Luguentz Dort Rumors

Lights, camera, layup. The NBA Summer League is giving athletes another shot that takes place behind the camera. With assists from Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett and Hollywood power players Mark Wahlberg and Deon Taylor, the Summer League Film Festival is coming back starting July 17 in Las Vegas. The three-day festival will bring big-screen storytelling through 34 selected projects, spotlighting stories produced by NBA stars past and present including Nikola Jokic, Luguentz Dort, Tony Allen, Nate Robinson, Cole Anthony, Keyon Dooling and Udonis Haslem.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"I have a similar question. You guys are a very young and confident group, and obviously SGA is the leader. But what team had you guys the most nervous—like, ‘Uh-oh, this could be it for us’?" Luguentz Dort: "I would say the Denver Nuggets. They had us shaking a little. They’ve won before and have been in those types of positions."

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Clemente Almanza: Lu Dort when they trailed 2-1: "Denver Nuggets was the one that had us shaking a little bit. They won before.” On Game 4 against the Pacers: “We were a little nervous. I'm gonna be honest but we just knew that we could get it done"

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Brandon Rahbar: Brooks Barnhizer on players he’s looking forward to work with: “Caruso and Dort, guys who are kind of similar to my path. If I can be fit from that same cloth one day…”

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NBA: It's raining champagne in Oklahoma City 🍾 The @okcthunder are having their championship parade!

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Brandon Rahbar: Lu Dort says some of the players he played with in his rookie year have reached out to him after winning the title. He mentioned Dennis Schroder, Andre Roberson, Nerlens Noel and Chris Paul.

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That was Holmgren’s first professional season, but he didn’t play a game because of a foot injury. He’d been cleared for full contact in April. In anticipation of the Play-In game against the Pelicans, he was used as the scout team version of Brandon Ingram and lit up the starters a bit in practice. “The stuff he was doing against us, we was like, ‘Damn!’” Lu Dort once told The Athletic. “He was hitting some tough shots. I’m like, ‘Man!’ Yeah. That’s gonna help. We kind of saw the vision.”

New York Times

StatMuse: Luguentz Dort in the Finals: 9.0 PPG, 1.5 SPG, 2.8 3PM, 61.1 3P% (!!!) 5th all-time in threes per game in the NBA Finals. pic.x.com/ZNqR9h27Sx

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Luguentz Dort and Bennedict Mathurin are going head-to-head on the court — but off it, their families are on the same team. While Dort’s Oklahoma City Thunder battled Mathurin’s Indiana Pacers in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night, the players’ mothers and sisters watched side by side in Montreal, coming together to celebrate two homegrown talents with deep ties. “This is about unity,” said Berline Dort, Luguentz’s sister. “It’s not about rivalry.”

Toronto Star

The Mathurin Family Foundation and the Maizon Dort Foundation collaborated for a charity watch party — one of many across the city — at Verdun Auditorium. Basketball moms Erline Mortel (Dort) and Elvie Jeune (Mathurin) sat together and posed for pictures in the arena’s viewing area, not long after Dort swiped the ball from Mathurin’s hands six minutes into Game 2.

Toronto Star

Bill Wennington won three championships with the Chicago Bulls from 1996 to 1998, Joel Anthony claimed two rings with the Miami Heat in 2012 and 2013, and Chris Boucher captured the Larry O’Brien Trophy with the Toronto Raptors in 2019. Now, Montreal is guaranteed a fourth. “It’s amazing,” said Anthony, the co-owner and general manager of the Canadian Elite Basketball League’s Montreal Alliance. “They’ve been making everyone proud in the city. “This is the matchup probably everyone in the city would have wanted.”

Toronto Star

Lu Dort: Mid–second round I was like, I still didn’t get my name called?? Then it was over. Me and my family got up, and we started heading out. I was just so frustrated, sad. Then, on my way out the door, my phone rings. It’s Sam. He tells me that he’s offering me a two-way. In my head, I was just like, Any opportunity, I’ll take it. But I won’t lie, it was hard going through that. I was embarrassed. I cried when I went back to my hotel room. I was still crying the next day on the way to Oklahoma City. I was just going through so many emotions. I was pissed off. I wondered what went wrong. And I couldn’t really get a clear answer. I started to doubt myself. I was in my head like, Am I not ready for this? Am I not good enough?

The Players' Tribune

Lu Dort: There was a small moment about five years ago, when I realized Shai was like no joke. This was in the 2019–2020 season, before the bubble. I was a rookie, and Shai had just been traded to OKC at the time, with Chris Paul and Dennis Schröder and those guys. It all goes back to this one night in Detroit. I remember Coach Donovan had called a timeout, and we were in the huddle. Shai was one of the youngest players on the team, but I think he was already our best scorer. And I don’t know who was calling the play, but basically, the ball wasn’t going to Shai. Shai’s a chill dude. He didn’t get mad or anything. He just kept it real. He was like, “Let me get a couple plays,” or something like that. A young player saying that at the time was like, Oh. He wasn’t out of pocket or anything, it was just bold. It would’ve been one thing if he had said it and gone out and got a few buckets. But it was Shai, so he went on like a 12–0 run by himself. I was like, That’s real.

The Players' Tribune

Lu Dort: Last year, we were right there. It just came down to a lack of experience. We were a young team that had a lot of success in the regular season, which is always a good thing. But the playoffs and the regular season are almost like two different seasons. Teams scout the playoffs differently because a team can play in a way that maybe they hadn’t all season. And we expected that, but it was new for us to adjust so quickly. Dallas was tough for us to stop. You can’t really listen to what the people are saying outside, even when you’re the favorite in a matchup. You can’t let that stuff get in your head.

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