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On HoopsMatic over the past 24 hours, Bam Adebayo showed up in 6.2% of all trades built. Among those, he was most often sent to Sacramento (14.5%), Cleveland (9.2%), and Denver (9.2%), and the return pieces that came up most often were Evan Mobley (9.2%), Zach LaVine (9.2%), and Jaren Jackson Jr (7.9%).
Heat Central: Coach Spo on Luka being in 'better shape' this season: "I think there's probably been too much talk about that. He was in very good shape last year. He can make every play in the book you need to make as a point of attack guy.... He makes the right plays over and over. That's what the greats do"
The defeat highlighted the brilliance of Doncic, whom the former champion with the Milwaukee Bucks placed among the finest offensive talents. “When you have a guy like Luka, obviously, he’s one of the best scorers to ever play this game, if not the best,” he mentioned. “I feel like some people are scared to say that, but he’s got to be up there. He’s also an elite passer.” “I try not to follow the race and stuff like that and try to focus on what I can do and my team, and how can we be better,” Giannis added, answering a question about his fellow his fellow European’s MVP cases over the years. “Is he an MVP-caliber player? I think, no doubt he’s been up there. He’s definitely up there this year.”
Starting a five-game road trip with a loss to Luka Doncic and the Los Angeles Lakers at crypto.com Arena on Monday, Giannis Antetokounmpo called for more individual pride and accountability across the Miami Heat. “Not playing hard enough. We got to play hard,” he was blunt about his squad’s lack of effort and defensive chemistry to start his postgame media session. “We got to have some pride, individual pride, first of all. And then we got to keep one another accountable, but trust one another defensively. Right now, we don’t trust one another.”
Will Manso: About as open, honest and frustrated as I’ve seen Heat coach Erik Spoelstra in a long time. He makes clear the defense is not acceptable right now, and everyone is to blame, including himself: “I need to do better job of getting this group to defend to our potential. We’re all accountable to this.”
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“The rule for me, I don’t necessarily care about the rule,” he said of the 65-game award mandate. “What I care about is to try to have the healthiest season that I can have, right? “If that’s to play 65 games, so be it. If that’s to play 75 games, so be it.”
“I don’t want to just stop at your 65th game,” Antetokounmpo said to the Sun Sentinel in a private moment, with the Heat opening their five-game western swing Monday night against the Los Angeles Lakers at Crypto.com Arena. “Last year was the first time I played in my career that I played so few games, and it was something I did not like. I did not like sitting and watching the games. I love being out there, I love competing.”
Heat Central: Coach Spo on Luka Doncic having the 2nd highest PPG against the Heat behind Michael Jordan: “It has to be a whole lot more effort, focus discipline. Even if you do that you have to have great mental and emotional stability because Doncic can still make shots if you’re there. You can’t let him walk into his comfort zone… Don’t let his shot making collapse your spirit or your effort”
Heat Central: Pelle Larsson says he’s getting a lot more comfortable with the ball in his hands: “Im getting a lot more comfortable of sometimes running and sometimes coming back to the ball for handling and distributing. — The slow step helps, playing off two feet helps. But I think you just have to read if you can score and if not you got to kick it out”
NBA Communications: Other nominees... West: Darius Acuff Jr. (SAC), Stephen Curry (GSW), Luka Dončić (LAL) and Cooper Flagg (DAL) East: Giannis Antetokounmpo (MIA), Scottie Barnes (TOR), Tyrese Maxey (PHI) and Evan Mobley (CLE)
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Dave McMenamin: Ziaire Williams is off the injury report after missing the last three games because of left foot soreness. The Lakers will be close to full strength for the second night of the b2b vs. Miami
They doubled down on their belief the next day and convinced him to play them 2-on-1 inside a high school gym, where Fodor “tortured them for a while,” as he describes it. Two decades later, Fodor, 65, has joined Dusty May’s staff to transform the Mavericks into an efficient perimeter shooting team. He has the track record: As the Miami Heat’s first full-time shooting coach, he helped the team reach its seventh-highest total for 3-point field goals made in a season.
