The Jazz are hosting a pre-draft workout on Thursday that will includes Houston’s Quentin Grimes, Providence’s David Duke, and San Diego State’s Matt Mitchell, sources tell Tony Jones of The Athletic.
Jones categorizes it as an important session for the Jazz, who like Grimes as a potential target at No. 30 and want to get a closer look at Mitchell, who has worked out for more than 10 teams and is considered a draft riser.
Sources tell Jones that other prospects the Jazz are eyeing as possibilities at No. 30 include Nah’Shon Hyland, Ayo Dosunmu, Miles McBride, Herb Jones, Joel Ayayi from Gonzaga, Joshua Primo, and Jared Butler.
- Arkansas wing Moses Moody visited the Thunder in Oklahoma City earlier this week, as Jason Anderson of The Sacramento Bee tweets. Moody is the 16th-ranked prospect on ESPN’s big board, so he could play be in play for OKC at No. 16 or 18 next Thursday.
- Now that Alex Rodriguez and Marc Lore have formally been approved as minority stakeholders in the Timberwolves, Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic examines the challenges facing A-Rod and Lore, who will assume majority control of the franchise by 2023. As Krawczynski observes, there are similarities between the Wolves’ current situation and the one that Marc Lasry, Wes Edens and Jamie Dinan inherited in 2014 when they bought the Bucks, though it’s probably unrealistic to expect the next seven years in Minnesota to play out like the last seven in Milwaukee.
- The Nuggets put forth a “full, all-hands-on-deck organizational effort” to ensure longtime assistant Wes Unseld Jr. got a head coaching job, Denver’s president of basketball operations Tim Connelly told Fred Katz of The Athletic. Connelly said he informed the Wizards that Unseld “is one of the brightest minds I’ve ever been around.”
- South Carolina wing A.J. Lawson worked out today for the Nuggets, according to Adam Zagoria of Forbes (Twitter link).
If old owner Glen Taylor really wants to trade away all 3 unprotected future first round picks, what should the new owners A-Rod and Lore do?
As a result, Wolves could be down for many years after they dump future picks.
Timberpuppies will continue to be the laughing stock of the NBA as they have been since their inception in 1989. Even the massive housecleaning that will take place once A-Rod etall take control from the inept Taylor ownership may not be enough to rescue this CURSED franchise, The only hope may be to move it; welcome aboard, Tampa Bay Bucketneers !!
The 3 pro teams in Tampa (NFL, NHL, MLB) have all done extremely well lately, but it’s difficult to imagine an NBA team there with the Magic playing less than 100 miles away.
that is true, it might be worth it to the franchise to just split their games among arenas to broaden their fanbase in Florida. the heat wouldn’t be for it though.
The Minnesota NBA curse was laying dormant when the Lakers nickname left its rightful place and went Hollywood.
GSW new owners won, Bucks New owners won, Atlanta’s new owners are winning.The Clippers made the WCF. Maybe the Timberpups can become wolves. Russell, Edwards and Towns seems like a solid start!
Once upon a time, KG was a long term building block.
That didn’t work.
They did make the conference finals once upon a time with KG.