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Michael Scotto: The New Orleans Pelicans and Caleb Houstan have agreed to a one-year deal, league sources told @hoopshype. He’ll compete for the final Pelicans roster spot after shooting 52.4% from 3-point range with the Hawks last season. He reunites with former Magic coach Jamahl Mosley.
Charlie Walton: I am told that Will Barton, an 11-year NBA veteran wing, will be joining the Timberwolves' coaching staff this season in a player development role. Barton was an assistant coach with the Iowa Wolves last season and with this year's Summer League team. Tim Connelly was the General Manager of the Denver Nuggets when they traded for Barton in 2015. Barton spent roughly eight years in Denver, all of which came under Connelly.
Miami Heat training camps are considered among the toughest in the NBA, but Simone Fontecchio had already experienced something even more demanding under Dusko Ivanovic at Baskonia. “Last year, Spoelstra asked me whether Miami’s training camp was the hardest I had ever experienced,” Fontecchio told the YouTube channel La Giornata Tipo. “I said that, if it made him happy, I could say it was. In the NBA, yes. But not in my entire life.”
Fontecchio joined Baskonia immediately after representing Italy at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. His Olympic campaign ended on August 8, while Ivanovic’s preseason began two days later. “I was still in Japan and had to stop in Italy, so I very timidly asked Dusko if I could arrive later,” he recalled. “He said: ‘Of course. We start on the 10th, but you can come on the 12th.’” After a 13-hour journey, Fontecchio reached Vitoria around lunchtime and assumed he would be given time to recover. “Dusko told me: ‘Go and complete your physical tests. Practice is scheduled for 4 p.m., but don’t worry—we’ll move it to 6 p.m. so you can join us.’”
When appearing on "The Draymond Green Show," Rick Carlisle shared that he advised Steve Kerr to consider the Golden State job seriously rather than signing on with the New York Knicks. "I said, 'What's going on with the Knicks? I keep hearing you're going to take the job, but it hasn't happened yet,'" Carlisle told Green of his conversation with Kerr. "He said, 'Well, they don't -- they don't want to do the fourth year.' Now, this was when it was this was a different regime, and they were they were quabbling over the fourth year. "And I said, 'Steve, do you have any idea how much money that the Madison Square Garden operation has with Cable Vision and all that?' ... He goes, 'Well, there's -- I don't know -- some reasons.' I said, 'I've heard your name with Golden State a little bit. ... That is a conference finals team, like right now. If you want to go to a team ready to win, that's the place you should go if you can.'"
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Alejandro Zuñiga: Michigan men’s basketball is hiring Dylan Murphy, most recently the head coach of the Osceola Magic NBA G League Team, as an assistant coach, I’ve learned. Murphy is a promising offensive mind who has led the Orlando Magic affiliate to two first-place conference finishes in his three seasons. His accolades there include NBA G League Coach of the Month honors in March 2025.
Marc Stein: UPDATE: After strong interest from Rome’s new Serie A team, Pistons adviser Dwane Casey has withdrawn from the process to stay in the NBA with Detroit, league sources say. Donnie Nelson, who worked with Casey in Dallas, led BC Roma’s pursuit of the 2018 NBA Coach of the Year.
ESPN's Anthony Slater, in an appearance Tuesday on "NBA Today," shared what Steve Kerr told him in a conversation after LeBron James chose to sign with the Philadelphia 76ers last week. “I didn't even think we were realistically in the running for LeBron,” Kerr told Slater. “It's just that everyone kept saying we were. It never seemed serious to me despite all the reports.”
“Not common at all,” Adebayo said of the stability in his NBA career with the Heat. “I’m grateful to be here nine years. I’m looking to be here three more, obviously, and then on. But it’s an exciting city, man. To be a part of this for going on 10 years, and then to have the same coach. I’m blessed to have both of those things. I got an organization that believes in me. So, I’m happy to be here.”
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"Ultimately, Philadelphia makes a move and then boom! Now you got Jaylen Brown," Paul said. "Now hold on, wait a minute now. This looks a lot different." Paul said James' close relationship with Tyrese Maxey, who also is represented by Klutch Sports, played an invaluable role in convincing the superstar that the transition to his new team will be smoother than it could be elsewhere. "I think he helps everybody on that team," Paul said. "When you talk about a secondary playmaker, if [James is] your secondary playmaker, you have the best secondary playmaker in the league. He helps Tyrese in terms of pick-and-roll action. ... I think Nick Nurse can take a little page out of Ty Lue's book and use Tyrese as the screener. When you talk about a guy like V.J. Edgecombe, he definitely helps him.
In a time where collegiate programs and coaches have to get creative in order to raise money for NIL or other amenities, UNLV‘s Josh Pastner is trying his best. Pastner gave his pitch to investors involved with NBA’s Las Vegas franchise, which is expected come to fruition at some point in the next decade. Instead of spending billions, why not spend a couple million to restore the UNLV Rebels to their prior glory?
“I know that a lot of people are trying to become owners of this NBA team coming in 2029,” Pastner told KTNV’s Taylor Rocha. “I have told people, ‘Why? Buy the college basketball team. It’s legal now! You can be the owner of the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels Men’s Basketball team.’ It’s a lot less expensive. “You don’t have to spend over a billion dollars to own our team. I’m asking for $10-12 million to own our team. You’ll still get a great tax write off, and you can be as involved and tell everyone you’re the owner of the team.”