Ja Morant to Vince Williams Jr. during their exchange at practice: “I don’t f*** with y’all. I’m with whatever.” When Williams Jr. says “Let’s go to the back,” Ja Morant replies with “You’ve been here for 5 minutes! You’re not like that!”
[Highlight] Former Kings coach Mike Brown gets a standing ovation from the crowd
[Highlight] Zion EXPLODES all over Nic Claxton
The Denver Nuggets have taken control of the #2 seed in the West following their win over Dallas tonight.
Jamal Murray finishes with his 11th 30+ point game of the season in a Nuggets win: 33/2/5 on 13⁄24 shooting. He has averaged 28.6 PPG following Jokic’s injury.
[Cole] Memphis Grizzlies star point guard Ja Morant has recently purchased a $3.2M mansion in Miami— just a 20-minute drive from the Heat’s home arena.
DeMar DeRozan passes Kevin Garnett to become 22nd on the all-time scoring leader list.
[Giannis] on being booed at home: “I was definitely booing back… I don’t think anybody has the right to tell me what or how I should act on the basketball court after I’ve been here 13 years and I’m basically the all-time leader in everything… Maybe my voice is just a broken record.”
[Post Game Thread] The Denver Nuggets (28-13) defeat the Dallas Mavericks (15-26) behind Jamal Murray’s 33 PTS, 118-109.
[Lowlight] Karl-Anthony Towns falls down driving to the basket, stays on the ground in the backcourt, and misses the easy loose ball rebound leading to a Kings 3 - Mike Brown heated on the sidelines
[Charania] The Charlotte Hornets are retiring Dell Curry’s No. 30 jersey on March 19, sources tell ESPN. Curry, the 1994 Sixth Man of the Year, ranks second in points in franchise history and spent 10 of his 16 NBA seasons in Charlotte (1988-98). He currently serves as a team ambassador.
The photo that Yahoo Sports chose for the article, “What is Ja Morant’s trade value?”
[Highlight] Wemby walks off the court without shaking hands after loss to the Thunder, He is the only Spurs player to walk off.
[Haberstroh] Here’s a stat for you is that in the NBA, we have these 3D camera tracking… what we can see is that Luka Doncic is the 2nd least mobile player in the NBA on defense. 2nd least. The only other guy who covers less ground per minute on the floor defensively is James Harden.
[Highlight] Clippers announcer Jim Jackson on Trae Young being on the Wizards bench against the Clippers in Los Angeles “I guarantee if this trip was in Utah Trae wouldn’t be on the bench.”
[Highlight] Scottie Barnes with the long step through to get right to the rim for a layup
[Post Game Thread] The Sacramento Kings (11-30) defeat the New York Knicks (25-15), 112-101.
Brice Sensabaugh with the most bench points in the NBA in a first quarter: 21 points, 8⁄9 field goal, 3⁄3 from three
“Ice” Brice Sensabaugh in the close loss in Chicago: 43 points on 15⁄22 shooting, 5⁄10 from three
[Injury] Mavs PR: Cooper Flagg (left ankle sprain) will not return to tonight’s game against the Denver Nuggets.
Using Wemby’s aggressiveness against him?
2020-21 is the outlier year that people pretend the Bubble was
[Chiang]A hypothetical trade that has the Heat dealing away the expiring salaries of Terry Rozier and Simone Fontecchio for Morant would work. willing to take back Morant’s $89 million in additional salary
Scottie Barnes checks out in a win vs. the Indiana Pacers: 26/7/13 | 3 steals | 1 block
Is Westbrook quietly having a….good season?
Scottie Barnes’s all around performance versus Pacers: 26 PTS, 7 REB, 13 AST, 2 STL, 1 BLK
Jamal Murray with another 30-pt game as Denver defeat Dallas: 33 PTS, 2 REB, 5 AST
[Charania] Denver’s Nikola Jokic has resumed on-court workouts in rehab from knee injury
Jonathan Kuminga is now trade eligible as of today.
Players Averaging 25 PPG & 7 APG on >40% 3P% This Season: Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray - that’s it.
Gradey Dick grabs his first ever career double-double off the bench in a win vs. the Indiana Pacers: 21/13/3 | 3rd 20+ point scorer for the Raptors in tonight’s game
[Post Game Thread] The Toronto Raptors (25-17) defeat the Indiana Pacers (9-32), surviving a massive comeback by Indiana at the 4th, 115-101.
Dallas Mavericks from 3 tonight: 5-34, 14.7%
Mike Brown talks KAT laying down on defense w/o getting back vs SAC: “When you fall down you gotta get up, you gotta sprint down the floor. Even if you’re the last guy up the floor, you gotta get down there in case there’s a long rebound… there was no sense of urgency… it was a 5 point swing.”
[Wright] Vic Wembanyama expects to be sore tomorrow. I asked him how he came out of this game, physically, and he laughed: “Coming out, yeah, worse than coming in for sure. I’m going to be sore in a few places tomorrow for sure. It was a little much.”
After escaping the clutches of the dastardly Tom Thibodeau, the Knicks have rocketed off a 25-15 record, with a +4.5 net rating. Last year after 40 games, the Knicks were 26-14 and a +7.2 net rating
Precious Achiuwa lights up the Knicks with a stellar 20 pts 14 rebs 2 ast 2 stl and 2 blocks
[Charania] Sources: Wizards’ Trae Young still out through All-Star break
[Post Game Thread] The Los Angeles Clippers (17-23) defeat the Washington Wizards (10-29), 119-105 behind Leonard’s 33p/3r/4a/4s as the Clippers win 11 of their last 13 games!
[Charlotte Hornets] Dell Curry Finds Out His Jersey Will Be Retired!
Hawk’s guard Dyson Daniels has not made a 3 point FG in a month.
[King] The Boston Celtics would likely need to part with “significant draft capital” to acquire LA Clippers star center Ivica Zubac.
[Post Game Thread] The Chicago Bulls (19-21) defeat the Utah Jazz (14-26), 128-126 despite Brice Sensabaugh‘s 43 points
[Highlight] Harden tries to iso Sarr but Sarr recovers for the block
[Post Game Thread] The Cleveland Cavaliers (23-19) defeat the Philadelphia 76ers (22-17), 133-107 behind 35/7/9 from Donovan Mitchell.
Mike Brown on Knicks’ in SAC: “This is one of the worst if not the worst I’ve seen us play the entire year in terms of following a gameplan… gotta give the Kings credit… We were out there going through the motions, you go through the motions in this league you’re gonna get your behind kicked.”
[Highlight] Giannis scores the and-1 over Randle to cut the lead to 29 and starts booing his own home crowd (Bucks were booed off the court at halftime)
Mike Conley now ranks 25th on the NBA’s all-time assists leaderboard, passing Muggsy Bogues (6,726)