After plenty of uncertainty, the Boston Celtics gave the people what they wanted on Sunday, inking one of the season’s most intriguing stories to a two-way deal for the 2019-20 season.

Fall, who went undrafted out of Central Florida after impressing as a 7’6″ big man, inked a contract that will see him split time between the NBA Celtics and their G-League affiliate during the season.

The Senegal native, who averaged 11 points and 7.7 rebounds per game for the Golden Knights in his senior season, has impressed for the Celtics in their preseason camp this season with his size and potential.

Fall’s contract allows him to spend up to 45 days with Boston during the season. This means that he will spend the majority of the year receiving coaching and playing time for the Celtics’ G-League affiliate in Maine, where the team hopes that he will grow and develop further.

This intriguing player, who will become the NBA’s tallest player when he makes his debut this season, is said to have potential by scouts, but needs to undergo more training and coaching if he is to realize his full potential due to a lack of experience.

Keep an eye out for Fall this season as he looks to impress in his debut season in the NBA.

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The Lakers’ new big man DeMarcus Cousins is now dealing with a knee injury that he suffered during offseason workouts, leaving the team brass to wonder if they’ll be able to count on the oft-injured superstar for this season.

Cousins reportedly crashed knees with a practice partner during a training session on Monday in Las Vegas and immediately noticed that there was a problem.

The forward, who signed a one-year, $3.5 million deal with the Lakers earlier this offseason, is set to undergo further testing in Los Angeles to determine the extent of the injury on Thursday.

If Cousins ends up missing any amount of time with this injury, it will have been the third lower-body injury that has kept him off the court during the past three years. Cousins missed most of the 2017-18 season and the first part of last season after suffering a torn Achilles tendon, and then suffered a quad injury that kept him sidelined for much of last season with the Warriors.

The four-time All-Star is one of the most productive big men in the league when healthy, but he’s only managed to play in 88 combined games over the past two seasons.

The Lakers now must cross their fingers and hope that the newest Cousins injury scare isn’t too serious.

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The new-look Los Angeles Clippers have already been plenty ambitious in 2019 after signing prize free agent Kawhi Leonard and acquiring superstar forward Paul George in a trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Now, after announcing plans for a new privately-funded arena, they’re looking to truly complete a makeover for the long-maligned franchise.

The Clippers have shared an arena with the rival Los Angeles Lakers since the 1999 opening of the Staples Center. However, after moving to Los Angeles from San Diego in 1984, the Clippers played by themselves at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.

The franchise now appears to have plans for a new arena to call their own home. According to plans released by the Clippers, they plan to build their new arena in Inglewood, California, located just south of the city limits of LA. The Los Angeles Rams and Chargers’ new shared football stadium, which is currently under construction, is also located in Inglewood.

The Clippers say that their planned new arena will be state of the art and include all kinds of environmentally-friendly touches and cutting-edge technology. They plan for the arena to incorporate the natural light that sunny Los Angeles provides and to also offer entertainment options to their fans.

A possible opening date still hasn’t been announced, but this is worth keeping an eye on.

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The Washington Wizards have decided to make the best offer they can to shooting guard Bradley Beal.

Beal, who has been the subject of various trade rumors throughout the NBA offseason, has been made a priority by the Washington front office, who will try to do all in its power to keep him in DC through the summer of 2024.

The University of Florida alum’s current contract with the team only runs through the end of next season, at which point he would be due to hit the free-agent market.

If he were to accept Washington’s upcoming contract extension offer, he would be set to earn $111 million over the final three years of his deal.

Beal could, however, wait to sign an extension until next summer, which would run for a length of 4 additional years and be worth $155. If he were to earn All-NBA honors, that supermax extension would be worth a gargantuan $254 million over five years.

The 7-year NBA veteran has never made an All-Pro team, but he has made the Eastern Conference All-Star squad the last two seasons. He averaged 25.6 points per game on 48% shooting in a career year last season.

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The Cleveland Cavaliers made a long-anticipated move official on Monday, waiving veteran shooting guard JR Smith after four seasons.

Cleveland thanked Smith for his part in the franchise’s first-ever NBA title in a goodbye tweet on Monday evening. While Smith’s career with the Cavaliers was imperfect, his bench scoring was vital in the Cavs’ stunning comeback NBA Finals win against the Golden State Warriors in summer 2016.

The unpredictable spark plug joined Cleveland after a journeyman career which took him through New Orleans, Denver, New York, and even China before he teamed up with the Cavs’ Big 3 of LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, and Kevin Love.

He was known for his brilliant and frustrating moments with the Cavs, such as when he apparently forgot that the game was tied, foregoing a chance to shoot and win the game, in the Cavs’ Game 1 loss to the Warriors in the 2018 Finals.

The best season of his career so far came in 2012-13, when he was named the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year after averaging 18.1 points per game off of the bench for the Knicks.

Smith stepped away from the Cavaliers last season despite being under contract after expressing his desire to be traded to a contender. Now, after the Cavs’ decision to not keep his $15 million contract on the roster as the team rebuilds, he’ll have the chance to join one.

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After receiving offers from both the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs in free agency, it appears that Marcus Morris has chosen his next NBA destination.

Despite receiving a two-year, $20 million offer from the San Antonio Spurs earlier this offseason, Marcus Morris has decided to accept a one-year, $15 million offer from the New York Knicks.

The move is saddled with a bit of controversy. Reports say that Morris had agreed to a two-year deal with the San Antonio Spurs earlier in the offseason, but then spurned his verbal agreement after the Knicks offered him a higher per-year salary average.

The 14th overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, the 6’9″ forward has spent time as a part-time starter for the Rockets, Suns, Pistons, and Celtics in a productive nine-year career.

Morris, who spent the past two seasons with the Boston Celtics, averaged a solid 13.9 points and 6.1 rebounds per game in 75 games in the 2018-19 season. While the Knicks are clearly in a rebuilding phase, Morris’s experience and veteran know-how attracted them to his services.

The Kansas alum is expected to share time at the power forward position with Julius Randle and Taj Gibson.

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Kelly Oubre Jr., the Phoenix Suns’ surprising mid-season acquisition, has decided to stick with his current team instead of testing the waters as a restricted free agent.

Oubre has settled on a two-year, $30 million deal with the Suns which will keep him in the valley until 2021.

Phoenix acquired the 23-year-old small forward in a trade with the Washington Wizards in December, in which the Suns sent Trevor Ariza to the Eastern Conference.

Oubre struggled to make an impact in his first two seasons in the nation’s capital, averaging just 15 minutes per game and making a minimal impact off of the bench. During the 2017-18 season, however, he started to contribute more and ended the season averaging 11.8 points per game.

The 2018-19 season, nonetheless, was Oubre’s breakout campaign. The talented shooter averaged 15.2 points and 4.7 rebounds per game on 44.5% shooting, the best marks of his career. In addition, he got even better after being shipped to Phoenix, as he averaged 18.9 points per game and worked his way into the team’s starting five.

Oubre underwent thumb surgery in March, which put him out for the season’s final month, but he is expected to be ready to contribute as a member of a young and talented Suns roster next season.

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The Oklahoma City Thunder were cornered into making a franchise-altering decision when 2019 NBA MVP finalist Paul George asked them to trade him to the Los Angeles Clippers to join up with Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard.

Now that George is heading out the door and Russell Westbrook is the only star left on a weakening OKC roster, it seems as if he could become the next player to bid adieu to the Thunder.

Multiple sources reported on the possibility of a Westbrook deal that would bring the point guard’s 11-year tenure with the Western Conference franchise to an end.

Westbrook has developed into one of the NBA’s best players since breaking into the league in 2008. During his time in OKC, he accumulated one of the most impressive resumes in the NBA over the past decade.

Westbrook was named NBA MVP in 2017, has been named twice to the NBA All-Pro first team, and six times to the second-team squad. He is an elite point guard who has shown little signs of slowing down at the age of 30.

It remains unclear which teams could potentially acquire Westbrook, but one team that immediately emerged as a potential destination has been the Miami Heat. The Southeast Conference team acquired Jimmy Butler earlier this offseason and could be looking for a superstar to pair with him.

For now, NBA fans must watch and wait to see what will become of Westbrook’s future in the league.

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Isaiah Thomas was one of the NBA’s best players in the 2016-17 season, only a couple of years ago. He scored 28.9 points per game for the Celtics, leading the team to one of their best seasons this decade.

That season seems like a long time ago, however, after two unproductive and injury-plagued seasons have limited Thomas’s production and have brightened one of the NBA’s biggest stars.

However, Thomas isn’t ready to give up yet, and he’s joining the Washington Wizards on a one-year deal to try to reclaim his place as one of the league’s top point guards.

Thomas joins a Wizards team that was looking for a point guard after John Wall suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon earlier this season. In steps the 30-year-old Washington alum, who completed a long and grueling rehab process in February after a hip injury.

The point guard expects his newly-healed hip to allow him to prepare for this season normally, a step that Thomas considers to be very important. He explained that “Now I can go back to being a gym rat this summer, work on my game again and build my body back up — my muscle mass, my leg strength — all like I had going into the 2017 season.”

Thomas only played sparingly for the Nuggets last season, as he was unable to break into the rotation for one of the league’s top teams after being sidelined for most of the year.

Now, he’ll have a fantastic opportunity to re-establish his worth and become the perfect option for the Wizards for the duration of Wall’s absence.

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After acquiring forward Tobias Harris from the Los Angeles Clippers before last season’s NBA trade deadline, the Sixers saw for half a season just how well their talented acquisition fit into their team.

Now, Philadelphia and Harris have confirmed that they want to keep battling for titles together after agreeing to a monster five-year, $180 million extension that will keep the 26-year-old in Philadelphia through 2024.

Harris had spent the first several years of his young career wandering throughout the league after being drafted in 2011 out of the University of Tennessee. He was drafted by Milwaukee and then had stops in Orlando, Detroit, and with the L.A. Clippers before being dealt to the Sixers at the trade deadline.

The New York native has gradually gotten better throughout his career after starting off as a bench player that saw sporadic action during his first two seasons. 2018-19 was one of his best campaigns, as he averaged 20 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.

Now, Harris will form part of a 76ers roster that pairs young talent such as Harris, Ben Simmons, and Joel Embiid with quality veteran players like Al Horford.

They’ll be considered a contender for the Eastern Conference crown in the 2019-20 season.

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After plenty of uncertainty, the Boston Celtics gave the people what they wanted on Sunday, inking one of the season’s most intriguing stories to a two-way deal for the 2019-20 season.

Fall, who went undrafted out of Central Florida after impressing as a 7’6″ big man, inked a contract that will see him split time between the NBA Celtics and their G-League affiliate during the season.

The Senegal native, who averaged 11 points and 7.7 rebounds per game for the Golden Knights in his senior season, has impressed for the Celtics in their preseason camp this season with his size and potential.

Fall’s contract allows him to spend up to 45 days with Boston during the season. This means that he will spend the majority of the year receiving coaching and playing time for the Celtics’ G-League affiliate in Maine, where the team hopes that he will grow and develop further.

This intriguing player, who will become the NBA’s tallest player when he makes his debut this season, is said to have potential by scouts, but needs to undergo more training and coaching if he is to realize his full potential due to a lack of experience.

Keep an eye out for Fall this season as he looks to impress in his debut season in the NBA.

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The Lakers’ new big man DeMarcus Cousins is now dealing with a knee injury that he suffered during offseason workouts, leaving the team brass to wonder if they’ll be able to count on the oft-injured superstar for this season.

Cousins reportedly crashed knees with a practice partner during a training session on Monday in Las Vegas and immediately noticed that there was a problem.

The forward, who signed a one-year, $3.5 million deal with the Lakers earlier this offseason, is set to undergo further testing in Los Angeles to determine the extent of the injury on Thursday.

If Cousins ends up missing any amount of time with this injury, it will have been the third lower-body injury that has kept him off the court during the past three years. Cousins missed most of the 2017-18 season and the first part of last season after suffering a torn Achilles tendon, and then suffered a quad injury that kept him sidelined for much of last season with the Warriors.

The four-time All-Star is one of the most productive big men in the league when healthy, but he’s only managed to play in 88 combined games over the past two seasons.

The Lakers now must cross their fingers and hope that the newest Cousins injury scare isn’t too serious.

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The new-look Los Angeles Clippers have already been plenty ambitious in 2019 after signing prize free agent Kawhi Leonard and acquiring superstar forward Paul George in a trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Now, after announcing plans for a new privately-funded arena, they’re looking to truly complete a makeover for the long-maligned franchise.

The Clippers have shared an arena with the rival Los Angeles Lakers since the 1999 opening of the Staples Center. However, after moving to Los Angeles from San Diego in 1984, the Clippers played by themselves at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.

The franchise now appears to have plans for a new arena to call their own home. According to plans released by the Clippers, they plan to build their new arena in Inglewood, California, located just south of the city limits of LA. The Los Angeles Rams and Chargers’ new shared football stadium, which is currently under construction, is also located in Inglewood.

The Clippers say that their planned new arena will be state of the art and include all kinds of environmentally-friendly touches and cutting-edge technology. They plan for the arena to incorporate the natural light that sunny Los Angeles provides and to also offer entertainment options to their fans.

A possible opening date still hasn’t been announced, but this is worth keeping an eye on.

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The Washington Wizards have decided to make the best offer they can to shooting guard Bradley Beal.

Beal, who has been the subject of various trade rumors throughout the NBA offseason, has been made a priority by the Washington front office, who will try to do all in its power to keep him in DC through the summer of 2024.

The University of Florida alum’s current contract with the team only runs through the end of next season, at which point he would be due to hit the free-agent market.

If he were to accept Washington’s upcoming contract extension offer, he would be set to earn $111 million over the final three years of his deal.

Beal could, however, wait to sign an extension until next summer, which would run for a length of 4 additional years and be worth $155. If he were to earn All-NBA honors, that supermax extension would be worth a gargantuan $254 million over five years.

The 7-year NBA veteran has never made an All-Pro team, but he has made the Eastern Conference All-Star squad the last two seasons. He averaged 25.6 points per game on 48% shooting in a career year last season.

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The Cleveland Cavaliers made a long-anticipated move official on Monday, waiving veteran shooting guard JR Smith after four seasons.

Cleveland thanked Smith for his part in the franchise’s first-ever NBA title in a goodbye tweet on Monday evening. While Smith’s career with the Cavaliers was imperfect, his bench scoring was vital in the Cavs’ stunning comeback NBA Finals win against the Golden State Warriors in summer 2016.

The unpredictable spark plug joined Cleveland after a journeyman career which took him through New Orleans, Denver, New York, and even China before he teamed up with the Cavs’ Big 3 of LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, and Kevin Love.

He was known for his brilliant and frustrating moments with the Cavs, such as when he apparently forgot that the game was tied, foregoing a chance to shoot and win the game, in the Cavs’ Game 1 loss to the Warriors in the 2018 Finals.

The best season of his career so far came in 2012-13, when he was named the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year after averaging 18.1 points per game off of the bench for the Knicks.

Smith stepped away from the Cavaliers last season despite being under contract after expressing his desire to be traded to a contender. Now, after the Cavs’ decision to not keep his $15 million contract on the roster as the team rebuilds, he’ll have the chance to join one.

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After receiving offers from both the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs in free agency, it appears that Marcus Morris has chosen his next NBA destination.

Despite receiving a two-year, $20 million offer from the San Antonio Spurs earlier this offseason, Marcus Morris has decided to accept a one-year, $15 million offer from the New York Knicks.

The move is saddled with a bit of controversy. Reports say that Morris had agreed to a two-year deal with the San Antonio Spurs earlier in the offseason, but then spurned his verbal agreement after the Knicks offered him a higher per-year salary average.

The 14th overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, the 6’9″ forward has spent time as a part-time starter for the Rockets, Suns, Pistons, and Celtics in a productive nine-year career.

Morris, who spent the past two seasons with the Boston Celtics, averaged a solid 13.9 points and 6.1 rebounds per game in 75 games in the 2018-19 season. While the Knicks are clearly in a rebuilding phase, Morris’s experience and veteran know-how attracted them to his services.

The Kansas alum is expected to share time at the power forward position with Julius Randle and Taj Gibson.

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Kelly Oubre Jr., the Phoenix Suns’ surprising mid-season acquisition, has decided to stick with his current team instead of testing the waters as a restricted free agent.

Oubre has settled on a two-year, $30 million deal with the Suns which will keep him in the valley until 2021.

Phoenix acquired the 23-year-old small forward in a trade with the Washington Wizards in December, in which the Suns sent Trevor Ariza to the Eastern Conference.

Oubre struggled to make an impact in his first two seasons in the nation’s capital, averaging just 15 minutes per game and making a minimal impact off of the bench. During the 2017-18 season, however, he started to contribute more and ended the season averaging 11.8 points per game.

The 2018-19 season, nonetheless, was Oubre’s breakout campaign. The talented shooter averaged 15.2 points and 4.7 rebounds per game on 44.5% shooting, the best marks of his career. In addition, he got even better after being shipped to Phoenix, as he averaged 18.9 points per game and worked his way into the team’s starting five.

Oubre underwent thumb surgery in March, which put him out for the season’s final month, but he is expected to be ready to contribute as a member of a young and talented Suns roster next season.

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The Oklahoma City Thunder were cornered into making a franchise-altering decision when 2019 NBA MVP finalist Paul George asked them to trade him to the Los Angeles Clippers to join up with Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard.

Now that George is heading out the door and Russell Westbrook is the only star left on a weakening OKC roster, it seems as if he could become the next player to bid adieu to the Thunder.

Multiple sources reported on the possibility of a Westbrook deal that would bring the point guard’s 11-year tenure with the Western Conference franchise to an end.

Westbrook has developed into one of the NBA’s best players since breaking into the league in 2008. During his time in OKC, he accumulated one of the most impressive resumes in the NBA over the past decade.

Westbrook was named NBA MVP in 2017, has been named twice to the NBA All-Pro first team, and six times to the second-team squad. He is an elite point guard who has shown little signs of slowing down at the age of 30.

It remains unclear which teams could potentially acquire Westbrook, but one team that immediately emerged as a potential destination has been the Miami Heat. The Southeast Conference team acquired Jimmy Butler earlier this offseason and could be looking for a superstar to pair with him.

For now, NBA fans must watch and wait to see what will become of Westbrook’s future in the league.

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Isaiah Thomas was one of the NBA’s best players in the 2016-17 season, only a couple of years ago. He scored 28.9 points per game for the Celtics, leading the team to one of their best seasons this decade.

That season seems like a long time ago, however, after two unproductive and injury-plagued seasons have limited Thomas’s production and have brightened one of the NBA’s biggest stars.

However, Thomas isn’t ready to give up yet, and he’s joining the Washington Wizards on a one-year deal to try to reclaim his place as one of the league’s top point guards.

Thomas joins a Wizards team that was looking for a point guard after John Wall suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon earlier this season. In steps the 30-year-old Washington alum, who completed a long and grueling rehab process in February after a hip injury.

The point guard expects his newly-healed hip to allow him to prepare for this season normally, a step that Thomas considers to be very important. He explained that “Now I can go back to being a gym rat this summer, work on my game again and build my body back up — my muscle mass, my leg strength — all like I had going into the 2017 season.”

Thomas only played sparingly for the Nuggets last season, as he was unable to break into the rotation for one of the league’s top teams after being sidelined for most of the year.

Now, he’ll have a fantastic opportunity to re-establish his worth and become the perfect option for the Wizards for the duration of Wall’s absence.

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After acquiring forward Tobias Harris from the Los Angeles Clippers before last season’s NBA trade deadline, the Sixers saw for half a season just how well their talented acquisition fit into their team.

Now, Philadelphia and Harris have confirmed that they want to keep battling for titles together after agreeing to a monster five-year, $180 million extension that will keep the 26-year-old in Philadelphia through 2024.

Harris had spent the first several years of his young career wandering throughout the league after being drafted in 2011 out of the University of Tennessee. He was drafted by Milwaukee and then had stops in Orlando, Detroit, and with the L.A. Clippers before being dealt to the Sixers at the trade deadline.

The New York native has gradually gotten better throughout his career after starting off as a bench player that saw sporadic action during his first two seasons. 2018-19 was one of his best campaigns, as he averaged 20 points and 7.9 rebounds per game.

Now, Harris will form part of a 76ers roster that pairs young talent such as Harris, Ben Simmons, and Joel Embiid with quality veteran players like Al Horford.

They’ll be considered a contender for the Eastern Conference crown in the 2019-20 season.

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