<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/jabari-parker-record-straight-viral-crying-video');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jabari Parker sets record straight on viral crying video');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jabari-Parker-sets-record-straight-on-viral-crying-video.jpg"></figure><h1>Jabari Parker sets record straight on viral crying video</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-06-05T10:12:12-07:00">June 5th, 10:12am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-06-05T10:12:12-07:00">June 5th, 10:12am</time><address><a>Preston Byers</a>Preston Byers is an experienced writer and journalist who currently serves as an associate editor for ClutchPoints and as a staff writer at The Vindicator and Tribune Chronicle, where he covers sports in the Mahoning Valley. Previously, Preston worked as an associate editor for Dot Esports and a site expert for FanSided's Union and Blue.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-news-former-no-2-overall-pick-jabari-parker-why-he-left-league">Jabari Parker was</a> once thought to be a soon-to-be superstar in the NBA. The second overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, there were high hopes and expectations after Parker’s lone season at Duke. Things did not work out the way he or anyone had hoped, though, as injuries limited his potential and eventually forced him out of the NBA.</p><p>More than a year after being waived by the Boston Celtics and playing his last NBA game, Parker signed with FC Barcelona in seemingly a last-ditch effort to remain in basketball. Parker not only stayed in basketball but thrived in his first season with Barcelona this year, averaging 10.6 points and 4.2 rebounds as a valuable rotation player for Barca. So when he was asked after the team’s season-ending loss about the experience of his first year overseas, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-news-jabari-parker-breaks-down-in-tears-after-question-over-basketball-career">Parker broke down into tears</a>.</p><p>Some theorized that Parker was disappointed with himself or sad that he was no longer in the NBA, but Parker <a href="https://streamable.com/1shefe">says that he</a> was crying tears of joy.</p><p>“Basically, it was all happy, happiness,” Parker said. “It was gratitude for this organization for giving me an opportunity, for my teammates for making me happy about this experience. I have nothing but great things to say about the Barcelona experience that I’ve had, especially being on the team of FC Barcelona. It’s been nothing but a dream of mine. And because of this place, I’ve found my love for the game again. And I wasn’t sure if I’d play basketball again, but because of FC Barcelona, the fans, my teammates, my coaches, my friends here, I’ve found that love again and I’m passionate. ”</p><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><h2><b>Jabari Parker: From the NBA to overseas</b></h2><p>Along with Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/jabari-parker-finds-new-team-but-its-not-in-the-nba">Jabari Parker arrived</a> in the NBA in 2014. The trio were the top three picks in that year’s NBA Draft, and while it may not seem like it now, there was a real decision that had to be made by the Cleveland Cavaliers, who held the No. 1 overall pick.</p><p>While the Cavaliers went with Wiggins, the Milwaukee Bucks did not leave Parker on the board any longer and took him with the second overall pick. Thought to be another Chicago phenom — Parker starred at the same high school as Derrick Rose — Parker was dealt the first major injury of his NBA career when he tore his left ACL just two months into his rookie season.</p><p>A little over two years later, amid a season in which he was averaging 20.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 2.8 assists, Parker tore the same ACL again. He returned a year later from injury but did not receive nearly the same playing time or factor into the team’s offense nearly as much as a result of the rise of Giannis Antetokounmpo. In the subsequent offseason, Parker left Milwaukee and signed with his hometown team, the Chicago Bulls.</p><p>Parker’s hometown reunion would not last long, as just months into the 2018-19 season, Chicago traded Parker to the Washington Wizards. After just 25 games with Washington, Parker signed a contract with the Atlanta Hawks, who similarly traded Parker to the Sacramento Kings at the trade deadline. After a year with the Kings, Parker was waived and eventually signed with the Boston Celtics, who also waived Parker twice in 2021 and 2022.</p><p>In Parker’s first season with Barcelona, the team failed to win any hardware for the first time in four years.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jabari Parker sets record straight on viral crying video

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba-news-jabari-parker-breaks-down-in-tears-after-question-over-basketball-career');   ga('set', 'title', 'Former Bucks forward Jabari Parker breaks down in tears after question over basketball career');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Former-Bucks-forward-Jabari-Parker-breaks-down-in-tears-after-question-over-basketball-career.jpg"></figure><h1>Former Bucks forward Jabari Parker breaks down in tears after question over basketball career</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-06-03T06:52:34-07:00">June 3rd, 6:52am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-06-03T09:03:29-07:00">June 3rd, 9:03am</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Jedd Pagaduan is a certified Clippers and Gunners fan, which means he's a very sports-traumatized individual. He now writes about sports instead as a form of therapy.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The last 10 years were a roller coaster for one of the most highly touted prospects in the history of NBA, combo forward Jabari Parker.</p><p>Parker was widely regarded as a franchise-altering talent, and the Milwaukee Bucks certainly thought as much when they drafted him with the second-overall pick of the 2014 NBA Draft. However, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/jabari-parker-finds-new-team-but-its-not-in-the-nba">Parker’s career</a> did not go exactly the way he and many envisioned it would.</p><p>In 2024, Parker finds himself <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-news-former-no-2-overall-pick-jabari-parker-why-he-left-league">plying his trade</a> for FC Barcelona of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. Now, that league is popular for being one of the most competitive outside of the NBA. Thus, the former Bucks forward doesn’t exactly have anything to hang his head about, even if injury woes have sapped him of the NBA career he would have liked himself to have.</p><p>But in a tender moment following Barca’s 95-92 loss to Real Madrid that knocked them out of Liga ACB championship contention, Jabari Parker broke down in tears after a reporter’s question <a href="https://twitter.com/JijantesFC/status/1797375845134405906" rel="noopener">made him reflect</a> on his first year playing overseas following a snakebitten career stateside.</p><p>Via Jijantes FC on Twitter (X):</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="es">📺DIRECTO <a href="https://twitter.com/JijantesFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JijantesFC</a> </p><p>La emoción de Jabari Parker en la entrevista con <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcMundet78?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarcMundet78</a> 🏀 después de la eliminación del Barça de baloncesto del playoff al título. Momento de piel de gallina <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/jijantesfc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#jijantesfc</a></p><p>🔗 <a href="https://t.co/OGW0AKBuBT">https://t.co/OGW0AKBuBT</a> <a href="https://t.co/2tLnGCEdGP">pic.twitter.com/2tLnGCEdGP</a></p><p>— Jijantes FC (@JijantesFC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JijantesFC/status/1797375845134405906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Jabari Parker showed in FC Barcelona’s valiant effort despite their defeat to Real Madrid in the semifinal that he still has plenty of gas left in the tank. He led Barca in scoring with 27 points on 11-of-18 shooting from the field; in fact, this was his season high, and it could not have come in a game with higher stakes.</p><p>However, it’s evident that the past year has been difficult for Parker. Not only is he just 29 years old and he wants to prove that he’s still capable of playing at a high level, he also had to acclimate to a new environment.</p><p>It’s not easy leaving the place you’ve called home for 28 years, but Parker continues to soldier on and play the game he loves for a living — injury problems and all.</p><h2><b>Jabari Parker was supposed to be the game’s next big superstar</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Bucks-players-Jabari-Parker-left-and-Giannis-Antetokounmpo-pose-for-a-picture-during-media-day.jpg"></figure><p>Three blue-chip prospects headlined the 2014 NBA Draft; Jabari Parker, Andrew Wiggins, and Joel Embiid were all seen as franchise saviors of sorts, with Parker even having a realistic shot at being taken with the first-overall pick.</p><p>When he fell to the Bucks with the second-overall selection, they gladly took him and put him alongside their young core of Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton.</p><p>However, Parker played in only 25 games during his rookie season after sustaining a torn ACL only three months into his debut NBA campaign. Understandably, he didn’t take a big leap in his sophomore campaign since he was recovering still from a serious knee injury.</p><p>But in his third season, Parker was as dangerous as it can get. He averaged over 20 points per game and was flashing a much-improved three-level scoring game that allowed him to draw Carmelo Anthony comparisons when he was younger.</p><p>But in February 2017, Parker sustained another torn ACL to the same knee he injured back in December 2014. Parker would never be the same. The Bucks let him go in the 2018 offseason with the Chicago Bulls swooping in to take a chance on the hometown kid.</p><p>The trio of Parker, Antetokounmpo, and Middleton had future contention written all over the Bucks. Parker became a much better player earlier than Antetokounmpo did. Alas, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/wizards-news-jabari-parker-suffers-left-knee-sprain-vs-bulls">Parker’s knees</a> did not allow him to reach his full potential in Milwaukee.</p><h2><b>Parker’s last years in the NBA</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Celtics-forward-Jabari-Parker-20-drives-the-ball-around-Miami-Heat-guard-Duncan-Robinson-55.jpg"></figure><p>From 2018 to 2022, Jabari Parker struggled to find a home in the NBA. The Bulls saw that Parker’s scoring was still there, but his defensive capabilities, or lack thereof, were very much troubling. Parker didn’t even last an entire season in the Windy City with the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/wizards-news-bradley-beal-says-jabari-parker-is-very-versatile-has-enjoyed-playing-with-him">Bulls shipping him off</a> to the Washington Wizards in 2019 after a disappointing few months.</p><p>The Wizards then declined his huge team option in 2019, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/hawks-news-jabari-parker-cites-security-reasons-for-why-he-cant-divulge-how-role-different-atlanta">paving the way</a> for him to move to the Atlanta Hawks. Parker only played in 32 games for the Hawks before he found himself on the move once more, with the Sacramento Kings trading for him. He only played nine total games for the Kings before they waived him in 2021.</p><p>Parker’s final stop in the NBA, at least to this point, came in Boston. The combo forward lasted nine months with the Boston Celtics before they waived him in January 2022, months before the Celtics went all the way to the NBA Finals.</p><p>Parker made a few attempts at an NBA comeback, but not a single team was willing to dedicate a roster spot to him. Perhaps if Parker continues to play well like he’s doing for FC Barcelona, then a return to the NBA may not be too far off.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Former Bucks forward Jabari Parker breaks down in tears after question over basketball career

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba-news-former-no-2-overall-pick-jabari-parker-why-he-left-league');   ga('set', 'title', 'Former No. 2 overall pick Jabari Parker gets brutally honest on why he left league');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Former-No.-2-overall-pick-Jabari-Parker-gets-brutally-honest-on-why-he-left-league.jpg"></figure><h1>Former No. 2 overall pick Jabari Parker gets brutally honest on why he left league</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-09-26T09:18:42-07:00">September 26th, 9:18am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-09-26T13:58:03-07:00">September 26th, 1:58pm</time><address><a>Eva Geitheim</a>Eva started as an Associate Editor for Clutch Points in 2023 after recently graduating from UCLA. She has previously written for Lineups.com and is a big fan of all Bay Area sports.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The 2014 NBA No. 2 overall pick Jabari Parker is revealing the true reason why <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/jabari-parker-finds-new-team-but-its-not-in-the-nba" rel="noopener">he left the NBA</a> to join FC Barcelona in the EuroLeague. The former Duke star spent nine years in the NBA before heading to Barcelona this year.</p><p>According to Parker, he no longer wanted to play in the NBA because only a few teams are competitive while many have a tanking culture.</p><p>Parker <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPoints/status/1706683802007851447" rel="noopener">explained</a>, “I just want to be a part of something legitimate. I want to be a part of ‘every game matters’. Sadly, the NBA is a business, and there are 10-12 teams that try to win every game, and the other half try to get a draft pick. Where does that leave good players? You either have to be super good or bad, to lose games. It’s no excuse to see DeMarcus Cousins, Dwight Howard, or John Wall, guys who are potentially going into the Hall of Fame… seeing those guys not have a job? We are seeing the league getting watered down, unfortunately,” via Alex Molina of Euro Hoops.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">"I just want to be a part of something legitimate. I want to be a part of 'every game matters'. Sadly, the NBA is a business and there are 10-12 teams that try to win every game and the other half try to get a draft pick. Where does that leave good players? You either have to be… <a href="https://t.co/jQyA3mH1KD">pic.twitter.com/jQyA3mH1KD</a></p><p>— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPoints/status/1706683802007851447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Jabari Parker is definitely right to an extent about some of his points. The NBA has been known for tanking more than potentially any other league and regularly sees superstars go to waste if they are not on contenders. Meanwhile, Parker is joining a team in FC Barcelona who is regularly one of the top teams in Spanish basketball.</p><p>It’s also noteworthy that Parker may not have had many competitive chances left in the NBA. After spending 2014-18 with the Milwaukee Bucks, who drafted him, Parker had stints with the Bulls, Wizards, Hawks, Kings, and Celtics. The last two teams <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/celtics-news-boston-makes-final-decision-on-jabari-parker" rel="noopener">both waived Parker</a>, so it also seems he had slim options to playing a major role in the NBA going forward.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Former No. 2 overall pick Jabari Parker gets brutally honest on why he left league

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/jabari-parker-finds-new-team-but-its-not-in-the-nba');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jabari Parker finds new team, but it’s not in the NBA');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nba-news-jabari-parker-finds-new-team-but-its-not-in-the-nba.jpeg"></figure><h1>Jabari Parker finds new team, but it’s not in the NBA</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-08-06T17:33:01-07:00">August 6th, 5:33pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-08-06T17:33:01-07:00">August 6th, 5:33pm</time><address><a>James Salmon</a>James is a published author, sports writer and editor from Melbourne, Australia. 'Sport's Greatest Statistical Anomalies' is his book, and aside from being a BRILLIANT read, is testament to his love of all things sport, and in particular stats. A Nets fan, James yearns for the days of yesteryear, when playoffs were all but irrelevant and the likes of Caris Levert and Jarrett Allen were running the show.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Jabari Parker is set to head to Spain, with the 28-year-old to sign a contract with FC Barcelona to play in the Liga ACB and EuroLeague.</p><p>Parker, of course, was a highly touted rookie in the NBA, having been selected with the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/videos/watch/01h5fvzr47vrpyjm5z3k/redrafting-top-5-picks-of-2014-nba-draft" rel="noopener">second pick back in 2014</a> out of Duke. He showed some reasonable signs during his four years with the Milwaukee Bucks, averaging over 20 points per game on nearly 50% shooting in his third season, but question marks remained over his feel for the game <a href="https://www.si.com/nba/bucks/old-school/what-could-have-been-the-rise-and-fall-of-jabari-parker" rel="noopener">and persistent injuries</a> significantly hindered his ability to develop.</p><p>After playing 76 games in his second season and 51 in his third, Parker never again passed the 40-mark in a single season. He was shopped around multiple teams, and over his last two seasons in the league played just 13 and then 12 games with first the Sacramento Kings and <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/celtics-news-jabari-parker-signs-deal-boston" rel="noopener">then the Boston Celtics</a>.</p><p>His clear talent coming out of college meant that he remained on the radar of many NBA teams despite struggling for years to get on the court, as well as the fact that when he was out there his production was relatively limited. Of course, given the lack of continuity he had it was unsurprising that he failed to live up to expectation, and the prospect of him getting back on the court consistently and even getting close to those expectations likely kept him in the NBA for longer than he otherwise would have.</p><p>But after a difficult career, it appears his time in the league is done – at least for now. Though it seems like he’d be older given how long he has been around, Parker is still only 28, so the prospect of him coming into his own abroad and then being picked up again by an NBA team certainly isn’t off limits.</p><p>For now, however, he’ll be attempting to show his wares in Spain, where hopefully he has a little more luck with injuries than he did in the USA.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jabari Parker finds new team, but it’s not in the NBA

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/nba-news-jabari-parker-potential-next-team-after-suns-workout-revealed');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jabari Parker’s potential next team after Suns workout, revealed');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NBA_news_Jabari_Parkers_potential_next_team_after_Suns_workout_revealed.jpg"></figure><h1>Jabari Parker’s potential next team after Suns workout, revealed</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-08-04T15:25:32-07:00">August 4th, 3:25pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-08-04T15:25:32-07:00">August 4th, 3:25pm</time><address><a>Quenton Albertie</a>Quenton Albertie is an author and sportswriter with a focus on the NBA. A native of Fort Hood, TX, Albertie currently lives in Atlanta, GA.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Other</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Former lottery pick Jabari Parker — who the Milwaukee Bucks selected second overall in the 2014 NBA Draft — recently <a href="https://www.mundodeportivo.com/baloncesto/20230804/1002047721/jabari-parker-pasado-revision-barca.html" rel="noopener">passed a medical examination</a> with Barcelona (also known as Barca) in his hopes of signing with the team, per Jose Ignacio Huguet of Mundo Deportivo.</p><p>Perhaps this report should be taken with a grain of salt considering the reaction that <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-news-john-wall-calls-out-reporter-rumors-potential-landing-spot" rel="noopener">five-time All-Star, John Wall</a>, had when an international outlet linked him to Olimpia Milano just days ago. However, if these reports are true, Parker would be heading to Barcelona as a replacement for Nikola Mirotic, who will play for Milano until 2026 after signing with the Italian squad this summer.</p><p>Mirotic, a former NBA first-round pick and five-year NBA veteran, was the EuroLeague MVP in 2022 after posting averages of 15.4 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.0 steal for Barca.</p><p>Though Parker recently had a <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/suns-news-free-agency-workout-jabari-parker-stanley-johnson" rel="noopener">workout set-up with the Phoenix Suns</a>, he hasn’t played in the NBA since Jan. 2022, when he found himself on the court for six minutes against the lowly Orlando Magic. A once promising player whose scoring instincts were undermined by an uncooperative body; Parker has only played in 25 NBA games total since the start of the 2020-21 season.</p><p>To that point, the 28-year-old has long shown an interest in moving his game abroad as he seeks out opportunities to further his basketball career, with his agent reaching out to Partizan Belgrade (Serbia) at the beginning of the year.</p><p>Like many other athletes whose days in the NBA are or were numbered, competing in leagues where the focus is more on the skill of a player than their physical attributes could be just what Jabari Parker needs to not only flourish on the court but feel a sense of fulfillment off of it.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jabari Parker’s potential next team after Suns workout, revealed

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Boston makes final decision on Jabari Parker');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Boston-makes-final-decision-on-Jabari-Parker.jpeg"></figure><h1>Boston makes final decision on Jabari Parker</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2021-10-17T12:31:40-07:00">October 17th, 12:31pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2021-10-17T12:31:40-07:00">October 17th, 12:31pm</time><address><a>Jack Winter</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Jabari Parker hasn’t found his NBA home with the Boston Celtics after all.</p><p>The former No. 2 overall pick of the 2014 NBA draft was waived by the Celtics on Sunday, according to Shams Charania of <i>The Athletic</i> and STADIUM.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Sources: The Boston Celtics have waived forward Jabari Parker.</p><p>— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1449804034286702596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">October 17, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p></p></figure><p>Parker <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/celtics-news-jabari-parker-signs-deal-boston/">signed with the Celtics</a> late last season after being released by the Sacramento Kings. He averaged 6.4 points and 3.6 rebounds in 13.8 minutes for Boston over 10 games, shooting 63.2 percent from the field but going just 2-of-10 from beyond the arc. Parker had appeared in only three games for Sacramento over the first four months of last season, an especially damning indictment of his game considering the Kings’ immense struggles defensively and lacking depth at power forward.</p><p>The 26-year-old played in three games for Boston during the preseason, failing to separate himself from others on the team’s training camp roster fighting to make the regular-season squad. Parker’s non-guaranteed contract with the Celtics was set to become guaranteed on October 20th. Boston waived Theo Pinson, Garrison Mathews and Chris Clemons on Saturday. The team had previously parted ways with Ryan Arcidiacono and Juwan Morgan.</p><p>The Celtics, ravaged by minor injuries and multiples cases of COVID-19 during exhibition action, open the regular season on Wednesday at Madison Square Garden against the New York Knicks.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Boston makes final decision on Jabari Parker

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Marcus Smart, Brad Stevens react to Jabari Parker making surprise impact in Celtics debut');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Marcus-Smart-Brad-Stevens-react-to-Jabari-Parker-making-surprise-impact-in-debut-2.jpg"></figure><h1>Marcus Smart, Brad Stevens react to Jabari Parker making surprise impact in Celtics debut</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2021-04-18T09:12:50-07:00">April 18th, 9:12am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2021-04-18T09:13:28-07:00">April 18th, 9:13am</time><address><a>Benedetto Vitale</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>It has been a rather rough couple of years for Jabari Parker, who has been on a number of different teams since he started his career with the Milwaukee Bucks. Parker started last season with the Atlanta Hawks before getting traded to the Sacramento Kings a month before the season was postponed due to COVID-19. He then barely played for the Kings this season and wound up getting waived, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/celtics-news-jabari-parker-signs-deal-boston/" rel="noopener">only to be signed</a> by the Boston Celtics in a somewhat surprise move.</p><p>Perhaps things are turning around for Parker, because he impressed in his Celtics debut on Saturday with 11 points and four rebounds in 16 minutes off the bench. He even got some crucial minutes in crunch time and got a <a href="https://twitter.com/ByJayKing/status/1383652502164295689" rel="noopener">play</a> called for him out of a timeout:</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Here was Jabari Parker’s most impressive bucket from his Celtics debut. Out of a timeout, they ran a play that got him a duck-in near the restricted area. From there, he just went to work. <a href="https://t.co/Q9tGlG2M1H" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/Q9tGlG2M1H</a></p><p>— Jay King (@ByJayKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByJayKing/status/1383652502164295689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">April 18, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p></p></figure><p>Parker’s performance stood out to his teammates:</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Marcus Smart on Jabari Parker: "He did very well. We were definitely ecstatic with the way that he came out, not really knowing the system and just playing basketball, being a basketball player."</p><p>— Jay King (@ByJayKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByJayKing/status/1383631087495122945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">April 18, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p></p></figure><p>Celtics head coach Brad Stevens also shared his thoughts on Parker’s first game with Boston. Stevens explained why he turned to Parker for so many important minutes:</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Brad Stevens said the Celtics went to Jabari Parker because they needed his scoring: “Pretty good for his first night.”</p><p>— Jay King (@ByJayKing) <a href="https://twitter.com/ByJayKing/status/1383619883053633536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">April 18, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p></p></figure><p>Thanks to an impressive run, the Celtics find themselves in fourth place in the Eastern Conference with a <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/boston-celtics/records" rel="noopener">31-26 record.</a> After facing adversity throughout the season and battling through rumors of Stevens’ possible departure, Boston is back near the top of the leaderboard in the East and ready to make a playoff run.</p><p>The Celtics are hoping Danny Ainge’s recent moves wind up paying off. Evan Fournier hasn’t had much of an opportunity yet because of COVID-19 issues, but he should provide a scoring boost. And while it’s just one game, Parker is already making his presence felt.</p><p>We’ll see if Parker has a strong performance for a second consecutive game on Monday night, as the Celtics take on the Chicago Bulls, one of the forward’s many former teams.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Marcus Smart, Brad Stevens react to Jabari Parker making surprise impact in Celtics debut

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jabari Parker signs deal with Celtics');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Jabari-Parker-signs-deal-with-Boston.jpg"></figure><h1>Jabari Parker signs deal with Celtics</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2021-04-16T17:02:53-07:00">April 16th, 5:02pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2021-04-16T17:02:53-07:00">April 16th, 5:02pm</time><address><a>Paolo Songco</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Boston Celtics have been looking to beef up their squad ahead of what they hope to be an extended playoff run this season. Fortifications have come in the way of former second overall pick Jabari Parker, who has reportedly just agreed to a deal with the Cs.</p><p>This report comes via NBA insider <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1383201113885839362" rel="noopener">Shams Charania of The Athletic</a>:</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Jabari Parker — the former No. 2 overall pick — has agreed to a two-year deal with the Celtics, sources said. Parker, a career 14.8 points per game scorer, gives Boston some depth in frontcourt. <a href="https://t.co/MBe2PXC5Fu" target="_blank">https://t.co/MBe2PXC5Fu</a></p><p>— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1383201113885839362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">April 16, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p></p></figure><p>Jabari Parker was recently waived by the Sacramento Kings after failing to force his way into a spot in head coach Luke Walton’s rotation. He has been a free agent for nearly a month now, so he must be delighted to have finally found a new team.</p><p>For the Celtics, the addition of Parker should provide some depth into their squad. The 6-foot-8 power forward won’t be playing heavy minutes for his new team, but he should be a somewhat reliable option for coach Brad Steven off the bench.</p><p>During his best year as a pro, Parker put up averages of <a href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/parkeja01.html#all_per_game">20.1 points</a>, 6.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists for the Milwaukee Bucks. This was during his third season in the NBA during the 2016-17 campaign. Since then, Parker has played for no less than five different NBA teams, with the Celtics being his sixth in four years.</p><p>According to Shams, the Celtics also waived Moe Wagner in order to make room for Parker on the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/boston-celtics/roster" rel="noopener">roster</a>:</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Celtics are waiving Moe Wagner to create roster space for Jabari Parker, sources tell <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">@TheAthletic</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Stadium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">@Stadium</a>. Wagner has averaged nearly six points and three rebounds this season, and was productive in his starts in Washington prior to being traded.</p><p>— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1383202930958987265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">April 16, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p></p></figure><p>Wagner arrived in Boston right before the trade deadline as part of a three-team deal that involved the Chicago Bulls and the Washington Wizards. The 23-year-old was deemed excess to requirement and he will now need to navigate the turbulent waters of free agency.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jabari Parker signs deal with Celtics

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Kings’ Hassan Whiteside clowns Jabari Parker for driving ‘Dr. Seuss’ mobile');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Kings-Jabari-Parker-Hassan-Whiteside.jpg"></figure><h1>Kings’ Hassan Whiteside clowns Jabari Parker for driving ‘Dr. Seuss’ mobile</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2021-01-20T07:17:23-08:00">January 20th, 7:17am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2021-01-20T07:17:59-08:00">January 20th, 7:17am</time><address><a>Mike Cruz</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>NBA players always like to poke fun at each other. The usual suspects of clowning often pertain to their teammates’ fashion of choice, or perhaps, the ridiculous kicks their teammates are wearing. For Sacramento Kings center Hassan Whiteside, he caught a glimpse of Jabari Parker’s odd-looking car in the parking lot and it’s safe to say he didn’t let the 25-year old forward off the hook.</p><p>As you can see below, Parker was busy loading his automobile with his bags. That was until Whiteside saw Parker’s crazy ride, roasted the former no. 2 overall with a reference to Dr. Seuss, all while filming it on camera. Whiteside posted the clip on his Snapchat.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Hassan Whiteside roasting Jabari Parker’s car 😂😂😂</p><p>"Where did you get that from, cat in the hat?"💀💀💀 <a href="https://t.co/uUhDf8SX4D" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/uUhDf8SX4D</a></p><p>— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1351679191587168257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">January 19, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p></p></figure><p>Whiteside seemed to have too much fun clowning Parker for his vehicle. Nonetheless, the Kings shot-blocking specialist does have a point and Parker is pretty much sporting a vintage ride over there.</p><p>For Whiteside, it’s great to see him in pretty good spirits, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/kings-news-hassan-whiteside-agrees-to-1-year-deal-with-sacramento/">considering he’s having a down year</a> in his return to Sacramento. The 31-year old has been relegated to a bench role with the Kings this season and is averaging just nearly <a href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/whiteha01.html">13 minutes</a> per contest. He even saw a number of DNPs from coach Luke Walton. After turning in averages of 15.5 points and 13.5 rebounds last year, Whiteside’s numbers are down to 6.4 points and 4.2 boards a night with the Kings.</p><p>Much like Whiteside, Parker is also on the outside-looking-in in the Kings rotation. The former Duke star is seeing 13.3 minutes per game and has appeared in just six games so far.</p><p>Sacramento is currently just 5-9 on the season and has lost three straight. Despite finding themselves in a rut, at least Whiteside and Parker are still having some fun.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Kings’ Hassan Whiteside clowns Jabari Parker for driving ‘Dr. Seuss’ mobile

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jabari Parker reminded of COVID-19 protocol following maskless tennis incident');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jabari.jpg"><figcaption>CP</figcaption></figure><h1>Jabari Parker reminded of COVID-19 protocol following maskless tennis incident</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2020-07-01T17:40:16-07:00">July 1st, 5:40pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2020-07-01T17:50:41-07:00">July 1st, 5:50pm</time><address><a>Ashish Mathur</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Sacramento Kings small forward Jabari Parker made headlines for the wrong reasons last weekend when he was <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/kings-news-jabari-parker-plays-tennis-without-mask-after-contracting-covid-19/" rel="noopener noreferrer">seen playing tennis</a> in Chicago without a mask following his positive COVID-19 test.</p><p>Even though Parker <a href="https://www.enstarz.com/articles/214431/20200627/nba-player-endangers-chicago-community-positive-covid-19-test.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer">completed his two week isolation period</a>, Kings head coach Luke Walton said the former No. 2 overall pick made a mistake by playing tennis.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Luke Walton on Jabari Parker: "Even though he’s been cleared to end his self isolation we still can’t have anybody who gets sick doing hard, physical work until a later date when you’re cleared again by doctors with how this virus attacks. He’s been reminded of that."</p><p>— Jason  Jones (@mr_jasonjones) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/mr_jasonjones/status/1278460798143131648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>The Kings will be among the 22 teams partaking in the “bubble” games down in Orlando, Florida.</p><p>Jabari Parker, Buddy Hield and Alex Len all tested positive for COVID-19, but none of them have dropped out for the resumption of the season yet.</p><p>To make the 2020 playoffs and end their long postseason drought, the Kings will have to compile a better record than the Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Pelicans, Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs during the seeding games.</p><p>The Kings will face the Spurs, Orlando Magic, Dallas Mavericks, Pelicans (twice), Brooklyn Nets, Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers. Sacramento’s first game is on July 31 against the Spurs.</p><p>Parker played in 33 games in 2019-20<a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-news-nba-season-suspended-after-rudy-gobert-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/"> before the season was suspended</a>. However, he only appeared in one game with the Kings following his trade from the Atlanta Hawks. The Chicago native underwent a non-surgical procedure on his shoulder.</p><p>Jabari has career <a href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/parkeja01.html">NBA averages</a> of 15.0 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 280 games with the Milwaukee Bucks, Chicago Bulls, Washington Wizards, Hawks and Kings.</p><figure class="op-tracker"><iframe><script>  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)  })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');  ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', 'auto');  ga('set', 'campaignSource', 'Facebook');  ga('set', 'campaignMedium', 'Instant Article');  ga('set', 'title', ia_document.title);  ga('send', 'pageview');</script><script type="text/javascript">      window._taboola = window._taboola || [];      _taboola.push({          article: 'auto',          ref_url: 'http://instantarticles.fb.com'      });      !function (e, f, u, i) {          if (!document.getElementById(i)) {              e.async = 1;              e.src = u;              e.id = i;              f.parentNode.insertBefore(e, f);          }      }(document.createElement('script'),          document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0],          'https://cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/clutchpoints-clutchpoints/trk.js',          'tb_loader_script');      if (window.performance) {          if (typeof window.performance.mark == 'function') {            window.performance.mark('tbl_ic');          }        }</script></iframe></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jabari Parker reminded of COVID-19 protocol following maskless tennis incident

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jabari Parker speaks out on playing tennis without mask after positive COVID-19 test');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jabari-Parker-expects-to-make-Sacramento-debut-on-Thursday-vs.-Grizzlies.jpg"></figure><h1>Jabari Parker speaks out on playing tennis without mask after positive COVID-19 test</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2020-06-27T15:19:50-07:00">June 27th, 3:19pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2020-06-27T15:27:31-07:00">June 27th, 3:27pm</time><address><a>Ashish Mathur</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Sacramento Kings small forward Jabari Parker caught some backlash on Twitter for playing tennis without a mask after testing <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/kings-news-jabari-parker-tests-positive-covid-19/">positive for COVID-19</a>.</p><p>However, it turns out the Kings swingman has already completed his in-house quarantine and wasn’t close to anyone while he was playing tennis in his hometown of Chicago, per <a href="https://twitter.com/BenStinar/status/1276985635644026885">Ben Stinar of the Big Lead</a>.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I just spoke to Jabari Parker and he has finished his in house quarantine. He was playing tennis in his home town of Chicago and was in complete social distance from anyone. <a target="_blank" href="https://t.co/voiZSX8hC3">https://t.co/voiZSX8hC3</a></p><p>— Ben Stinar (@BenStinar) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/BenStinar/status/1276985635644026885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2020</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>The NBA registered 16 positive COVID-19 tests out of 302 players. Tests were administered earlier this week after teams returned to their respective markets to prepare for the “bubble” games, which are set to start on July 30 at Walt Disney World.</p><p>Nikola Jokic, Malcolm Brogdon, Jabari Parker, Alex Len and Buddy Hield were among the players to test positive.</p><p>Once the “bubble” games begin, the Kings will take on the San Antonio Spurs, Orlando Magic, Dallas Mavericks, New Orleans Pelicans, Brooklyn Nets, Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Lakers for their eight seeding games, with the Pelicans appearing on the schedule twice.</p><p>Sacramento has the longest playoff drought in the NBA, so it will be fascinating to see if the franchise can make the 2020 postseason by playing well in the seeding games.</p><p>The Kings acquired Parker from the Atlanta Hawks on February 6, 2020. The former No. 2 overall pick was only able to appear in one game with the team due to a shoulder injury that required a non-surgical procedure.</p><p>Parker has career NBA averages of 15.0 points, 5.8 boards and 2.1 assists in 280 games with the Milwaukee Bucks, Chicago Bulls, Washington Wizards, Hawks and Kings. He will be in Orlando, Florida with his teammates despite his positive COVID-19 test.</p><figure class="op-tracker"><iframe><script>  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)  })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');  ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', 'auto');  ga('set', 'campaignSource', 'Facebook');  ga('set', 'campaignMedium', 'Instant Article');  ga('set', 'title', ia_document.title);  ga('send', 'pageview');</script><script type="text/javascript">      window._taboola = window._taboola || [];      _taboola.push({          article: 'auto',          ref_url: 'http://instantarticles.fb.com'      });      !function (e, f, u, i) {          if (!document.getElementById(i)) {              e.async = 1;              e.src = u;              e.id = i;              f.parentNode.insertBefore(e, f);          }      }(document.createElement('script'),          document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0],          'https://cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/clutchpoints-clutchpoints/trk.js',          'tb_loader_script');      if (window.performance) {          if (typeof window.performance.mark == 'function') {            window.performance.mark('tbl_ic');          }        }</script></iframe></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jabari Parker speaks out on playing tennis without mask after positive COVID-19 test

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Kings’ Jabari Parker plays tennis without mask after contracting COVID-19');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/PARKER.jpg"><figcaption>CP</figcaption></figure><h1>Kings’ Jabari Parker plays tennis without mask after contracting COVID-19</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2020-06-27T14:13:10-07:00">June 27th, 2:13pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2020-06-27T14:23:06-07:00">June 27th, 2:23pm</time><address><a>Ashish Mathur</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Sacramento Kings small forward Jabari Parker <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/kings-news-jabari-parker-tests-positive-covid-19/">tested positive for COVID-19</a> earlier in the week.</p><p>However, it doesn’t appear the former No. 2 overall pick is taking it seriously.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/1276971573132451841?s=20">TMZ</a> photographed a picture of Parker playing tennis in his hometown of Chicago. To make matters even worse, the Kings swingman wasn’t wearing a mask.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">TMZ released a photo of Jabari Parker playing tennis at the park without a mask after it was announced that he tested positive for COVID-19. (via TMZ) <a target="_blank" href="https://t.co/uzqeMp93Cu">pic.twitter.com/uzqeMp93Cu</a></p><p>— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/LegionHoops/status/1276974400835706880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2020</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Individuals who test positive for COVID-19 are supposed to stay quarantined for two weeks, even if they are asymptomatic. With that said, this certainly isn’t a good look for Parker.</p><p>However, it’s worth mentioning that Ben Stinar of the Big Lead spoke to Parker and revealed that Jabari has finished his in-house quarantine and was far away from anyone while he was playing tennis.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I just spoke to Jabari Parker and he has finished his in house quarantine. He was playing tennis in his home town of Chicago and was in complete social distance from anyone. <a target="_blank" href="https://t.co/voiZSX8hC3">https://t.co/voiZSX8hC3</a></p><p>— Ben Stinar (@BenStinar) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/BenStinar/status/1276985635644026885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2020</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>The Kings, who will be among the 22 teams partaking in the “bubble” games down in Orlando, acquired Parker from the Atlanta Hawks at the February trade deadline. The former Duke Blue Devil superstar was averaging 14.7 points, 5.9 boards and 1.8 assists in 33 games with Atlanta and Sacramento before <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-news-nba-season-suspended-after-rudy-gobert-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/" rel="noopener noreferrer">games were suspended in March following Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert’s positive COVID-19 test. </a></p><p>The Milwaukee Bucks drafted Parker with the second overall pick in the 2014 draft. The franchise was hoping the talented scorer would be the face of the organization for the next decade or so.</p><p>Unfortunately, Parker tore his ACL twice with the Bucks and he hasn’t been able to find a home since leaving Milwaukee in the summer of 2018 for his hometown Chicago Bulls. The 25-year-old has played for the Bulls, Washington Wizards, Hawks and Kings since his tenure with Milwaukee ended.</p><p>Jabari Parker has career NBA averages of 15.0 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 280 games. The Kings’ first game down in Orlando, Florida will be against the San Antonio Spurs on July 31.</p><figure class="op-tracker"><iframe><script>  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)  })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');  ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', 'auto');  ga('set', 'campaignSource', 'Facebook');  ga('set', 'campaignMedium', 'Instant Article');  ga('set', 'title', ia_document.title);  ga('send', 'pageview');</script><script type="text/javascript">      window._taboola = window._taboola || [];      _taboola.push({          article: 'auto',          ref_url: 'http://instantarticles.fb.com'      });      !function (e, f, u, i) {          if (!document.getElementById(i)) {              e.async = 1;              e.src = u;              e.id = i;              f.parentNode.insertBefore(e, f);          }      }(document.createElement('script'),          document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0],          'https://cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/clutchpoints-clutchpoints/trk.js',          'tb_loader_script');      if (window.performance) {          if (typeof window.performance.mark == 'function') {            window.performance.mark('tbl_ic');          }        }</script></iframe></figure></article>    </body></html>

Kings’ Jabari Parker plays tennis without mask after contracting COVID-19

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'REPORT: Jabari Parker tests positive for COVID-19');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/PARKER.jpg"><figcaption>CP</figcaption></figure><h1>REPORT: Jabari Parker tests positive for COVID-19</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2020-06-24T17:00:56-07:00">June 24th, 5:00pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2020-06-24T17:00:56-07:00">June 24th, 5:00pm</time><address><a>Ashish Mathur</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Sacramento Kings small forward Jabari Parker has tested positive for COVID-19.</p><p>The Kings swingman, though, said he <a href="https://twitter.com/SacramentoKings/status/1275936997626929153" rel="noopener noreferrer">will join his teammates</a> for the “bubble” games at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Statement from Jabari Parker: <a target="_blank" href="https://t.co/fn0WncpLi8">pic.twitter.com/fn0WncpLi8</a></p><p>— Sacramento Kings (@SacramentoKings) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/SacramentoKings/status/1275936997626929153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2020</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>The Kings acquired Jabari Parker from the Atlanta Hawks at the February trade deadline this season. The former Duke Blue Devil was averaging 14.7 points, 5.9 boards and 1.8 assists in 33 games with Atlanta and Sacramento before <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-news-nba-season-suspended-after-rudy-gobert-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/">games were suspended in March</a>.</p><p>When the “bubble” games begin, the Kings will be battling it out with the Memphis Grizzlies, Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Pelicans and San Antonio Spurs for the final playoff spot in the West. The winner will face LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the 2020 playoffs.</p><p>Parker was the second overall pick in the 2014 draft by the Milwaukee Bucks. Unfortunately, the Chicago native has torn his ACL twice already, robbing him of his athleticism and impeding his development. However, Parker is still a skilled scorer and the Kings could use his scoring off the bench during the “bubble” games.</p><p>The Sacramento franchise has the longest playoff drought in the NBA today. Nonetheless, the only way the Kings are going to shock the world and reach the postseason is if De’Aaron Fox, Bogdan Bogdanovic and Marvin Bagley III play like All-Stars in Orlando.</p><p>Parker has career NBA averages of 15.0 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 280 games with the Bucks, Chicago Bulls, Washington Wizards, Hawks and Kings.</p><figure class="op-tracker"><iframe><script>  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)  })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');  ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', 'auto');  ga('set', 'campaignSource', 'Facebook');  ga('set', 'campaignMedium', 'Instant Article');  ga('set', 'title', ia_document.title);  ga('send', 'pageview');</script><script type="text/javascript">      window._taboola = window._taboola || [];      _taboola.push({          article: 'auto',          ref_url: 'http://instantarticles.fb.com'      });      !function (e, f, u, i) {          if (!document.getElementById(i)) {              e.async = 1;              e.src = u;              e.id = i;              f.parentNode.insertBefore(e, f);          }      }(document.createElement('script'),          document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0],          'https://cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/clutchpoints-clutchpoints/trk.js',          'tb_loader_script');      if (window.performance) {          if (typeof window.performance.mark == 'function') {            window.performance.mark('tbl_ic');          }        }</script></iframe></figure></article>    </body></html>

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Kings have liked Jabari Parker for some time');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jabari.jpg"></figure><h1>Kings have liked Jabari Parker for some time</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2020-02-13T16:13:01-08:00">February 13th, 4:13pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2020-02-13T16:13:01-08:00">February 13th, 4:13pm</time><address><a>Ashish Mathur</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/adnw_request?placement=1709097162682630_1935907953334882&amp;adtype=banner300x250" width="300" height="250"></iframe></figure></header><p>New Sacramento Kings small forward Jabari Parker won’t make his team debut until after the All-Star break.</p><p>Parker is currently out with a shoulder injury. The Kings acquired the Chicago native from the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/atlanta-hawks/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Atlanta Hawks</a> before the Feb. 6 trade deadline and have liked him for some time, according to <a href="https://theathletic.com/1604870/2020/02/13/four-takeaways-luke-walton-vs-luka-doncic-is-nothing-special-the-kings-go-small-and-jabari-parker-eyes-a-debut/">Jason Jones of The Athletic</a>:</p><blockquote>The Kings have liked Jabari Parker for some time and are intrigued by the idea of pairing his offensive ability with their leading scorer, Buddy Hield, off the bench.</blockquote><p>Parker played in 32 games for the Hawks this season. He <a href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/parkeja01.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">averaged</a> 15.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.8 assists while shooting 50.4 percent from the field, 27.0 percent from beyond the arc and 73.6 percent from the free-throw line.</p><p>The second overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft out of Duke, Parker has career averages of 15.1 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists with the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/milwaukee-bucks/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Milwaukee Bucks</a>, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/chicago-bulls/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chicago Bulls</a>, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/washington-wizards/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Washington Wizards</a> and Hawks.</p><p>Parker is expected to bolster the Kings’ bench that has been lacking some spark. While he has struggled defensively over the past few years, Jabari’s main selling point is his offensive skills — which Sacramento will look to utilize as they hope to keep the team competitive this second half of the season.</p><p>The Kings are <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/standings/" rel="noopener noreferrer">21-33 on the season</a> and in 13th place in the Western Conference standings. Certainly, they have a lot of ground to make up if they want to make the playoffs for the first time since 2006.</p><figure class="op-tracker"><iframe><script>  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)  })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');  ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', 'auto');  ga('set', 'campaignSource', 'Facebook');  ga('set', 'campaignMedium', 'Instant Article');  ga('set', 'title', ia_document.title);  ga('send', 'pageview');</script><iframe>    <script type="text/javascript">        window._taboola = window._taboola || [];        _taboola.push({            article: 'auto',            ref_url: 'http://instantarticles.fb.com'        });        !function (e, f, u, i) {            if (!document.getElementById(i)) {                e.async = 1;                e.src = u;                e.id = i;                f.parentNode.insertBefore(e, f);            }        }(document.createElement('script'),            document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0],            'https://cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/clutchpoints-clutchpoints/trk.js',            'tb_loader_script');        if (window.performance) {          if (typeof window.performance.mark == 'function') {            window.performance.mark('tbl_ic');          }        }    </script>    </iframe></iframe></figure></article>    </body></html>

Kings have liked Jabari Parker for some time

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jabari Parker believes Derrick Rose’s athletic peak was in high school');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/rose2.jpg"><figcaption>ClutchPoints</figcaption></figure><h1>Jabari Parker believes Derrick Rose’s athletic peak was in high school</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2020-02-13T14:59:14-08:00">February 13th, 2:59pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2020-02-13T20:40:13-08:00">February 13th, 8:40pm</time><address><a>Ashish Mathur</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/adnw_request?placement=1709097162682630_1935907953334882&amp;adtype=banner300x250" width="300" height="250"></iframe></figure></header><p>Chicago native Jabari Parker has been watching Derrick Rose play since he was a kid, not just when Rose was a member of the Chicago Bulls.</p><p>Both Parker and Rose played their high school basketball at Simeon Career Academy in Chicago. Rose was Parker’s idol growing up and the current<a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba/sacramento-kings"> Sacramento Kings</a> forward believes Rose’s athletic peak was actually in high school, not in his early days with the Bulls:</p><blockquote>“He was like a once in a lifetime athlete, even to this day,” Parker told <a href="https://www.nba.com/article/2020/02/05/chicago-week-derrick-rose-impact-chicago">NBA.com</a> about Rose. “But for me growing up, it was like he was doing things other NBA guys couldn’t do. His athleticism was at its peak when he was in high school to be honest with you. Obviously in the NBA [before the ACL surgery] he was super athletic.“But I remember going to Simeon and watching him practice and he was doing 360 dunks between the legs. I saw it with my own eyes. That’s crazy, at 6-3, to be able to that. He was just on another level.”</blockquote><p>Rose won two state championships at Simeon before going to Memphis for one season. He was then selected by the Bulls with the first overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft.</p><p>Rose became the youngest MVP in NBA history with the Bulls during the 2010-11 season. Since then, though, he’s undergone four knee surgeries.</p><p>However, Rose is still one of the quickest players in the NBA. He’s not young D-Rose anymore, but Derrick is still able to show off his speed pretty much every night.</p><p>—</p><p><i>All of our NBA content can be found on the NBA section of the ClutchPoints home page </i><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/sports/nba-news"><i>here</i></a><i>. For all of our college basketball content, click </i><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/ncaa-basketball/"><i>here</i></a><i>. Get more on Derrick Rose.</i></p><p><i>Follow NBA games live by downloading the </i><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clutchpoints-live-sports/id1044413150"><i>ClutchPoints App</i></a><i> and heading to the scores tab under the NBA section. Derrick Rose has more work to do.</i></p><p><i>You can listen and subscribe to the Battle for LA podcast on </i><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/battle-for-la-podcast-clutchpoints/id1454992632"><i>Apple Podcasts</i></a><i>, </i><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5okIevNHpv8dWj4E9iciry"><i>Spotify</i></a><i>, and </i><a href="https://soundcloud.com/battleforlaclutchpoints"><i>Soundcloud</i></a><i>. You can also find new episodes of Battle for LA, the ClutchPoints NBA Podcast, and Establish the Pass under the </i><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/podcast/"><i>Podcast tab</i></a><i> on the ClutchPoints home page. </i></p><figure class="op-tracker"><iframe><script>  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)  })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');  ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', 'auto');  ga('set', 'campaignSource', 'Facebook');  ga('set', 'campaignMedium', 'Instant Article');  ga('set', 'title', ia_document.title);  ga('send', 'pageview');</script><iframe>    <script type="text/javascript">        window._taboola = window._taboola || [];        _taboola.push({            article: 'auto',            ref_url: 'http://instantarticles.fb.com'        });        !function (e, f, u, i) {            if (!document.getElementById(i)) {                e.async = 1;                e.src = u;                e.id = i;                f.parentNode.insertBefore(e, f);            }        }(document.createElement('script'),            document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0],            'https://cdn.taboola.com/libtrc/clutchpoints-clutchpoints/trk.js',            'tb_loader_script');        if (window.performance) {          if (typeof window.performance.mark == 'function') {            window.performance.mark('tbl_ic');          }        }    </script>    </iframe></iframe></figure></article>    </body></html>

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PTS	REB	AST	BLK	STL
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2021-22 SEASON STATS
PTS	REB	AST	BLK	STL
4.4	2.3	0.5	0.1	0.3

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