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Dyson Daniels is congratulated by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver after being selected eighth overall by the New Orleans Pelicans in the NBA basketball draft, Thursday, June 23, 2022, in New York. Nobody in the history of basketball has made more 3-pointers or made the art of throwing a ball through a hoop look easier than Curry does. Commentary: Time to put Curry in G.O.A.T. The Oklahoma City Thunder went with Chet Holmgren at No. 2 after being linked to the Gonzaga star for some time. Duke forward Paolo Banchero surprisingly was chosen by the Magic with the first overall pick Thursday night at Barclays Center, ahead of the previously projected consensus top two - Auburn forward Jabari Smith and Gonzaga big man Chet Holmgren. “Paolo Banchero is worthy of the No. 1 pick in a lot of years, just not this one,” Bilas said. “Holmgren is kind of a baby Giannis Antetokounmpo with the way he plays and you sort of have to get over his body because you don’t see a lot of his body style in the NBA. Obviously, the NBA is 82 games. Growing with them, trying to win games with them, growing with them.
So, too, is New Orleans’ Zion Williamson, which will be an interesting case since he has been healthy enough to play in only 85 games over his first three pro seasons and is constantly questioned about his conditioning. The Thunder acquired No. 11 (Ousmane Dieng) from the Knicks for three conditional future first-round picks, helping facilitate the dumping of Kemba Walker’s contract to the Pistons to clear salary cap space. The top three picks in the 2022 NBA Draft all turned out to be big men, as expected, but their order of selection provided a gigantic twist. In the weeks leading up to the NBA Draft, Jabari Smith loomed as the favorite to be the No. 1 pick by the Orlando Magic. That left Smith there for the Houston Rockets with the third overall pick. Brooklyn is the third choice in odds posted immediately after Game 6 of this year’s finals ended, followed by Milwaukee and the Los Angeles Clippers - who get Kawhi Leonard back next season.

After being picked third overall, Smith met with the media in Brooklyn, N.Y. JABARI SMITH JR: Most thing I’m looking forward to is just growing with them over these next few years. JABARI SMITH JR: Motivated. JABARI SMITH JR: I’m just going to bring competitive edge. JABARI SMITH JR: It was a night that I’ll never forget, seeing the smiles on my family’s faces, seeing the smile on my brother’s face, seeing the smiles on my family’s faces in the crowd. JABARI SMITH JR: Anticipation. Bilas previously had mentioned Smith and Holmgren, the rail-thin 7-footer who averaged 14.1 points and 3.7 blocks per game in his first year for the Zags, in the same breath as two former league MVPs. http://note.pearltrees.com/11227924/4a625e3ab792e893f0bc4a1dbacd9f21 “Bruton Smith was a pioneer who helped make motorsports mainstream and allowed guys like me to make a living doing what we love,” Stewart tweeted. Currently, Speedway Motorsports owns an array of properties, including 10 tracks with Cup Series dates, including Dover, Bristol, Atlanta, Texas, and Las Vegas. It’s expected that at league meetings in Las Vegas next month that owners will approve a new way of adjudicating the oft-maligned “transition take foul” and bring stiffer penalties to such plays starting next season.

All 30 teams will be in Las Vegas from July 7-17 for the NBA Summer League, which - before the pandemic slowed momentum - was routinely drawing big crowds, and the belief is it’ll get back to that again this summer. And now with that monumental task complete, the NBA champion Golden State Warriors already have a new target: staying up there for a while. https://pastelink.net/mg24chz6 The Houston guard didn’t play this season while the Rockets tried to find a trade partner. While he was drafted by some teams in the very late rounds, he went undrafted by and large. Target's Black Friday deals went live on Nov. 21 and will run until Saturday, Nov. 27. The retailer has also been running early Black Friday deals all month long. My shooting ability, my ability to score, ability to guard multiple positions, and just my will to win, you know what I’m saying? Like you’re just sitting there, cameras floating around, you don’t know where you’re going. And it still seems like he has been undersold. Q. What is it like to sort of be at the table and go through that just as it’s playing out when you know it’s possible No. 1 or that group of three is sort of interchangeable?
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