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Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards fined $50K for recklessly swinging chair after playoff game in Denver

Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards has been fined $50,000 for recklessly swinging a chair after a playoff game in Denver earlier this year, the NBA announced on Wednesday. Per the collective bargaining agreement, the league could not end its review into the matter until the criminal investigation into the incident was concluded; charges against Edwards were dropped in July.

After missing a potential game-tying shot at the buzzer of the Timberwolves’ Game 5 loss to the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the playoffs last season, Edwards sprinted off the floor and down the tunnel toward the locker room. As he left the court, he picked up a chair and tossed it aside, hitting multiple bystanders.

Video shows Anthony Edwards throwing chair at security guard pic.twitter.com/jw8eFM2Ky4

— MadstrosityYT (@MadstrosityYT) April 26, 2023
Denver police spokesman Jay Casillas said that the two women struck by the chair sustained minor injuries and Edwards was charged with third-degree assault for “knowingly or recklessly” causing bodily injury. Edwards was cited at the arena, and given a court date of June 9.

Edwards’ lawyer, Harvey Steinberg, issued a statement in the immediate aftermath:

“With the game over, Anthony’s exit from the court was partially obstructed by a chair, which he moved and set down three steps later. As video of the incident confirms, Anthony did not swing the chair at anyone and of course did not intend to hurt anyone,” Steinberg said. “Anthony intends to vigorously defend against these baseless charges.”

The charges against Edwards were later dropped.

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Ahead of his fourth season with the Timberwolves, Edwards has spent his summer with Team USA, and will participate in the FIBA World Cup later this month. He was inserted into the starting lineup for the team’s tune-up game against Puerto Rico and was one of the stand-out players. He finished with a team-high 15 points and four steals in the Americans’ 117-74 win.

Team USA will play four more friendlies in the coming weeks before beginning World Cup action on Aug. 26 against New Zealand. The Americans are looking to bounce back from an embarrassing seventh-place finish in 2019 and win their sixth gold medal in the event.

Nick Kerr, Steve Kerr’s son, to take over as Warriors’ G League head coach

Steve Kerr’s son is following in his father’s footsteps. Nick Kerr, the son of the Golden State Warriors championship-winning coach, is set to become the head coach of the G League’s Santa Cruz Warriors, the franchise announced Wednesday. Nick Kerr, a former University of California guard, will get a chance to kick off his head coaching career in the 2023-24 season.

Steve Kerr ended his playing career with the San Antonio Spurs and got a hands-on education as part of Gregg Popovich’s illustrious coaching tree before landing his first head coaching gig with the Dubs in 2014. The sharpshooter went on to secure four championships as a coach alongside the five he won as a player with the Chicago Bulls.

He didn’t hold any head coaching jobs before taking over for Mark Jackson in the Bay Area but didn’t have too much trouble finding success early with his team’s talented young core. His son will have to work his way up to the big stage after getting some G League reps, though.

Nick didn’t pan out as an NBA player but did join the Spurs video room as an assistant in 2017-18. He then joined Golden State’s G League affiliate as an assistant for two seasons. Nick will replace Seth Cooper, who is now helping run Golden State’s player development program. Santa Cruz finished the 2022-23 season with an 18-14 record, which was good for seventh in the Western Conference.

Suns to retire jerseys of Amar’e Stoudemire, Shawn Marion during 2023-24 NBA season, team announces

Two Phoenix Suns greats will be inducted into the team’s coveted Ring of Honor. The team announced on Wednesday that Shawn Marion and Amar’e Stoudemire will join a select group comprised of the most impact individuals in the organization’s history during the 2023-24 season. Each payer will have their own jersey-retirement ceremony during a regular-season game.

Marion, also known as “The Matrix,” spent nine seasons with Phoenix and made four All-Star teams during that span. The two-way forward averaged 18.4 points and 10 rebounds per game as a Sun before stints with the Miami Heat, Toronto Raptors, Dallas Mavericks, and Cleveland Cavaliers. Needless to say, his best years were spent in Arizona.

“This is amazing to be recognized by the Suns family in this way,” said Marion. “The fans in Phoenix are one-of-a-kind and this city will always be a part of me. My time with the Suns was special and I am looking forward to being inducted into the Ring of Honor.”

Stoudemire, like Marion, was drafted by the Suns. The big man kicked off his pro career on a high note by winning Rookie of the Year in 2003. He went on to make six All-Star teams. Stoudemire averaged 21.9 points, 8.9 rebounds, and 1.4 blocks per game with Phoenix before leaving for New York as a free agent in 2010. He credits the Suns for giving him his best NBA seasons.

“I bleed purple and orange, making this a tremendous honor to be inducted,” said Stoudemire. “My best and most transformative years came in Phoenix with the Suns. I have so much love for Suns fans and appreciation for the love they have always shown me.

How to watch World Cup warm-up online, TV channel, live stream info, start time, roster

The 2023 FIBA World Cup is now just a few weeks away, and Team USA will be looking to get back on the podium after a disappointing seventh-place finish in the tournament in 2019. Ahead of the event, the Americans will play a series of warm-up games in Spain and the United Arab Emirates.

The first of these pre-World Cup friendlies will be against Luka Doncic and Slovenia on Saturday, and will provide the Americans with their first real test of the summer. This will be an important opportunity for the new teammates to get some minutes under together and build chemistry.

Team USA cruised to a 117-74 victory over Puerto Rico in their first warm-up game for the World Cup, but that was thanks in large part to a massive talent advantage. That won’t be the case this time around, and Slovenia will actually have the best player on the floor in Doncic. While the result of this game doesn’t matter, it will be a big indication of where this team is at heading into the tournament.

There are a lot of young players on this team who will be getting their first taste of serious international basketball, which is a different game from the NBA. It will be interesting to see how they handle that environment against a Slovenian side that has far more experience playing together.

Furthermore, it will be worth watching how the minutes distribution starts to shake out as the contests get more competitive. Save for Josh Hart and Walker Kessler, everyone on the roster played between 10-23 minutes against Puerto Rico. That won’t remain the same as we get closer to the real tournament, and we’ll soon find out who head coach Steve Kerr actually trusts.

Prediction
This is only an exhibition, so it feels funny making a serious prediction. In any case, we’ll take the Americans to get a narrow win. Doncic can control the action, but at the end of the day the Americans have a deeper, more talented roster than the Slovenians.

2023 FIBA World Cup dates, times, TV channel, how to watch online

Team USA basketball is just a few weeks away from starting the FIBA World Cup, hoping for a better result from 2019 where the squad finished seventh. The roster features some of the NBA’s brightest young players, including All-Stars Anthony Edwards, Tyrese Haliburton and Jaren Jackson Jr. The roster is overflowing with talent, but as we saw four years ago, talent doesn’t always translate to winning. Team USA is hoping this time around the roster they’ve assembled is better suited for this international tournament.

But before USA Basketball travels to the Philippines for the World Cup, the team will hope to establish some chemistry in exhibition games. With one exhibition game already behind them, a 43-point win against the Puerto Rico national team, Team USA will also face off against Luka Doncic and Slovenia, as well as the 2019 World Cup champions, Spain. The Americans will close out their exhibition games with matchups against Greece and 2019 World Cup runner-up Germany.

Ahead of all the action, here’s everything you need to know about Team USA’s upcoming schedule.

How Magic Johnson missed out on $5 billion by not accepting Nike offer as NBA rookie

When Magic Johnson entered the NBA in 1979 fresh off a national championship victory over Larry Bird, he was presented with sponsorship offers from three companies: Converse, Adidas and Nike — the latter of which was still a rookie of its own kind as a public company. He went with Converse. It’s not a decision, financially speaking, that has aged well for Johnson.

“Converse offered me the most money,” Johnson said on Showtime’s “All the Smoke” podcast. “So you know, when you grow up broke, you take the money. [Nike co-founder] Phil Knight came in and said, ‘Hey, I can’t offer you the same type of money, but I can offer you stock.’

“I didn’t know nothing about it,” the Lakers legend continued. “My family didn’t come from money. See, that’s one thing that hurt us sometimes. When you don’t come from money, I didn’t even know what stocks was at that time. So I passed on the stocks. Can you imagine? Forty-five years. Five billion dollars that stock would’ve been worth today.”

Yes, you read that right. That’s five billion. With a B.

Magic missed on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with Nike. 😳

Luckily for him, everything turned out alright.

Watch episode 165 of #AllTheSmoke with @MagicJohnson on our YouTube.#ATSBestofSeason4 pic.twitter.com/3YZK469tr3

— SHOWTIME Basketball (@shobasketball) August 9, 2023
Listen, nobody is feeling bad for Magic financially. If the man isn’t worth a billion, he’s close. But he has had to work hard for that money. He only made $40 million in salary as a player, and has since gone on to make hundreds of millions more in the business world since retiring from basketball, for all intents and purposes, in 1991.

In other words, Magic, to this point, could have made likely more than five times his total net worth in purely passive income had he taken the Nike stock. Again, tough pill to swallow.

It’s easy to understand why Johnson didn’t take the Nike deal at the time. It was a risk. Nobody knew that Nike would become the money-printing factory that it is today. As Johnson said, at the time, he needed the guaranteed money, and like most of us in our early 20s, he wasn’t financially savvy enough to consider or even understand alternative payment structures.

If you’ve seen the movie “Air” about Michael Jordan’s deal with Nike as a rookie in 1984, you know that he also set up a non-traditional structure that paid him a percentage of sales on his custom shoes. That was a landmark precedent and incredibly wise decision for Jordan to properly monetize his value, and though it’s different than the stock Johnson was offered (to be fair, Jordan may have gotten some stock, too), the main takeaway is that Nike had to get creative with its offers to present itself as a viable option against the more established companies that had more upfront money to offer prospective athletes.

Looking back, Nike offered Magic Johnson a $5 billion windfall. He passed and took the sure thing. It’s good that he’s ended up in a place financially that he can have a good laugh about the misstep now.

NBA legend Dirk Nowitzki says he didn’t know how to use air conditioner in rental car he drove as a rookie

Dirk Nowitzki had an illustrious career that included an NBA championship and 14 All-Star appearances with the Dallas Mavericks. He will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend, and he recently told a story about how when he was a rookie he was sweating unnecessarily — in a very literal sense.

In a recent interview with Rachel Nichols, Nowitzki admitted one of the biggest lessons he learned in the United States was about car air conditioning.

Nowitzki in his rookie year he was only going to be in the country for a few months — due to a lockout shortening the 1998-99 NBA season to 50 games — and leave right after the season was over. He decided it was not worth it to buy a car until his second season in the league, so he opted for a rental instead.

“I was driving it around, it worked great. And of course, the players were always killing me when I drove up to practice or the plane,” he said.

“They all had their fancy cars, their SUVs, and the Hummer was big at the time and I had my little rental car.”

It worked fine for him, until things started heating up off the court.

“And so, we’re getting into April and May because the season was shifted and it was getting hot out,” he said. “It was getting warm already and I’ll come to the games and I’ll be in the lobby sweating… I’m walking in the locker room and I’m sweating a bit and they’re like, ‘Why are you sweating?'”

Nowitzki explained to his teammates that it was really hot outside and the inside of his car was really hot even though he drove with the windows down. At that point, someone went to his car and showed him the A/C button and explained he has to press it in order for cool air to come out.

“I was like, ‘Oh I was wondering how that worked.’ Growing up, the car I had at 18, I didn’t have A/C. Germany doesn’t get that hot, so I did not know about the A/C button. So that was a valuable lesson for sure,” Nowitzki said.

This story Dirk Nowitzki told me on Headliners about his rookie year CRACKED ME UP 😂😂😂 Dirk gets inducted to the @HoopHall this weekend – can’t wait. pic.twitter.com/Cd2H8cs4F3

— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) August 10, 2023
The 7-footer from Germany was the ninth overall pick in the 1998 NBA Draft selected by the Milwaukee Bucks and then traded to the Dallas Mavericks. He made his debut on Feb. 5, 1999, and wrapped up his first season in the league averaging 8.2 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.0 assist in 47 games.

Not the worst for a rookie, but Nowitzki would go on to become a Mavericks legend and one of the greatest international stars in NBA history. He finished his career of 21 seasons averaging 20.7 points, 7.5 rebounds and 2.4 assists in 1,522 regular-season games.

Nowitzki will be a headliner for the Class of 2023, along with other basketball legends such as Pau Gasol, Dwyane Wade, Becky Hammon and Gregg Popovich. The Hall of Fame ceremonies will take place Aug. 11 and 12..