Ivica Zubac Rumors

However, the agent himself, who also represents big NBA names like Ivica Zubac, Goga Bitadze, Nikola Jovic, and Nikola Topic, among others, revealed on the 6.75 Range podcast that it was an informal meeting at which Bron actually had plans to create a league in Europe to compete with the NBA. "They are planning, a certain group of investors, classic business, to create a new league that would somehow also compete with the NBA," Raznatovic said. "They don't want it to be a U.S. league; they want it to have a European flavor, so to speak. And when they started working on it, everyone told them to call me." "I spoke a few times with Maverick Carter, where I got an official role as a consultant. He said it would be best to meet for lunch on a boat where LeBron would also attend. We had that meeting where we talked a lot about the new league, how it would be built and what would be done," he added.

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The Europe camp marked the first time that Basketball Without Borders — the NBA and FIBA’s global basketball development and community outreach program — was held in the United Kingdom. LA Clippers center Ivica Zubac spoke with ClutchPoints exclusively during the Basketball Without Borders camp, discussing the importance of imparting his knowledge on the next generation of potential European pros. “It’s been great,” Zubac said during the four-day basketball camp. “I like sharing my knowledge and experience with the young guys, especially guys coming from Europe kind of going through a similar path that I was going through. Just being around them, around their energy, it feels good. It’s kind of a different than the NBA stuff. It’s very fun and fulfilling coaching and getting my advice to these guys.”

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Ivica Zubac, who just earned All-Defensive Team honors and finished second in Most Improved Player of the Year voting, took time to coach players with a focus the defensive end of the floor. “It depends from player to player. I try to focus on the big guys, trying to help them out a little bit. Defensively, just trying to instill in them that they’ve got to communicate, they’ve got to be the loudest ones in the gym, they’ve got to navigate their guards and wings on a defensive end, they’ve got to call out the coverages early, they’ve got to be loud, and also just trying to help them with positioning [on the floor]. And then offensively, the same thing: trying to help them get to the right spot, help them with the angles of pick-and-rolls, of setting screens, and just trying to see as it goes. When I see something, I try to help them and try to share my knowledge and experience.”

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Law Murray: Lawrence Frank mentioned Harden playing 79 games, Zubac playing 80 games... hope to get another season like that, but had to reinforce those positions given the likelihood both players would need more relief

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"Not to take any sort of slight at Phoenix, but playing with James is a whole lot different than what their situation was," Frank said. "Obviously, Brad had great success playing with John Wall [in Washington]. He actually had great success playing with Russ [Westbrook in Washington]. So, we can look at those situations. "I think some of the areas that, especially in his Washington days, that he was able to explore with not the same level of talent [there], I think we'll be able to get a little bit more out of [here]. Like with his pick-and-roll play, it's different when you have the guys that we have spacing the floor and the centers that we have that he will be playing with. Whether it's [Ivica Zubac], whether it's Brook, whether it's John Collins, and you have that nice balance of defense and offense on the floor."

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Rachel Nichols: The Mavericks do not want LeBron James. They have messaged that out through multiple reporters. So, I think that door is closed. The New York Knicks door, the Karl-Anthony Towns trade that people keep talking to, I don't think the Lakers would see how that would make them better. And I don't think that they are going to go backward to make a LeBron trade. I don't see them wanting to do that. I don't see them wanting to buy him out so he can go do something else and be somewhere else and potentially beat them. So, I think we also have to keep in mind in terms of feasible trades, what is good for LA? The Clippers is an interesting possibility, right? I mean, it would certainly be a Clippers move to want to get one over in terms of bringing the Lakers biggest star, and he is still their biggest star, over to the Clippers side. You tell me what the Lakers would want for LeBron that you think the Clippers would be willing to give up before they even see how this Bradley Beal version of James Harden and Kawhi Leonard and everybody else we're about to and Zubac and everyone else we're about to discuss works. Do you see them doing that before November? Chris Mannix: Not unless they're willing to flip Kawhi, which I I don't see. Nichols: Do you think the Lakers would take Kawaii? Mannix: No.

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Look for Tyronn Lue, who likes big lineups, to experiment with playing Lopez and Zubac together. “I think we complement each other extremely well,” Lopez said. “Obviously, we’ll be very big. I think we’d be great defensively, just dominating the paint, sealing the paint off. Then offensively, we complement each other there as well, spread the floor for him, give him all the room in the paint for them to go wild.”

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Law Murray: Lawrence Frank is happy with Clippers adding veteran front court help in the form of John Collins and Brook Lopez Mentioned that Clippers can experiment and play Lopez and Ivica Zubac TOGETHER

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Law Murray: Tyronn Lue notes that it was disappointing that Clippers defense did not translate to playoffs, and mentions that Clippers were first in defensive rebound% in regular season but had issues when Zu was away from basket defending Jokic in playoffs

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The Los Angeles Clippers have also lurked with interest in Durant. The Suns have done background work on Clippers guard Norman Powell and gauged his value across the league in case Phoenix and Los Angeles ever agreed on a Durant trade, league sources told HoopsHype. Phoenix would assuredly try to pry Clippers 28-year-old starting center Ivica Zubac, who averaged 16.8 points and 12.6 rebounds, in any talks for Durant, league sources told HoopsHype. The Clippers, however, highly value Zubac and would be reluctant to part with him.

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We've been consistently told LA has no desire to part with Ivica Zubac ... as much as Phoenix surely covets the consistently improving center. The Clippers, however, do hold two future first-round picks and some available swap rights to sweeten a potential Durant offer that would almost certainly require the inclusion of Norman Powell, Bogdan Bogdanovic and Derrick Jones Jr. Phoenix has surely recognized that it lacks a bonafide starting center. Which is why, amidst all of the various Suns topics in circulation, they are said to be highly intrigued by the prospect of adding a floor-spacing big man this offseason to address that weakness.

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Radio Talk Show host on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM in Phoenix John Gambadoro went on air to talk about some teams that could be interested in Durant, with a sleeper team now in the mix. "The one team that I think there will be communication [with]...this may be the Suns reaching out to them or them reaching out to the Suns or just mutual interest...is the Clippers," Gambadoro said. He continued to say, "We've never talked about the Clippers before but they got [Ivica] Zubac, they got [Kris] Dunn, they got [Norman] Powell, they got Derrick Jones [Jr.]. I'll have to look at what their draft capital is but the Clippers are a team that I heard."

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Shams Charania: 2024-25 NBA All-Defensive teams: First team: Evan Mobley, Draymond Green, Dyson Daniels, Lu Dort, Amen Thompson Second team: Toumani Camara, Rudy Gobert, Jaren Jackson Jr., Jalen Williams, Ivica Zubac

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Law Murray: Lawrence Frank has said multiple times in this presser that he hopes that James Harden will be selected to All-NBA team Adds that he believes that Ivica Zubac should be an All-Star next season. Related: 2026 All-Star Weekend is at Intuit Dome.

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