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The Miami Heat are officially 0-4

[Charania] BREAKING: Oklahoma City’s Jalen Williams has a dislocated left ankle and fractured fibula; Cason Wallace has a torn labrum in his left shoulder. Both will undergo surgery and be sidelined for several months – most, if not the entire season.

[Highlight] Giannis rises up for a nasty poster on Gafford

Yaxel Lendebourg tonight in 30 minutes: 31 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists and a win

[Highlight] Yaxel Lendeborg with the slam dunk to give himself 31 points

LeBron does the Key & Peele handshake with Dean Wade

Bam Adebayo in a loss to the Mavs: 8/8/3 on 30% shooting. Heat move to 0-4

Yaxel Lendeborg after his 12 FTA game vs Memphis: “So, I mean, I think I got to just adapt to what this is evolving to be. I’m going to learn all the sweep-throughs and all the bump and flops. Eventually, I’m going to get good at it and be able to shoot as many free throws as possible.”

Jeff Teague on Miami: “No disrespect to Spoelstra, he a great coach but their game plans, I’m like, what are y’all doing? That’s not what makes you special… It was not fun playing with Giannis. Doesn’t mean he’s not a great player, but he’s a very tough player to play with.”

Stephen Curry finishes with 24 points on 100% shooting on a win vs. the Nuggets.

[Highlight] Celtics announcer Drew Carter as Jayson Tatum nails the cold triple to end the 2nd half “Man, 19/6/6, that man has a great PR team”

Hali reacts to the Nets funny missed free throw “Fahhh” sound effect

[Highlight] LaMelo Ball gets the steal and goes behind the back for a Jaden McDaniels dunk.

[Injury] Thunder are dealt another injury blow as Alex Caruso is forced to the locker room with an ankle injury

The ²⁰²⁶⁄₂₇ Milwaukee Bucks - without Giannis - won a game before the ²⁰²⁶⁄₂₇ Miami Heat that added Giannis.

NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket

[Highlight] “Coldest White Boy” Payton Pritchard dances and hits 2nd three in a row to cause the Celtics crowd to erupt!

[Post Game Thread] The Golden State Warriors (1-3) defeat the Denver Nuggets (1-2), 134-114 behind Yaxel Lendeborg’s 31/12/6 and Steph Curry’s 24 points on perfect shooting

[Highlight] Naz Reid

After scoring 25 points with the Charlotte Hornets in Saturday night’s 115-110 win against the Miami Heat, Dennis Schroder became the FIRST player in NBA history to score 25+ points with 9 different franchises.

[Post Game Thread] The Cleveland Cavaliers (2-1) eke past the Minnesota Timberwolves (3-1), 127-125 in an OT thriller despite Anthony Edwards’ 44 points

Yaxel Lendeborg in the win against the Denver Nuggets: 31 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists, 1 block, and 3 turnovers on 9-19 FG | 1-8 3PT | 12-13 FT | 31 MIN

[Post Game Thread] The Dallas Mavericks (2-2) defeat the Miami Heat (0-3), 113-109.

[Scotto] Sam Presti on whether he’d call Russell Westbrook out of retirement with Jalen Williams and Cason Wallace out: “I haven’t thought about anything relative to the roster spot… We have a tremendous challenge in front of us, but this is what we do and what we signed up for.”

Kelly Olynyk, currently playing in Italy, says he left the NBA to give younger players a chance: “I played 13 years in the NBA; it was time to step aside and make room for the younger generation.”

[Highlight] Cooper Flagg drives past Wiggins and finishes with a tough lefty layup to make it a two posession game with 10 seconds left

Lakers broadcast stat shows JJ Redick had an 80-9 as coach when leading at halftime (now 81-9 after win against Utah). The 90% win rate is the best in NBA history.

[Post Game Thread] The Oklahoma City Thunder (4-0) defeat the Phoenix Suns (1-2), 125-114.

[Grossman] During the offseason, Payton Pritchard recruited Division II and III basketball players to play him at a high school gym in Cape Cod. Pritchard goes through 150 possessions a day, and if the defenders hold him under 60%, he pays for them to “eat like kings” at Chipotle.

Cooper Flagg tonight in the win vs the Heat: 29/6/11 with 5 steals and 2 blocks

Giannis with a triple-double despite the loss: 29/15/11 on 12-23 FG and 2-4 from 3PT with 1 block

Anthony Edwards tonight: 47 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists on ¹⁹⁄₃₃ FG

[Highlight] Aaron Gordon gets hit with two quick technical fouls and is ejected from the game

Devin Booker tonight: 3 points on ¹⁄₇ shooting, ¹⁄₁ from the FT line

[Lowlight] Klay Thompson hits the side of the backboard

[Post Game Thread] The Houston Rockets (4-0) defeat the Atlanta Hawks (2-2), 120-110.

Jovic (3.0ppg) who is the 4th highest paid player on the Heat. just went from playing 24 mins in opening night to getting a DNP in the Heat’s 4th game of the season. Meanwhile Duncan Robinson who the Heat let go off and is earning the same salary as Jovic is averaging 20ppg on 73% TS for the Pistons

Ajay Mitchell in Jalen Williams’ absence: 30 points and 5 assists on 10-16 shooting in 25 minutes

Cooper Flagg in the win: 29 PTS, 6 REB, 11 AST, 5 STL, 2 BLK, 50% TS

Nikola Jokic in a loss the 0-3 Warriors: 19 points on 49 TS%. -16

Giannis in an interview this summer after the trade was made official “I’m scared. I’m scared, I’m scared of change. Scared of change. I’m scared that the grass is not always greener. I’m scared… like I have things, people love me here. People respect me here”

[Highlight] Cooper Flagg’s gamewinning hangtime layup

The Milwaukee Bucks, who traded Giannis last offseason, has won a game before the Miami Heat, where they traded him to.

[Charania] Orlando Magic guard Jalen Suggs has been diagnosed with a mild bone bruise in his right knee and will be re-evaluated in two weeks, sources tell ESPN. Suggs avoided any other major structural damage.

[Highlight] Anthony Edwards gets a good look from 3 after a purposely missed free throw but can’t connect to tie the game

Bam Adebayo’s TS% has dropped for 5 straight seasons without any real increase in scoring volume

Yaxel Lendeborg finishes the game with 31 points 12 rebounds and 6 assists on a W vs. the Nuggets

[Highlights] Steph Curry takes DeMar DeRozan to a dance and hits the jumper, then dribbles, dribbles, dribbles, while dancing with DeMar and scores the layup over Murray.Then hits a triple.Going ⁶⁄₆ from the field in the 3rd quarter, ⁷⁄₇ in the game - 20 points

Giannis on the 0-4 Miami Heat: “I said what need to be said to the media — like we all have to take a deep breath and eventually we’re going to figure it out, we cannot press the panic button”