The Denver Nuggets are already without their starting power forward from last season due to a knee injury, and now they’ll also lose their monumental off-season acquisition for the remainder of the preseason.
Kyle Lowry missed Saturday’s game against the Indiana Pacers, and according to the Associated Press, he’s due to miss one more game -- Houston’s match-up with Cleveland later tonight -- before returning to the lineup for the Rockets.
Tiny Gallon’s NBA prospects have been touch-and-go for awhile now, but the Milwaukee Bucks have finally cut him -- along with Billy Rush and Tory Jackson -- from their preseason roster, according to The Hoops Market.
All basketball coaches play favorites, but Mike D’Antoni -- no stranger to wearing his opinion on his press scrum sleeve -- is a bit more forthcoming with that information than most NBA types.
Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton will forever be linked by a card game, two unloaded guns, and a note in the Washington Wizards’ locker room, but both players were in fundamentally different positions to deal with the aftermath of their shared experience.
When the Sacramento Kings brought 19 players into training camp, they too brought in the understanding that at least four of those players would be cut before the season began.
In Brandon Bass’ first season with the Magic, he saw his playing time, points, and rebounds per game slashed despite Orlando having available minutes at power forward.
The San Antonio Spurs have used the D-League as proficiently as any NBA outfit, and in the coming season, they’ll introduce a new coach to continue the tradition -- or, as much of a tradition as a D-League club can have -- in Austin.
Last season set an impressive standard for NBA-D-League relations, but a change in the D-League’s allocation rules has reinforced those bonds with steel...or at least some strengthening putty, or something.
