Not long ago, Jason Kidd still had two seasons left on his contract with the Knicks.
Now it looks like he’ll still be in New York, but not with the Knicks, and not as a player.
News came seemingly non-stop over the last 48 hours with Kidd going from a long-shot pipe dream to a potential candidate to an actual candidate to a clear-frontrunner. That’s the way things go in the NBA sometimes. If you take a day off, you could miss something big.
Also, we’ve still got the Finals going on, and if you haven’t seen LeBron’s block on Tiago Splitter, I hope your cave is well-furnished. But it’s at the point where we just expect these things from LeBron. Nothing he does surprises us and it doesn’t stick in our minds because a week later he’ll do something just as impressive. It’s crazy.
There’s also a draft coming up in just a couple weeks, so let’s get right to today’s blog, featuring the latest news from around the NBA.
- Seth Wickersham of ESPN The Magazine has a really interesting look at one of the potential keys to the Spurs’ success: their wealth of international talent. Here’s a taste: ” “Stone cold” is a distinctly American term. So you could forgive Tiago Splitter’s question. The San Antonio Spurs are in a scouting meeting, moments before tip-off against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Assistant coach Brett Brown is explaining a defensive alignment — a “red,” where two Spurs defenders switch off a pick. To emphasize his point, Brown declares it a stone-cold certainty the Spurs will face that situation in tonight’s game. Nine of the Spurs’ 15 players this year were raised and trained outside of the United States — an NBA record. Cultural and linguistic confusion happens often on this team. Enter Splitter, a 6’11”, 28-year-old center from Brazil by way of Spain, who this season was the latest to consummate the transition from overseas superstar to selfless Spur. Splitter raises his hand, narrows his brow sharp as a rooftop and says, “What is stone cold?” The team laughs. Head coach Gregg Popovich laughs. Splitter laughs too — but he still needs an answer. So Brown explains what he meant. Then Splitter turns to Patty Mills, a guard from Australia, and whispers, “Stone cold isn’t in Rosetta Stone.” “
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