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NBA Preview: Philadelphia Sixers (12-10) at Memphis Grizzlies (12-9)

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NBA Preview: Philadelphia Sixers (12-10) at Memphis Grizzlies (12-9)

Two teams eager to bounce back from a pair of ugly losses meet on Friday when the Memphis Grizzlies face the visiting Philadelphia 76ers.

Philadelphia had its three-game winning streak snapped on Wednesday by the Cleveland Cavaliers, who led by 33 points in the fourth quarter in a 113-85 rout. The Sixers were playing their sixth game in the span of nine days.

Memphis suffered a similar fate on Wednesday, losing 109-101 to the Minnesota Timberwolves in a sloppy game that featured seven technical fouls.

After averaging 129.5 points in back-to-back wins over the New Orleans Pelicans and the New York Knicks, the Grizzlies had a season-high 27 turnovers and missed 12 free throws against Minnesota.

Ja Morant is averaging 28.2 points, 7.6 assists and 6.3 rebounds to lead the Grizzlies, who will play six of their next seven games at home.

Morant scored 24 points in the loss to Minnesota but committed seven turnovers.

The Grizzlies will see a familiar face on Friday in guard De’Anthony Melton, who spent three seasons with Memphis before being traded in June to the Sixers for Danny Green and a first-round pick that turned into Roddy.

Philadelphia has leaned heavily on Melton following injuries to star James Harden and guard Tyrese Maxey.

Harden, who has been out with a right foot tendon strain since Nov. 2, could return as soon as Monday against the Houston Rockets. Maxey (left foot fracture) is expected back in mid-December.

Melton is averaging 11.8 points, 3.8 assists, and 2.3 steals this month while adjusting to a more prominent role in the starting lineup. He has multiple steals in seven straight games.

Philadelphia center Joel Embiid has averaged 24.5 points in two games since missing four straight with a sprained left foot.

The Sixers are monitoring the status of forward Tobias Harris, who exited Wednesday’s game early in the fourth quarter because of an illness.

Harris averaged 23 points over his previous five games, but he was held to three points while missing all seven field goal attempts in the loss to Cleveland.

Rivers is preparing for a physical battle against the Grizzlies. He said they remind him of the “Grit and Grind” Memphis teams in the early 2010s that included Mike Conley, Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol.

NBA Preview: Los Angeles Lakers (8-12) at Milwaukee Bucks (15-5)

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NBA Preview: Los Angeles Lakers (8-12) at Milwaukee Bucks (15-5)

The Milwaukee Bucks escaped New York with a 109-103 win on Wednesday night, despite Giannis Antetokounmpo fouling out with a minute to go, after a go-ahead 3-pointer from Grayson Allen.

After one game on the road, the Bucks have returned home to host the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night.

Despite fouling out, Antetokounmpo led the way for the Bucks in New York, scoring 37 points on 13-for-25 shooting while also grabbing 13 rebounds and dishing seven assists, both team highs as well.

Jrue Holiday added 22 points and Bobby Portis and Pat Connaughton scored 10. Allen finished with 11 on the night, with the game-winning shot being his only 3-pointer a game after he went 7 for 7 from beyond the arc in the first half of Milwaukee’s win over Dallas on Sunday.

Milwaukee will be getting a big boost on Friday night as All-Star forward Khris Middleton is set to make his season debut, ESPN reported. The team officially listed him as probable.

Middleton has been recovering from offseason wrist surgery and has not played since Game 2 of the Bucks’ first-round playoff series last season against Chicago.

Middleton is coming off a season where he was selected to the All-Star team for the third time in his career. He averaged 20.1 points per game while shooting 44 percent from the field along with 5.4 assists and 5.4 rebounds per game.

The Lakers are coming off a convincing 128-109 win at home against Portland on Wednesday with big performances from LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Austin Reaves.

James led the way with 31 points while shooting 6 for 8 from beyond the arc. Davis added 27 points along with 12 rebounds and Reaves had a very efficient night, scoring 22 points on 7-for-10 shooting. James also led the team with eight assists and seven rebounds.

The Lakers were without Lonnie Walker IV and Troy Brown Jr. on Wednesday as both were dealing with left foot soreness. Walker has been the third-leading scorer for Los Angeles behind Davis and James at 16.6 points per game.

Davis is the NBA’s leading rebounder at 12.7 per game and also leads the Lakers with 26.3 points, 1.5 steals and 2.3 blocks per game. Russell Westbrook leads the team with 7.2 assists per game.

For Milwaukee, it’s Antetokounmpo leading with 31.3 points and 11.5 rebounds per night. Holiday leads in assists and steals at 7.2 and 1.6 per game, respectively, while Brook Lopez continues to lead the NBA in blocks with 2.8 per game.

For Los Angeles, Friday marks the start of a six-game Eastern Conference road trip. They will play in Washington, Cleveland, Toronto, Philadelphia and Detroit before heading back home.

NBA Preview: Orlando Magic (5-17) at Cleveland Cavaliers (14-8)

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NBA Preview: Orlando Magic (5-17) at Cleveland Cavaliers (14-8)

The Cleveland Cavaliers have been viewed as inhospitable hosts throughout the early part of the season.

They’ll look to continue to be seen in that light on Friday when they host the Orlando Magic, who have been very accommodating guests in 2022-23.

Off to their best start at home since 2016-17, the Cavaliers improved to 9-1 at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse with a convincing 113-85 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday.

Darius Garland recorded 21 points and nine assists and Donovan Mitchell added 18 and six, respectively, in the lopsided win.

Evan Mobley excelled at both ends of the court on Wednesday.

Defensively, Mobley helped limit 76ers star Joel Embiid to his second-lowest point total (19) and second-worst shooting percentage (37.5) of the season. Offensively, the 21-year-old Mobley made 8 of 10 shots from the floor to finish with 16 points.

The Magic received a first-hand look at Mobley’s all-around game when they visited the Cavaliers on Oct. 26. He made 9 of 15 shots from the floor to finish with 20 points in Cleveland’s 103-92 victory over Orlando.

Top overall draft pick Paolo Banchero collected 29 points, eight rebounds and four assists in that game for the Magic, who fell to 0-4 away from home at that point. Orlando’s results on the road have only gotten marginally better since then.

The Magic dropped to 1-9 away from home after a 109-102 setback at Brooklyn on Monday. They followed that up by losing their sixth game in a row overall with a 125-108 loss to Atlanta on Wednesday.

Orlando, however, saw the returns of Markelle Fultz and Cole Anthony against the Hawks. Fultz made his season debut after being sidelined with a fractured toe, while Anthony missed 17 games due to a torn right oblique.

Fultz finished with eight points, four assists and two steals, while Anthony totaled 11 points, four rebounds and two assists before fouling out in the fourth quarter.

NBA Preview: Toronto Raptors (11-10) at Brooklyn Nets (12-11)

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NBA Preview: Toronto Raptors (11-10) at Brooklyn Nets (12-11)

For the first time all season, the Brooklyn Nets own a winning record, and they can attribute it to Kevin Durant’s prolific scoring and some improved defensive showings.

With a matchup against the NBA-best Boston Celtics looming, the Nets will attempt to push their home winning streak to six games Friday night when they host the Toronto Raptors.

Brooklyn is 12-11 after earning a 113-107 win over the Washington Wizards on Wednesday to improve to 3-0 on its season-long seven-game homestand.

Similar to Brooklyn’s wins over Portland and Orlando to start the home stretch, Durant came up big against Washington, delivering 39 points. That marked his fourth straight game with at least 30 points.

The Nets are 5-7 when Durant scores at least 30, but half of those games occurred during the turbulent opening weeks when the Nets lost six of their first eight games. Since then, the Nets are 10-5 and allowing 106.3 points in that span.

Since being held to 12 points in Brooklyn’s 112-98 win at Toronto on Nov. 23, Durant is averaging 37.8 points on 62.1 percent shooting from the field. Durant also has four straight games of 30 points, at least five assists and five rebounds.

Durant also is getting some help of late. Irving added 15 of his 27 in the fourth quarter Wednesday and is averaging 23.5 points in his past six. Joe Harris filled some of the minutes in place of Ben Simmons (left calf) by adding 14 after scoring 17 Monday, and T.J. Warren is expected to make his season debut after missing nearly two years with foot injuries. He last played on Dec. 29, 2020.

Toronto heads to Brooklyn attempting to avoid hitting .500 for the sixth time this season, and the Raptors have dropped eight of their first 11 road games, including Wednesday’s 126-108 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans. Toronto allowed 52.3 percent from the field and dropped to 2-9 this season when allowing opponents to shoot at least 50 percent.

Toronto trailed by 31 and allowed 74 points in the opening half — a sharp contrast to the 100 points and 88 points given up in consecutive home wins over the Dallas Mavericks and Cleveland Cavaliers, respectively.

Toronto tried its 12th different starting lineup when Thaddeus Young joined Scottie Barnes, Pascal Siakam, Fred VanVleet and OG Anunoby in the first five. Gary Trent Jr. led the Raptors with 35 points off the bench and Siakam added 23 but Barnes and VanVleet struggled.

VanVleet was held to two points on 1-of-8 shooting before being ejected and is shooting 31.5 percent over his past six games. After not starting Monday against Cleveland, Barnes was held to four points and has been held under 10 points in four of his past nine games and is shooting 39.1 percent over his past 12.

In addition to last week’s win in Toronto, the Nets earned a 109-105 victory in Brooklyn on Oct. 21 when they withstood Siakam’s triple-double (37 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists).

NBA Preview: Miami Heat (10-12) at Boston Celtics (18-4)

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NBA Preview: Miami Heat (10-12) at Boston Celtics (18-4)

The red-hot Boston Celtics will aim for a second consecutive win over the Miami Heat and their sixth straight win overall on Friday when the two teams meet again in Boston.

The Celtics picked up their 14th win in the past 15 games on Wednesday, cruising past Miami, 134-121. Jayson Tatum scored 49 points on 15-of-25 shooting from the floor, including 8-of-12 from beyond the 3-point arc, to go along with 11 rebounds.

It was Tatum’s third game of at least 40 points on the season, and his fourth in a row netting at least 30 points. He is averaging 31.6 points per game ahead of Friday’s return match with Miami.

With Tatum steering the ship offensively, Boston is leading the NBA in scoring (121.9 points per game). The Celtics will look to keep their prolific offense rolling against one of the league’s better defensive teams — the Heat are holding opponents to 110 points per game despite Wednesday’s outcome — and close out a perfect six-game homestand.

The Celtics hit the road for six straight after this game and will not play at home again until Dec. 16.

Meanwhile, Miami enters the home stretch of its second four-game road swing in its past 10 games. The Heat played four straight on the road Nov. 16-21, losing all four while dealing with a bevy of holes in the lineup.

After winning three straight, including last Sunday’s opening game in this second road swing in Atlanta, Miami inched back toward .500 for the season before Wednesday’s setback dropped it to 10-12.

Six-time All-Star Jimmy Butler, who has missed the past seven games with a knee injury, could return to the lineup on Friday. The versatile Butler is averaging 20.9 points, 6.6 rebounds and 6.1 assists per game this season, and he is a catalyst of the Miami defense.

Bam Adebayo, who missed the first two games in Miami’s recent four-game swoon, has carried the scoring load recently with back-to-back games of 38 points Nov. 25 against Washington, and 32 points last Sunday at Atlanta.

Adebayo finished with 23 points, six rebounds and five assists in Wednesday’s loss but was ejected late after drawing two technical fouls after arguing with officials. He later was critical that Boston attempted 23 free throws while Miami only took nine.

Miami made all nine, while the Celtics went 20 of 23 from the line.

NBA Preview: Denver Nuggets (14-7) at Atlanta Hawks (12-10)

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NBA Preview: Denver Nuggets (14-7) at Atlanta Hawks (12-10)

Nikola Jokic will meet one of his fiercest rivals when he and the Denver Nuggets visit Clint Capela and the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night.

The first meeting of the season of playoff hopefuls pits a Nuggets team seeking to extend its winning streak to a season-best five games against a Hawks club that was firing on all cylinders in a 125-108 win at Orlando on Wednesday.

With Capela playing his first six seasons for the Houston Rockets, Jokic and Capela have gone head-to-head 19 times in their careers, all in the regular season.

Capela has enjoyed surprising success in more ways than one.

His team has prevailed in 12 of the 19 meetings, with 11 of those wins coming in 15 head-to-heads in Rockets-Nuggets matchups.

The biggest surprise has been Capela’s ability to limit the high-scoring Jokic to just 17.1 points per game on 49.8 percent shooting. Capela has countered that with 14.6 points on 61.8 percent shooting.

The Atlanta big man also has enjoyed advantages in rebounds (10.9-10.3) and blocked shots (1.2-0.6).

Recent results appear to be trending in Jokic’s direction, however. When the Nuggets swept the Hawks in their two-game season series last year, Jokic outscored Capela 22-14 in a home win in November and 20-15 in a road triumph in December.

Jokic is averaging 22.7 points per game, a figure that dropped a bit when he became more of a passer (12 assists) than a scorer (17 points on just nine shots) in Wednesday’s 120-100 home win over the Rockets.

Jokic missed a triple-double by one rebound, the third time in his past five games that he’s been denied by either one rebound or one assist.

He hasn’t had a triple-double since Nov. 3, but he’s had three in his career against Capela, including one in the November meeting last season when he complemented his 22 points with 19 rebounds and 10 assists.

Three starters each outscored Jokic in the win over the Rockets, and four reserves combined to contribute an additional 34 points to the win. It’s that type of balance that’s made the Nuggets an early season success, newcomer Kentavious Caldwell-Pope insists.

Capela hit nine of his 10 shots during a 20-point, 12-rebound double-double in Orlando on Wednesday. He benefited from some of the 20 combined assists guards Trae Young (14) and Dejounte Murray (six) distributed.

Not everything went perfectly against the Magic, as both John Collins and De’Andre Hunter sustained injuries that required MRI exams Thursday. Collins will miss at least two weeks with a sprained left ankle, per the team; Hunter was ruled out for at least one week with a right hip flexor strain.

Jarrett Culver and Trent Forrest helped to take the sting out of the injuries with a combined 13 points and 14 rebounds off the bench.

NBA Preview: Washington Wizards (11-11) at Charlotte Hornets (6-15)

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NBA Preview: Washington Wizards (11-11) at Charlotte Hornets (6-15)

The Washington Wizards and Charlotte Hornets have been talking quite a bit about progress recently.

There haven’t been lots of victories to discuss for either team, but one of them will add another to the win column when they meet Friday night in Charlotte, N.C.

The Hornets haven’t played since Monday night’s 140-105 loss at Boston. They probably needed the extra time between games to recover.

Charlotte played with nine available players because of injuries and illnesses.

The biggest question for the Hornets these days is who’ll be available. Terry Rozier figures to be back in action as he missed the latest game because of illness.

Gordon Hayward, LaMelo Ball, Cody Martin and Dennis Smith Jr. were out earlier in the week with various injuries. The absences for Hayward (shoulder) and Martin (knee) will be extended.

The rest for the players and staff, along with practice time, has been good for the Hornets.

There’s emphasis for the Hornets on individual defense and help defense.

The Wizards won 106-102 at home against Charlotte on Nov. 20. That capped Washington’s best stretch of the season as it had six wins in a seven-game span.

Since then, the Wizards are 1-4.

Kristaps Porzingis has led Washington in scoring the past two games. He had 41 points against Minnesota on Monday, when Washington racked up a season-high 142. The Wizards lost 113-107 on Wednesday night at Brooklyn, with Porzingis scoring 27.

Washington’s shooting was off in Brooklyn, with the Wizards making only 25 percent of their 3-pointers and 67.6 percent of their free throws.

Before the debacle in Boston, the Hornets had won two games in a row for their first back-to-back wins of the season. Clifford has maintained a positive outlook for the six-win Hornets. He said younger players have shown improvements and should be able to help in bigger ways.

For the Hornets, Friday night’s game begins a stretch of three home games across four nights.

NFL Enters Next Frontier of Predicting Injury with NFL Contact Detection Challenge

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NFL Enters Next Frontier of Predicting Injury with NFL Contact Detection Challenge

NEW YORK, NY – The NFL today announced the NFL Contact Detection Challenge, a new innovation challenge to predict player injuries through machine learning and computer vision.

Held in collaboration with NFL partner Amazon Web Service (AWS), the challenge invites experts to design new ways to measure and analyze the timing, duration and frequency of player contact during NFL games using artificial intelligence and related disciplines. Collecting this information will improve the NFL’s ability to quantify when contact occurs on the field, allowing the league to better predict – and ultimately prevent – player injuries.

Announced at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, the challenge will be open for three months. The top finishers – who will be announced in March 2023 – will receive a total of $100,000 in prize money, with the first-place finisher receiving $50,000.

Starting Monday, December 5th, entries can be submitted on the challenge website hosted by Kaggle, a leading platform for data science competitions. Entrants will be featured on Kaggle’s dynamic live scoreboard, which will reflect the score and rank of each entry as that information becomes available. 

“Quantifying the risk of injury that players face in every possible in-game scenario is a crucial step in understanding how we can reduce that risk, and ultimately prevent injuries” said Jennifer Langton, Senior Vice President of Health and Safety Innovation at the NFL. “By engaging entrants with a wide range of expertise, this challenge will help us understand which game situations have elevated amounts of contact. This  can inform rules changes to improve the game.”

The NFL Contact Detection Challenge is part of the Digital Athlete, a joint effort between the NFL and AWS to build a virtual, 360-degree representation of an NFL player’s experience that can generate a precise picture of what they need when it comes to preventing and recovering from injuries while performing at their best.

MLB remembers Hall of Fame pitcher Gaylord Perry; the first Cy Young Award winner in both leagues was 84

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MLB remembers Hall of Fame pitcher Gaylord Perry; the first Cy Young Award winner in both leagues was 84

Commissioner of Baseball Robert D. Manfred, Jr. issued the following statement today regarding the passing of Hall of Fame pitcher Gaylord Perry, who was 84:

“Gaylord Perry was a consistent workhorse and a memorable figure in his Hall of Fame career, highlighted by his 314 wins and 3,534 strikeouts in 22 years.  He will be remembered among the most accomplished San Francisco Giants ever, and through his time in Cleveland and San Diego, he became the first pitcher ever to win the Cy Young Award in both the American and National Leagues.  The five-time 20-game winner pitched for eight different Clubs overall and remained a popular teammate and friend throughout his life.  On behalf of Major League Baseball, I extend my deepest condolences to Gaylord’s family, friends and fans across our great game.”

Guardians sign LHP Anthony Gose to two-year contract

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Guardians sign LHP Anthony Gose to two-year contract

CLEVELAND, OH — The Cleveland Guardians today announced the signing of LHP ANTHONY GOSE to a two-year Minor League contract. The deal contains a non-roster invitation to Major League Spring Training camp in 2024.

Gose, 32, has compiled an ERA of 3.90 over his 28 combined relief appearances with Cleveland in 2021 and 2022 (27.2IP, 17H, 12ER, 16BB, 37SO, .173 avg). He was limited to 22 appearances this past season after making his first Opening Day roster as a pitcher, going on the Injured List on July 3 with left elbow impingement that eventually led to season-ending reconstructive elbow surgery on Sept. 15. He was removed from the 40-man roster on November 15 and elected free agency three days later. The converted outfielder has spent four of six seasons pitching in the Cleveland organization.

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