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Draymond Green praises Quinten Post's agent for Grizzlies contract negotiation originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Quinten Post was a great role player with the Warriors, but he’ll be stepping into a new role with another team in the Western Conference for the 2026-27 NBA season.

Last week, Post signed a three-year, $30 million restricted free agency offer sheet with the Memphis Grizzlies. Golden State declined to match the offer.

Draymond Green had a lot to say about the new landing spot for Post and gave praise to an unsung hero.

“Mark Bartelstein strikes again,” Green said Sunday on “The Draymond Green Show”. “You go out and get an offer sheet that you know a team isn’t going to match to get that kid paid.”

Bartelstein, Post’s agent, represents a ton of talent in the NBA, including Kon Knueppel, T.J. McConnell, and Kevin Huerter.

Post was an impact player for the Warriors last year, but he had to work hard to earn his keep on the roster after Golden State selected him No. 52 overall in the 2024 NBA Draft.

“Watched this kid come in on a two-way contract,” Green continued. “Spent a lot of time in the G-League, gets an opportunity. Shoots the lights out and plays well. Returns the next year, develops into a defender. Just continues to grow as a player and gets rewarded.”

Post averaged 17.3 minutes per game during the 2025-26 NBA season, along with 7.7 points and 4.0 rebounds per game. Post made an impact on the floor as well by being a great teammate.

“One of my favorite Dutchmen,” Green stated. “I could not be happier for him.”

Restricted free agency is hard to navigate at times, but Bartelstein has proved he is one of the best agents in the business, according to Green.

“Restricted free agency is a s–t place, man,” Green elaborated. “Despite restricted free agency being a s–tty place, Mark Bartelstein goes out and gets an incredible deal done for Post. Bartelstein, being in the position that he’s in, knows the Warriors weren’t in a position to match that. As a great agent, that’s what you have to do for your client.”

Post has shot 36.4 percent from 3-point range in his NBA career. Spacing the floor as a stretch big will add significant value to an already impressive Grizzlies revamped roster.

“What none of those guys do in Memphis is shoot the ball as well as Quinten Post,” Green concluded. “That’s how he fits.”

Post will have a chance to complement a talented young core in Memphis, with credit to his agent for closing an extremely player-friendly deal.

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After a fantastic rookie season, the natural next question regarding Cooper Flagg is, just how good can he be? Specifically, can he become good enough to be the best player on a championship team? He has a lot of promising attributes — defensive intuition, scoring with physicality, touch unprecedented for a kid his age and a growth rate higher than 99 percent of teenagers. The glaring hole in his game is the 3-point shot, something that he made at just 29.5 percent last season. It would be easy to say that to get to the next level, he needs to become a great shooter. I would argue, however, that that isn’t necessary. Becoming a league-average shooter is fine, but he really needs to lean into what he does best: score in the paint. 

If you watched Flagg at all last year, you would know the most obvious part of his game was his control and pace going downhill. He was not just good at driving for a rookie — he was among the league’s best at scoring on the way to the basket. Of players who drove at least 12 times per game (Flagg was at 12.8), he was seventh in the NBA in points per drive (0.71). This was partially due to the physicality he displayed and his ability to get to his spots at will, but a lot of it had to do with his touch in the paint. According to NBA.com, Flagg took the sixth-most non-rim paint field goals, and shot them at just above 47 percent:

For someone his age, playing in a conference with guys like Victor Wembanyama, Chet Holmgren, and Rudy Gobert patrolling the paint, that is incredibly impressive. He never shied away from driving into the league’s finest shot-blockers, evidenced most clearly by the below highlight Giannis Antetokounmpo for a crucial late-game finish:

We know he is great from 15 feet and in. But, in a space-and-chuck league, why would he not try to get his 3-point shot up to 40 percent on volume? Well, let’s look at the last seven non-Steph Curry NBA Finals MVPs and what they did in the regular season from three:

Cooper Flagg shot 29.5 percent from distance on 3.5 attempts in his rookie year. The league average was 36 percent last season and has hovered between 35 and 37 percent since 2019. All of these guys who won Finals MVP were no better than a percentage point (or two in Jokic’s case, but he shot just two threes a game) than the league average. What they all did, however, was get to their spot at will and score in the paint. They were forces of nature, for lack of a better term. That is exactly what Flagg should focus on to get to the next level.

Now, he certainly has to shoot better. If he makes 36 percent of his threes versus 30 percent, that opens up the floor for his drives. If he takes between five and six threes a game and makes two to three of them, he becomes respectable enough for the defense to stretch. But, of his 11 30-point games last year, he shot more than six threes just twice, and scored 40 points three times while shooting five or fewer. That is the formula: be lethal going downhill, and shoot enough threes to keep the defense honest. If Flagg bumps up his efficiency on the shots he is already borderline elite at creating, we will be looking at a guy who resembles all of the recent Finals MVPs.

During the Spurs 2026 title run, they infamously faced their 1999 Finals rival New York Knickerbockers. For San Antonio, that meant a high level of celebrity attention on the Alamo City. One of the many notable fans descending on the city was Ben Stiller.

Stiller, the child of comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, showed a penchant for acting and directing early in life, directing Super 8 films throughout his childhood. He parlayed his passion into his own Fox Network sketch comedy show in 1992 before breaking headlong into mainstream film.

Numerous films, accolades, and three-and-a-half decades in the rearview, Stiller announced last month that he was indeed filming a documentary on the Knicks.

During the Finals he sat with the the Inside the NBA crew and shared about the upcoming film.

“Obviously, I’ve been shooting some stuff on my phone, but it’s kind of going to be about all eras of the Knicks. And this team, obviously, there’s a culmination here of something that’s been going on for a long time.”

Indeed. After fifty-three years, the Knicks won their third NBA title, tying them with the Heat, Pistons, and 76ers for the sixth most titles in league history. And Stiller was sideline throughout the season, the playoffs, and the Finals capturing moments on his phone.

One thing that will make his documentary is the historic Game 4 comeback. The Spurs gave up a 29-point lead, the largest in Finals history.

But the 2026 championship run isn’t the only focus of the film.

“You know, there’s so many great eras. And this team, I think, you know, when you look at the ’70s championships, the ’90s runs and then this team doing it again, I think there’s just so much within that.”

The film has partnerships with with HBO and A24. At this time, a release date has not been set.

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Two games into the 2026 summer league, things are going well for the Wizards.

Finally.

No. 1 overall pick AJ Dybantsa has impressed with size, athleticism, skills, competitiveness, and motor. Will Riley has hit shots. Felix Okpara, the second round pick in June, hustled and blocked three shots. The summer squad is defending hard and effectively.

As a long-time Wizards observer, I barely know what to do with myself. Competence — even during summer league ball where the games have ridiculous rules and nothing really matters — is a welcome sign of progress from this franchise.

I mean, for a second straight game, they hounded a highly-respected guard prospect into a subpar night. In the opener, it was second overall pick Darryn Peterson. Against the Sacramento Kings, it was Darius Acuff Jr. At one point, Acuff was visibly frustrated, and Amazon Prime analyst (and former NBA coach) Stan Van Gundy said that Acuff needed to play harder — that he needed to compete against Washington’s physicality.

Even better, against Acuff and the Kings, they defended effectively with no one committing nine fouls.

Yes, it’s only summer league. Still — the Wizards were out-competing their opponent. The Wizards?!

While the positives abound, it’s important to keep in mind that a) it’s summer league, not NBA basketball, b) there’s plenty for these guys to improve upon.

The second one is important — youngsters the team wants in the rotation next season are producing in summer league while also playing imperfectly. Let the coaching progress.

Here are a few observations on areas for players to develop during what the team calls “Jump Season,” and the rest of us call the “offseason.”

Dybantsa

• Defensive motor. He didn’t get back on defense twice last night. Does it matter in summer league? No. Transition defense can be a big deal in real NBA games.
• Shooting. I’m not worried about the percentage (just 1-11 from deep in Vegas) at this point, though I don’t love the form. It’s at least a quick and compact motion, and he hasn’t been shy about pulling the trigger, which suggests he’s confident taking threes. I’d love to see him raise the release point a few inches to maintain a clear view of the target.
• Make more use of the athletic tools and skills to create easy shots for the team instead of living on a diet of difficult shots. Drivers of high-level offense in the NBA don’t do it by making lots of tough shots.
• Learn to create for teammates — he did it a few times against the Kings, so I think he’s seeing the court well and making decent reads. When he sees multiple defenders on him, he needs to get the ball to teammates and let them make plays. The ball will come back. I suspect this will be less of an issue when he’s playing with better teammates in the regular season.

Will Riley

• Get. In. The. Weight. Room.
• Maybe it’s just me, but the incessant dribbles that actually should be carries worry me. What if the NBA ever decides to enforce its rules?
• Like Dybantsa, I’d like to see Riley become more of a threat as a playmaker for teammates.

Tre Johnson

• Didn’t play against the Kings, so this is based on only the opener. I want to see the same thing I wanted to see last season — what concerned me about him as a draft prospect — more to his game than shooting and scoring.
• To that end, Johnson needs to keep getting stronger (the weight room work is showing) so he can compete in an increasingly physical league.
• Something of a theme in this one: I want to see Johnson, Riley, and Dybantsa (and, well, everyone else really) threaten defenses in multiple ways by using their scoring prowess to unlock plays for teammates.

Felix Okpara — I’d be surprised if he’s on the opening night roster. Here’s what he needs to do to carve out an NBA career:

• Get stronger.
• Improve defensive awareness.
• Set better screens.
• Make better reads on roll lanes.
• Go harder — the effort isn’t bad, but it’s not at NBA speed. At least not yet.

None of these are even the slightest reason for worry. Every young player — heck, every player of every age — has areas where they can improve. And the fun thing with youngsters is that if they do the work, there’s a good chance these “areas for improvement” will actually improve. Especially when the area is something like “get stronger.”

This is a weird spot for Wizards fans. Competent play, promising youngsters, a potential superstar performing well. It’s still a long wait to the games that matter, but this is starting to get fun.

How Cenac Jr., Mitchell can inject much-needed athleticism into Celtics originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

LAS VEGAS — An overtime-forcing 3-pointer was undoubtedly the highlight of Chris Cenac Jr.’s pro debut for the Boston Celtics at Vegas Summer League on Friday night. But our favorite moment came earlier when Cenac tried one of the most ambitious putbacks in summer league history and nearly impaled a teammate in the process.

Crashing hard from the 3-point line on a Curtis Jones miss, Cenac skied from the dotted line, caught the long rebound with one hand, and tried to use his 7-foot-5 wingspan to hurtle the ball near the rim. Poor Dillon Mitchell got caught underneath the soaring Cenac Jr. and the two crumpled to the court together after the failed attempt.

“He almost took me out on a putback,” cracked Mitchell after practice on the campus of UNLV on Saturday.

It’s usually Mitchell and his 38.5-inch vertical launching himself over opponents. He was able to laugh off getting a taste of his own medicine.

“I can understand how other people feel when I do it now,” said Mitchell. “So it was a good feeling for me to feel it.”

Cenac Jr., the 27th pick in June’s draft, posted 14 points, 10 rebounds, and 4 blocks over 29 minutes off the bench in his Boston debut. He rescued the Celtics in the final seconds of regulation, knocking down a buzzer-beating, corner 3-pointer off a pretty feed from Milos Uzan.

Mitchell, the 40th pick in June’s draft, finished with four points, two blocks, and two steals over 26 minutes in a starting role.

Cenac Jr. and Mitchell bring the sort of raw athleticism that the Celtics haven’t exactly been overflowing with in recent years. The Celtics need to thrust the two rookies into their player development machine and hope they can tap fully into each player’s raw potential.

Cenac Jr. is only 19 but he moves effortlessly around the court, easily changing direction and exploding towards the basket. We don’t suspect this will be the only time he tries an overly ambitious dunk attempt on the summer stage. He’s springy even off two feet. And Cenac Jr.’s length disrupts opposing shooters regardless of where they pull up from.

Mitchell floats in the air, too, and his pro debut was highlighted by both a loud, left-handed putback and a transition block where he again seemingly floated long enough to smother an opponent’s layup attempt.

After Saturday’s summer practice, and before watching film together, Mitchell and Cenac Jr. engaged in a brief impromptu dunk contest.

“Just Chris being Chris,” said Mitchell.

So who has the advantage in any dunk contest? Mitchell responded immediately.

“Chris … his length,” said Mitchell. “I’ll give it to Chris.”

Boston’s overflowing collection of young wings will complicate a pathway to playing time for the rookies, but it’s easy to see why Boston invested in their futures. The Celtics need an infusion of athleticism and it didn’t take long for Mitchell and Cenac Jr. to prove they can bring that.

Mitchell has the bruises to prove it.

When it comes to Summer League play and former Blue Devils, we forgot to check on Khaman Maluach. As expected, he had a lot of work to do as a rookie, and played 25 games in the G League for the Valley Suns.

He is playing for Phoenix in the Summer League, and on Sunday, he had a nice game against New Orleans.

Maluach finished with 15 points, 15 rebounds, and 2 blocks.

Here are two really good back-to-back plays by the former Duke big man. On the first, he rolls to the basket for a nice pick and roll, and on the other end of the court, watch how he shifts out, then goes back to block the shot.

He’s gotten a lot of reps in since getting drafted last year and he’s noticeably more muscled as well. This could be a good year for him, possibly even a breakthrough.

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Former NBA All-Star Jermaine O’Neal recently revealed that he came close to committing to Kentucky following the Wildcats’ 1996 national championship before head coach Rick Pitino gave him advice that changed his life.

Speaking on the Str8 to Da League podcast, O’Neal shared that Kentucky was his top choice coming out of high school and that Pitino had heavily recruited him, making multiple in-home visits with O’Neal and his family.

“I was going to go to Kentucky. Shout out to Rick Pitino, man. Like he recruited me, and this was like the realest thing, man. My mother loved him, man. She loved him,” O’Neal said.

According to O’Neal, Pitino’s honesty ultimately convinced him to skip college and enter the NBA Draft.

“He was sitting in our living room, he came four times on visits, and he said, ‘Look, everything I know about you and your family, the struggles, the things you’re going through.’ He said, ‘We’re going to be good with you, or we’re going to be good without you. Would love to have you, but you should go pro.’ That was the realest thing, bro. When he said that, it made complete sense.”

O’Neal went on to become the No. 17 overall pick in the 1996 NBA Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers, and had an 18-year NBA career that included six All-Star selections, three All-NBA Team honors, and averages of 13.2 points and 7.2 rebounds across more than 1,000 career games.

While Kentucky fans can only imagine what could have been, O’Neal’s comments offered another example of Pitino’s reputation for putting players’ long-term interests ahead of recruiting victories.

Darryn Peterson has now played four games as a member of the Utah Jazz. Two in Salt Lake City in the SLC Summer League and two in Las Vegas. It is highly doubtful that he will suit up for the Jazz again this summer, as Sarah Todd of Deseret News reported that he will be held out of the game on Monday night against Caleb Wilson and the Chicago Bulls. He could play in the subsequent game against the San Antonio Spurs on July 15th, but if I were a betting man, I would assume he probably won’t. Four games will likely be all we get from Darryn Peterson in the 2026 Summer League, which raises the question: did we see enough from our second-overall pick to remain excited about his potential to become one of the best players in the NBA?

Alright, let’s face it: if you are ACTUALLY trying to draw hard conclusions from Summer League about whether or not a player will be successful in the NBA, you are better off just guessing. The level of competition simply is not very good, and the sample size and team context make it unreasonable to base everything on Summer League. We have seen players like Jalen Brunson be extremely mediocre in Summer League while a guy like Trey Lyles looks like the next league MVP. The player’s work ethic, health, and team developmental staff will largely determine the heights that they will achieve, and Summer League is merely a showcase for their talent.

That being said, I have been seeing an inordinate amount of discourse around Darryn Peterson’s summer league performances. From turnovers to efficiency to defense and everything in between. Some of that discourse might just be rage-baiters from our nation’s capital who finally have hope again for the first time since peak John Wall. But some is coming within the walls of the Jazz fanbase itself. Should we worry about his shooting efficiency? What about his playmaking? Is he gonna be the 4th best player in the class? What I did was compile some stats from the Summer League performances of players comparable to Darryn Peterson to see where his stats (yes I know it is summer league) compare to their stats (again, yes, I understand it is JUST summer league).

As you can see, Darryn’s stats over 4 games in Summer League are actually very comparable to those of other similar guards during their time in Summer League. Please DO NOT misunderstand the message I am trying to send with these stats. All of these guys listed above, besides Darryn, have been to All-Star Games, made All-NBA teams, won MVP awards, played in the NBA Finals, and won championships for their respective teams. Can you say confidently that Darryn Peterson will reach those same milestones with the Utah Jazz based purely on his 4-game Summer League sample size? No. But you also shouldn’t stop yourself from being excited about having a prospect that could do that.

Listen, Jazz fans, I get it. This is uncharted territory for us here in Utah. We aren’t used to having the guy that all the national media wants to talk about. We aren’t used to primetime, box-office matchups involving us. Frankly, we aren’t used to drafting prospects that don’t take a little searching and wishful thinking to find something we like about their game, especially early on in their careers. I am asking politely to just sit back and enjoy this era of Jazz basketball we are about to embark on. This is real life: the Utah Jazz have the number two overall pick in the 2026 draft. His name is Darryn Peterson, aka “Bucket Jones”, aka “The Boogieman”. He is real, and he is an absolute stud. Nothing he has done in Summer League should deter your excitement for the future of the Utah Jazz. While not an end-all, be-all by any means, his Summer League stats are actually pretty comparable to some of the best guards in recent memory. Through four games in Summer League, it appears that Darryn Peterson is just as good as advertised.

The Milwaukee Bucks drop to 0-2 in Summer League following a 90-80 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. Brayden Burries and Cormac Ryan were the lone Bucks players to hit double figures, with the no. 10 pick scoring 26 points and Ryan putting up 15, as the team struggled offensively, shooting 15/39 from the field (38.5%). Nate Ament struggled once again, going just 3-for-7 from the field for seven points and three turnovers. RJ Davis led the Spurs with 20 points and three assists, while four other Spurs joined him in double figures.

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Game Recap

Burries got the Bucks on the board early, pulling out a shot fake from three and finishing with an 11-foot mid-range jumper. Milwaukee had a hard time holding on to the ball after that, with second-year guard Kasparas Jakučionis committing three straight turnovers, but luckily, San Antonio couldn’t make them pay. The Spurs started to build a lead thanks to their three-point shooting from RJ Melendez and Ja’Kobi Gillespie, going up 13-6 with three minutes left in the quarter. Things went from bad to worse for the Bucks, who missed seven straight shots and committed three more turnovers, as the Spurs went up by 17 points before Jesse Edwards finally stopped the bleeding with back-to-back buckets in the paint. San Antonio would have the last laugh of the frame, though, as Emanuel Miller banked in a floater at the buzzer, giving them a 25-10 lead at the first break.

The Bucks continued to struggle to find the bottom of the basket, missing their first four shots before Burries got open on a back cut to the rim. The Spurs expanded their lead during the Bucks’ dry spell, going up by as many as 21. Burries was the only Milwaukee player to find any modicum of success on offense, drilling a catch-and-shoot three-pointer amid his teammates’ struggles. Cormac Ryan and Jakučionis made the first consecutive baskets, with Jakučionis hitting a euro-step layup and Ryan drilling a transition three. Ryan hit his second three-pointer of the game, cutting the Spurs’ lead to 17 points heading into halftime, 42-25.

After a quiet first half, Ament got a bucket right out of the break with a corner-three. Another recent Bucks draft pick, 2025 second-rounder Bogoljub Marković, got his first basket on a reverse layup on a feed from Pete Nance. Despite those early fireworks, both teams struggled to put the ball in the hoop. At the 5:51 mark, these out-of-conference foes had combined for just 10 points on 3/13 shooting. The Bucks finally got their first extended run of the game, going on a 10-0 dash thanks to six more points from Burries, cutting the Spurs’ lead in half before they called a timeout. Ryan helped Milwaukee briefly cut the deficit to single digits with a free throw, but RJ Davis scored on back-to-back possessions, putting San Antonio up by 12, 59-47, heading into the fourth.

After Jakučionis’ early baskets helped the Bucks get back within nine, the Spurs pushed their lead back out to double digits on Davis’ second three of the game. The turnover bug bit them once again, as Pete Nance turned it over (the 20th for the Bucks), as Davis scored a layup to push San Antonio’s lead to 15 with 4:02 on the clock. The Bucks did try to make it interesting in the waning moments, with Burries nailing a three with 47 seconds left to cut the deficit to six, but by then it was too little, too late.

Stat That Stood Out

I feel like the stats that sum up this game best are the Bucks’ 10-for-34 (29.4%) first-half shooting and 12 turnovers. While the Spurs did have 14 first-half turnovers, they shot 14/38 (36.8%) from the field.

The Los Angeles Lakers have moved forward with the Luka Doncic era, spending the summer reconstructing the roster around the point guard.

The Lakers’ options opened up after veteran LeBron James told the franchise he wasn’t going to return to the team and test free agency.

The Lakers knew acquiring a talented center to complement Doncic on the roster would’ve needed to be a priority this summer.

Doncic had reportedly requested an "A-List" center, according to ESPN’s Dave McMenamin.

Deandre Ayton spent the past season as the primary player at the position and decided to pick up his player option for the upcoming season. After the Lakers made some of their offseason moves, Ayton was traded to the Washington Wizards.

The former No. 1 overall pick averaged 12.5 points and eight rebounds in 72 games for Los Angeles this past season.While most of the Lakers’ roster was reshuffled, the team did manage to re-sign Austin Reaves, who has continued to come into his own for Los Angeles after originally going undrafted.

Here’s how the Lakers did during free agency:

If you didn’t see, the Utah Jazz had planned to have Keyonte George coach their summer league team in their first game in Las Vegas.

It was a really fun idea and seemed like a great way to get more involvement with Keyonte George with the Jazz’s new young rookie, Darryn Peterson.

Well, the NBA just can’t leave the jazz alone and five days later they put the kabosh on this, even though the Jazz did what they could to make it fit within the rules.

It’s important to set a precedent, right? Well, the NBA ended up going back on that, apparently. It looks like

Obviously this isn’t a huge thing, but why would they allow the Celtics to do something and not the Jazz? It’s the principle of it that’s really irritating and definitely brings up memories of the jazz gettin a fine for something that so many other teams were doing. If you wanted evidence of why Jazz fans start wearing tin foil hats and wonder what conspiricies are out there against them. Like I said, it’s a small thing but it would be really nice if Adam Silver had any sort of consistency with anything, other than consistently deciding to rule against the Jazz.

The Washington Wizards blew right past the Sacramento Kings on Sunday to stay undefeated in NBA Summer League play. The Wiz kids won 104-85 in front of a substantial crowd packed inside the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nev.

AJ Dybantsa started the game off with a made triple after missing all 5 of his three-point attempts during Washington’s Summer League opener. He seemed to be hunting for outside looks early, in what briefly felt like a prove-it move to silence his critics. He finished the game 1-for-6 from distance.

Anyone bothered by AJ forcing his jump shot need only watch him block Acuff’s three on one end, then race down the court on the other end for a layup to feel better.

The Wizards were not as sharp when the starters came off the floor. The bench unit only scored 4 points in the final 3:51 of the first quarter to fall behind 24-18.

Dybantsa started the 2nd quarter and set the tone on defense. He was hounding ball-handlers and forcing deflections, which helped keep the Kings scoreless for nearly three minutes.

AJ’s offensive gravity helped open up the offense, sparking a 12-0 run to begin the period. He made a few good passes that did not result in assists on the box score. Will Riley got hot in the second as Washington raced out to a 54-41 lead at halftime.

Dybantsa also had a fantastic finish at the rim, once again contorting his 6’9” frame to guide in a layup. He got to the line 4 times and made every free throw, giving him 17 before the break.

The second half belonged to Riley. The second-year swingman went supernova on Sacramento, scoring 25 of his 32 points after the break.

Riley got red-hot from three-point range. He finished the game 6-for-8 from deep, including a couple of And-1s that made it seem like he had a magnet guiding the ball through the rim.

Riley led all scorers with his 32 points on 9-for-14 shooting. Dybantsa, despite short-arming his jumper for most of the night, still stuffed the stat sheet with 23 points, seven rebounds, two assists, three steals, and two blocks.

Washington will be back in action again on Tuesday in a duel against the Chicago Bulls and No. 4 overall pick Caleb Wilson.

Former Los Angeles Lakers coach Frank Vogel is expected to join Steve Kerr and the Golden State Warriors this season.

Vogel will serve as an associate head coach on Kerr's staff, according to ESPN's Shams Charania, and will fill the vacancy left by Terry Stotts.

Stotts and Jerry Stackhouse were two of Kerr's top assistants this past season before departing. Another longtime assistant, Chris DeMarco, had also left Kerr's staff in January to become the New York Liberty's head coach.

Vogel is expected to serve as the Warriors’ primary defensive game-planner as part of his new role. DeMarco and Stackhouse were in charge of those responsibilities in recent years.

Vogel was most recently with the Dallas Mavericks as an assistant under Jason Kidd. He was head coach of the Lakers from 2019 to 2022, leading the franchise to its 17th NBA title in 2020 after beating the Miami Heat in six games while in the NBA bubble due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He had also led the Indiana Pacers, as head coach, to two Eastern Conference Finals in 2013 and 2014.

LAS VEGAS — Derrick White walked into the Cox Pavilion in the same pink polo shirt that the Celtics coaching staff donned.

Two nights earlier, he had sat courtside on the Celtics sidelines for the Summer League opener, chatting with teammates Jayson Tatum, Neemias Queta, and Jordan Walsh.

But, that was Friday, and his afternoon spent hanging out on the sidelines seemed like a distant memory.

On Sunday, he was not a spectator: he showed up to Summer League to help coach the squad.

And, head coach Amile Jefferson was thrilled to welcome him.

“He’s such a good guy, man,” Jefferson said. “Me and him have gotten really close. Love that dude. Obviously, he’s incredible off the court, and you know, more incredible on the court. And me and him have a great relationship. We talked about it. He was like, ‘I’m going to come coach a game.’ I was like, ‘Come on, let’s do it.’”

Several people in the Celtics organization have maintained that White is poised to eventually become a great coach. In the Celtics’ 87-75 win over the Hornets, White took a backseat role, but still made his impact felt.

At multiple points in the first half, he pulled Hugo Gonzalez and pointed out some things to him on the floor.

In the second half, he pleaded his case with the officiating staff regarding a no-call against the Charlotte Hornets.

Jordan Walsh, who was sitting courtside, didn’t know White was planning on coaching the Summer League game, but that once he saw him with the coaches, it made all the sense in the world.

“He fits the profile perfectly,” Walsh said. “I was looking around for him, and I saw him on the jumbotron, and I was like, ‘What?’ or on the screen. I was like, “Huh? Yeah, he blends in perfectly.”

Rookie Dillon Mitchell, who had a career-best showing with 24 points, 8 rebounds, and 6 steals, said that throughout the game, White was in his ear with a simple message: “You’re not allowed to get tired.”

And, after the game, Jefferson affirmed he could see him becoming a coach.

“He’s a natural,” he said. “If he wanted to be, he’d be a head coach. I truly believe that. If he ever wants to do it, he’d be amazing. He just has great feel for people. Obviously, we all know how cerebral he is and his basketball mind, and so he’s a natural. He’d be amazing at it.”

On his way out, White held up his hands in the shape of a “W” to celebrate the win, and followed that up by signalling 1-0 to celebrate his undefeated coaching record. He shook Jefferson’s hand to thank him for giving him the opportunity.

Jefferson isn’t sure if White will be back for the Celtics’ upcoming games, but it sounds like he’d be welcome.

“We’ll see,” he said. “And if it is [his last game], he’ll probably go down as the only coach in history to be undefeated. So that’ll be a cool stat to add to his resume.”

More than anything, the Summer League head coach was grateful White took the time.

“Really good for our guys to see him doing that — to be around them, to share his knowledge with them, and then to just motivate them,” Jefferson said. “That breeds Celtics culture. That’s what it’s about.”

The Golden State Warriors are shoring up their bench for the upcoming season, agreeing to hire longtime NBA coach Frank Vogel as their new associate head coach under Steve Kerr. The high-profile addition fills a critical void on the coaching staff left by the recent departures of lead assistants Terry Stotts and Jerry Stackhouse.

Longtime NBA coach Frank Vogel has agreed to become the associate head coach for the Golden State Warriors under head coach Steve Kerr, sources tell ESPN.

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Vogel brings 12 seasons of head coaching experience and a proven championship pedigree to the Bay Area. Best known for his elite defensive schemes, he famously guided the Los Angeles Lakers to an NBA title in 2020. He most recently served as an assistant with the Dallas Mavericks following a head-coaching stint with the Phoenix Suns.

For Kerr, adding a veteran tactician of Vogel’s caliber provides a trusted sounding board and a defensive specialist to help anchor Golden State’s schemes. The move also signals the front office’s commitment to maximizing the current roster’s competitive window. By pairing Kerr’s offensive fluidity with Vogel’s structured defensive identity, the Warriors aim to re-establish themselves as legitimate title contenders in an increasingly fierce and competitive Western Conference.