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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.
A representative for the Houston Police Department told The California Post on Monday that James Harden was pulled over for some kind of traffic violation at 3 a.m. on a downtown Houston roadway. “The driver of the vehicle identified himself as James Harden” during the stop, the HPD rep said, “and he was taken into custody for unlawful carrying of a weapon.” According to court documents, Harden had a handgun in his vehicle that “was not carried in a holster” while “in plain view.” He was formally taken into custody at 3:41 a.m. and booked on one misdemeanor charge of unlawful carrying weapons.
NBA superstar James Harden was arrested in Houston on Saturday morning. The 36-year-old was taken into custody by the Houston Police Department at 3:41 a.m., according to court records obtained by The California Post, and booked on one misdemeanor charge of unlawful carrying weapons.
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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Milwaukee has also worked out Arkansas' Darius Acuff Jr. and has likewise expressed interest in Illinois' Wagler and Houston's Kingston Flemings. None of those four guards is projected to still be available at No. 10, which is where the Bucks will pick unless they move up. Yet one source cautioned that the Bucks might simply be hoping that a player in that high-profile quartet actually does unexpectedly slip, because there are no obvious trade partners at the moment believed to be open to a trade-up swap with Milwaukee.
Per league sources, Rockets coach and former Spurs assistant Ime Udoka was a huge fan of Stephon Castle’s (which Castle said he was well aware of). But with veteran Fred VanVleet manning the point guard position and young Jalen Green at the two-guard spot, Castle and his camp sent the kinds of signals Houston’s way that eventually led to him landing in San Antonio. Just as he’d hoped. “I think being (in San Antonio) was always number one on my list,” said Castle, who won Rookie of the Year in 2025. “Internally, I always felt like I was the best player in that draft. (But) I didn’t know what could happen. My agent always told me, like, anything can happen in a draft. Like, you could not work out for a team, not have talked to a team, and they can still take you. So, I mean, I wasn’t really planning on playing in Houston. I didn’t really know how any of that worked. I was kind of hoping I could slide my way to San Antonio. It kind of worked out for me.”
Joel Lorenzi: Per league source, the Bulls hosted Houston forward Chris Cenac for a predraft workout today. Here were some of the others involved: Donovan Atwell (Texas Tech), Tobe Awaka (Arizona), Josh Dix (Creighton), Nate Johnson (Kansas State), and Xavian Lee (Florida).
Yet the more realistic outcome for Dallas remains hiring someone from within the NBA and, to that end, sources say that the Mavericks have either already registered official interest or plan to do so with a number of prominent assistant coaches. Those include Minnesota's Micah Nori, Houston's Royal Ivey, Toronto's Jama Mahlalela, Boston's Tony Dobbins and Miami consultant Noah LaRoche.
Matt George: Per a league source, Sacramento Kings general manager Scott Perry met with the family of Houston point guard Kingston Flemings this weekend in San Antonio. Flemings is expected to be amongst the guards potentially available for the Kings with the 7th pick in the NBA Draft.
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Tommy Beer: The cumulative score in the 1994 Finals was: Knicks 608 Rockets 603 Yes, NY outscored Houston by 5 points So, analytically, the Knicks won the 1994 Finals Hang the banner - get Patrick his ring
Law Murray: This will be the first conference finals Game 7 since 2023 Heat at Boston, and the first WCF Game 7 since 2018 Warriors at Houston. The road team has won the last four conference finals Game 7s. Oklahoma City Thunder have now lost all three Game 6s under Mark Daigneault.
Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta has long pursued a merger of his sprawling casino and restaurant business with Nevada’s iconic Caesars Entertainment. He’s finally pulling it off. Fertitta Entertainment, the Houston company that owns Las Vegas’ Golden Nugget, restaurant giant Landry’s and chains like Rainforest Cafe and Morton’s, is acquiring Caesars in a $17.6 billion deal that combines two of the nation’s largest casino, hotel and restaurant empires.
A Houston jeweler whose clients include NBA and NFL celebrities has been indicted on federal charges over allegations he used his business to launder and export gold acquired by a network of scammers targeting older people. Zohaib Muhammad and three other people were arrested May 12 on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.