DEVELOPING: The NBA is discussing creating a tournament among lottery teams to determine draft order in order to stop tanking. (via @ShamsCharania, h/t @flasportsbuzz)

Yaxel #1 if he were a 19 year old freshman

I’m being serious. If I was the Nuggets, I would see what I could get for Jokić.

A telling Nets defensive stat through three games: The Nets are giving up 23.3 wide-open threes per game (6+ feet of space), the most in the NBA. Opponents are shooting 50% on those looks. Brooklyn has been on the bad end of opponent shooting variance, but the looks have been far too easy.

Cooper Flagg INJURED after a DIRTY foul 😳

Orlando Magic guard Jalen Suggs has been diagnosed with a mild bone bruise in his right knee and will be re-evaluated in two weeks, sources tell ESPN. Suggs avoided any other major structural damage.

Fun fact: Darius Acuff Jr. has the most shot attempts in NBA history through the first 3 games of a player’s career with 74. Game 1: 24 FGA Game 2: 26 FGA Game 3: 23 FGA He’s also the first player to attempt at least 20 shots in each of his first 3 career games.

French police finally free 🙈

Keon Ellis -14

Mario on difference between 1H and 2H: "Make shots." "Especially defensively, they changed the matchups a little bit and we should have exposed it and used it against them. But it turned out that they slowed us down and we kind of went away from Evan and Jared paint touches."

INSOLITE | Un bébé arrivé au monde avec une moustache fait le tour des réseaux sociaux

MIKAL BRIDGES TONIGHT: 0 PTS 0/8 FGM 0/5 3PM JUST 22 MINUTES OF CARDIO 😭

Jordi Fernandez on why Mikel Brown Jr. and Egor Demin haven't played any minutes together thus far: “If you guys do your subs, like all the fantasy that you guys do, try to do it yourself. It's pretty hard to share minutes when it's on the bench, off the bench. I'm trying to work the groups and trying to have guys play together, but it's hard to do it in certain ways without breaking up the player's rhythm.” Does he expect Brown and Demin to share the court in the coming games? "I don't know. I'll try all the combinations, but again, it's harder when you come off the bench and you have a minute restriction to get all the combinations without messing up other players' minutes. Do I want to see them together? Yes. It's hard for me to predict right now. What I want is to find the right groups that can function together and be efficient."

Domantas Sabonis says Kings are best when he reads the defense as an offensive hub. Domantas Sabonis: “Move the ball. Get me the ball more so I can swing it and get guys open. You know, we took a lot of one-pass shots, pick-and-roll shots without passing the ball, you know, those numbers are really high and I feel like we're best when we kind of mix it up - point guard shoots, point guard hits the corner, point guard hits me, then I can make the read - that's where I'm best at.” (via @James_HamNBA)

Keaton Wagler 15 PTS (4-8 FG, 3-6 3P, 4-4 FT), 5 AST, 5 REB, 2 STL, +14 vs. Kings Nice debut game for the Clippers rookie