NBA Archives - Sports Gossip https://www.sportsgossip.com/category/nba/ The Internet's #1 Source for Sports Gossip! Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:05:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.sportsgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/mm9K-WHB_400x400.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 NBA Archives - Sports Gossip https://www.sportsgossip.com/category/nba/ 32 32 159931788 Nets’ Vaughn: Simmons ‘should have the basketball in his hands’ this season https://www.sportsgossip.com/nets-vaughn-simmons-should-have-the-basketball-in-his-hands-this-season/ Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:54:05 +0000 https://www.sportsgossip.com/?p=215369 Brooklyn Nets head coach Jacque Vaughn is hoping to make former No. 1 pick Ben Simmons a focal point of the team’s offense this season. “If Ben is able to play consistently in a certain way, there’s no doubt that he should have the basketball in his hands,” Vaughn told reporters including SNY’s Ian Begley on Tuesday. […]

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]]> 215369 Dame: I’d ‘lose every year’ before joining Warriors https://www.sportsgossip.com/dame-id-lose-every-year-before-joining-warriors/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:38:05 +0000 https://www.sportsgossip.com/?p=215217 As Damian Lillard awaits a trade elsewhere, the Portland Trail Blazers star definitively ruled out joining his hometown Golden State Warriors. “I respect what they’ve been doing over the last eight, nine years or whatever. And I’m from there, obviously, that’s home. But I can’t go be a part of that,” Lillard said Wednesday during an appearance […]

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]]> 215217 Nuggets’ Murray barred from bringing Larry O’Brien trophy to hometown https://www.sportsgossip.com/nuggets-murray-barred-from-bringing-larry-obrien-trophy-to-hometown/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:36:25 +0000 https://www.sportsgossip.com/?p=215214 Jamal Murray’s plan to bring the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy to his hometown of Kitchener, Ontario has been dashed. The Denver Nuggets star told Sportsnet’s Arash Madani in June that he would bring the trophy back home and hoped to have another party in Kitchener to celebrate his first NBA championship. However, according to Gilbert Ngabo of the […]

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]]> 215214 Wemby to suit up for France at Paris Olympics https://www.sportsgossip.com/wemby-to-suit-up-for-france-at-paris-olympics/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:44:36 +0000 https://www.sportsgossip.com/?p=215197 PARIS (AP) — Victor Wembanyama will be aiming for the gold medal with France at the Paris Olympics. The San Antonio Spurs rookie reaffirmed his commitment to France’s national squad at the Summer Games next year in his home country. He spoke in the wake of France’s poor showing at the World Cup last month, […]

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]]> 215197 Report: Rockets attempting to trade Porter after domestic violence arrest https://www.sportsgossip.com/report-rockets-attempting-to-trade-porter-after-domestic-violence-arrest/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:39:43 +0000 https://www.sportsgossip.com/?p=215118 The Houston Rockets are trying to trade Kevin Porter Jr. after he was charged with felony assault and strangulation, sources told The Athletic’s Shams Charania on Wednesday. Porter is accused of attacking his girlfriend in an incident Monday morning. He was placed into police custody before being released, with his court date set for Oct. 16. Houston is attempting […]

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]]> 215118 Prosecutors: Rockets’ Kevin Porter Jr. fractured girlfriend’s vertebrae in assault https://www.sportsgossip.com/prosecutors-rockets-kevin-porter-jr-fractured-girlfriends-vertebrae-in-assault/ Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:46:32 +0000 https://www.sportsgossip.com/?p=215103 NEW YORK (AP) — Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr.’s alleged attack on his girlfriend in a New York City hotel room left the woman with a fractured neck vertebra and a deep cut above her right eye, prosecutors revealed at his arraignment Tuesday. Porter, 23, is charged with felony assault and strangulation in connection […]

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]]> 215103 Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. charged with assaulting girlfriend at Manhattan hotel https://www.sportsgossip.com/rockets-guard-kevin-porter-jr-charged-with-assaulting-girlfriend-at-manhattan-hotel/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:47:10 +0000 https://www.sportsgossip.com/?p=215077 NEW YORK (AP) — Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. was arrested Monday and charged with assault and strangulation after allegedly attacking his girlfriend at a New York City hotel. Porter, 23, is accused of hitting the woman several times and putting his hands around her neck, police said. The woman, 26, was taken to […]

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]]> 215077 Report: Lakers, Wood agree to 2-year deal with player option https://www.sportsgossip.com/report-lakers-wood-agree-to-2-year-deal-with-player-option/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:52:10 +0000 https://www.sportsgossip.com/?p=214967 The Los Angeles Lakers are signing free-agent big man Christian Wood to a two-year contract, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Wood’s terms reportedly include a player option for the second year. He will earn $2.7 million in 2023-24 and, if he exercises his option, a $3-million salary in 2024-25, according to Bobby Marks of ESPN.   The […]

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]]> 214967 Ball optimistic about eventual return: ‘I’m going to play again’ https://www.sportsgossip.com/ball-optimistic-about-eventual-return-im-going-to-play-again/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 13:50:53 +0000 https://www.sportsgossip.com/?p=214780 Chicago Bulls point guard Lonzo Ball is confident that he’ll see NBA action again soon. “I’m going to play again,” Ball said Saturday at Invest Fest in Atlanta, according to NBC Sports Chicago’s K.C. Johnson. “For me, I know what I gotta do to get back. And I’m just on a path doing what I gotta […]

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]]> 214780 Lillard: Winning title ‘at the top of my list’ as twilight of career approaches https://www.sportsgossip.com/lillard-winning-title-at-the-top-of-my-list-as-twilight-of-career-approaches/ Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:48:36 +0000 https://www.sportsgossip.com/?p=214744 Amid a long-spanning planned exit from the Portland Trail Blazers, superstar point guard Damian Lillard is clear about his priorities as he reaches the end of his prime. “The desire (to win a championship) now is as high as it’s probably going to be,” Lillard told Andscape’s Marc J. Spears, “That’s literally the thing at the […]

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