While speaking on NBA Today, ESPN insider Adrian Wojnarowski said the Philadelphia 76ers have a bigger plan in mind, should they trade James Harden. If the Sixers are able to trade Harden to the LA Clippers, they’ll look to make a subsequent deal using the assets they get for Harden.
“Daryl Morey’s motivation is whatever he gets from the Clippers, he wants to be able to flip that for another All-Star level guard that he could replace James Harden with,” Wojnarowski said.
Because the asking price for another All-Star would be so high right now, it “may be slow going and well into the season” before a Harden trade comes together, per Wojnarowski.
The Denver Nuggets have exercised their 2024-25 rookie scale team option for forward Peyton Watson. This is the third-year option for Watson, who was drafted in 2022.
Watson didn’t play much as a rookie, but the Nuggets believe he’ll factor into their rotation in his second season. The 6-foot-8 wing is expected to help replace some of what Denver lost with Bruce Brown leaving for the Indiana Pacers in free agency.
Miles Bridges was issued a criminal summons for violating a domestic violence protective order, misdemeanor child abuse, and injury to personal property on Wednesday.
Bridges is accused of throwing billiard balls at her vehicle while the children were inside it, smashing the windshield and leaving dents in the car, according to the summons.
Bridges is also accused in the summons of threatening her that if she “told the police he would take everything from her and withhold child support” and that he “allowed his current girlfriend to yell, scream and kick the victim’s car while the children were inside it.” The summons does not say if the woman was in the car.
Bridges also has an unserved arrest warrant for violating a domestic violence protective order from January 2.
Neither the summons nor the warrant has yet been served.
“We are aware of the reports and are in the process of gathering more information,” said a spokesperson for the Hornets.
Bridges is currently serving a 30-game suspension for a domestic violence incident in 2022.
Bridges, who is set to miss the first 10 games of this season, signed a $7.9 million qualifying offer with the Hornets earlier this summer.
