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Chris Fedor: #Cavs Donovan Mitchell is AVAILABLE. Jaylon Tyson is OUT.
Multiple sources across the league said the Bucks' asking price was enormous, with an executive from a third team describing the Bucks' process as "gauging the market" and their price as "all our draft picks and good young players." The Golden State Warriors offer included four unprotected first-round picks in pursuit of Antetokounmpo, sources said, but never seemed to gain much momentum on a deal. The players the Bucks did seem interested in were younger building blocks such as VJ Edgecombe of the Philadelphia 76ers or Evan Mobley of the Cleveland Cavaliers, sources said.
Danny Cunningham: #Cavs list Donovan Mitchell (left eye contusion) and Jaylon Tyson (left great toe sprain) as questionable for tomorrow’s game against New Orleans. Jarrett Allen, Craig Porter Jr. and Tyrese Proctor remain out.
Mike Brown when Cavs hired Jordi Fernandez: I told him, I said, "Hey, look, if there's nothing that you have to do for Elijah or Cameron, then you come down to the practice facility. You can sit in our meetings. You can watch practice. Now, you won't be able to coach or anything because you're not an employee of the Cavaliers, but I do have the ability to allow you in our meetings and practices." Fast forward on one of the days right before the season started. Somebody comes in and says, "Hey, such and such here. Need somebody to work him out. There are no coaches." Jordi was sitting in my office. So I said, "Jordi, go work him out." Danny Ferry comes busting in my office. “Who's that coach working with our player?!” And I was just like, "Oh Danny, I should have ran this by you." And he goes, “The guy's great." And I said, "He is?" I said, "Yeah, he's great." Then he's like, "Do you want to hire him?" Literally just like this. And I was like, "Hell yes, I need to hire him." Then he goes, "Okay, cool." I was like, "Okay, great." And that's how he got hired in the NBA.
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Luka Doncic missed his first free throw and stepped away from the line and smiled while composing himself before making the second -- notching the third game of at least 60 points in his career and the highest-scoring game by an opponent in Miami, eclipsing James Harden's 58 on Feb. 28, 2019. When the final buzzer sounded, Doncic was mobbed by his teammates, who circled him to celebrate his fourth game with 40-plus points in the past eight games. "I mean, that's what it's all about," Doncic said of his team's reaction. "You see everybody celebrating on the bench ... it shows that we care a lot about each other. And that's what great teams do. Just makes my heart happy seeing them celebrate my 60-point game."
Lonzo Ball never looked right after the Bulls traded him to Cleveland for Isaac Okoro last offseason, leaving the Cavs no choice but to finally move off of him with a trade to Utah in February. The Jazz promptly waived him as he now sits at home hoping to get another chance in the NBA. “I loved him as a player and a guy, and he was so cerebral,” Bulls coach Billy Donovan said of Ball on Thursday, reflecting on the frequently-injured point guard. “He was so selfless, that’s really one of the things I admired. To see him have to go through what he went through, to fight to get back, see what he’s going through now, that’s tough for me because it’s almost like what could have been, how good could he have been?” The big what if with Ball after a serious knee injury back in 2022 cost him over two-and-a-half seasons. Even when he returned, he only showed glimpses of the player he was before the knee betrayed him.
Keerthika Uthayakumar: Luka Doncic is averaging 39.4 points on the 2nd night of a back-to-back this season, on pace to be 4th-most in NBA history. Wilt - 50.1 points in 1961-62 Wilt - 41.7 points in 1962-63 James Harden - 40.9 points in 2018-19 Luka Doncic - 39.4 points this season
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Drew: Jarrett Allen will miss his seventh-straight game tonight for the Cavaliers. Jaylon Tyson and Tyrese Procter are also out for Cleveland, who’s gone 11-4 with James Harden in the lineup.
Bobby Marks: The leaders in fast break points this season: 1. LeBron James 2. Tyrese Maxey 3. Giannis 4. Kawhi Leonard 5. Donovan Mitchell
Strus? In the closing lineup? Already? His second game back following an extended layoff — the result of late-summer foot surgery that cost him for the first 67 games? While on a minute restriction? On a night where he had two airballs and wasn’t playing nearly as well as Sunday’s debut? Yes, Strus. “I have such a comfort level with him,” Cavs coach Kenny Atkinson said following the win. “I could see it going any way with him. Maybe starting lineup. Maybe sixth man. We will see how that plays out. But it’s hard not to finish with the guy because he is such a clutch player. We’ll see where it ends up. He has a way of imposing his will and makes you put him in the lineup.”
Strus’ immediate usage raises an interesting — and difficult — question: How does Atkinson find minutes for everyone? Is it even possible? “We’re going to have those decisions,” Atkinson explained. “That’s part of our job. Have to make the right choices.”