Alex Caruso Rumors

With Williams expected to return healthy next season, Mitchell, Cason Wallace, Jared McCain, and Alex Caruso in the fold, teams across the league are monitoring fellow starter Lu Dort’s availability. Dort has a team option for $17.22 million for the upcoming season that several front executives who spoke with HoopsHype are projecting the Thunder to exercise, then consider flipping Dort on the trade market. Should such a scenario happen, Dort has been linked with the Lakers and several other teams. It’s worth noting that Brooklyn Nets head coach Jordi Fernandez coached Dort with the Canadian National Team.

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LeBron James: "San Antonio, they're a team that doesn't have ego. They have their personal beliefs on what they can bring to the table. We all do, we're all competitors, but that team is egoless. It's big time to see Josh (Hart) kind of growing to the player that he's in. We always talk about Alex Caruso a lot. It's those certain guys that you can plug into any franchise, any team, and they're going to win because those guys just make winning plays."

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Caruso, entering the second season of a four-year, $81 million extension, is considered a firm member of the long-term core, league sources said, proving again his extreme playoff value the past month in the locker room and on the court. Hartenstein and Dort also remained beloved organizationally, but their team options demand a more urgent decision -- opt them into an expiring, opt them out, trade the number at a positive market value or work out a decline-and-extend at a lower starting number.

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Justin Martinez: Alex Caruso on his time with OKC so far: "Obviously I signed a long-term contract, so I'm looking forward to being here a few more years. The relationship has been great to me and the Thunder organization. I'm thankful to Sam (Presti) for everything, giving me an extension and trust me enough to be there for this handful of years. We'll see what the future holds next time. I've enjoyed my first two years here. It's been great.“

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Joel Lorenzi: Alex Caruso on when he felt San Antonio could be a real threat to OKC: "I didn't speculate just because so much happens in the course of the season, you know? One injury changes the team's entire season. (It's) the reason the Spurs got Dylan Harper. Wemby missed a whole bunch of games with the leg stuff. Sometimes you need the course of NBA seasons to shape up and see what the future is going to be. You can't always predict that."

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Rylan Stiles: Alex Caruso “Ran out of time. We weren’t good enough in stretches, we didn’t course correct fast enough. Game 1 and 7, we had chances to win both games. We made mistakes, they hit really tough shots as well.”

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Joel Lorenzi: Alex Caruso, asked if the Spurs feel like a problem that needs to be solved: “There’s nothing that needs to be solved. We could’ve won the game tonight. You would’ve been asking them the same thing. I don’t think there’s this narrative that this is a bugaboo. We should’ve played better and won the game and been in the NBA Finals. They’re a good team, they’re young. (We’ll) both probably be around for a while. But we’ve gotta get better and try and win next time.”

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‪Jason Patt‬: The Thunder have some absolutely hilarious on/off splits in this WCF. Caruso is basically +15 on and -15 off. Dort is MINUS 20 on and -14 off. Start Dort in Game 7 at your own risk. www.nba.com/stats/team/1...

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The Daniel Bell©: More from last night: Jared ft. Isaiah Hartenstein talks about how this team giving him space to be himself off the court helps with his confidence on the court. Mentions how he didn’t know what to expect from them specifically AC lol

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Shai on Alex Caruso: "He has the most championships on this team. He's played in the most big games on this team. He's one of if not the best competitor in the NBA night in and night out. He wears that hat for this group all season long and it's on TV every night now so the world's getting to see it but he's huge for us"

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Justin Martinez: Final: Thunder 127, Spurs 114 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: 32 points and 9 assists Alex Caruso: 22 points and 6 assists Chet Holmgren: 16 points and 11 boards OKC claims a 3-2 series lead on a night when it didn't have Jalen Williams and Ajay Mitchell. It can book its ticket to the NBA Finals on Thursday.

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Joel Lorenzi: Mitch Johnson waves the white flag. Thunder are gonna take Game 5 and a 3-2 series lead. Massive game from the reserves, basically the inverse of last game all around. Chet’s best game of the series. Caruso and McCain were huge. Probably Wemby’s least impactful game of the series

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Keerthika Uthayakumar: Alex Caruso is shooting 47.7% from three this postseason, 18.4% higher than he did in the regular season (29.3%). That's on pace to be the biggest jump in 3P% from the regular season to the playoffs in NBA history (min. 50 attempts in both).

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ALL NBA Podcast: 𝙐𝑷𝘿𝑨𝙏𝑬: Among the 50 players who have attempted the most jump shots in the playoffs, no one has a higher eFG% than Alex Caruso.

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