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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!
Dalton Johnson: Steve Kerr says Mike Dunleavy called him today to brief him on some things he’s working on behind the scenes Some big fish are being moved right, but the biggest one remains out there
NBA Communications: Phoenix Suns head coach Jordan Ott and Charlotte Hornets head coach Charles Lee have been named the NBA Western and Eastern Conference Coaches of the Month, respectively, for games played in January.
Rod Boone: LaMelo Ball collided with Charles Lee while going for a loose ball. But he got up and went to locker room
LaMelo Ball is down and holding his head after colliding with Charles Lee on the sideline. Spectrum Center fell completely silent while he was on the ground. He's currently getting checked out in the locker room. 🤕 pic.twitter.com/S6UM1tYApH
— r/CharlotteHornets (@HornetsReddit) February 2, 2026
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Rod Boone: LaMelo Ball is back from the locker room and ready to go back into the game Official diagnosis is a laceration above his right eye.
Dane Moore: Anthony Edwards said Chris Finch got into the team at halftime and after the game. Ant said, "yeah, he wasn't happy about this win at all". Asked Edwards about the Wolves' pattern of needing Finch to get into them for the energy and effort to be there against lesser opponents. "Nights like this, it's super hard to find the, not the why, but the energy to put behind it on every play... [Finch] not satisfied with that, and we shouldn't be either. He said somethin like, I'm not gonna let up on y'all. If we bullshit on games like this, I'm gonna be on y'all ass until y'all stop bullshitting. And I told [Jaden McDaniels], he 100% right. Because we coulda played the first 24 minutes hard as shit and been up 30 points and, who knows, maybe not played the 2nd half. And I said, maybe we can shut his ass up that way, if we just come out and play the way he want us to play."
Coty M. Davis: #Warriors coach Steve Kerr on #Pistons Cade Cunningham: "He's awesome. He reminds me of Luka and James Harden. Just kind of a one-man offense, running everything through him. He's a great, great player, really coming into his own."
Bennett Durando: Nuggets’ plan is for Nikola Jokic to start tonight despite minutes restriction. David Adelman really wanted to temper expectations for Jokic in his pregame presser.
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Bobby Manning on Anfernee Simons’ future: The Celtics are obviously going to continue to be up against the second apron as well as the luxury tax into the future here. Is he the right player to use that mid-level exception on that mid-level kind of money on going forward? They obviously need some have some needs in the front court, but if they lose Simons, they'd have a need in the back court as well. And I love his fit here. I love the way he's complimented this team and has been able to step between stardom and a role pretty seamlessly. And again, it's just another pleasant surprise this season that there's been no real drama about that. The decisions have happened pretty naturally. There's been a few spots where you probably could use a little more Simons, a little less Pritchard, vice versa, but they've handled it well. They've balanced it well. all of them feel like they can step back and let the other guy perform if they don't have it on that night. And Joe Mazzulla has just generated great buying among these guys. And I get the sense from Simons that that is the biggest reason that he's been so amicable to his situation here is that Mazzulla has communicated it all well, told him from the start, if you don't defend, it's probably not going to go the way you want it to. Here was upfront about how he was going to challenge him on that end. And Simons has gotten better.
Adam Aaronson: “I think we’re pretty lucky, to be honest with you, that we got out of there with a W,” Nick Nurse said. “Not very good on the glass, not very good in transition, not very good on defense… We’re pretty fortunate to get out of there with a win tonight.”
Austin Krell: Nick Nurse said that Tyrese Maxey and Joel Embiid were great, but that he felt players such as Kelly Oubre and VJ Edgecombe were not as involved as he'd have liked and that bled into the rebounding woes.
Despite Jayson Tatum’s candid musings about joining a Celtics team that is already sitting near the top of the Eastern Conference, Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla said on 98.5 The Sports Hub’s “Zolak & Bertrand” Thursday that his star player’s approach hasn’t changed in recent weeks. “The mindset has been relatively consistent (and) where it has been the entire season,” Mazzulla said of Tatum’s approach. “We don’t know yet. It was never a yes, it was never a no. It was, ‘Let’s work as hard as you can, trusting the sports science team, trusting his development, whether it’s in the weight room, on the training table, and then put yourself in the best possible position to be as healthy as you can be, and then reevaluate it.'”
