the court issues. Um as desks desks were really kind of vocal. Spirit to give back in it and how these kids you know. Have these players be available at the moment of truth to make the right decisions and that was very important to me. Kevin as you mentioned you played in the nba brand. You played in the nba. As well i wanna ask both of you guys and kevin. I'll start with you like if this was available to you as sixteen. seventeen year. Old looking back. Would you have founded attractive with a definitely founded attractive You know i kind of thought the box anyway. I was from chris. Shaw from from from south central and i chose connecticut. So you places that. I didn't even know nothing about growing up. You always thought out the box and never wanted to go down a path that everybody was going down So i was always curious. And i think that's how my mom especially my mom. My dad raised me. So i definitely been curious of this situation. No no speaking now without you know took it. I'm not sure. But i think it really gave me another option to look at it and this is what we're trying to do not saying that the ncaa is wrong overtime. Leaders wrong or right. It's not about that. It's about if you really care about the student. Athletes you give them as much options as possible. And i think this gives the lee student athlete. Another option and i think you know it's a very Great option for them to have and if they choose overtime league we're going to give our whole heart to make sure they're developed on and off the basketball court chris i- jumping after coach It would have been interesting. Chris but i certainly would not have been a candidate i would. Let's just get that right. What what things that's important. We sit down going through just grassroots community and we spent months just talking to people educating about. You know what we're about who we are. Each of us has a reputation in some other space. Not here The this program isn't for everybody is not the right fit for everybody. We are cherry picking and a lot of ways. These are players that feel like they are destined for professional basketball. There are a lot of sixteen year olds. That don't know that yet and their parents aren't convinced that yet in people that support them. Don't don't feel that confidence yet. They may be another year away or two years away but this is not. This is not the right path for everyone. Twenty four athletes roughly twelve per class. We're looking at juniors and seniors and the truth is at this age. What was really funny about scouting them is everybody's skinny and like a lanky and underdeveloped and still has like a mountain of upside to you know to to get through before you can really see who they're going to be but you know if you have a young player like brand williams who's just dreaming of being an nba player but does not much certainty. That's even realistic We gotta be very careful about this approach In taking because there there are risks but for those that that have already established in this deke. They've established a day of separated from their class. You know jaylen. Lewis has an example the most recent example. He's he's he's elevated in separate. The draft isn't tomorrow though so there's still a lot of work to do but he's already in front running physician and it gives everyone low confidence that this is the kind of investment and the kind of pet that would make a ton of sense for players like that. Let me follow up on that brandon. Because you're you're entering. What suddenly become a fairly crowded space in terms of leagues like this. You know the g. league ignite is one season in but they've had a measure of success. We've seen jalen green probably a top pick. Jonathan kamenga top five or six. Then you have the ncw with this. Recent ruling allowing top players to make money off their name image and likeness. How does how does the elite separate itself from that group. Why think i is. We start a little bit sooner so the g. league zone a great job with what we call it a year the prep year that year. That a recent graduates would be going to college and they've already been hacking the system you know going to italy or china So so there's a market for those players and we want an alternative to college for for for us though. Our players are seeking an alternative to high school so we are a school but we think about the resources that were bringing to the table first of which being an nba like environment You know start coach. Ali coach lehto in a robust set of staff. I mean scouting staff a high performance staff administrative team. Our goal was to simulate an nba organization for for young athletes at sixteen seventeen eighteen. Th there there is no other environment. Like that. And i think the big way that we separate with high school athletes Is that both domestically and internationally. We're able to put twenty four of them together in a building. So what we're selling is the best competition for these guys starts at home. I mean every day in line coaches don't minister drills administer competition aspects of practice and getting ready for games but when you look to the right and left and i noticed as a player. There's no weak link. I mean everywhere you look. There's somebody that's doing what you're doing and possibly doing more. Because they they are not just dreamed about the into the league or to the high level. They're on their way there That's where we've been able to. I think create a little separation from others that have tried or looked at something. Like this kevin. How do you approach this job. Do you do it in a similar mindset and you had at uconn where you have young players you also you know yukon. You had to keep them academically eligible you to follow that pretty closely. I mean is there is it a similar mindset or do you take a different tact. I think you just let it be you know. Similar is not. It's just whatever comes you say yes to it and you cultivate hope from it I never coached high school players. They was always you know graduated from high school. And now they're freshman's This situation is a little different in in was recruiting for two to three years. This situation is a little different. But you know from me. Chris i love the unknown about it. And that's the space i live in. Not just wanna make sure that. I have the space incorporate something in these players that they can just think about it can build from a have a foundation so when they make the transition they have every tool in the toolbox to say okay. Oh that's a problem Assess it let me be able to correct it. Let me obsessed. Let me be aware of it and i think that's the difference between you know coaching a high school kid in in the college. Kid i mean you get able to mold them a little bit better and then you have to understand where they at. Now you know back then. I didn't have social media. We didn't have social media now. These kids these players are building their brand a little bit earlier and now you just meet them where they are. And i can't wait to get them up on campus get them up until atlanta just continue to build a great relationship. Welcome spend time with the one on one in. This situation is going to provide us to do a lot more skill development that i didn't have a really good opportunity and it had not one say good opportunity. I didn't have the best opportunity. Because there's so many things we own a row recruiting You own a row fundraising these different things. Brandon's taken care of in. Dan porter is taken care of. I can just really coach the player and work on his skill development on and off the basketball court. So it's really given me my own lane. So i can really perform my job. Mama job is really breaking down and relationships it starts. Relationship is start with trust. Stars will hold is spending time with the the young student athletes on and off the basketball court and pushed them to greatness and the competition is not on. our side of competition is with him. You know can you beat your previous best bestself. Can you be better than today you know. Can you be better tomorrow than you were date. And that's what i'm coaching. And that's what i love to do. And i think we're going to have some great young man as open as biden has going to be vulnerable going to try to reach for the sky. In the sky is going to be ob- you is not going to be limits. I can't wait to get up to atlanta. We've been having some many camps. Chris has been wonderful to get back on the court with the guys. And i'm looking forward to the next mini camp and dan looking forward to getting them up to atlanta. So we really can go to work. You know when. I was was talking to brian. shaw a couple of months ago. Kevin about how he was coaching. The ignite you know it was a lot of pro stop. He was trying to bring to that team. Are you taking that same. Approach you trying to coach them like their nba players or something different. No it's nothing different is just. I'm building pro. Habits in every situation is going to be different. Chris this is going to be some guys. Come in you know. Say for instance like a. John montero will we got him and he you know is a little bit more advanced than some other players because he's been a pro- already and then it's going to be another situation where we gotta talented guy might not be able to get quick but these opportunities we can go at our own pace we can sit down and talk to them but we're really teaching and building pro habits and those habits is going to translate over to them being great pros when that opportunity come invest in the nba are the euro league so every day you know we are building like a practice plan like more of a college practice plan nba practice bandwidth doing drills. That i got from my numerous stops in the nba. You know we're doing sets in the nba. Then we gotta understand that sixteen years old as well you know and maybe sometimes you gotta you know kinda doubt it down a little bit. But i'm gonna let com. I'm going to let that go. i'm not going to focus on one of it. I'm not gonna say oh. We're doing this process. 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Divers inventors patent and unleash economic opportunity. Find out at invent together dot org learn more and take action today brandon not to continue to compare this team to the ignite but when i talked to sharieff abderrahim about that i mean. I had asked him about the sustainability of that team. Given how much. Money was being poured in to pay some of the players. And he bobbed and weaved floyd mayweather trying to answer that question. Because it's it's hard to commit to it without say a television contract more sponsorships and things like that when you can you speak to kind of the sustainability of this because we've seen startups with an influx of cash. Get get in big the first year. But then peter out. I mean what needs to happen. Four overtime elite to become a long term successful program while has got to answers. I think you know a concept. I mean we're we're selling on the ability to develop young players and have a more more pro ready right. So this is. This is the path we are offering basketball development. Call it professional Business development And we are also like leveraging. What is an incredible media platform that again. The things that we like to call a distinguishing factors. That's a huge one. So not to bob and weave one. We gotta be good ass. You know that. That's how have long deputy spurs the spurs. They were good for really long time. And so we've got the that there were good at this note. No pressure on kale right The the the second piece though is you know and this comes from my my time in the nba. It just wasn't that long ago where it out of chicago. Pre-draft combine interview. If i said. I wanna build my brand. Everybody in the room was like smirking and like you know what. What are we talking about like. It's about basketball basketball basketball And you know if you are young team developing and not winning a lot of games truth is you can't sell just basketball because your basketball isn't great you got to sell personalities and stories in that there's something that people can invest in in fall in love with other than like the final score like otherwise. The sixers had no chance right any any development team yet to buy into a story and for us. I think we have a chance to create stories but we get a chance to show those stories because we have a platform. So it's it doesn't take much. I mean i'm not a social media guru. But when i got recruited for this job haven't been around the block a little bit certainly from an nba perspective. I heard a couple of things. I really got my attention. One was fifty million followers That's eyeballs and we all know that that Business follows the eyeballs in whatever in whatever respect. The other was which is unfair. Because i think that number changes month over month but it started at one point four and not set maybe one point eight or one point nine billion with a b. billion views of content a month that overtime in some ways has found a way to the heart. The mind of young people It is being communicated and solid as you know the generation z. sort media and content engine We are doing an amazing thing here which is developing young talent in a pure way that we want to make sure that they are prepared. Top to bottom to do well on the court to do well and communities to do well in business but then there's this other thing which is they want to be known like. No player wants to play in an empty building. Everybody wants to play where it matters. They wanna play. When nick can rock and like the building and just like recognizing their talent. We're just artists. And one thing that is kind of showcase. By one event that that overtime overtime the media company producing s called. You see it on youtube to. Is that over. Hundred million people watched that. I mean that that's not an insignificant number that players that are going to play overtime. Lee will have the opportunity to be known The the opportunity of bring brick big brands to the table and support this platform If not already indicated by the kinds of investors that that have shown interest but the brands that are coming to the table our sustainability is going to be showing value delivering value to not just the athletes but to overtime visibility. I would imagine great for them but can you monetize it. Can you make it so this league is in the black or does it need to be in the black every year. Well my the good news is as a basketball man. No different than a different than the is Get a budget. My job is to be fishing and and spend wisely. I i'm not. I'm not asked to sell tickets or generate revenue that's for a tremendous And in successful a business operations Our job is to make sure that what we are delivering is high is a high level product That you see the growth and development of our young players. What's there recruited. We gotta make them better. They need to be able to perform and probably the best testament of our success is going to be our nba. Gm voting with this pick right but with a coach saying like they did a nice job. This guy was. Well coached testament to takeo and the rest of the coaching staff. That if we're doing that will prove successful. Because guess what the next crop of recruits when we're in the gym like we're not chasing them. There's sort of meeting us at at minimum half way. We need to keep bringing high level taliban and developing talent to prove successful and i have a tremendous set of partners across academics and across content media. That will will do their part to elevate our business. Can you expecting to tap into some of your. nba relationships. I mean as you mentioned thirteen teams in twelve seasons. You've made a lot of friends over the years. We're going to see like san preston sitting in the crowd for your practices as a whole so sam and so many gyms that i know you know Kevin durant and all these guys are destinies in overtime. Just having them be around. We had our first minicamp. Ray allen showed up and not only showed up. He brought his son to work out with guys. Just it was just amazing. does just see how the branches that we can continue to pull up on and they continue to pull on us and be a partnership in. This thing is going to be great. Are you expecting to have kind of drop ins. Durant's involved with the league. You expecting these guys. Just be around. Which i would imagine would be both a resource for you but also an attractive quality to this league definitely. Definitely we going to build a place where it's going to be hopefully a development premier development destination for everybody and you know hopefully katie can come out and work out with guys and russell westbrook and james harden and all these guys that we know and i know i had opportunity to be evolved. Then it's kinda beat a veteran guys We want them to be around. Because it's not. Just me sean. It's also watching tape like these are the different drills and look how k. d. and look how chris paul is using the pick and rolls and now they're showing up that's a that's a big big bang for us with us growing these young talented student athletes To get them inspired to the next level and they're doing a great job done only gonna do. I coached him. Chris a coach me on a day to day basis. I'm open to that and we just really want to have a love affair with guys and and the end of the day chris. We want appease the basketball guys. We wanna play the right way. We want to share a basketball. We wanna run. We wanna have fun. We want how to join the game but it can't just be me me me. It has to be weak. And i'm wanting to teach guys how to be involved in any system they get drafted about. They can be a part of a productive system and be a productive partner in in the community as well no matter what city they when they arrive to the nba brandon. Before let you go. What schedule gonna look like i mean is this team playing. Just walk me through kind of what these kids are getting into. And what kind of schedule you gonna be able to put together so schedule that that is really interesting for everybody. And i wanna try to illuminate. But i've got to be careful we are still contracting with some teams But for the audience the think about it in buckets. We're gonna play independent prep schools. That's going to be a significant part of our schedule. We are a high school so we are looking to schedule. Some of the top independence that you would typically no to have a national schedule can travel that have the ability to be mobile. We're scheduling home and away with with With those folks and it looks like net set as an example It looks like you know. Folks that are playing for a national title Arizona florida california. So it'll be a widespread travel schedule for us. We're also looking at European competition so think about junior euroleague as an example. Some of the best clubs the Insects as an example Where we can get a collection of sixteen to nineteen year old elite talent to compete against us. And then as i mentioned earlier on the show we really feel like the best competition is gonna come internally and that's where our league play Comes into effect so we are looking at our group of twenty four as three teams of eight. There will be standings you'll be able to track will compete against each other. That'll be a significant part of our schedule as well. We don't want to overstep our guys one of the things. We really wanna correct leading science. Guide us here. is is minimized the wear and tear. Nobody's while still developing and preparing for a professional level place so a schedule of maybe thirty five. To forty games is our target. We started september Training camp will will begin Play by mid august. We'll be done by by Late march is how we see our schedule shaping up i'm looking forward to it brennan kevin. It's a really interesting concept and hope you guys have a lot of success with an. I'll certainly be watching a lot of. Nba people will be watching but brandon. Stay out of a set of massachusetts. Kevin has like some basketball. Ptsd from all those bc. Matchups i'm sure would probably were so tough. I don't remember kevin. It's not real like talk about it. But lita past. We'd be six thousand. That's not very nice. That's hovering kevin brand. Thanks for joining me. I appreciate it all right. Thank you chris. Thanks so much.
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Aaron Gordon Makes His Debut for the Nuggets Against the Hawks
"All right. Get into a little bit of basketball here. Aaron gordon the big acquisition at the deadline for the denver nuggets made his debut sunday verse. The hawks a solid debut might look the line and say thirteen points on six of nine shooting. That is exactly what the nuggets want. He played really well off to coca shed a beautiful dunk on the baseline. This is what they want him to be. They want him to be a cutter playing with better players for the first time in his career. I mean he's played with better players and vuckovich but not a player. I'm nicola yokich is standards. I just wondered when aaron gordon went over to the nuggets. Would he be able to cut that dribbling out. He played more like a superstar more ball in his hands. I'm going to do this thing on my own. Can he be a support player. He used nicole yoga's gravity pretty well in this game they will pick and roll action going nine shots. The only misses were from three point. Land the more tuesday better with aaron gordon. But he if he can fill that jeremy grant role that they lost last year in the playoffs. Just be that guy who's a third option and hit shots. I mean that is absolutely
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Celtics Trade Rumors: Nikola Vucevic
"Do have interesting trade rumors. We didn't want to wait till after to get to them and they involve a bunch of big names that we've been kicking around on the thread on the on the live streams all of this time some really big fish out there. The Celtics are supposedly in on so we'll go Name by name. But again, this is Shams very plugged in the Athletic Club throwing out vucevic throwing out Jeremy Grant throwing out Harrison Barnes. These are all enticing names and honestly those three plus there and Gordon are probably the big fish house on the market Garden Of course dealing with the sprained ankle. So teams are wait and see there but those are the big names out there. We've been hearing them all the time. I'm going to start with Bobby's boy boo Savages. Part of that report was that it's going to be a massive Hall that we've been debating on all day Bobby what that actually entails but first this you turned on this guy meaning turned back towards this guy as Gore guy tell us why tell us what you think what you'd be willing to give up here for the Celtics to get it done. So I was never the biggest fan him and the sticks were previously invested in him during that Kemba Walker offseason. They were hot on him cuz they had the max cap space after Kyrie and Mortadella could have filled him down the middle. So there's a connection there. Obviously Kemba came along and grab that bone. Now, you have the chance to have four All-Stars on the team of chemicals affect them. They hated it. Yeah, and I still don't love it now, but I think context is everything you don't have cap space forever now wage only so many ways you can improve in the future. So why not grab the best player available? And I think out of all the options were going to talk about today. This guy's an All-Star. He pushes 30 points a game on many birth. It's eye dominant. Rebounder. Probably one of the best rebounders in basketball this year defense. We'll see I think it's all situational but he's kind of a disaster down there in Orlando defensive or a that could change in Boston and the three-point shot by zone is the best 3-point shooter above the break and basketball this year. So that's perfect in Boston pick-and-pop off and he'd get open shots above the are called a there he can post up he's seven feet. I know people will love that. He's a real big so he just give them a bunch of different options and outlets for offense and size that they don't have right now and this is what I love about and to John if they can find a way to clear types in a potential deal here clear Thompson in a game here and you're left with Rob and bukovic. See the dream. That's the dream. So look at it this way though. If you're the other team coming back, your don't want to take on Thompson or Thai so, you know, Rob is automatic berth. Certainly, if you're going to go big, you know to go get somebody else's big. I don't see any world in which you make a trade really any trade at this point in Rob Williams is still a Celtic. So anybody at home saying do do it do it I think has to get used to kind of giving up on their Binky which is Rob Williams, which is going to be hard for a lot of Celtics fans to be able to live with that.
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"jeremy grant" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"Out the clock. He had 32 to lead Detroit. As the final seconds tick away. Detroit Windsor just the six time And the Nets lose a season high third consecutive game Your final in Motown. The Pistons won 22 the next 1 11. So it sounded in New York on W F A. N 1 22 1 11 Pistons beat the Nets. 32 32 points for Jeremy Grant tied for his career high That's so three straight losses. They allowed 300 points in the paint over the last five games against teams below 500. They are now seven and 11. Most losses in the N B, A. And Kyrie Irving knows it. Well, I think you guys noted enough for all of us, so I don't think I need to know it is pretty is pretty glaring when game the game and especially When the records are Being used as have a reason why we're not going out there and playing hard, You know, I don't I don't accept that. And I don't think our team accepts it, Asshole. Obviously, we don't want that to be on kind of what teams think about us and we're seeing it being in day out where guys Teams are coming in and punching us in the mouth early and We're playing catch up, and it happens to be against the guys with the least that's records and we got a call it for what it is. So we gotta fix that. Kyrie Irving, adding quote, We look very average. We have the talent. The eye test presents that we should be dominating. That's, though, have allowed 120 points in seven consecutive games in Salt Lake. I have a beat down jazz.
The Free Agents
Nuggets' Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray lead improved energetic effort to beat Clippers in Game 2
"Yesterday the nuggets lead. wire-to-wire top the clippers tie the series at one game apiece a little surprising sure I mean they got off to a huge lead and held onto the victory lead biggest takeaway from the nuggets game two victory over lic. So many positives take of this from Denver they jump. The clippers gave him the off punch in the mouth from the start, which is to say it was led by their styles, Jamal and nickel Yokich. They got lots of contributions from other guys as well. MILLSAP I thought was good in this game. Gary. Harris Marco Porter Jr. coming off the bench gays in the middle of a lift as well and even rant. Jeremy Grant was their defense I thought was exceptional. There was a several times where the clippers were in the pint and there was two or three Denver Nuggets, contesting shot blocking shots, and really making the clippers feel them in the paint, which is important. But the biggest takeaway for me is we knew the clippers we're GONNA come back. This is a twenty point late in the first half and it. was like in the NBA that never lost especially in the playoffs. The biggest question for me would the nuggets be able to hold onto this game and win it, and there was a crucial moment that minutes ago in the fourth quarter I think it was Po Georgia to three brought to a five point game and that was the sliding doors moment of the game. What would the nuggets through from? And began to our and just show that that first quarter net hop surge was nothing more than like. All right. We don't get swept all would they actually be able to maintain what they've played up to for that point and they did they came out and hit three threes after that and basically stretch the game out and Kinda sealed it from there. You know like it was sort of sent the message that the clippers like we're. Not going away and and again, it wasn't just Murray and Yokich was other guy is contributing and so to me it did sort of say, Oh, I, picked I, think the clippers to win this five. But after watching that performance in the way that they won that wire to wire, I'm a little more now convinced that the the the nuggets can make this series and an an a longer series I still think clip is ultimately win it. But if it goes six or seven, now, I wouldn't be surprised because I just thought that the Denver Nuggets after Guy Wander the first quarter they thought it off well, and then they just Kinda sunk from there and Michael Malone said we need to have better energy for the entire game and they absolutely did last night. So very impressive performance from everyone yokich again was great and so is Mary but really important that those other. Guys contribute and make this more than just a sort of a like a like a run in that first quarter just to get just to get system, they actually sustain that the entire game. So that's what I thought was most important for the nuggets at the something there that they can build on going forward in this
The Free Agents
Clippers vs. Nuggets: How the teams match up for playoff series
"It's the clippers nuggets this one tips today Thursday at nine PM Eastern. interrupters. Ton of Christ, says, this is weird because that is my sister. Okay well. I. Now, it's good. Good good It's too weird. All right. The clippers took two out of three regular season Games including one twenty, four, one eleven victory in the bubble. So let's get to the keys to this series clippers nuggets, and then we'll make our predictions task whether you're watching. Well, Jamal Murray is going to be the number one objective for the clippers defensively. They're just going to be a Angel Momma and I think. This is GonNa be one series where quiet Leonard has to guard Jamaa. I think whoever's playing point guard for them is going to be too little to guard Jamal Murray whether it's beverly or Landry Shamet and I think Paul George is too big. So it's just GONNA work out. That Leonard is going to be on Jamal primarily that's going to be as matchup like it has been the last two times they played during the regular season. So that's GonNa be exciting, just watching Leonard. Have to exert a lot of energy expend energy. You know it's not just your plan pick and roll Shimomura he's going to give up the ball. He's GonNa frigging run around off ball and he's going to be dancing and I think. We know that guys are going to help out. With those guys I just mentioned and if zoo this is going to be a really big really big series for him. We saw what happened in in Utah if Rudy Gobert comes up and plays Jamal Murray. The numbers change so that's going to be there huge huge vote because this is going to be so hard for me to go and come after what he just did. Now he's going to be watching Kawai. Leonard and I think we can sort of lock in on this end of the floor because I think this is Paul. George series to take over on the other end and I think it's good Paul George. He's he feels like he had a nice fresh manscaping grooming fact that the fact that this is a new series he should feel. A little rejuvenated. Also. Because he's not going to have a tough assignment I think going up on the other end. I think Jeremy Grants going to be guarding quiet he has all year. Paul George at millsaps Tori Craig's little too small former. Michael. Porter. I don't know about that. I saw Paul George should have. The Freedom and the ability just because the defender he's going to have to go offensively and. Can expend all that energy. So I think that's what's going to happen. We're GONNA have we're going to get Jamal come back to Earth a little bit because this is the clippers defense here. Yeah
AP News Radio
George, Leonard lead LA Clippers' 132-103 rout of Nuggets
"The clippers handed the nuggets their most lopsided loss of the season LA going wire to wire in a one thirty two to one oh three route the clip scored thirty seven first quarter points and never looked back Paul George had six three pointers in the game while scoring twenty four points Kawhi Leonard added nineteen vehicle your cage led the visitors with twenty one points and Jeremy grant had twenty the teams are now tied for second place in the Western Conference mark Myers Los Angeles
AP News Radio
Jokic helps Nuggets beat Rockets 117-110 on somber day
"After hearing about the passing of NBA legend Kobe Bryant earlier in the day the nuggets beat the rockets an emotional game one seventeen to one ten a moment of silence was held prior to the game in honor Bryant Denver's nickel yoke it's recorded a triple double with twenty four points twelve rebounds and eleven assists while Jeremy grant added a season high twenty five points great says it was difficult to focus on the game has to offer condolences go out to his family everybody is is tough honestly to just you know what's in the legend you know grown up stuff like that this stuff Russell Westbrook let five rockets in double figures with thirty two points while playing without James harden who sat out with a left thigh injury rainiest all Denver
AP News Radio
Jokic, Grant lead Nuggets to 114-99 win over Trail Blazers
"But not gets broke open a close game with the fourth quarter spurt good for a one fourteen ninety nine decision over Portland the victory ended a three game losing streak for the northwest division leaders the blazer with a point lead in the third quarter but Denver went on a seventeen to to splurge delete ninety six eighty with nine forty three go and coasted from there Portland's Hassan Whiteside top goal scorers with a career high thirty three well Jeremy grant and the call you'll catch each led the nuggets with twenty four in Denver
Colorado's Morning News with April Zesbaugh and Marty Lenz
Jokic, Grant lead Nuggets to a 117-104 win over Wizards
"Six in a row for the nutty how bout that yeah I love that they are getting it done they beat the wizards one seventeen to one oh four Jeremy grant off the bench with a season high twenty points to coach Michael Malone will take the W. but he knows there's plenty of room for improvement you build a twenty point lead in the third quarter long we had ten turnovers fifteen points and that's what the fourth the fifth time this year when we built lead and just did not execute or handle the ball and value the ball at a high enough level so we have to be a lot better in that regard but we scored that many points in the second our defense was really good we didn't turn it over we got out and ran after the second unit was really good for us nuggets at Sacramento
AP News Radio
Plumlee, bench help Nuggets rally past Nets 101-93
"The nuggets came back from sixteen down to the feet Brooklyn one oh one ninety three the nets led sixty seven fifty one early in the third but Denver tightens its defense and tied the score at the end of the quarter at seventy nine then the nugget benches sorted itself with a nine oh run good for a ninety eighty three lead with seven forty two to go Denver's Paul Millsap in the Colegio could reach game high with eighteen well Jeremy grant Mante Morris and Mason Plumlee from the second unit combined for thirty two points Bruce Morton Denver
The Jump
Inside look at the 2018 WNBA Playoffs
"The w the w layoffs tonight with double header on ESPN two wings mercury than the rematch of the last two WNBA finals links sparks single elimination. Lindsay Whalen set down Michelle Steele before her final regular season game, and the WNBA Waylon is already said to be the head coach of the Minnesota golden gophers, women's basketball team next season. Let's take a listen. You've meant so much to your hometown so much to the state of Minnesota. What is it gonna be like to walk off that homeport the last time it'll be bitter. Sweet. I think just there's been so many years so many great moments that I don't know. Hopefully everyone will look back on the years and see how much fun we've had and the different things you've been able to accomplish, and we've done it, you know, and being at home with the fans, its been really special, Wanda Stu birds said the other day that you're the kind of player motivates you but also makes you smile. Is that something that you're gonna bring to the you when you're a head coach? What do you think your coaching style is going to be find out here? I don't know. We'll see. I mean, yeah. I mean, I don't know. I guess it's, you know, it's a really great compliment. This would spend the players is try to make sure that everybody feels really good, really confident. That's been one of my my leadership styles. I don't think it'd be two different different because. I'm the same person. Better better better. You mentioned that you had no regrets in this career that you've left it all out on the court. What's driven you? All of these years. Just love to compete. Love to play. Look to have fun. It's worth, sir. Really fun to me. So I just wanted to do those things as well as I could. And and once I realized that this could be a career I wanted to obviously play to the best of my -bility and eventually when championships into all those things. What is it that you would like to be remembered for as a as the winning player in the WNBA? Every night? Every night you go up there to leave it all on the court and to have done that more than anybody else's. I mean, that's go. Every time you come into the gym is to win. So it's pretty cool.
SportsCenter AllNight
The best moments along Russell Westbrook's journey to 100 career triple-doubles - NBA
"Fifty eight the final saint bonaventure first tournament win since nineteen seventy in the elite eight bob lanier was there saint bonaventure advances and up next as the eleven seed they get the number six seed in the east in florida sportscenter allnight espn radio from college to the nba and tuesday in atlanta hawks and thunder and we had a major milestone as russell westbrook picks up his one hundredth career triple double thirty two points twelve rebounds twelve assists fourth player in nba history with one hundred triple doubles oscar robertson magic johnson jason kidd the other three westbrook spoke with fox sports oklahoma in the second half you hold him to just forty one points what did you notice the difference down the stretch there good job using our hands before you see a guy like jeremy grant step up without paul george without stephen adams say about this group to be able to just be next man great guys great job congratulations on your one hundred triple double of your career only four other four guys to ever do that field of dns territory with some of these legends of the game.