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• For Nets' D’Angelo Russell, Lakers days are far behind him
Nets guard D’Angelo Russell claims he has moved on from his exit with the Lakers, now focused on leading his team to the playoffs this spring, Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News writes. The Lakers made a surprising move by trading Russell and center Timofey Mozgov to Brooklyn in 2017, bringing back Brook Lopez and the rights to Kyle Kuzma. “I don’t think there’s anything else to be said from...2019
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• Report: Hornets trade Dwight Howard to Nets
Dwight Howard is on the move again. The Charlotte Hornets have shipped the veteran center to the Brooklyn Nets.According to Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports, Howard is heading to Brooklyn in exchange for Timofey Mozgov, two second-round picks and cash considerations. The transaction is a glorified salary dump for Charlotte, which is pressed for cap space heading into a pivotal year. All-Star guard K...2018
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• Report: Hornets trading Howard to Nets for Mozgov
Dwight Howard’s stay with the Hornets will be a very brief one, as Charlotte has reportedly agreed to send the star big man to the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for fellow big man Timofey Mozgov.According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Nets are also sending two future draft picks and cash to the Hornets for Howard and his expiring contract. Howard had his best season offensively in a while in Charl...2018
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• Timofey Mozgov critical about Nets’ season, coach Kenny Atkinson
Timofey Mozgov’s first season in Brooklyn wasn’t quite the best one, and now he is offering a few candid thoughts on it.The Nets center recently appeared on Radio Mayak in his native Russia and discussed his frustrations with the team during the 2017-18 campaign.Per NetsDaily, who gave a translated and condensed version of his remarks:
Mozgov was asked about the Nets and he told the interviewer th...2018
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• Nick Young shows love for D’Angelo Russell on Twitter
Maybe Nick Young and D’Angelo Russell aren’t such mortal enemies after all.Russell was traded by the Los Angeles Lakers to the Brooklyn Nets over the offseason as part of a deal that included Brook Lopez and Timofey Mozgov. Meanwhile, Young signed with the Golden State Warriors as a free agent, also leaving the Lakers.On Friday night, Russell’s Nets will be in Los Angeles to face the Lakers, and Y...2017
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• What's in store for Nikola Jokic, Nuggets in 2017-18?
I miss my big, lumbering doofus centers. The back-to-the-basket power forward is nigh completely extinct—if you’re six-foot-nine, you better shoot threes and defend a couple positions—and the Greg Ostertagian five is on his way out as well. The league will probably always have a place for athletic, dirty work-handling seven-footers who can’t extend their range out to the three-point line, but it’s...2017
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• Trade now official: Brook Lopez to Lakers, D’Angelo Russell to Nets
The Los Angeles Lakers have acquired center Brook Lopez and forward Kyle Kuzma from the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for center Timofey Mozgov and guard D’Angelo Russell, it was announced today by General Manager Rob Pelinka.
Lopez appeared in 75 games (all starts) for Brooklyn in 2016-17, averaging 20.5 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.7 [...]...2017
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• Nine worst NBA free agent signings from last summer
Last summer, the NBA’s salary cap spiked upward in a way we had never seen before. The result was a bevy of contracts that, by previous standards, were enormous. Most look fine now, in accordance with the cap spike, but the bad contracts look much worse than normal.Instead of Allen Crabbe and Evan Turner being minor annoyances to the Portland Trail Blazers’ cap space, the two will keep the team fr...2017
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• Report: Lakers add Young to list of players being shut down
The Los Angeles Lakers are pulling the plug on a third high-profile veteran for the remainder of the 2016-17 season.Mark Medina of the LA Daily News reports on Sunday that Nick Young has been shut down for the final five games of the regular season.The 31-year-old Young joins Timofey Mozgov and Luol Deng, both of whom also were made healthy scratches for the rest of the season last month. Young ha...2017
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• Report: Lakers to make Timofey Mozgov healthy scratch for rest of season
It’s hard to cut your losses on a $64 million investment, but that’s exactly what the Los Angeles Lakers have decided to do.According to a report by Marc J. Spears of ESPN’s The Undefeated on Tuesday, the Lakers will shut down a healthy Timofey Mozgov for the remainder of the season to get a better look for their younger players.Mozgov’s four-year, $64 million deal looked like a gross overpay when...2017