Bobby Marks

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Handing out end-of-season grades for all 30 NBA teams: Which two got Fs?

1 week ago | espn.in | Kevin Pelton |Bobby Marks

With the 2024-25 NBA regular season in the books, it's time for the final report card for all 30 teams. While the 14 teams who have clinched playoff spots and four still fighting for the last two seeds play on, the rest of the league has already turned its attention to the offseason and beyond.
Sources -- Monte McNair out as Kings GM after play-in loss

1 week ago | espn.ph | Bobby Marks

Monte McNair is out as general manager of the Sacramento Kings, sources told ESPN. The decision was made after the two sides reached a mutual agreement, sources said. The Kings' season ended Wednesday night in a 120-106 home loss to the Dallas Mavericks in the No. 9 versus No. 10 play-in tournament game. McNair spent five seasons running the Kings, winning NBA executive of the year in 2023 when Sacramento went 48-34 and ended an NBA record 16-year playoff drought.
Sources -- Monte McNair out as Kings GM after play-in loss

1 week ago | espn.in | Bobby Marks

The Sacramento Kings and general manager Monte McNair have mutually parted ways, sources told ESPN. The Kings' season ended in a 120-106 home loss Wednesday night to the Dallas Mavericks in the No. 9 versus No. 10 play-in tournament game. McNair spent five seasons running the Kings, winning NBA executive of the year in 2023 when Sacramento went 48-34 and snapped a record 16-year drought to make the playoffs.
Mavericks eliminate Kings, will vie for last spot in West

1 week ago | espn.ph | Bobby Marks

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Klay Thompson scored 16 of his 23 points in Dallas' dominant second quarter to get redemption for his dud in Sacramento a year ago, helping the Mavericks beat the Kings 120-106 on Wednesday night to advance in the play-in tournament. One year to the day when Thompson missed all 10 shots in his final game for Golden State in a play-in loss in Sacramento, Thompson fueled the win with four 3-pointers in Dallas' 44-point second quarter.
Heat again knock Bulls out of play-in, advance to face Hawks

1 week ago | espn.in | Bobby Marks |Tim Bontemps

CHICAGO -- Tyler Herro scored 38 points, and the Miami Heat dominated the Chicago Bulls 109-90 on Wednesday night to advance in the Play-In Tournament. Herro scored 23 points as Miami grabbed a 71-47 halftime lead, and the Heat knocked the Bulls out of the Play-In for the third year in a row. They play at Atlanta on Friday for a chance to meet top-seeded Cleveland in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Hawks lost to Orlando on Tuesday.
Pelicans officially hire Joe Dumars as executive vice president

1 week ago | espn.co.uk | Shams Charania |Bobby Marks

Naismith Hall of Famer Joe Dumars has officially been hired as executive vice president of basketball operations for the New Orleans Pelicans, it was announced Wednesday. The 61-year-old Dumars -- a two-time NBA champion as a player and a title-winning executive with the Detroit Pistons -- returns to his home state of Louisiana and replaces David Griffin as the head of basketball operations for the Pelicans.
Sources - Joe Dumars finalizing deal to be Pelicans' president - ESPN

1 week ago | espn.ph | Shams Charania |Bobby Marks

Naismith Hall of Famer Joe Dumars is finalizing a deal to become the new president of basketball operations for the New Orleans Pelicans, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. Dumars -- a two-time NBA champion as a player and a title-winning executive with the Detroit Pistons -- returns to his home state of Louisiana and replaces David Griffin as the head of basketball operations for the Pelicans.
'There's no justification for this': What comes next for the flailing Phoenix Suns -- and Kevin Durant

1 week ago | espn.in | Brian Windhorst |Bobby Marks

The speech, given in a bare and sterile concourse turned makeshift locker room at Walt Disney World, became both legend and rallying cry in the Phoenix Suns franchise. It was June 2020. Standing in front of his team, Monty Williams was beaming after his young Suns team had gone 8-0 in the Orlando bubble. "We are not the Suns of old!" Williams proclaimed. "It's hard to play the way you've played and not get the respect you deserve.
LaMelo Ball must 'get stronger,' Hornets coach Charles Lee says

1 week ago | espn.in | Bobby Marks

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Head coach Charles Lee left no doubt about his offseason expectations from Charlotte Hornets cornerstone point guard LaMelo Ball. "He's got to get stronger," Lee said Monday following the team's exit interviews. Opposing teams regularly stepped up their defensive pressure on Ball this season, trying to get the 6-foot-7, 190-pounder off his game by being extra physical and using hand and body checks on the perimeter and bodying him up on the way to the basket.
Suns fire coach Mike Budenholzer after one season

1 week ago | espn.ph | Bobby Marks |Tim Bontemps

After missing the NBA playoffs and play-in tournament with the largest payroll in league history, the Phoenix Suns have fired head coach Mike Budenholzer, the team announced Monday. "Competing at the highest level remains our goal, and we failed to meet expectations this season. Our fans deserve better. Change is needed," the team said in a statement. For the third consecutive offseason, Suns owner Mat Ishbia, CEO Josh Bartelstein and general manager James Jones are changing coaches.