Category: NBA Basketball

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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Bucks close practice facility amid COVID-19 test results

Brandon King

According to reporting from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Milwaukee Bucks have closed their practice facility after the team received results of recent round of COVID-19 tests. The NBA testing protocol heading into the resuming of the season in Orlando is spread over six phases. From Tim Bontemps of ESPN: Phase 1, which goes from now through Monday, includes deadlines for players to report to their home cities: June 15 for players returning from overseas and June 22 for players returning from other places in the U.S. This does not apply…

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Victor Oladipo will not join team in Orlando

Brandon King

When the Indiana Pacers take the court to resume the season on August 1 against the Philadelphia 76ers, Victor Oladipo will not amongst their ranks. The All-Star guard told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski Friday that he would not be participate in the resumed season . Oladipo had been reticent in his commitment to take part in the games, citing concerns over reinjuring his quadriceps tendon. At the end of the day, it takes time for your body to heal. … We’ve had an extensive period of time off and to go…

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How To Make A Statement In Hoops

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“BOOMSHAKALAKA!!” When you heard that catch phrase, then you knew that you had pulled off one of the highlights of the game, if not the highlight of the game. It was almost as if the announcer had to verbalize the non-verbal statement that the players in the game made after their superhuman dunks that could only be done in a virtual world. To no one’s surprise, however, those non-verbal b-ball statements are made in the world of flesh, blood, leather, and rubber as well as the pixelated world of those classic 16-Bit…

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