*FEATURE OF THE DAY*
Chicago Bulls guard Coby White has basketball to thank for saving his life
Marc J. Spears, Andscape
LEAGUEWIDE
The latest on Jonathan Kuminga, Quentin Grimes, Houston and more from the NBA’s personnel grapevine
The People’s Insider, The Stein Line
Second-Year Showtime: The Skills I’m Watching for Four NBA Sophomores
Jacob Sutton, JSutt Hoops
The NBA is using soccer as inspiration to break into Europe and ‘create a new era’
Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic
The NBA estimates that, despite basketball being the second-most popular sport in Europe, with 270 million fans, the sport captures less than one percent of Europe’s $20 billion-plus sports media market, data provided to the league by SportsBusiness and ratified by the Financial Times and Insider Sport.
TEAM NEWS
ATL: Hawks seem built for playoffs, but Onsi Saleh still taking one step at a time
Lauren Williams, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
BKN: Nets’ Nolan Traore looking to make his quickness edge a consistent asset
Brian Lewis, New York Post
CLE: Reshaping the Cavs: Terry Pluto on Kenny Atkinson’s plan to counter the ‘Indiana Factor’
Terry Pluto, Cleveland.com
HOU: NBA Analyst Explains Why Rockets Don’t Need To Bring In A Replacement For Fred VanVleet
Gautam Varier, Fadeaway World