Jayson Tatum missed Monday's game for the Boston Celtics against the Detroit Pistons due to a right ankle injury.
Tatum has now missed three games this season.
Jayson Tatum missed Monday's game for the Boston Celtics against the Detroit Pistons due to a right ankle injury.
Tatum has now missed three games this season.
OG Anunoby has had a post-surgical flare-up in his right elbow and will be out indefinitely.
Anunoby returned for three games following a Feb. 8th procedure, but the elbow will need to calm down before he can play again.
The Knicks are 15-2 with him in the lineup since Jan. 1 and 8-10 with him sidelined.
Bilal Coulibaly will miss the remainder of the regular season after being diagnosed with a right wrist fracture.
The injury, which will be treated conservatively, was suffered when Coulibaly fell during the team’s game on March 16 at Chicago.
The Washington Wizards selected Coulibaly with the seventh overall pick in the 2023 draft.
Jalen Green and Jalen Brunson have been named the NBA's Players of Week 21.
Green averaged 26.3 points, 8.7 rebounds and 3.7 assists as the Houston Rockets went 3-0.
Brunson averaged 35.7 points and 5.0 assists as the New York Knicks went 3-0.
When Draymond Green signed his new four-year, $100 million contract with the Golden State Warriors last June, Joe Lacob asked him to serve as a mentor for Jonathan Kuminga as an unwritten part of the deal.
"Joe said, 'I know you're going to play and lead and all of that, but I need one more thing,'" Green recalled. "He said 'I need you to take JK under your wing.
"I said, 'You got my word ...To me, that was a condition of the contract."
During Green's suspension, he focused on watching Kuminga. Green noticed that Kuminga needed to attack defenses by using his speed and athleticism on drives to the paint.
"He can always jump and get himself out of trouble," Green said of his advice to Kuminga. "Nobody else is going to be up there with you. Most of us, we've got to find angles, and different things to score, but if you get in trouble with anything, just jump."
"Him watching the games at home, it was him watching film, pretty much, and it actually helped me understand who I am," Kuminga told ESPN.
LeBron James is starting a basketball-centric podcast with J.J. Redick called "Mind the Game."
The duo is producing the new venture with their two companies, James’ Uninterrupted and Redick’s ThreeFourTwo Productions.
“I’m really proud of what we’ve done to innovate in sports media,” James said in a statement to The Athletic. “… When I do a project, the only thing I think about is whether me and my friends would watch it. That is definitely the case with ‘Mind the Game.’ Everything doesn’t need to be designed for internet culture and clicks.”
The concept of the program is meant to be a departure from talk shows like ESPN’s “First Take,” where Redick is a contributor.
“It’s meant to be a very free-flowing conversation about the sport and about the game,” Redick said in a phone interview. “If you look at it in a very simplistic way, it’s just about basketball.”
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The LA Clippers were beaten soundly by the Atlanta Hawks at home on Sunday night. Following that loss, several Clippers talked about how the team needs to figure things out with the playoffs looming.
When asked if LA feels like they can just flip a switch, Paul George said “I mean, that's what we're appearing to look like, which is not good. Not good. We want to be a team that's consistent and we want to establish an identity. I've always spoken about having an identity and I think it's extremely important. When you're a team that has an identity, teams know what they're going up against. Right now, I don't think we have an identity.”
Related to the same topic, Clippers head coach Ty Lue said his team needs to be better at matching the opponent's energy from the start.
“We definitely can play harder for a 48-minute stretch. It can’t be 32 minutes or it can’t be when you get down. That comes with a veteran team. They think we can turn it on, but these teams are young, they’re fast, they’re turning it on from jump ball, so we got to be able to keep up and we got to be able to match that," Lue said. "Nothing to overreact to like the guys in the locker room, they understand what we need to do... I told you we have things we got to do consistently every single night. And if you don’t do that, you can consistently get beat by anybody.”
Kawhi Leonard chalked up the loss, as he has other games recently, to a lack of effort from the Clippers.
"We didn't really give all the effort that we could have gave," Leonard said.
Anthony Davis is questionable for the Los Angeles Lakers' game on Monday night with a left corneal abrasion.
Davis suffered the injury on Saturday night against the Warriors.
Davis began to feel improvement on Saturday and Sunday.
The Dallas Mavericks will be without a key rotation player for at least a couple of weeks. Josh Green will be out at least two weeks due to a severe right ankle sprain, according to Mavs head coach Jason Kidd.
Green previously missed a month of action from early-December to early-January due to an elbow injury. Green has alternated between coming off the Dallas bench and starting this season.
In 54 games, the fourth-year wing has averaged 8.5 points on over 40% three-point shooting. Green has also grabbed 3.2 rebounds in 26.6 minutes per game.