Luguentz Dort Rumors

Jalen Williams: Kawhi Leonard had a bad night, I think there's like a clip where Lu (Dort) like didn't even let him get a shot off at the end. So we beat the Clippers. Kawhi had a horrible game. I did a good job guarding him. So, I'm juiced. But we play them back to back. He started the game out nine for nine on me. We go back to the huddle. Mark (Daigneault) is like, this is funny. Mark, everybody don't know but Mark says slick stuff. He's like, "He's busting your ass, Jalen. We need to switch." I looked at him and I was like, "Yeah.” So, Kawhi had nine for nine, then Lu on him, and Kawhi ended up like having 30 something. Klay Thompson, I was playing defense on him a whole night. He hit one from behind the backboard and as it's going in, he slapped me on my butt and said “Good try, rookie”. Kevin Durant hadn't played in OKC in a little bit and he came back to OKC and he was wildin’. Fans chirping at him and KD is like talking back. He’s talking to the fans while he bumping me, shooting over me and stuff. It was horrible, bro. Those are the three like welcome to the NBA moments.

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The Larry O'Brien Trophy will be in Montreal next week. Lu Dort, who won an NBA championship in June with the Oklahoma City Thunder alongside fellow Canadian Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, will have a two-day celebration in his home city. On Aug. 20, Dort will be accepting a special invitation from Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante to City Hall. About 200 members of the sports community will be there to recognize his championship win and his dedication to youth in Montreal. The following day, there will be a homecoming parade in Montreal-Nord, the borough where he grew up.

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Arguably the NBA's most famous dynasty, the 1990s Chicago Bulls, had Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and coach Phil Jackson as the three constants of their two three-peat teams across that decade. But every other player on the roster from the 1993 title team had been replaced by general manager Jerry Krause by the time the Bulls won again in 1996. Similar stories can be found looking at the Kobe Bryant era in Los Angeles and the San Antonio Spurs teams in the 2000s. "I do think talent dispersal is good," one executive said. "It's no fun if one team has all the talent. There's a throughline between the Spurs teams, they had Tim [Duncan], Tony [Parker], and Manu [Ginobili], but the role players turn over. "So OKC, yeah, Chet, Shai and Jalen can stay together, but Aaron Wiggins and Lu Dort and [Alex] Caruso and these other guys may have to go as those guys progress and get expensive."

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"You’ve been in town for a few weeks—I think I saw you at a match two weeks ago. You’re staying in Montreal? That’s important to you?" Luguentz Dort: "Very important. My family and close ones are here. Sometimes I get a little tired of being in the U.S. I’m there for several months, so when summer comes around, I always love coming back home."

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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.

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