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Gina Mizell: Nick Nurse’s pregame availability is delayed because the team bus he is on is caught in San Francisco (and Super Bowl week) traffic. There were no players/staff on the court when I arrived at the arena, which is unheard of. Stars, they’re just like us!
Immanuel Quickley had a night on Tuesday. Not just any other night, but a Wilt Chamberlain kind of evening. The former Kentucky Wildcats star put on a show in the Raptors’ 145-127 win over Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors at Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., leading Toronto with 40 points on 11-for-13 shooting from the field to go along with 10 assists, 2 rebounds and 2 steals in 34 minutes of action. Quickley’s performance made him just the second player in the history of the NBA to have at least 40 points and 10 dimes, while shooting 80% or better from the floor in a game. Chamberlain was the first one to do it, and he accomplished that monster stat line three times, according to ESPN Insights.
Entering the Heat’s five-game West Coast trip that begins Monday night against the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco, Adebayo is averaging 27 points, 8.3 rebounds, 4.3 assists and one steal per game while shooting 50 percent from the field and 13 of 23 (56.5 percent) from three-point range over the last three games. This comes after Adebayo was averaging just 11.4 points per game on 37.1 percent shooting from the field and 5-of-23 (21.7 percent) shooting from three-point range over his previous 11 games. “Staying true to myself,” Adebayo said ahead of Monday’s matchup against the Warriors when asked how he snapped out of his recent offensive slump. “You got to quiet the noise a lot. And having somebody on your staff you can talk to. [Heat assistant coach] Caron Butler is somebody that he’s like my big brother. Throughout that stretch of — I wouldn’t even say bad games, just a slump offensively because I didn’t play bad defensively — he was always in my ear. He’s the one person I can really go to and talk about what I’m going through on the court, what he sees.”
Ira Winderman: Unlike last time when all three sat on Nov. 18 at Kaseya Center, Stephen Curry, Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green not on Warriors' injury report for Monday's rematch in San Francisco. Well, Green is, but listed as probable (ankle). No Herro (rib) for Heat, as was case in November Heat win.
Tim Reynolds: Tyler Herro did not travel with the Heat today. Miami flying to San Francisco for start of road trip at Golden State tomorrow.
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Ware said he has not yet spoken to Spoelstra about the comments to clear the air. “I’ve kind of learned to control what you can control,” Ware said Saturday, with the Heat now hitting the road to begin a five-game trip on Monday against the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco (10 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network Sun). “You know, it is what it is. If I didn’t play in the second half, that was his decision that he felt like he needed to make.”
Michael Shapiro: Can confirm/clarify @HoustonRockets travel situation this weekend. • Rockets DID stay in San Francisco on Saturday, made ~90-minute drive into Sacramento on Sunday afternoon. • Travel plan was made months in advance when NBA schedule was released. • Rockets’ usual hotels were all booked this weekend. Team stayed IN Sacramento last month.
Things got chippy in the stands Wednesday during the Warriors-Bucks game at San Francisco’s Chase Center. In now-viral footage shared on social media, multiple fans were seen throwing punches before a man in Steph Curry’s No. 30 Warriors jersey was ejected by arena workers. The clip shows a man, clad in a black long-sleeve shirt and matching pants, and another man, dressed in a grey quarter-zip, getting physical in the stands.
They’re throwing hands at Chase Center tonight pic.twitter.com/ffTxLGr8Gw
— warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) January 8, 2026
Marc J. Spears: The inaugural ‘Bill Russell Impact Classic’ basketball game will take place Feb. 12, with host U of San Francisco vs Oregon State on what would have been the late Celtics’ legend’a 92nd birthday. A posthumous honorary doctorate will be presented to Russell’s widow, Jeannine.
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Josh Robbins: After today's game, Magic coach Jamahl Mosley said Moe Wagner will not play on the Magic’s upcoming trip to Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Portland. Wagner tore his ACL nearly one year ago and has been working his way back.
On another topic, how did it come to be for you to get involved in a chess tournament last summer? Post: “After I had my break in the Netherlands, I came back here. I worked out every morning in the facility, and then I had the rest of the day for myself. So I had some time. I always used to like to play chess. But I played inconsistently. So I played a lot this summer online. I even joined a chess club in San Francisco. And then I got invited to the ‘Chesstival’ in Vegas. So I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it.’ It ended up being a really cool event. I met a bunch of great people. I ended up winning a section of it. That was pretty cool.” You won the tournament. What was the key and strategy to pull that off? Post: “In one section, I got to the semifinals. But in the individual tournament, I won the whole thing. I think it helped that I played a lot before. Building up to that, I was playing a lot in the summer. Maybe some of the other guys that played did it at the last minute. So I would say it was my preparation.”
Al Horford never thought he would leave Boston, but now he is hopeful that San Francisco is the final stop in his NBA journey. He knows anything can happen in the league, but he believes the Warriors will be his last team. “Yeah, I think so,” Horford said. “I think at this point in my career, where I see everything, that is my expectation, just to be here.”
