<!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/oklahoma-city-thunder/thunder-news-jamal-crawford-runway-admission-potential-okc-dynasty');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jamal Crawford drops ‘runway’ admission on potential Thunder dynasty');   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/2025/05/The-Thunder-celebrate.jpg"><figcaption>Alonzo Adams-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>Jamal Crawford drops ‘runway’ admission on potential Thunder dynasty</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-05-29T10:17:37-07:00">May 29th, 10:17am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-05-29T10:17:37-07:00">May 29th, 10:17am</time><address><a>Jackson Stone</a>Jackson Stone is a Mercer University senior from Atlanta on track to graduate with a BA in communications. A lifelong sports lover, Jackson is a die-hard fan of all Atlanta teams. He joined ClutchPoints in 2023.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>On Wednesday evening, the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/oklahoma-city-thunder/thunder-news-shai-gilgeous-alexander-motivation-thunder-fans-game-5-win">Oklahoma City Thunder punched their ticket</a> to the NBA Finals with a <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/oklahoma-city-thunder/thunder-news-bill-simmons-231-thunder-stat">dominant Game 5 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves</a> in the Western Conference Finals. The series victory gives the Thunder their first NBA Finals berth since 2012 and also erased any doubts about how legitimate their 68-win regular season was.</p><p>The Thunder now await either the Indiana Pacers or the New York Knicks in the NBA Finals. The Pacers currently lead that series 3-1, but it’s safe to say that whoever comes out of the East, Oklahoma City will be the heavy favorites to win the Finals.</p><p>Making matters more impressive is that the Thunder are doing this with the youngest roster in the NBA and with a boatload of assets at their disposal moving forward, potentially <a href="https://x.com/ESPNNBA/status/1928133381297934524" rel="noopener">setting the stage</a> for a long run of success.</p><p>Recently, former NBA Sixth Man of the Year Jamal Crawford spoke on how he views the Thunder going into the future.</p><p>“They have the runway to do it,” said Crawford of the Thunder potentially winning multiple championships, per NBA on ESPN on X, formerly Twitter. “… It’s really unusual to see a younger team like this and a young coach kind of peaking at the right time.”</p><h2><b>The stars align for the Thunder</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Thunder-All-Star-Jalen-Williams-and-Thunders-Shai-Gilgeous-Alexander.jpg"><figcaption>Jesse Johnson-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Perhaps the only question left on Thunder fans’ minds is how in the world the team let the Denver Nuggets take them to seven games in the second round considering how dominant they have otherwise been throughout this playoff run.</p><p>Oklahoma City has already set the record for most 30-plus point wins by a team in a single postseason run, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has more than backed up his recent MVP win with his play over this playoff stretch.</p><p>The Thunder now sit just four wins away from hoisting an NBA championship, which would be quite the accomplishment considering their youth and relative lack of experience.</p><p>The NBA Finals are slated to begin on Thursday, June 5 in Oklahoma City at 8:30 PM ET against either the Pacers or Knicks.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jamal Crawford drops ‘runway’ admission on potential Thunder dynasty

<!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/oklahoma-city-thunder/thunder-news-jamal-crawford-mic-drop-shai-gilgeous-alexander-haters');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jamal Crawford’s mic drop to Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander haters');   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/2025/05/Shai-Gilgeous-Alexander_008bc0.jpg"><figcaption>Alonzo Adams-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>Jamal Crawford’s mic drop to Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander haters</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-05-21T13:44:51-07:00">May 21st, 1:44pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-05-21T13:44:51-07:00">May 21st, 1:44pm</time><address><a>Malik Brown</a>Malik Brown is a multimedia reporter based in Atlanta who covers the Hawks and Dream for ClutchPoints. Malik has worked in entertainment and sports, and he specializes in the NBA and NFL.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Oklahoma City <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/thunder-news-shocking-contributor-spark-game-1-win">Thunder were able to get a 114-88 win</a> in Game 1 of their series against the Minnesota Timberwolves, and they were led by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as usual. He finished with 31 points, nine assists, and five rebounds, which has been around his season average, and the Timberwolves did not have an answer for him.</p><p>One area where Gilgeous-Alexander dominated was at the free-throw line, where he went 11-for-14. Some have criticized the way that he’s been able to get his points, and Jamal Crawford <a href="https://x.com/ClutchPoints/status/1925254588262686979" rel="noopener">recently defended</a> the Thunder star on The Pat McAfee Show.</p><p>“[SGA] is like a throwback to 5 years ago when everybody was flopping all over the place,” McAfee said. “Should I hate it?”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Pat McAfee: "[SGA] is like a throwback to 5 years ago when everybody was flopping all over the place. Should I hate it?"</p><p>Jamal Crawford: "You shouldn't. If you took out all his free throws, he'd still lead the league in scoring."🗣️ </p><p>(via <a href="https://twitter.com/PatMcAfeeShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PatMcAfeeShow</a>)<a href="https://t.co/4LdW3cbfAr">pic.twitter.com/4LdW3cbfAr</a></p><p>— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPoints/status/1925254588262686979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>“You shouldn’t,” Crawford said. “If you took out all his free throws, he’d still lead the league in scoring. The refs are actually calling the calls, and it’s a narrative out there about it. It’s not his fault, he’s just playing the game.”</p><p>It does seem like sometimes that Gilgeous-Alexander is baiting for foul calls sometimes the way that he may flail on the ground, and if the refs are going to keep calling it, he’s not going to stop. On the other hand, the refs have to make sure they call those same fouls for the other team on offense, and it hasn’t been that way in Thunder games.</p><p>Nonetheless, how Gilgeous-Alexander gets to the free-throw line shouldn’t take away from his overall skill.</p><h2>Officiating under spotlight in Game 1 of Thunder-Timberwolves</h2><p>Many people were complaining about all the calls that Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder were getting in Game 1, and <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/minnesota-timberwolves/timberwolves-news-rudy-gobert-complains-lack-thunder-foul-calls">Rudy Gobert shared his thoughts</a> on the lack of calls on the other end.</p><p>“I don’t expect to get calls,” Gobert said. “[The Thunder] are very handsy. There are things that aren’t going to get called… They’re relentless. We knew that, we know there’s grabbing, fouling, but we know that we’re not going to get all those calls. We have to play through that consistently. We cannot let the missed calls or missing shots disrupt us from going into the next play and doing what we’re supposed to do.”</p><p>The Thunder have shown that they are an aggressive team on defense, and sometimes they can get away with things on that side of the ball that other teams can’t. That also showed at times in Game 7 against the Denver Nuggets, and throughout the series, there were complaints from the players about it.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jamal Crawford’s mic drop to Thunder’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander haters

<!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/lebron-james-stephen-curry-get-eye-opening-baseball-take-from-jamal-crawford');   ga('set', 'title', 'LeBron James, Stephen Curry get eye-opening baseball take from Jamal Crawford');   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/2025/05/Los-Angeles-Lakers-forward-LeBron-James-and-Golden-State-Warriors-guard-Stephen-Curry.jpg"><figcaption>Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>LeBron James, Stephen Curry get eye-opening baseball take from Jamal Crawford</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-05-20T18:10:50-07:00">May 20th, 6:10pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-05-20T18:10:50-07:00">May 20th, 6:10pm</time><address><a>Zachary Howell</a>Zachary Howell is an Associate Editor at ClutchPoints focusing on creating premier MLB content. He is a big fan of the Yankees, Oklahoma City Thunder and the Syracuse Orange. In his free time, he likes to be outside or read.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The NBA and Major League Baseball are home to some of the best athletes in the world. The players in both leagues are so athletic that they often like to show their skills in other sports. Mookie Betts might be the best example of a baseball player playing basketball, but former NBA Sixth Man of the Year and <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/nba-stories/nba-news-carmelo-anthony-teaming-up-reggie-miller-jamal-crawford-new-role">new NBC analyst Jamal Crawford</a> had two players in mind that could make the move from the NBA to MLB: LeBron James and Stephen Curry.</p><p>James played football in high school, and fans often say that he could be a wide receiver in the NFL if he wanted to. However, Crawford said that he and Curry had the work ethic and focus necessary to be good hitters in MLB. He and former MLB All-Star Dexter Fowler chatted about the hypothetical crossover, and Crawford <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBNetwork/status/1924987660663234749" rel="noopener">was confident in his selection</a>.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Jamal Crawford says that <a href="https://twitter.com/KingJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KingJames</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenCurry30?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenCurry30</a> would thrive on the diamond 👀<a href="https://twitter.com/JCrossover?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JCrossover</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/DexterFowler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DexterFowler</a> <a href="https://t.co/kcXJa7a4Qh">https://t.co/kcXJa7a4Qh</a> <a href="https://t.co/bSibulGGkj">pic.twitter.com/bSibulGGkj</a></p><p>— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) <a href="https://twitter.com/MLBNetwork/status/1924987660663234749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>“I think LeBron James or Steph Curry would make the best baseball player,” said Crawford. “Because, the focus, the hand-eye coordination. I think they would work at it. I think they’d be tremendous… I think those two would be great.”</p><p>While both Curry and <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/nba-stories/ranking-the-10-nba-stars-who-dragged-the-worst-teams-to-the-nba-finals">James have had great careers on the basketball court</a>, Crawford believes that their work ethic would translate to the diamond. Fowler had an interesting answer himself; Sacramento Kings guard Zach LaVine.</p><p>Both Curry and James have plenty of time to practice their swing this summer if they want to. Both were eliminated from the NBA postseason in the second and first round, respectively. They might not have time to do so while recovering from injuries this offseason, though.</p><p>As the sports world becomes more connected, MLB and NBA players have connected more with one another. Fowler even saw LaVine get a hit off of a major league pitcher, proving that pro basketball players are capable of making the transition, given enough time to work on their skills.</p><p>While the transition might be possible, it is unlikely. It is fun for fans to speculate on which players could make the move into another sport.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

LeBron James, Stephen Curry get eye-opening baseball take from Jamal Crawford

<!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-carmelo-anthony-teaming-up-reggie-miller-jamal-crawford-new-role');   ga('set', 'title', 'Carmelo Anthony teaming up with Reggie Miller, Jamal Crawford in new NBA on NBC role');   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/2025/02/Carmelo-Anthony-teaming-up-with-Reggie-Miller-Jamal-Crawford-in-new-role.jpg"></figure><h1>Carmelo Anthony teaming up with Reggie Miller, Jamal Crawford in new NBA on NBC role</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-02-13T09:37:15-08:00">February 13th, 9:37am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-02-13T13:21:06-08:00">February 13th, 1:21pm</time><address><a href="https://medium.com/bingeable">Sonny Giuliano</a>Sonny Giuliano is an experienced sports writer for ClutchPoints who has been covering the NFL, NCAA Football, NBA, and NCAA Basketball for well over a decade. Originally from the small town of Elba, New York, Sonny received his degree from Florida Gulf Coast University and currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>It’s been 23 years since the NBA’s decade-long partnership with NBC ended after the National Broadcasting Company was outbid by Disney on the league’s impending media rights deal. But after two decades out of the professional basketball business, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nbc-spent-2-45b-nba-rights-millions-more-song">the NBA will soon be returning to NBC this fall</a>. And just as was the case when NBC last had the NBA’s media rights, the network is putting together a star-studded group of analysts to break down the game, including Carmelo Anthony, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6134342/2025/02/13/nbc-pregame-nba-carmelo-anthony/" rel="noopener">became the newest signee</a> on Thursday morning.</p><p>“NBC has hired Carmelo Anthony to serve as one of the network’s top studio analysts when it begins broadcasting NBA games next season,” writes Andrew Marchand of The Athletic.</p><p>Anthony, who retired in 2023 after a 19-year NBA career that included 10 All-Star appearances and six All-NBA nods, will join <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-news-reggie-miller-to-join-nbc-new-nba-coverage">Reggie Miller</a> and Jamal Crawford, each whom have been part of the Turner Sports team in recent seasons. Maria Taylor, Mike Tirico and Ian Eagle will all be part of the NBC Sports team that covers the league as well, but NBC isn’t done big game hunting just yet. Per Marchand, the company has shown interest in both Dwyane Wade and Grant Hill.</p><p>Not to be outdone, Amazon — which will be entering its first year of NBA coverage starting in the 2025-26 season — has <a href="https://www.nba.com/news/blake-griffin-dirk-nowitzki-named-analysts-for-new-prime-video-nba-studio-show" rel="noopener">reached deals with Dirk Nowitzki and Blake Griffin</a> to spearhead its coverage of the league.</p><p>Although Anthony hasn’t yet had any experience with traditional in-game or studio coverage of the league, he has been co-host of the <i>7 PM in Brooklyn </i>podcast with Kid Mero for the last two years.</p><p>NBC will have rights to the NBA All-Star Game, a third of the NBA Playoffs, Monday night games exclusively broadcast on Peacock, Tuesday games on NBC, and Sunday nights on NBC as well starting once the NFL season concludes.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Carmelo Anthony teaming up with Reggie Miller, Jamal Crawford in new NBA on NBC role

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He's a graduate of Lehigh University and the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University, as well as a Lehigh Football and Syracuse Football alum.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Los Angeles Clippers</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Many viewed the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-news-blake-griffin-admits-true-reason-chris-paul-led-lac-teams-failed">Los Angeles Clippers as perennial title contenders</a> from 2012-2017. However, the team, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-10-greatest-players-in-franchise-history-ranked">led by Chris Paul, Blake Griffin</a>, DeAndre Jordan, JJ Redick and Jamal Crawford, never reached the heights many anticipated.</p><p>While they won over 50 games in five consecutive seasons, they failed to advance past the second round of the playoffs. Crawford said the team’s unwillingness to have difficult conversations, namely Paul and Griffin, <a href="https://youtu.be/cdvbvOv83Dc?t=22" rel="noopener">played a role</a> in their lack of postseason success.</p><p>“Honestly, I’ve never once, and I was with them for five years, and I’ve never once seen them two have a blow-up,” he said of Paul and Griffin on The Podcast P Show with Paul George. “That’s what was weird about it, like I’ve never once seen them go at each other. Not in a film session, not in a meeting, none of that. It was more so like we didn’t really talk about those things if there was something [wrong]. It was never like an air-out session with those two, none of that. It was always like weird because it was never like oh that’s why they’re mad at each other.”</p><p>“I honestly think, personally, to be very honest with you, I think we weren’t mentally tough as a group, not any one person. I thought when adversity hit sometimes we went like this ( hands going away) we didn’t come together like this.”</p><p>Paul and Griffin are known to have had a contentious relationship, although details of the rift never leaked.</p><h2>Examining Clippers’ failures with Chris Paul and Blake Griffin</h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Jamal-Crawford-Chris-Paul-and-Blake-Griffin.jpg"><figcaption>Kirby Lee-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Former Clippers head coach Doc Rivers felt Paul and Griffin’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPTplDdZijY" rel="noopener">differing personalities led to their chemistry issues</a>, which he said pre-dated him taking over as head coach and were never addressed.</p><p>“They both were so different,” Rivers said on the All The Smoke podcast. “Chris is the most competitive guy you can be around. There was damage done already before I had gotten there. And I heard about it, but it was such a passive-aggressive [dynamic], it wasn’t out there… And that’s what killed me because you would have a talk with them both and everything’s good. It was a difficult group because they both are extremely competitive, they definitely had something [going on].”</p><p>Paul said he appreciated Griffin more <a href="https://x.com/DimeUPROXX/status/1246087640866344961" rel="noopener">after their time together ended</a>.</p><p>“You don’t realize what you have until it’s gone,” he said in 2020. “Me and Blake absolutely had our issues here and there and whatnot, but I actually appreciated Blake a lot more after I left.”</p><p>The Clippers lost three times in the second round of the playoffs with Paul and Griffin. They blew a 3-1 lead against the Houston Rockets in the 2015 Western Conference semifinals before losing in the first round the following two seasons.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/clippers-news-chris-paul-gets-real-on-time-with-clippers-and-playing-in-the-intuit-dome">The Clippers traded Paul to the Rockets</a> during the 2017 offseason before dealing Griffin to the Detroit Pistons at the 2018 trade deadline.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Former Clippers star Jamal Crawford drops honest admission on Blake Griffin, Chris Paul failures

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