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Jason Beede: From left to right: Nick Anderson, Bo Outlaw, Rashard Lewis, Hedo Turkoglu and Jalen Suggs are answering questions from Ryan Anderson while wearing #Magic jerseys from their respective eras.

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Cody Taylor: The Magic will unveil a new jersey and court on Friday at the Amway Center for the upcoming season in celebration of 35 years, the team announced. Nick Anderson, Bo Outlaw, Hedo Turkoglu, Rashard Lewis and Ryan Anderson are expected to attend.

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Robinson went to former Heat teammate Ryan Anderson to help him through that. Anderson was traded to the Heat in February 2019 before he was waived and stretched by the Heat a few months later in the offseason to get below the hard-cap apron in order to complete the deal that brought Jimmy Butler to Miami. “I talk to Ryan all the time still today,” Robinson said. “He’s one of my closest friends that I’ve made in this profession. He was one of the few people who could quite literally speak to having struggles in the playoffs and being out of a rotation and kind of wrestling and dealing with that. Not to put him in blast, honestly, he was incredibly instrumental in helping me process that. He was giving me advice on how to deal with it, but also empathizing with it.”

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Jonathan Feigen: John Wall joined Rockets workouts today, as he had on occasion. Ryan Anderson also back at Rockets practice. (Neither will be playing.)

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The Rockets had an extra instructor at Saturday practice with former Rockets forward Ryan Anderson at the workout, helping with some shooting drills before and after practice. Anderson, who played two seasons with the Rockets, not including his two games in 2019-20, has been splitting time between Houston and California but will spend the season in Houston.

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Ryan Anderson says he was unfairly criticized by Rockets fans when he played two seasons in Houston under a big free agent contract. “It was a new thing for me, because I had sort of always been the underdog, overachieving and now I was sort of the overpaid guy who was underachieving from what they wanted even though I was doing everything that they paid me for and we were the most successful team in the NBA,” Anderson said in Thursday’s episode of The Long Shot podcast hosted by the Miami Heat’s Duncan Robinson.

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“It is a tough thing when you’re getting zero credit, especially when you’re making a lot of money and you’re getting two shots with like two seconds left on the shot clock and you miss them and you’re 0-for-2 from 3 and everyone says that I suck,” Anderson admitted. “… This is the greatest part about not being in the NBA right now because I can just unload on how much that pisses me off. People don’t want to hear it. I made a lot of money, I’ve lived a great life. I’m so blessed, I love it, but the game’s not fun when you have to just stand there and you’re not involved at all. You want to be involved, you want to be a part of the offense."

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Anderson played sparingly in that postseason, seeing just 28 minutes of action in the seven-game series the Rockets lost to the Warriors in the Western Conference finals. His playing time was cut drastically, at least in part due to the Rockets' switching style that exposed him defensively, which Anderson made a joke about at his own expense. "And, I’m not a good defender either, so I’d always have to switch on Steph Curry, and he’d make buckets on me and then I’m the idiot," Anderson said.

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Albert Nahmad: With Ryan Anderson’s waiver from the Rockets now official, the Heat's annual $5.2M dead-money cap charge through 2021-22 is now locked in, unless he's claimed or can earn at least another $946K during the 2019-20 season (at which point it would fall $1 for every $6 he earns).

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Salman Ali: The Rockets announced that the team has waived forward Ryan Anderson.

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Kelly Iko: I’m told the decision to waive Ryan Anderson (per @Shams Charania ) and Chris Clemons’ contract status are not related.

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Shams Charania: The Houston Rockets are waiving forward Ryan Anderson, league sources tell @The Athletic @Stadium.

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Bobby Marks: Contracts that become guaranteed on Tuesday: Kenrich Williams (NOP)- $1.4M Chris Boucher (TOR)- $1.6M Malcolm Miller (TOR- $1.6M Ryan Anderson (HOU)- goes from $250K to $500K in protection

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Salman Ali: Ryan Anderson on his return: "I was talking about to a couple of the guys... It feels like I never left. It's an amazing feeling. It's an easy adjustment back with this group... There's no adjustment period." Anderson still has a condo in Houston.

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