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• Tyus Jones Expected To Be Suns Starting Point Guard

The Phoenix Suns played most of last season without a traditional point guard. That's set to change this season, as Phoenix is expected to start Tyus Jones, who they recently agreed to a one-year deal with. After splitting lead ballhandler duties between Devin Booker, Bradley Beal and others last season, the Suns have added two veteran point guards this offseason. Jones is expected to start with M...2024
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• Tyus Jones, Suns Agree To One-Year, $3.3M Deal

Point guard Tyus Jones and the Phoenix Suns have agree to a one-year deal. Jones will sign for Phoenix for the veteran minimum for next season. Jones told ESPN that he and his agent considered multiple sign-and-trade opportunities. In the end, Jones felt that signing with the Suns was the best way to rebuild his value before going back onto the free agent market next summer. As a first-time starte...2024
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• How Much Can the Wolves Lean On Their Young Players This Season?
As expected this summer, much of the Minnesota Timberwolves made most of their moves around the edges of the roster. Kyle Anderson and Monte Morris have left Minnesota, signing with the Golden State Warriors and Phoenix Suns, respectively. To replace them, the Wolves have drafted Rob Dillingham and Terrence Shannon Jr. and added free agents Joe Ingles and PJ Dozier....2024
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• Wizards Acquire Jonas Valanciunas In Sign-And-Trade

JULY 6: The Wizards have officially added Valanciunas, completing the signing via sign-and-trade, the team announced today in a press release. Washington was able to take on Valanciunas using a $9.8MM trade exception created in last July’s Monte Morris trade, preserving its full $12.9MM mid-level exception. In exchange for accommodating the Wizards, the Pelicans received […]...2024
• Monte Morris To Sign With Suns

Free agent point guard Monte Morris intends to sign a contract with the Suns, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link). John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7 had reported (via Twitter) earlier today that Morris appeared to be the club’s top option among free agent point guards. Phoenix is limited to minimum-salary offers […]...2024
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• Monte Morris, Suns Agree To Deal

Monte Morris has agreed to sign with the Phoenix Suns. Morris will help the Suns shore up the point guard position, which was their biggest area of weakness in 23-24. In 33 games last season with the Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves, Morris averaged 5.0 points, 1.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 14.4 minutes. Morris is represented by Ron Shade and Alex Saratsis....2024
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• NBA trade deadline instant grades for every 2024 deal made as they happen

Photo by David Jensen/Getty Images Let’s grade every 2024 NBA trade deadline deal. The NBA transaction periods have become almost as exciting as the games themselves, and that makes the 2024 NBA trade deadline something close to a holiday for a certain type of hoops fan. No matter where your team is in the standings right now, the trade deadline represents an opportunity for hope: teams ar...2024
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• NBA Trade Rumors: Dejounte Murray suspiciously held out, plus the latest on Bruce Brown, Andrew Wiggins

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images It’s officially eyes emoji season on the last day for NBA trade rumors until the offseason. With less than 24 hours to go until the NBA trade deadline, we saw a few minor deals go down around the league on Wednesday, with Monte Morris, Xavier Tillman and Simone Fontecchio among those changing teams. But as of publishing time, some of the biggest names st...2024
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• Report: Pistons trading point guard Monte Morris to Timberwolves

Monte Morris has played in just four games for the Pistons this season while dealing with a leg injury....2024
• 31 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline

Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports We went around the league to find the likeliest candidates to be dealt ahead of next week’s NBA trade deadline. With the Feb. 8 NBA trade deadline less than a week away, there seemed like no better time than to hop around the SB Nation NBA network and ask our local writers which player(s) they think each of the teams they cover and/or root for is most likely to...2024
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• Cade Cunningham Returns Saturday
The Pistons are fully healthy for the first time this season, as Cade Cunningham is making his return to action after missing nearly three weeks with a knee injury, as relayed by The Athletic’s James L. Edwards III (Twitter link). After Monte Morris made his debut last game, the Pistons have their full rotation available. […]...2024
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• Central Notes: Morris, Cunningham, Haliburton, Antetokounmpo
With Cade Cunningham sidelined by a left knee strain, the Pistons would love to have guard Monte Morris available. However, Morris has been out all season due to a quad injury. Morris, who was acquired in an offseason trade with Washington, is making progress but he won’t return to action for at least a couple […]...2024
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• Pistons fans chant ‘Sell the Team’ after 25th straight loss

The Pistons are in a dark place. The Detroit Pistons are approaching the NBA record for consecutive losses. The last time Detroit won in the third game of the season on Oct. 28 against the Chicago Bulls. Since then, the Pistons have dropped 25 straight games. The record for consecutive losses in a single season is 26 games (set by the 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers and 2013-14 Philadelphia 76ers), an...2023
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• The Detroit Pistons are on pace to be the worst NBA team of all time

Photo by Chris Schwegler/NBAE via Getty Images This Pistons are challenging the record for NBA futility. The Detroit Pistons lost again on Wednesday night, this time by 18 points to the Philadelphia 76ers on a night where Joel Embiid dropped 41. Losing has become all too common for the Pistons, but with each loss they’re mixing the cement to make their case as the worst team in the histor...2023
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• The Pistons are rewriting NBA futility on the brink of another disastrous season

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images The Pistons’ rebuild is going nowhere. This was supposed to be the year the Detroit Pistons stopped tanking and started getting serious. Coming off an NBA-worst 17-win season, the Pistons made the first big move of the summer by inking Monty Williams to the richest coaching contract in league history. Detroit entered the offseason with maximum lottery ...2023
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• Bojan Bogdanovic injury update: Pistons forward out for four weeks with right calf strain

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• How Nikola Jokic became the best basketball player in the world
Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images Nikola Jokic’s hard journey to becoming the best basketball player in the world fully paid off. Putting a label on Nikola Jokic’s game has long been a nearly impossible challenge for evaluators. Jokic himself might be the only person to effectively do it. As he was leaving home in the northern part of Serbia to enter the 2014 NBA Draft, Jo...2023
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"Timberwolves trade for guard Monte Morris in three-player swap with Pistons, per report"

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"The first was to trade long-time role players Will Barton and Monte Morris to Washington for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope."

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"But it was Monte Morris who got the last laugh."

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"Denver is looking to bolster its backcourt after losing Jamal Murray (ACL) and Monte Morris (hamstring) to injury this month."

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"In Game 3 of the Western Conference semis, Denver Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic stunned the defense of the Los Angeles Clippers with a dazzling outlet pass to Monte Morris."

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"Monte Morris plays it safe – to Nuggets’ delight"

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"In 2017-18, the Nuggets filled its two-way contract slots with Torrey Craig and Monte Morris."

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"Big 12 tournament: Monte Morris, Iowa State steal the show in Kansas City"

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"Other senior prospects on the verge of breakout seasons include: Iowa State's Monte Morris, Oregon's Chris Boucher, Notre Dame's V."

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"Iowa State has had the nation’s leader in assist-to-turnover ratio for consecutive years – point guard Monte Morris."

• Tyus Jones Expected To Be Suns Starting Point Guard
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• Tyus Jones, Suns Agree To One-Year, $3.3M Deal
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• How Much Can the Wolves Lean On Their Young Players This Season?
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• Monte Morris To Sign With Suns
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• Pistons Waive Troy Brown Jr. Ahead Of $4M Guarantee Date

The Detroit Pistons will not guarantee the $4 million owed to Troy Brown Jr. and will waive him. Brown had a guarantee date of June 30th and will become an unrestricted free agent. Brown, who is represented by Calvin Andrews and Rich Paul, appeared in 22 games last season for the Pistons. Brown averaged 4.2 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 18.9 minutes. Brown was acquired by the Pistons at ...2024
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• What Kind Of Point Guard Should the Wolves Be Targeting?
The Minnesota Timberwolves have something of a dilemma at the point guard position this summer. The team struggles when Mike Conley is not on the court. They played Jordan McLaughlin, Monte Morris, and even Kyle Anderson in a playmaker role last season. However, all three players are unrestricted free agents this year, and they don‘t have the cap space to pay all of them at market value....2024
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• UC Santa Barbara’s Ajay Mitchell Could Help Fill An Immediate Need At Guard
The Minnesota Timberwolves have a debacle in their guard room. Mike Conley will turn 37 in October, Jordan McLaughlin and Monte Morris are unrestricted free agents, and the Wolves are dancing around being a potential second-apron tax team. They must find instant answers because they cannot rely solely on Conley to orchestrate their offense. However, they have a viable option to fix this issue....2024
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• The Wolves Have A Point Guard Situation On Their Hands

The Minnesota Timberwolves made only one transaction at the trade deadline. They sent Troy Brown Jr., Shake Milton – both of whom were not in the rotation – and a 2030 second-round draft pick to the rebuilding Detroit Pistons in exchange for six-year point guard Monte Morris....2024
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• Rudy Gobert is the Greatest Defender of All-Time
Chelanga and Dylan dive into trade deadline news, Monte Morris, Jaden McDaniels Freezing Cold Take of the North, Jayson Tatum should be obvious for MVP (2k Team of the Week), and the greatest NBA Defenders of All-Time. Don’t forget to buy your Slomosexual T-Shirt at jakesgraphs....2024
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• Marcus Morris Leaning Towards Joining Timberwolves

Veteran Forward Marcus Morris is leaning towards joining the Minnesota Timberwolves for the rest of this season, per former teammate Patrick Beverley. Morris was traded to the San Antonio Spurs at the deadline in a three-team deal that brought Buddy Hield to the Philadelphia 76ers from the Indiana Pacers. Morris is expected to work a buyout agreement with the Spurs, but no deal has been reached ye...2024
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• Tyus Jones, Suns Agree To One-Year, $3.3M Deal
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• Monte Morris, Suns Agree To Deal
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• Pistons Waive Troy Brown Jr. Ahead Of $4M Guarantee Date
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• Wolves Notes: Point Guards, McLaughlin, Offense, Edwards
Point guard has become a position of strength for the Timberwolves, according to Jerry Zgoda of The Star Tribune, who points out that Mike Conley, Monte Morris, and Jordan McLaughlin shared the court together during Friday’s victory over Cleveland. Known more for their star frontcourt duo of Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert, the Wolves have […]...2024
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• Pistons trade Monte Morris to Timberwolves
The Minnesota Timberwolves have acquired guard Monte Morris in a trade with the Detroit Pistons for forward Troy Brown Jr., guard Shake Milton and a 2030 second round pick. Morris, 28, has appeared in 348 regular season games (166 starts) in seven NBA seasons with the Denver Nuggets, Washington Wizards and Pistons, averaging 10.4 points … Continue reading "Pistons trade Monte Morris to Timbe...2024
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• 31 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline
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• The Detroit Pistons are on pace to be the worst NBA team of all time
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• Tyrese Haliburton became NBA’s point guard of the future by mastering its past

Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images Tyrese Haliburton is melding the past and present of point guard play to emerge as a new kind of NBA superstar. The fabled idea of the ‘true point guard’ has been under attack in today’s NBA. The traditional floor general as epitomized by the lineage of Isiah Thomas to John Stockton to Steve Nash to Chris Paul met its maker in the throes of the league’s th...2023
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• The Pistons are rewriting NBA futility on the brink of another disastrous season
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• Tracking every NBA trade deadline deal in 2024

Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images Keeping track of every 2024 NBA trade deadline deal. The NBA didn’t wait for the trade deadline to make some major moves already this season. This season has already seen Damian Lillard move to the Bucks, James Harden traded to the Clippers, Pascal Siakam sent to the Pacers, and OG Anunoby end up with the Knicks. Expect one more flurry of activity by the t...2024
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• Tyrese Haliburton became NBA’s point guard of the future by mastering its past
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• NBA offseason grades for every team after free agency, trades, and draft
Let’s give out offseason grades for every team in the NBA. The biggest fireworks of the NBA offseason are still to come. Damian Lillard requested a trade from the Portland Trail Blazers only 24 hours into free agency, but there has been no real momentum on his desired deal to the Miami Heat. James Harden has also asked out from the Philadelphia 76ers, but the team is resolved to keep him unless th...2023
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• NBA free agency: 5 winners, 3 losers from offseason deals so far
Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports Here are the biggest winners and losers of NBA free agency so far. The opening days of NBA free agency saw players sign for more than $2.6 billion in guaranteed contracts. Most of that money was from teams retaining their own players, highlighted by max extensions for LaMelo Ball and Tyrese Haliburton that could total more than $250 million. The biggest stories...2023
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• How Nikola Jokic became the best basketball player in the world
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• How the Suns can save the Kevin Durant trade after a disastrous early playoff exit
Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images The Kevin Durant trade looks like it could be a huge bust for the Suns. The pressure is on to salvage it with the right moves this offseason. The Phoenix Suns’ trade for Kevin Durant looks like a bust right now. There’s no other takeaway after the Suns were eliminated from the 2023 NBA Playoffs in the second round by losing to the Denver Nuggets in...2023
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• Warriors’ Stephen Curry dagger spoiled by Monte Morris game-winner
Stephen Curry put the Golden State Warriors up in the closing seconds against the Denver Nuggets. But it was Monte Morris who got the last laugh. Check out Steph Curry’s would-be game-winner with 5.9 seconds left: STEPHEN CURRY MIDDY AND THE FOUL 🔥 Warriors by 2 with 5.9 seconds remaining!pic.twitter.com/NN0kaICroA — ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) February 17, […] The post Warr...2022
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• How the Suns can save the Kevin Durant trade after a disastrous early playoff exit
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• Sources: Nuggets deal Barton, Morris to Wizards

The Washington Wizards are finalizing a deal to acquire Will Barton and Monte Morris from the Washington Wizards for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Ish Smith, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on Wednesday....2022
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• How Nikola Jokic became the best basketball player in the world
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• Big 12 tournament: Monte Morris, Iowa State steal the show in Kansas City
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• Nuggets trade Monte Morris, Will Barton to Wizards for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Ish Smith
Prior to NBA free agency officially beginning, the Denver Nuggets and Washington Wizards have agreed to a swap of two players from each team. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, Monte Morris and Will Barton are heading to Washington while Denver receives Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Ish Smith. Denver is nearing trading Monte Morris and […] The post Nuggets trade Monte Morris, Will B...2022
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• Steph Curry reacts to Monte Morris’ game-winning 3-pointer
San Francisco, CA – The Golden State Warriors will go into the All-Star break with the second-best record in the NBA, but they didn’t end this portion of the season the way they would’ve liked. The Warriors lost 4 of their last 5 games, and the fifth and final game against the Denver Nuggets ended […] The post Steph Curry reacts to Monte Morris’ game-winning 3-pointer appea...2022
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• Timberwolves trade for guard Monte Morris in three-player swap with Pistons, per report

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• Jordan McLaughlin’s Adaptability Remains Invaluable For the Wolves

When the Minnesota Timberwolves acquired Monte Morris, they were looking to bolster their guard room and bring some high-level experience for the playoffs. While Chris Finch already had the utmost belief in his fifth-year option Jordan McLaughlin, the Wolves have needed a boost and stability at the backup guard spot for a while. Monte instantly started to eat away at McLaughlin’s minutes....2024
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• NCAA Tournament: Players In NBA Of The Sweet 16 Schools

The Sweet 16 of the 2024 NCAA Tournament is set with all eight No. 1 and No. 2 seeds reaching this stage where they are two wins away from the Final Four in Arizona. Here's a list of all the former players of the schools in the Sweet 16 who are currently in the NBA. Duke leads with 24 former players in the NBA, followed by North Carolina and Gonzaga with 10 apiece. Thursday West: • No. 2 Ari...2024
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• NCAA Tournament: Players In NBA Of The 64 First Round Schools

With the 2024 NCAA Tournament underway, here's a list of all the former players of the schools in the first round who are currently in the NBA, headlined by Kentucky with 28 and Duke with 24. The below links are to the 'Players in the NBA' page for each school. EAST REGION 1 Connecticut (4) vs. No. 16 Stetson (0)Connecticut: Andre Drummond, Jordan Hawkins, Andre Jackson Jr., Adama Sanogo 8 Florid...2024
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• Marcus Morris Leaning Towards Joining Timberwolves
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• NBA trade deadline instant grades for every 2024 deal made as they happen
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• NBA Trade Rumors: Dejounte Murray suspiciously held out, plus the latest on Bruce Brown, Andrew Wiggins
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• 31 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline
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• Pistons fans chant ‘Sell the Team’ after 25th straight loss
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• The Detroit Pistons are on pace to be the worst NBA team of all time
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• Tyrese Haliburton became NBA’s point guard of the future by mastering its past
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• Rudy Gobert is the Greatest Defender of All-Time
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• NBA Trade Rumors: Dejounte Murray suspiciously held out, plus the latest on Bruce Brown, Andrew Wiggins
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• NBA free agency: 5 winners, 3 losers from offseason deals so far
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• NBA Scores: Jokic-less Nuggets top Warriors to close in on top seed in West
Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Plus everything else you may have missed from a busy Sunday in the NBA. Nuggets fend off Warriors without Jokic, 112-110 I’ve felt this way for some time, but wins like this one on Sunday reassert things for me: Denver is the best team in the Western Conference. Playing without their perennial MVP candidate, Nikola Jokic (calf tightness, with which he’...2023
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• Will Barton Has Embraced Trade To Wizards

Will Barton wasn't expecting to be traded by the Denver Nuggets. But Barton also wasn't surprised when he was traded to the Washington Wizards this summer. "It was just like a shock, but not too much of a shock," the veteran wing said. "It was a shock in that, obviously, I had been there eight years, did so much there together, so it's always shocking when you've been somewhere for so long and you...2022
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• Nuggets’ Monte Morris sinks buzzer-beating game-winning 3-pointer vs. Warriors

Monte Morris – a Flint, Mich., native – said "everybody back home looks at you as the hero" for merely making the NBA....2022
• 2016 NBA Draft Prospects Who Will Become Household Names Before March Madness
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