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There are several restricted free agents the Lakers have already done their due diligence on, sources familiar with the team's thinking told ESPN. Two of them, Jalen Duren of the Detroit Pistons and Walker Kessler of the Utah Jazz, would satisfy Doncic's directive to secure an A-list center. Two others, Peyton Watson of the Denver Nuggets and Tari Eason of the Rockets, are the type of 3-and-D archetypes who any team needs in order to succeed in the modern NBA.
James Ham: According to a league source, Houston's Kingston Flemings visited the Sacramento Kings late last week for an individual work. He joins Darius Acuff Jr. as the only two top ten projected picks to visit the Kings to date. @jakelfischer.bsky.social first with the news.
Instead, Smith said he did not hear a whistle and believed play would continue. With Golden State forward Kevin Durant defending near him, Smith decided to dribble away from the basket rather than attempt a contested shot. “I didn’t hear no whistle. So I’m like, alright, I’m going to take this to the corner. Let me get some space. KD’s seven foot. I ain’t about to shoot over this dude when he right here,” Smith said. Smith then explained that he believed the Warriors were denying James the ball, so he attempted to create space and eventually get the ball back to Cleveland’s star. “It looked like they were trying to deny LeBron. So I’m dribbling it out to get the ball to LeBron,” Smith said.
Iacopo De Santis: Italian guard Davide Casarin has received an invitation to participate in the NBA Summer League with the Houston Rockets. Casarin is set to play for Virtus Bologna (in the EuroLeague) next season.
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Marc Stein: Coaches under consideration in Dallas, sources say, include Micah Nori, Houston's Royal Ivey and the experienced Terry Stotts. The emergence of other candidates has not been ruled out as a search for Jason Kidd's successor launched on May 20 progresses. More: tinyurl.com/5xcrpc3j
Tom Haberstroh: PLAYOFF UPDATE: It is true that stars play through soreness/injuries more in the playoffs. This postseason, stars played 88.9% of its games, way up from reg season. Most games missed: Luka, KD, JDub. 2025-26 Star Participation % REG SEASON ... 66.2% PLAYOFFS ......... 88.7%
Former Houston Rockets star James Harden was freed from jail Saturday morning after he was arrested on a misdemeanor gun violation hours earlier. According to Harris County records, Harden is accused of carrying an unconcealed weapon in a vehicle. Harden, 36, was driving a Mercedes that was among a group of five vehicles traveling through downtown at about 3:40 a.m. When one of the vehicles was stopped by police near 1600 Jefferson, Harden drove up behind in a Mercedes sedan, according to court records.
Carmelo Anthony addressed his “ridiculous” remark, saying that Jeremy Lin deserved for the Knicks to match his offer from Houston instead of letting him walk over luxury tax concerns. “You got to think from my perspective, everything kind of came and went so fast and now I’m not on the Knicks anymore,” Lin said on the “7PM in Brooklyn,” a Wave Original. “And after that, I hear publicly a coach saying something and three teammates saying stuff publicly about like, ‘Oh, Linsanity didn’t vibe with everybody in the locker room.’ And so I’m like, ‘You got to think, Melo, I’m hearing this and I’m trying to piece together the story.’”
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Anthony also pushed back on the narrative that he was jealous of Lin during “Linsanity.” “I had to figure my s–t. I was injured. I was hurt,” Anthony said of the “Linsanity” era. “I had to think about how fast I’m going to come back, what I’m going to do, how the f–k I’m going to go help this team, how I got to lead this team. “I’m in a different position than [Jeremy] is. So I got to deal with a whole bunch of s–t. Forget being jealous of what [Jeremy’s] doing. I want him to keep going. Game win in D.C. Yo, keep going. Toronto. Yo, keep going.”
During Friday’s installment of the “7PM in Brooklyn” podcast, Lin — whose rise to fame during the 2011-12 season sparked rumors that Anthony was jealous of his success — explained that the pair had an “honest and direct” conversation and finally reconciled. “Basically I asked every last question I had: ‘did that happen? What happened there? What happened here?’” Lin said. “But it was honest. It was direct, it was honest and we were able to definitely clear the air. Obviously perception is reality in certain situations.
“… And that’s the thing about that whole stretch was there was a lot that I was unsure about. And so the narratives come, but to be able to talk it out, I appreciate that. And so my biggest thing was when I think back on my career, because I recently retired [last August], I’ve never wanted my story to be me versus anybody else, which we had talked about. “And I think at the end of all of this, if my name comes up or my story comes up and it’s me versus [Carmelo] or if we’re ever at a point where someone has to choose sides, then I think we failed.”
Anthony, who publicly invited Lin to be a guest on his “7PM In Brooklyn” podcast to “clear the air” last month, explained that it took him some time before he felt ready to answer Lin’s questions. “These was questions that was built up for 14 years that other people probably was adding on to your pressures and your mindset and your perspective,” Anthony said. “It took me to go through what I went through to have the time to come back and be at peace with being able to answer all your questions with actual facts.”