An ankle injury suffered in the season opener will sideline Sixers big man Joel Embiid for the team’s game against the Pistons on Saturday.
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Joe Johnson has seen a lot in his 16 years in the NBA. All that experience is why the Utah Jazz brought him in this season. It paid off when Johnson drove the lane and hit a floater at the buzzer, giving the Jazz a 97-95 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers after Utah lost Rudy Gobert 17 seconds into their playoff opener on Saturday night.
At the 20218 NBA draft, the Denver Nuggets attempted to trade up to the No. 2 overall pick with Luka Doncic their target selection. The Sacramento Kings held the No. 2 pick that year and picked Marvin Bagley while the Atlanta Hawks did trade down from No. 3, sending the draft rights for Doncic to the Dallas Mavericks for the No. 5 pick that became Trae Young and a first round pick in 2019 that became Cam Reddish.
“The Nuggets knew that Vlade Divac was not particularly high on Luka Doncic,” said Mike Singer on The Hoop Collective Podcast. “And they had designs on pairing Nikola Jokic with Luka Doncic. On draft night in 2018, they tried. There was a call placed. There was a proposal and the Nuggets attempted to get the No. 2 pick for Gary Harris and two first round picks was what I was told.
“You can roll your eyes at that price tag, but look in retrospect. The Kings ended up taking Marvin Bagley with the No. 2 pick. I’m not saying this trade was imminent. All I’m saying is this trade was discussed and considered because the Nuggets knew Vlade Divas was not particularly high on Luka Doncic and they tried to exploit it.
“The wrinkle in this is if the Nuggets had ever been willing to part with Jamal Murray, we have a hell of a what-if in the annals of NBA history, but that did not happen.”
The story told by Signer, a former Denver Post reporter and current employee of the Nuggets, is also from his upcoming book on Jokic title ‘Why So Serious?‘
“I was not in the room,” added Singer. “I was not in the front office at the time. All I know is it was considered, explored, vetted, and I have somebody saying anonymously ‘For 30 seconds, we thought we had Luka.’ Which is a gargantuan statement.”
The Sacramento Kings exercised their 2025-26 rookie scale team option for Keegan Murray. This will be Murray’s fourth, and final, season on his rookie scale deal and he’ll make $11.1 million next season.
In his first three years with the Kings, Murray has become a key rotation player. The 6-foot-8 combo forward averaged 15.2 points and 5.5 rebounds per game in his second season. Murray has started 155 of the 157 games he’s played in over his first two NBA seasons.
Next summer, Murray will be eligible to sign a rookie scale extension. If no agreement is reached, he’ll become a restricted free agent in the summer of 2026.
