The Sacramento Kings have signed Louis King to a Two-Way contract.
King played in 10 games with the Detroit Pistons during the 19-20 season.
King averaged 13.7 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.0 assists while shooting 45.6 percent on three-pointers for the Westchester Knicks in the G League bubble.
Anderson Varejao plans to sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers for the remainder of the season.
Varejao spent 12 seasons with the Cavaliers.
Varejao last played in the NBA in 2017 with the Golden State Warriors.
Mfiondu Kabengele has agreed to a contract for the rest of the season with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The deal contains non-guarantees for 21-22 and 22-23.
Kabengele was a first round pick in 2019 by the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Philadelphia 76ers will sign Anthony Tolliver to a contract for the remainder of the season.
Tolliver will be coming off two consecutive 10-day contracts.
Tolliver has appeared in five games with the 76ers, averaging 12.4 minutes.
LeBron James is expected to return from his high ankle sprain as soon as Friday's game against the Sacramento Kings.
James has been out since March 20th with the injury.
James plans to test the ankle and make a game-time decision. If James sits Friday's game, he's likely to return as soon as Sunday against the Toronto Raptors.
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Mikal Bridges will become eligible for a contract extension with the Phoenix Suns this offseason.
Bridges is averaging 13.1 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.2 assists while shooting 40.1 percent on three-pointers in this third NBA season.
"Rival executives expect Bridges' deal might approach $20 million per season," wrote Zach Lowe.
The Suns must also consider extending Deandre Ayton while Chris Paul could become a free agent. Phoenix already has Devin Booker on a max contract.
The Houston Rockets offered their general manager job to Jay Bilas in 2007 before eventually hiring Daryl Morey.
Bilas played collegiately at Duke in the 1980s and then played in Europe for a few seasons before becoming an assistant coach at Duke while attending law school. Bilas became a broadcaster for ESPN in 1995.
Bilas detailed the possibility of running the Rockets during an interview with Adrian Wojnarowski.
Bilas was initially approached by a headhunter to gauge if he would have interest in working for an NBA team in a front office capacity. The headhunter didn't initially identify the team with interest, which was eventually revealed to be the Rockets.
Bilas flew to Houston to meet with Leslie Alexander for several hours and then returned to his home in North Carolina.
Alexander later requested Bilas meet with him again, this time at his home in La Jolla, California. After the two spoke for about 45 minutes, Alexander offered the general manager job to Bilas.
Bilas responded that he would like to accept the job but they would have to discuss terms.
Bilas eventually negotiated with Alexander's lawyers and were unable to agree to a deal.
Kristaps Porzingis exited Thursday night's 115-105 win over the Detroit Pistons because of soreness in his right knee.
Porzingis had missed the previous three games due to a sprained left ankle.
"We'll hope for the best," Rick Carlisle said, noting that Porzingis seemed to be walking fine after the game. "We'll hope that it's not any kind of a serious issue and go from there."
Porzingis had surgery in October to address the lateral meniscus injury in his right knee that he suffered during the playoff
Giannis Antetokounmpo suffered a right ankle sprain after just 46 seconds in the Milwaukee Bucks' 143-136 loss to the Houston Rockets.
Antetokounmpo appeared to step on the foot of Kelly Olynyk on a driving layup.
Antetokounmpo entered the game listed as probable with a right ankle sprain.
Mike Budenholzer said the new injury was a sprain and that the team is hopeful it's not serious.
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