Warriors coach Steve Kerr had a more positive update on Jonathan Kuminga on Tuesday.
The 23-year-old forward, who will miss his seventh consecutive game on Wednesday due to bilateral knee tendinitis, got back on the court and is making progress.
“He did 3-on-3 before practice and that went well,” Kerr told reporters after practice on Tuesday. “And then he took part in all of practice. Tomorrow, he will scrimmage. He won’t play in the game tomorrow but he will take part in a 5-on-5 scrimmage tomorrow evening before our game. And that will give us a good gauge for where he is.”
For the Warriors, a 5-on-5 scrimmage typically is the last hurdle before a player is cleared to return to game action.
Kerr said Warriors’ director of sports medicine and performance, Rick Celebrini, will watch Kuminga scrimmage and they will talk afterward to see how he feels.
Kuminga already has had a rollercoaster 2025-26 NBA season. He started the first 12 games of the season and averaged 17.2 points during that span. But his production tailed off in the last four games he played before being sidelined with the knee injury, as he averaged just 6.0 points in those contests.
“He’s got to tell you where he is,” Kerr told reporters when asked about Kuminga’s activity on Sunday (h/t ClutchPoints’ Kenzo Fukuda). “He didn’t do anything. We didn’t do scrimmages, but we did live drill work, and he barely did any of that. So, [he’s] not moving well, so the training staff [is] working with him. I have no idea what he’s doing.”
But after a couple of days and a productive day of practice, it appears Kuminga is on the right track.
“He said he’s feeling better,” Kerr told reporters. “We’ll list him as questionable for tomorrow but he’s definitely trending upward.”
The Warriors could use Green against the 11-4 Rockets, who have one of the biggest lineups in the NBA, even without Kevin Durant, who will miss Wednesday’s game to attend to a family matter.
The Rugby Football Union has no plans to begin talks with Steve Borthwick over extending his contract beyond 2027 “for the foreseeable future” despite England’s 11-match winning streak and autumn clean sweep.
Borthwick’s contract runs until the end of 2027 but with England halfway through the current World Cup cycle and currently third in the world rankings, the RFU chief executive, Bill Sweeney, has no immediate intention of discussing an extension in a sea change from the union’s previous approach.
The right-handed ace of the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball, who recently was posted and has until Jan. 2 to sign with an MLB team, declared that he has no interest in joining San Francisco’s archrival Los Angeles Dodgers, in a recent interview with former big-league pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka on the “Hodo Station” show.
That mentality must intrigue Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey.
Imai, 27, is coming off a dominant season in which he posted a 1.92 ERA and 178 strikeouts over 163 2/3 innings. He would be an enticing addition to any team, but it would be fascinating to see Imai enter the big leagues with San Francisco.
Regardless of where Imai lands, one thing is certain: he doesn’t want to help the Dodgers — and their international stars — win a third consecutive World Series title.
“If there were another Japanese player on the same team, I could just ask them about anything, right?” Imai said. “But that’s actually not what I’m looking for. In a way, I want to experience that sense of survival. When I come face-to-face with cultural differences, I want to see how I can overcome them on my own — that’s part of what I’m excited about.”
If Imai wants to take down the league’s best, then joining the Dodgers’ biggest rival — the Giants — makes sense.
He would get to face Los Angeles multiple times per season in heated divisional battles and would have the opportunity to test out his heater against the reigning NL MVP.
“I really want to see how much my fastball holds up against [Ohtani] — to test myself by throwing it to him,” Imai said.
Imai has around 40 days to make a decision. Time will tell if he chooses to don the Orange and Black.
‘We are not there yet,’ Mikel Arteta said on club’s standing
Bayern visit Arsenal in Champions League on Wednesday
Mikel Arteta believes Arsenal remain in a “different universe” to European heavyweights such as Real Madrid and Bayern Munich given they have yet to win the Champions League.
The Premier League leaders head into their meeting with Bayern at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday having won all four matches so far in the league phase and are the only team yet to concede a goal.
Angels lawyer Todd Theodora, right, gestures in the wrongful death trial brought against the team by the family of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, who died of an overdose in 2019. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press)
Fans of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs might want to hold their ears when the wrongful death trial brought by his widow and parents against the Angels resumes Monday.
The Angels are about to present their defense and, according to people with knowledge of the Angels' strategy, their attorneys plan to portray Skaggs as a selfish, secretive opioid addict who for years manipulated teammates and team communications director Eric Kay into obtaining illicit pills for him to chop up and snort.
Skaggs, a first-round draft pick of the Angels in 2009 out of Santa Monica High, was one year away from free agency when he died of an overdose July 1, 2019. He died after snorting a counterfeit opioid pill laced with fentanyl in his hotel room during an Angels trip to play the Texas Rangers in Arlington.
The left-handed starter was 27 and in the midst of his best season of seven in the big leagues when he died. His performance has been pointed to by Skaggs family lawyers as evidence he wasn't a drug addict, but instead an athlete who took pain pills to stay on the field.
So far, testimony in a small, spare courtroom on the ninth floor of the Orange County Superior Court has favored the plaintiffs — Skaggs' widow, Carli, and parents, Debbie Hetman and Darrell Skaggs.
Their lawyers called 21 witnesses over 24 days in court, attempting to establish that the pitcher's fatal overdose was the result of the Angels' negligent supervision of Kay, an admitted longtime opioid addict who is serving 22 years in prison for providing Skaggs with the pill.
The plaintiffs are asking for about $120 million in future earnings as well as additional millions for pain and suffering and punitive damages. Neither side is optimistic that a settlement can be reached ahead of a verdict.
Transcripts of trial testimony and interviews with people on both sides not authorized to speak publicly about the case provided a glimpse of the Angels' defense strategy and what the plaintiffs have accomplished so far.
The Angels pared down their witness list at the request of Judge H. Shaina Colover, who has insisted the case go to the jury by Dec. 15. The Angels complained that two weeks might not be long enough to present their case, giving the plaintiffs an unfair advantage, even suggesting the issue could lead to a mistrial.
Skaggs' lawyers, however, pointed out that the defense has taken longer to cross-examine witnesses than it took them to conduct the direct examinations. And Colover said a reason for the difference in the number of witnesses is that 12 people called by Skaggs' lawyers were on the witness lists of both sides.
Like an MLB manager constructing a lineup, Skaggs lawyers led by Rusty Hardin were purposeful in the order they presented witnesses. They began their case by calling a string of Angels executives to poke holes in the team's contention that they knew nothing about Kay's addiction. Key witnesses refuting those denials included Kay's wife, Camela, and Hetman.
Skaggs' lawyers also presented text messages that indicated Kay's supervisor, Tim Mead, and Angels traveling secretary Tom Taylor not only were aware of Kay's addiction, but did not act decisively to isolate him, get him into inpatient rehab or terminate his employment.
The plaintiffs called witnesses to establish that not only were the Angels negligent on how they dealt with Kay's addiction, they put his interest ahead of other employees and the organization by allowing him to continue working despite his bizarre behavior on the job.
The last witness before the court went into recess until Dec. 1 was human resources expert Ramona Powell, who testified that the Angels did not follow their own policies in evaluating and responding to Kay's behavior. She said that had the team done so, Kay could have been terminated well before 2019.
Expect Angels lead attorney Todd Theodora to counter that Skaggs violated his contract and was guilty of fraud by concealing his drug problem for years. Furthermore, Skaggs allegedly continued to pressure Kay to procure opioids for him even after Kay completed drug rehab shortly before the fateful trip to Texas.
During opening statements, Theodora said that the Angels "know right from wrong," but he is expected to assert that the case is more about what the team didn't know. Kay and Skaggs have been described as masters at concealing their drug use. The Angels contend that had the team known of their addiction, officials could have provided them with treatment and perhaps Skaggs would be alive.
Testimony has already established that the Angels immediately informed MLB that Kay told co-worker Adam Chodzko that he was in Skaggs' hotel room the night the pitcher died. Expect the Angels attorneys to take it a step further and assert that Kay might not have been prosecuted if the Angels hadn't acted so swiftly.
Witnesses expected to be called by the defense include Angels president John Carpino and former MLB general manager Dan Duquette. The jury will view video of depositions given by former Angels players C.J. Cron, Matt Harvey, Cam Bedrosian and Blake Parker if they cannot testify in person.
The testimony of players can cut both ways, as evidenced by statements made by two players who testified for the plaintiffs — current Angels outfielder and three-time most valuable player Mike Trout and former relief pitcher Mike Morin.
Trout testified that Skaggs was "like a brother" to him, that he cried when told he'd died and that he had no clue about drug use. But Trout also hedged when asked whether he had offered to pay for Kay's rehab, saying he just told him he'd help any way he could.
Morin, who pitched for the Angels from 2014 to 2017, said Kay sold him opioids "five to eight times" after an arm injury made him desperate to overcome pain and return to the mound. Yet under cross examination, Morin conceded that Skaggs was responsible for his own actions.
Carpino is responsible for the Angels' day-to-day operations and his office is adjacent to those of Mead, Taylor and formerly Kay. Duquette, former general manager of the Montreal Expos, Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles, is expected to testify that Skaggs' future career earnings would have been no more than $30 million because of his drug use and history of injuries.
Skaggs' lawyers called earnings expert Jeff Fannell, a former labor lawyer for the MLB Players Assn., who testified that Skaggs would have earned between $109 million and $120 million and could still be pitching.
Georgiev had only
played two AHL games for the Rochester Americans this season, both
losses, with a goals-against average of 3.57 and a save percentage of
.896.
For Georgiev, who
was born in Bulgaria but moved with his family to Russia at a young
age, it will be his first time playing in the KHL and his first time
playing in Russia since 2014, when he was 18.
From age 18 to 21,
Georgiev played in Finland, mostly for TPS Turku, with whom he played
54 Liiga regular-season and playoff games and three Champions Hockey
League games.
Never drafted by an
NHL club, Georgiev signed as a free agent with the New York Rangers
in 2017. From then until 2025, he played 303 NHL regular-season
games with the Rangers, Colorado
Avalanche and San Jose Sharks,
compiling a record of 151-108-26 with 15 shutouts, a goals-against
average of 2.99 and a save percentage of .903. He also played 20
playoff games, where his record was 9-10 with a 2.72 average and .904
save percentage.
Georgiev joins a
Spartak team that sits seventh in the KHL’s 11-team Western
Conference with a record of 14-12-3 through 29 games. Spartak’s
roster includes Slovak ex-NHLers Adam
Ružička and Christian Jaroš. He will likely
share a crease with 30-year-old Artyom Zagidulin, who played
one game for the Calgary Flames in
2021.
The Pittsburgh Penguins got off to an 8-2-2 start to the 2025-26 season and were the best team in the NHL after October.
They were getting contributions throughout the lineup at both 5v5 and on the man-advantage, plus getting elite goaltending from Arturs Silovs and Tristan Jarry. The goaltending has remained good in November, even without Tristan Jarry for a bit, but the offense has really dried up, leading to them losing seven of nine games this month. Part of it is due to numerous forwards being out of the lineup, but another part of it is due to some players not being up to par.
With that in mind, here's a look at a few forwards that need to be better for the Penguins.
Tommy Novak
I was really high on Novak heading into the year and liked the move to get him from the Nashville Predators during last season's trade deadline. He has a history of being a productive playmaker and has an underrated release, but has been really underwhelming to start the year, compiling only two goals and seven points in 21 games. He also doesn't have a point in the last four Penguins' games.
We saw a glimpse of some early chemistry between him and Evgeni Malkin during the second game against the Los Angeles Kings on Nov. 9, but since then, it's been a lot of nothing. Heck, even when he has gone back down to the third line with first-round pick Benjamin Kindel, the chemistry between the two hasn't been the same as it was earlier in the season.
It feels like Novak is second-guessing everything he does when he's on the ice. If he can find his game, it would give the Penguins another good option for their middle six, especially due to how versatile he is.
Bryan Rust
It may seem odd that someone with 15 points in 19 games needs to be better, but only five of those points are goals. Rust hasn't scored a goal in his last six games and only has one point during that time, too.
He hasn't been forechecking as well as he normally does, and the puck is also being dislodged from his stick quite a bit. He's also not playing well in his own zone when his line is hemmed in. Per MoneyPuck, out of 17 forwards who have played at least 50 minutes at 5v5 for the Penguins, Rust ranks 16th in on-ice expected goals with 43.9%. The process simply hasn't been there.
Rust has been a core leader on this team for the last several years and is coming off a career season, finishing with 31 goals and 65 points in 71 games. However, his game hasn't been up to par, and it needs to change.
Hayes has only played in six games since he missed the start of the season due to an injury he suffered during training camp, but has looked a couple of steps slow in the top six.
He's a short-term replacement for Justin Brazeau on the second line, who was lighting it up for the Penguins before getting hurt at the end of October. Brazeau, Evgeni Malkin, and Anthony Mantha couldn't be stopped by teams when they were in the offensive zone.
Hayes was fine in a depth role last year despite his lack of footspeed, racking up 13 goals and 23 points in 64 games, but has yet to produce a lot of offense this year, compiling only one assist.
I don't expect him to light the league on fire, but he needs to be a lot more noticeable.
Rick Barnes didn’t have long to enjoy 17th-ranked Tennessee’s lopsided win against Rutgers. Not with No. 3 Houston awaiting as part of a loaded field at the Players Era.
The Hockey News' Ryan Kennedy recently ranked the top 100 hockey players who are 21 years old or younger.
The Hockey News has now revealed the players who were ranked from No. 81 to No. 100, and Montreal Canadiens prospect David Reinbacher made it. This is because Kennedy ranked Reinbacher at the No. 97 spot.
With Reinbacher being a young defenseman with good potential, it makes sense that he has made this list. Injury trouble has kept him off the ice a lot early on his career, but he has still shown promise when healthy.
In 31 games over three seasons with the Canadiens' AHL affiliate, the Laval Rocket, Reinbacher has posted seven goals, 10 assists, 17 points, and a plus-12 rating. He has also been off to a solid start this season with Laval, recording three goals, four assists, seven points, and a plus-1 rating in 10 games thus far.
Reinbacher was selected by the Canadiens with the fifth-overall pick of the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, and they have high hopes that he will be a big part of their blueline in the future. The 21-year-old blueliner has good upside, and it will be fascinating to see how he continues to develop his game.
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The Magic fell 138-129 to the Boston Celtics on Sunday, putting an end to their three-game win streak. Jett Howard scored a season-high 30 points, while Jase Richardson and Desmond Bane each added 18 points. Franz Wagner, who currently leads Orlando in scoring (23 ppg), finished with 15 points, 8 rebounds, and 5 assists in the win.
The Magic are still without their star forward, Paolo Banchero, who suffered a left groin strain on November 12. He is second on the team in scoring (21.7 ppg) and leads the Magic in rebounding (8.7 rpg). There is no timetable for Banchero's return.
Philadelphia 76ers:
The 76ers are coming off a 127-117 loss to the Miami Heat on Sunday. Tyrese Maxey led the way for Philadelphia with 27 points, while Trendon Watford added 19 points and 9 rebounds off the bench.
Maxey has scored at least 20 points in all 16 games this season. He is second in the league in scoring with 33 points per game, behind only Luka Doncic (34.5 ppg).
Joel Embiid has missed the last seven straight games due to knee soreness. He is currently listed as questionable for tonight's game.
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The 6-foot-4 junior guard had a huge week, averaging 31.7 points, 7.7 rebounds and 6.0 assists in three games. The Big 12 player of the week started with 31 points and 10 rebounds in a win over Tulsa, becoming the first Wildcats player to post a 30/10 double-double since freshman star Michael Beasley in 2008.
LeBron James has only been back on the court for two games this season, his record 23rd in the NBA, and already the talk is about whether there will be a 24th season for the legend. And if that would be with the Lakers.
The prevailing theory in league circles has been that he would play one more season, kind of a farewell tour, then step away — but LeBron himself remains undecided on playing another season, reports Dave McMenamin of ESPN. The focus of the story is LeBron's record 21-year streak of making an All-NBA team (which is in jeopardy, he can miss only two more games this season and still qualify under the 65-game rule), but it also touches on his future.
At the same time, if James believes this could be his last season -- something that sources close to James have insisted that he remains undecided about -- he might feel even more responsibility to suit up for every game on what would then be a retirement tour.
After missing the first 14 games of the season due to sciatica on his right side, part of LeBron's decision on another season will be physical — how does he feel after this season? Does he believe his body can handle one more? However, nobody in the league takes better care of their body than LeBron. The bigger question is one other legends in sport have discussed, including the Lakers' own Kobe Bryant: At age 41, will he want to put in all the work it will take to physically and mentally play another season? While his love of the game can't be questioned, there comes a point when the greats know it's time to walk away.
Only LeBron can answer if he is there yet, and he very well may not have that answer until this season ends for him and the Lakers, whenever that might be.
If LeBron decides to play another season (or more), he will be a free agent this summer and will have to decide whether that final year is with the Lakers or somewhere else — one more return to Cleveland? New York? Golden State? But before that speculation can get serious, LeBron will have to make a call on that farewell tour, or if this season — with the All-Star Game in Los Angeles (and on NBC and Peacock) — is the time to step away.
It sounds like LeBron hasn't yet decided what he plans to do.
Week 5 is in the books, and a full month of NBA action is now officially in the rearview.
We take a look at which players are rising and which are slipping ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
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A slower start to the season could have been anticipated for Reid, but he’s been significantly more productive over the past couple of weeks. He’s averaging 17.5 points,7.3 rebounds and 2.7 three-pointers since the middle of the month, with a couple of huge performances sprinkled in. He offers a high ceiling almost every time he steps on the floor, given his shooting and scoring versatility at the position. What continues to stop Reid from really taking off is the fact that he plays behind a productive starting frontcourt. Still, he’s a double-double threat each time he takes the floor, with the potential to take a leap should an opportunity present itself for Reid to log more minutes over an extended period. Regardless, he’s a nice depth option at his position in fantasy leagues.
Andre Drummond - C, 76ers
Given Drummond’s track record as a big-time rebounder and play finisher around the rim, and Joel Embiid’s struggles to stay on the floor, it's easy to be sold on Drummond’s potential moving forward. He won’t consistently secure north of 20 rebounds, as he did in the Sixers’ most recent game against the Heat when he totaled 24 boards. However, it’s not far-fetched to imagine that the veteran center will pull in numbers that rival his November averages of 10.6 points and 12.7 rebounds per game — in seven starts this season, those numbers jump to 12.0 points and 14.0 rebounds. Drummond is rostered in fewer than half of Yahoo! leagues currently. He could serve as a reliable roster addition for those fantasy managers looking for rebounding and field-goal percentage.
I’m here for the Ayo Dosunmu takeover. He’s been a good player throughout his career, but he’s been at his best this season from a production standpoint, and it’s been fun to follow. He’s averaging a career-high in points per game despite his production coming in his fewest minutes per game since his sophomore season. Everything is trending in the right direction for Dosunmu at the moment: He’s fresh off a season-high 28 points in the Bulls’ most recent game, has scored at least 20 points in three of the past five games, and has started the last three. Finding a way to consistently contribute in other ways aside from scoring will take his fantasy value to the next level. Still, stock up.
Since his career-best 33-point, 19-rebound performance in Sacramento against the Kings earlier in November, Hartenstein’s numbers haven’t necessarily popped. He’s averaged a modest 11.0 points and 9.9 rebounds per game in the eight games that followed, which are fine, but nothing breathtaking. Surely he’s remained an impactful player for the Thunder, as they continue to win games and prove they are the best team in the league. But when examining the recent numbers from the point of view of a fantasy basketball manager, it’s easy to want more production.
Jaren Jackson Jr. - PF, C, Grizzlies
It’s been a strange season in Memphis, and it's made for unspectacular fantasy production for some of their top guys. Ja Morant’s struggles were highlighted in one of our most recent pieces, so now we turn our production to the next decorated player. Jackson Jr.’s scoring has dipped, the defensive stats from a blocks and steals standpoint are no longer special, and rebounding remains a part of his game that hasn’t developed. But what’s been most notable to me is how the former DPOY and player with superstar potential hasn’t been able to elevate his game in the absence of other star players around him. He’s made it to the 20-point mark three times this season, and has yet to reach double figures as a rebounder. From a strictly fantasy standpoint, I’ve been waiting for the numbers to pop — such a thing doesn’t appear imminent.
Joel Embiid - C, 76ers
Embiid has missed the last seven Sixers games, but even when he eventually makes his return, there’s no telling how productive he’ll be, or what his workload will look like. The former league MVP is averaging fewer than 20.0 points per game for the first time in his career and is pulling down a career-low 5.5 rebounds on average. Getting through the regular season in good health for a playoff run likely is the priority for Embiid and the Sixers’ organization alike. And with the group playing solid basketball in his absence, he may have a bit more time to trust the process. However, those fantasy managers who have Embiid on their roster should consider picking up Andre Drummond as an insurance option.
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