Category: NBA Basketball

Lou Williams leaves NBA campus

Brandon King

According to The Los Angeles Times’ Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Clippers sixth man Lou Williams has left the NBA campus on Friday. Multiple reports have cited personal reasons as the cause of the sudden departure , but Greif adds that Williams is expected to return to campus soon. Williams is not the only Clipper player absent from the NBA campus. Montrezl Harrell left last week to deal with an emergency family matter, starting lead guard Patrick Beverly left Orlando Tuesday due to a personal matter. The Clippers will play their…

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NBAResumes 2020: Schedules and Power Ranking

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The exhibition games that started yesterday signalled the official, albeit vastly different, return of NBA basketball. As the league heads into this sprint into the playoffs, here is the schedule and a breakdown of the teams via the worldwide leader: Jump to a team:East: BOS | BKN | IND | MIA | MILORL | PHI | TOR | WASWest: DAL | DEN | HOULAC | LAL | MEM | NOPOKC | PHX | PORSAC | SAS | UTA Boston Celtics | 43-21 Current seed: No. 3 in East Remaining strength of schedule: No. 20 Schedule MIL (36% chance to win) | July 31 | 6:30 p.m. ET (ESPN) POR (68%) | Aug. 2 | 3:30 p.m. ET (ABC) MIA (59%) | Aug. 4 | 6:30 p.m. ET (TNT) BKN (70%) |…

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Ricky Rubio back with team after previously testing positive for COVID-19

Brandon King

Phoenix Suns point guard Ricky Rubin’s arrival in Orlando was delayed because of an earlier positive COVID-19 test. Rubio joined the team this week and practiced Tuesday but it is unclear if he will run in the team’s scrimmage on Thursday. “I just had two practices so I have to talk with strength coach, [Suns coach Monty Williams] and the whole team. I feel good but we have to be smart about it. It’s a preseason game. We have to figure out a plan that’s day by day. We can’t…

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Aron Baynes tests positive for COVID-19

Brandon King

Aron Baynes is the latest player to test positive for the coronavirus. The Phoenix Suns center confirmed to The Athletic and Stadium’s Shams Charania, also telling him that he is optimistic on joining his teammates in Orlando but has not picked up a ball in over a month. Per the NBA’s protocols, once arriving in Orlando, players will have to remain in quarantine/isolated before two negative COVID-19 test over a period of more than 24 hours. Meaning Baynes could be weeks behind his teammates, in terms of being ready to…

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Zion Williamson status update

Brandon King

New Orleans Pelicans rookie phenom Zion Williamson left the NBA campus in Orlando last week under the story of attending to an “urgent family matter.” While he has been away from his ballclub, Williamson has been getting tested for COVID-19 daily and those test have all come back negative. According to the team, although there is not yet a timetable for his return to campus, Zion does “fully intends to rejoin the team.” Whenever Williamson does make his return to Orlando, his quarantine time period will then be returned, per…

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Marcus Smart reminds everyone that Breonna Taylor’s murderers are still free

Brandon King

The names Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove, Jonathan Mattingly and Joshua Jaynes may not be familiar to you but they should be for those are the race soldiers that murdered Breonna Taylor. If you have somehow managed to miss this story, on March 13 Louisville, Kentucky used a battering ram to enter Taylor’s apartment on a no-knock warrant. The commotion caused by the intruders roused Taylor and her boyfriend Kenneth Walker. Mr. Walker did what any person would do when gun-toting strangers break into your home and attempted to defend both…

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NBA: No positive COVID-19 tests inside bubble

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From cbssports: By Jack Maloney 8m ago1 min read NBA teams have now been inside the Disney World bubble for nearly two weeks, and so far, things seem to be running pretty smoothly. There were two positive tests during the initial arrival period, and a few players have been forced to quarantine for extended periods for breaking rules, but other than that there has not been any major issues.  That trend continued on Monday, when the league announced there were zero positive COVID-19 tests for players over the past week. Via the league’s press…

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NBA to institute ten-minute quarters in bubble exhibition games

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Via cbssports.com : By Jack Maloney 26m ago2 min read The 2019-20 NBA season will resume inside Disney World on July 30, but before we get to the real games, each team is scheduled to play three scrimmages. After a long layoff, followed by weeks of practice, these contests, beginning July 22 through the 29th, will essentially serve as the preseason schedule.  However, due to the unusual circumstances, combined with the fact that many teams don’t have their full roster available, the league has decided to make some slight adjustments to the first…

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Orlando Magic to lay off 31 employees

Brandon King

Friday was the last day of work for 31 Orlando magic employees who unfortunately were laid off. The amount of the layoffs represents 10% percent of the overall staff and took place due to a “dramatic loss of revenue” caused by the COVID-19, according to reporting from The Athletic’s Shams Charania and Josh Robbins. Magic CEO Alex Martins confirmed the layoffs in a statement: “Our business, as well as many others like us, are significantly impacted due to COVID-19. We have had to make some very difficult business decisions in…

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Anonymous coach says next super team will come out Disney bubble

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from cbssports.com By Sam Quinn 1 hr ago 4 min read The NBA released a 113-page rulebook for its upcoming Disney bubble, but there is one set of regulations within the league’s collective bargaining agreement that is virtually unenforceable right now: those related to tampering. For the first time in league history, 22 complete teams are sequestered in the same place, unable to venture beyond the borders of the Disney campus into the outside world. They have limited forms of recreation available, and a limited pool of people they can engage in…

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