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By InsideHoops.comUpdated Monday, January 20, 2025 at 1 a.m. ET
The Golden State Warriors will be without Draymond Green for at least a week because of a mild calf strain, the team said Monday. Green underwent an MRI on Sunday, and the team said Monday that its defensive leader will be reevaluated in one week. He suffered the injury three minutes into Saturday's win against Washington. He had just returned from a three-game absence due to illness and a back issue. Minnesota Timberwolves guard Donte DiVincenzo will be out indefinitely due to a Grade 3 left toe sprain and will receive additional opinions, the team announced Monday. DiVincenzo, a 6-foot-4 guard in his seventh season out of Villanova, had missed the past two games with the injury.
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After playing for the first time in two weeks following his seven-game suspension from the Miami Heat, forward Jimmy Butler said Friday night that he and the franchise "are where we are" when it comes to their relationship less than three weeks before the Feb. 6 trade deadline. "I guess it's basketball at this point," Butler said after scoring 18 points in 33 minutes in a 133-113 loss to the Denver Nuggets at Kasaya Center. "I know what I'm expected to do while I'm here and try to do that to the best of my ability, but we are where we are." The two sides remain basically in the same situation they were before Butler was suspended a couple of weeks ago: with the star forward looking for a trade away from the shores of Biscayne Bay, and the Heat still unable to find an acceptable deal. - ESPN.com
The Charlotte Hornets said Friday that second-year forward Brandon Miller will be out indefinitely due to a torn ligament in his right wrist. Miller was hurt during the team's 117-112 win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday. An MRI revealed a tear to the scapholunate ligament in his wrist. - ESPN.com
Lonzo Ball said the matchups against his brother, LaMelo Ball, were always a treat, but especially Friday night's game, which ended up as a 125-123 victory for the Charlotte Hornets, because it was the first time the two brothers have shared an NBA court since November 29, 2021. Not only was it the first time in 1,145 days the two brothers have matched up against each other, but they also had their brother, LiAngelo, sitting in the stands, fresh off signing his new record deal. "It would've been a lot better if we won," Lonzo Ball said with a laugh after the Bulls' loss. "Playing him, it's definitely bigger than most games for me, just because he is my little brother, man, and I grew up playing with him my whole life." - ESPN.com
Jimmy Butler could be returning to action for the Miami Heat when they host the Denver Nuggets, as he isn't listed on the Heat's injury report for Friday's game. If Butler does play, it would be his first game since the Heat confirmed he wants a trade and that they are trying to accommodate that request. He was suspended by the Heat for their most recent seven games, the club citing conduct that it deemed detrimental to the team. Miami went 3-4 in those contests. When the suspension was issued, it wasn't clear whether Butler would ever play for the Heat again. But with no trade in place -- and evidently without one in the foreseeable future, either -- the Heat did not list Butler on their injury report for the game with the Nuggets. - ESPN.com
Maverick Carter, LeBron James' business manager, has been enlisted as an adviser by a group of investors seeking to raise $5 billion to form an international basketball league that would serve as a rival to the NBA, sources told ESPN, confirming a story first reported Thursday by Bloomberg. The group -- which includes multiple private equity funds -- is looking to form a league consisting of six men's teams and six women's teams, playing games around the world, sources told ESPN. Although Carter, who has served as a producer on more than one of James' TV and movie projects, is closely tied to the Los Angeles Lakers star, sources told ESPN that James is not involved in the efforts with this new league. - ESPN.com
Speaking for the first time since the Southern California wildfires forced him and his family to evacuate their home last week, LeBron James acknowledged Wednesday that the fires -- which have burned through 60 square miles and killed at least 25 people -- have taken a mental toll. "I have a couple of dear friends that have lost their homes in the Palisades," James said after the Los Angeles Lakers' 117-108 win over the Miami Heat. "Obviously, my heart goes out to all of the families, all across not only the Palisades, but all across L.A. County and all the surrounding areas because of the fire. ... It's been a lot of emotions. Kind of been off. Personally, I've been off. "I've just been completely off for obvious reasons, but hopefully things are contained or continue to be contained. And hopefully, at some point, we can start to push forward and move forward and put it behind us and rebuild our city, rebuild this beautiful city." - ESPN.com
Kawhi Leonard scored 23 points, James Harden added 21 and the LA Clippers had the largest margin of victory in franchise history, routing the Brooklyn Nets 126-67 on Wednesday night. The Clippers broke the team margin mark of 50 against Oklahoma City on April 10, 2022. It also was the worst loss in Nets' history, eclipsing a 52-point defeat to Houston on Oct. 18, 1978. The Nets were without Cam Thomas, Cameron Johnson, D'Angelo Russell and Ben Simmons, among others. - ESPN.com
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