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Harrison Wind: Wes Unseld Jr: Never wanted to work in the NBA while at Johns Hopkins. Shared a shoebox office working for the Bullets with an unknown intern named Tim Connelly. Became the Nuggets’ D Coordinator in ‘15 and helped lead a defensive turnaround while never filling that role before.

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Dr. Geoff Dreher, a primary care sports medicine specialist for Johns Hopkins, has begun counseling his patients about the importance of slowly easing into intense activity once the end of the COVID-19 pandemic allows them to do so. Not doing so increases the risk of injury. And Dreher believes NBA players could face similar challenges with players who aren’t playing organized basketball this offseason.

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Orlando Magic CEO Alex Martins told the Orlando Sentinel on Friday the NBA restart committee feels confident in the league’s safety plans. “We had a number of guiding principles as we had discussions about the restart and how we would restart, and the No. 1 guiding principle for us, for the league overall, is the health and safety of our players, coaches and staff that will be on the campus at Disney,” Martins said. “We have consulted with some of the top medical experts in the country, epidemiologists from Columbia University and Johns Hopkins, and others, [including] a former surgeon general [Vivek Murthy].

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Darnell Mayberry: Bulls announce Lauri Markkanen has been cleared to resume full basketball related activities after completing thorough examinations from cardiologists at both Rush University Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University.

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A new, yet familiar face rejoined the Phoenix Suns Monday. Channing Frye is back, cleared to resume all basketball activities. "After close consultation with our team cardiologist Tim Byrne, doctors at Johns Hopkins, doctors at Columbia; after getting all of that information, Channing was cleared and he's decided he wants to play, and at the end of the day that's the most important thing for him and his family," Suns President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby said. The news comes more than a year (376 days to be exact) after the team announced he would miss the 2012-13 season because of an enlarged heart that had been discovered during a routine physical. "It's been a long year," Frye said at Suns Media Day. "It's been one of the hardest years I've ever had to go through just because I couldn't do anything. I couldn't rehab it. It was something that I just had to sit and wait and heal."

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For the first time in many years, the Wizards/Bullets will not have someone named Wes Unseld working for the organization. Longtime assistant Wes Unseld Jr., son of the Bullets legend, is expected to leave the franchise to become an assistant coach with the Golden State Warriors, according to multiple sources. Unseld Jr., has been with the organization since he graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1997. He worked his way up from advance scout and later he joined former coach Eddie Jordan’s staff as an assistant. Ed Tapscott retained Unseld Jr. when Jordan was dismissed and Coach Flip Saunders also kept him when he took over in the summer of 2009.

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