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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%).
Top Data NBA... Live!: 📢🔝💯 James Harden today surpasses Mike Conley and now ranked 44th all time with 1,228 games topdatanba1.github.io/nbapp/
Chris Fedor: #Cavs Peyton Watson is OUT tonight.
Brandon Rahbar: James Harden has the night off on Russell Westbrook’s jersey retirement date. KD and Steven Adams play the Kings on February 7th so they have the night off too.
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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Q. Is the challenge fun for you? Like trying to figure out how everything fits. Mario Hezonja: No, because I kick in my experience into it and I it relaxes me a lot. It doesn't relax me competitively on the court, but mentally. Again, I have to keep saying this because it's really the the only truth, that we can speak about basketball and how I find ways, and there is the mindset, and there is this hunger and I can help you many things, but at the end of the day my entire NBA career is in Kenny Kenny's hands, in the coaching staff hands and in my teammates hands. They have been super, super respectful, super comfortable with me and they made me look how I look on the court. So all my sincere thanks from the heart goes to them.
Mario Hezonja is quickly locking in his roster spot with the Cleveland Cavaliers. His one-year contract becomes fully guaranteed if he stays past November 15, and his early production in the 2026–27 NBA Regular Season makes that look like a certainty. Since returning to the league, the Dubrovnik native has given the team a steady lift off the bench. Playing under head coach Kenny Atkinson, he is averaging 17.8 minutes across six games. He has filled the stat sheet with 7.5 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per night, helping push the Cavs to a 4–2 start.
Danny Cunningham: #Cavs beat the Bucks 136-111 in a game that wasn't as close as the final score. Cleveland led by 36 points in the second half of this one. Evan Mobley had 27 points, Jarrett Allen had 25 & 11 as both guys played 24 minutes. They took care of business on both ends of the floor against a bad team.
Channing Frye: "Why is Channing such a Luka hater? No, I love Luka Doncic. I love Luka. I just don't think the way he plays basketball is going to win a championship. That's it. That's it. I think Luka is a lot like James Harden. I think both of those guys' games are amazing, but their usage rate is not equating to championships. Who plays like that? Who's played like that and shown you that they can win a championship? I wait. Right? Think about maybe the last person who did, the last person who did was Giannis, and that was 2021, right? 21. So five, six years ago. And now, look, like it's not sustainable. The usage rate is too much. What's going to happen? Like Luka is great. He's not winning you a championship like that, because guess what, the other best team has five guys that are going to average 15 to 20 points. Luka has to feed his whole team other than Austin Reeves. That's a lot. That's a lot of pressure on one person. Definitely not a hater. He's great. All-time great."
Drew Gooden: "I played four years with LeBron in Cleveland and we went to the NBA Finals in 2007. I had to just become a double-double guy. And when I sacrificed just the 10 and 10, they were telling me that I was having a better year that year going to the finals than I did the previous year averaging 15 plus."
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AJ Dybantsa on guarding James Harden: “It’s a tough cover. That’s been one of my favorite players growing up in that Rockets era. Just him averaging 50, that’s obviously one of the toughest covers. You just got to kind of stay solid. You don’t want to put your hand in the cookie jar because he’s super elite at drawing fouls.”
DirecTV and DAZN announced a new multiyear distribution agreement for local telecasts of Cavaliers, Pacers, Grizzlies, T’Wolves and Spurs games for DirecTV streaming, satellite and U-verse customers in each team’s respective NBA-designated home territories. The telecasts will be available to DirecTV customers who subscribe to the Choice or higher packages and to U-verse TV customers who subscribe to the U200 or higher package. This agreement also provides distribution rights to each of the five NBA teams to all of DirecTV For Business’ thousands of sports bars, restaurants, fitness clubs and other commercial venues (DirecTV).
JPOSU: Brian Windhorst on potential OKC trades: “And this is one thing I’ve talked to executives about, and I don’t mean to be cryptic, but I’m being cryptic… if they're going to acquire a player, would not be a surprise, if they acquire a player they've already had.” Fwiw later in the podcast when talking about the Grizz, Windy says he “knows for sure” that Ty Jerome was liked by OKC (and Cleveland and Golden State) while he was with those franchise."
