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Shams Charania: Sacramento Kings rookie Devin Carter, the No. 13 overall pick in the NBA Draft, will be available to make his season debut tonight against the Memphis Grizzlies and his father, assistant coach Anthony Carter, sources told ESPN. Carter underwent left shoulder surgery in July.

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Drew Hill: New Grizzlies assistant coaching staff: Tuomas Iisalo - lead assistant St. Andrews - retained Anthony Carter - retained Patrick Mutombo - former Bucks/Raptors coach Noah LaRoche - also head of player development Joe Boylan - former player development with Grizzlies and TWolves Jason March - promoted Erik Schmidt - promoted

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Michael Wallace: Grizz Coach Jenkins reiterates that Marcus Smart (ab soreness) is increasing on-court workload, but will sit out third preseason game tonight in ATL. Before tip, Smart went through extensive workout with new @memgrizz assistant Anthony Carter. pic.twitter.com/4T7xXNsglS

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Anthony Chiang: The Heat has hired a familiar face, Wayne Ellington, to join Erik Spoelstra’s coaching staff as a player development coach. Ellington fills the void left by Anthony Carter, who left to join the Grizzlies’ coaching staff. The Man with the Golden Arm!

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Drew Hill: Breaking: The Grizzlies are hiring Miami Heat assistant and director of player development Anthony Carter, according the league sources. Carter, a former player, is credited for driving the development of Max Strus and Gabe Vincent. dailymemphian.com/section/sports…

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Ira Winderman: Victor Oladipo getting a pregame lather with an intense workout session with assistant Anthony Carter. Oladipo basically taking the shooting slot that P.J. Tucker typically takes pregame with Carter.

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After the 2002-03 season, Anthony Carter, then 27, was planning to exercise a $4.1 million player option to remain in Miami. Picking up the option was a no-brainer. Carter was coming off a disappointing season in which he averaged 4.1 points on .356 shooting in 49 games. For a player with that stat line, $4.1 million was a fortune. Except Carter’s agent, Bill Duffy, failed to notify the Heat by the June 30 deadline that Carter was coming back. Instead of locking in another season in Miami, Carter accidentally became a free agent.

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The mistake cost him at least $3 million. Carter had to settle for a minimum contract with the San Antonio Spurs — roughly $750,000 — the next season, rather than the $4.1 million he would have locked in by exercising his option. As criticism rained down on Duffy, the agent offered to make it right. He would pay Carter $3 million out of his own pocket — through an agreed-upon payment schedule — to make up for the mistake, essentially the difference between his Spurs contract and the Heat salary he had forfeited. It was an unusual and virtually unprecedented move.

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Anthony Carter, who coached in the N.B.A.'s development league before joining the Heat as an assistant, on his relationship with his agent. “I wasn’t even mad, to tell you the truth,” said Carter, who is now back with the Heat as an assistant coach. “I didn’t think anything of it until lawyers and stuff called. I didn’t jump to any conclusions. I didn’t say, ‘What happened?’ Because I knew what type of person he was. Things happen.”

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The Heat’s current coaching staff under Spoelstra includes assistant coaches Dan Craig, Chris Quinn (also director of player development), Octavio De La Grana (also a player development coach) and Allen, video coordinator/player development coach Eric Glass, player development coach Anthony Carter and shooting consultant Rob Fodor. “I had a lot of different aspects of coaching philosophies and I enjoyed that a lot,” Allen said of the coaching lessons he’s learned along the way. “And then as time went on, it really intrigued me a lot. I thought I had something to offer in terms of obviously there’s the lottery-pick guys and those top guys, and then there’s also the guys who come through and they’re trying to figure out what the league is about. So there is the X-and-O part and the development part as young men trying to find their way. And I can really identify with that.”

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Ira Winderman: Malik Allen and Anthony Carter will serve as assistant coaches to Eric Glass with the Heat summer-league team.

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Anthony Chiang: If Juwan Howard takes Michigan job, Erik Spoelstra's Heat coaching staff would be left with Dan Craig, Chris Quinn, Octavio De La Grana, Eric Glass, Anthony Carter and Rob Fodor.

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The Miami HEAT announced today that Anthony Carter has joined the coaching staff as Player Development Coach. He will be involved in all aspects of player development for the HEAT and implementing Miami’s player development and mentorship programs with the HEAT’s G League affiliate, the Sioux Falls Skyforce.

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But there is something about Anthony Carter that continues to draw him back into the Miami Heat's orbit, the team's former point guard spending this month working as a summer-league assistant coach while looking ahead to possible greater challenges with the franchise. "For me, it's whatever the team wants," Carter said after helping run a practice session at the MGM Resorts NBA Summer League, where the Heat will resume play with a 6:30 Eastern Saturday game against a similar team of rookies, free agents and young players form the Boston Celtics.

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