The Toronto Raptors will be sporting some new looks when the next NBA season gets underway. The team announced three new uniforms Thursday morning and teased two more in a slick highlight video on social media. The video asks fans โWhich North are you?โ and ends with Kyle Lowry wearing the red โIconโ edition, Pascalย [โฆ]
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Ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential election, Stephen Curry is releasing a series of long-form interviews directed toward voting and the coronavirus pandemic as the Warriors guard continues his recent foray into civic engagement. In his first video, published Tuesday on his YouTube channel, Curry sat down with Bill Gates for a 20-minute interviewย inโฆ
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Giannis Antetokounmpo can become an unrestricted free agent in 2021, and Miami projects to have max capย space.
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When it comes to leadership and planning, the NBA is playing on a different level than the rest of the American professional sports organizations. The Walt Disney World bubble was a brilliant idea to safely continue a season during the COVID-19 pandemic. The league then executed that idea to perfection, without a single positive coronavirusย [โฆ]
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The coronavirus will delay an official celebration in honor of the franchiseโs 17th title, but that didnโt stop fans from lining the streets near LAX to welcome the team home onย Monday.
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The Lakers are the +350 favorites at the Westgate win the 2021 NBA title, followed by the Clippers (5-1), Bucks (7-1), Warriors (8-1) and Netsย (10-1).
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Lawrence Frank, the Clippersโ president of basketball operations, was named the 2019-20 NBA Basketball Executive of the Year, the league announced Thursday. Itโs not the achievement he or his colleagues were aiming for, but Frankโs fellow NBA team basketball executives voted for him to win the award โ which this season was determined basedย onโฆ
Clippersโ Lawrence Frank honored as NBA Executive of the Year โ Press Telegram
Lawrence Frank, the Clippersโ president of basketball operations, was named the 2019-20 NBA Basketball Executive of the Year, the league announced Thursday.
Itโs not the achievement he or his colleagues were aiming for, but Frankโs fellow NBA team basketball executives voted for him to win the award โ which this season was determined based on regular-season games played through March 11, when the team Frank assembled had a 44-20 record, second-best in the Western Conference, despite using 29 starting lineups in 64 games during that span.
He garnered 10 of 29 first-place votes and earned 61 total points from a panel of team executives who rewarded him for shaping a roster headlined by two-time Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard and six-time All-Star Paul George. The Clippers also traded for Marcus Morris Sr. at the trade deadline and re-signed JaMychal Green, Ivica Zubac and Patrick Beverley before the season, all players who proved impactful this season.
On paper, it appeared the Clippers had assembled a squad capable of making good on the goal of winning the franchiseโs first title. But they fell short, relinquishing a 3-1 series lead to the Denver Nuggets in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs.
Last week, the organization and veteran head coach Doc Rivers agreed to part ways. Rivers has since been hired to coach the Philadelphia 76ers while the Clippers are searching for a new coach to lead their team for the first time in seven seasons.
Itโs the first executive of the year award for Frank, who was in his third year as the teamโs president of basketball operations after joining the Clippersโ front office in 2016. Previously, he spent 20 years in the NBA coaching ranks.
โL is a passionate, dedicated, and selfless leader,โ team owner Steve Ballmer said in a news release. โI am proud of the work he and his group are doing, and thrilled his peers feel the same way. This award is a great tribute to the hard work done by the entire front office, including our General Manager Michael Winger, assistant GMs Mark Hughes and Trent Redden, and consultant Jerry West.
โTogether, they have worked to develop every facet of our basketball operations department.โ
Rob Pelinka, the Lakersโ general manager, finished seventh in the voting, with one first-place vote. Oklahoma Cityโs executive vice President and General Manager Sam Presti finished in second in executive of the year voting, with 41 points (four first-place votes), followed by Miami Heat President Pat Riley in third place with 39 points (four first-place votes).
Seeding games played in the bubble at Lake Buena Vista, Florida, didnโt count toward voting for this award or the leagueโs other traditional end-of-season awards.
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Congratulations to Lawrence Frank on a well-earned honor. pic.twitter.com/QJ8JNbVbsl
โ LA Clippers (@LAClippers) October 8, 2020
The Deets is a weekday morning dose of commentary โ delivered at 7 a.m. โ from sports columnist Dieter Kurtenbach that wraps up everything important in the world of sports and looks forward to another crazy day ahead. The Warriors havenโt played since March, and itโs been more than a year since the teamโsย Bigโฆ
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Itโs what I stand for, itโs how I live and I think thatโs how the world should try to see itself, to impact other peopleโs lives. Hill, who joined the Bucks via a trade in December 2018 and re-signed with the team in the summer of 2019, has brought his outreach mentality to Milwaukee overย [โฆ]
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