The Athletic NBA Daily
Why the Clippers didn’t want Paul George | Celtics potential sale
08 Nov 2024
Dave DuFour and Zena Keita break down the night of NBA basketball and the Tyrese Maxey injury for the Sixers. Then the breakfast club is joined by Senior writer at the Athletic Sam Amick to discuss the Clippers' new arena, Paul George’s return, and how the Clippers would rather have nothing than Paul George. In the final segment, Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic stops by to discuss the potential sale of the Celtics and how the new TV deal could affect NBA fans.Check us out on YouTube: https://youtu.be/AbAmrk65aa4Host: Dave DuFourWith: Zena Keita, Sam Amick and Mike VorkunovExecutive Producer: Andrew Schlecht Audio Producer: Grayson Moody Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for November 8th, 2024. Coming up, the Bucs made a lineup change and it worked. Paul George, he went back to the Clippers and Sam Amick was there and he's here to tell you about it. And then we've got Mike Borkanoff to tell us about a potential sale of the Boston Celtics and why it's so unique. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Zena.
Pretty slow night, Thursday night, Zena, compared to the crazy Monday and Wednesday. I mean, I feel like I just caught my breath tonight. What we've got to watch out for, unfortunately, is another name added to the injury report for the 76ers. We saw Tyrese Maxey left that Paul George return game against the Clippers that the Clippers won convincingly. He left with a hamstring injury.
Looks like he's going to be out a little bit, at least two weeks. And the Sixers right now, they're 1-6. They've yet to have all three guys play together. They only got two games with Paul George and Maxie. Joel Embiid comes back next Tuesday for that first NBA Cup game against the Knicks. They've got a bottom five offense. Their defense is not much better than that, Zena.
And they really could not have had a worse start to the year And this just compounds that. I mean, how are they going to build chemistry?
Yeah, and this has been the discussion all season long of the fact that Tyrese Maxey has had to carry such a load without the superstars beside him in Embiid and George. Knowing that he's already at a usage rate of about 30%, that's a lot to carry on his own. He's had several games this season where he's playing 41, 48 minutes, even that overtime win. right?
Like, I mean, this is something that you almost were scared was going to happen to him. But knowing the fact that they already had two superstars out with injuries, it's awful to see. Now, what's good for the Sixers is that they do have Paul George trickling back into minutes, right? Even on his restricted night, he played 32 minutes in his first game out. Joel Embiid coming back. So it's not as if
This is going to be a long stretch of period of time with the Sixers not having any stars. It's just going to be really tough because what Maxie brings in terms of intensity, energy, general fun to what the Sixers do is so important for their chemistry on the floor. So yeah, it's going to be really tough and you're going to definitely see Kelly Oubre having to step up.
Well, this is kind of this is the theory behind getting three stars, right? If one guy's out, you've got two. Right. Or if two guys is out, you've got one. If you're Philly, you're probably just hoping that any of them are going to be available at any point during the regular season. So, you know, good luck to Tyrese Maxey. Good luck to the Sixers. Hopefully he gets healthy. The Bucs.
They played the Jazz in Milwaukee. They got off to this rough start, 1-6, also like the Sixers unexpectedly. And you know what? It's the Utah Jazz. This one was probably not really in doubt. The Bucs won it 123-100. The big news here is Andre Jackson Jr. has now replaced Gary Trent Jr., In the buck starting lineup and, you know, I thought he was great in this game.
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