Wizards To Sign Carrick Felix To Camp Deal
The Washington Wizards will sign Carrick Felix to a training camp deal.
Felix last played in the NBA during the 13-14 season with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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Isaiah Thomas' hip injury reportedly includes arthritis and loss of cartilage
Thomas has played with a loss of cartilage and some arthritis in his hip for years, per report.
The news about Isaiah Thomas’s right hip keeps getting worse and worse. Not only did Thomas suffer a right femoral-acetabular impingement with a bruised hip and torn labrum, but according to The Athletic’s Jason Lloyd, Cleveland’s new All-Star point guard has other conditions complicating his healing process, including some arthritis and a loss of cartilage.
Tracy McGrady was the NBA Hall of Famer sent directly from the future
T-Mac heads into the Hall of Fame as a star wing ahead of his time.
Tracy McGrady loved to sleep. As an 18-year-old rookie on the Toronto Raptors, McGrady would reportedly sleep for up to 20 hours a day. That doesn’t sound like an inherently intimidating quality, but McGrady had a way of making it one. At his peak, T-Mac was the type of player who looked like he could roll out of bed and average 30 points per game.
Is Joel Embiid not playing 5-on-5 for health or because he wants a new contract?
The 76ers said their star big man is absent because of medical reasons.
Joel Embiid's agent, Leon Rose, reportedly wants the Philadelphia 76ers to ink the 23-year-old big man to a long-term deal before he’ll play 5-on-5 action, according to 94WIP’s Howard Eskin. It was first reported in early August that Embiid had not yet been medically cleared to play full-court basketball.
Adam Silver wants to fight tanking with his proposed NBA draft lottery reform
Silver’s plan, if passed as legislation, would lessen bad teams’ odds at top picks.
In an effort to de-incentivize tanking, NBA commissioner Adam Silver is aggressively pursuing draft lottery reform that could be instituted before the beginning of the 2017-18 season, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Silver, according to Woj, is a proponent of lowering the odds of the NBA’s worst teams to land the top picks in the draft.
