<!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', '/3-best-pacers-trade-targets-after-james-wiseman-isaiah-jackson-injuries');   ga('set', 'title', '3 best Pacers trade targets after James Wiseman, Isaiah Jackson injuries');   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/2024/11/IMG_0930.jpeg"></figure><h1>3 best Pacers trade targets after James Wiseman, Isaiah Jackson injuries</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-11-03T19:07:07-08:00">November 3rd, 7:07pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-11-03T19:07:07-08:00">November 3rd, 7:07pm</time><address><a>David Yapkowitz</a>David Yapkowitz is an NBA Associate Editor at ClutchPoints. He is a credentialed reporter based in Los Angeles who covers the NBA/WNBA, NCAA/NCAAW and boys/girls high school basketball.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Indiana Pacers</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Indiana Pacers have suffered a couple of major blows early in the 2024-25 season with <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pacers-news-james-wiseman-torn-achilles-season-opener">injuries to two of their centers in James Wiseman</a> and Isaiah Jackson. The Pacers still have Myles Turner up front, but the injury bug leaves them very thin in terms of their center rotation. It would be wise for the Pacers to explore the trade market when it comes to addressing their injury issues at center.</p><p>Looking around the NBA, there isn’t a big market in terms of quality centers who could be available via trade for the Pacers, but there are a couple of players who could fit the bill.</p><p>Both Wiseman and Jackson are dealing with Achilles injuries and will likely be out for quite some time if not the duration of the 2024-25 season. If the Pacers want to be a legitimate team in the Eastern Conference, they’re going to need additional help up front.</p><p>The Pacers have started out the 2024-25 season rather slowly mustering only a 2-4 record so far. It’s possible a replacement center could come in the <a href="https://x.com/KeithSmithNBA/status/1852898845564235788" rel="noopener">form of a free-agent signing</a> from a player already available, as per Keith Smith of Spotrac. But the Pacers need to scour the trade front to find immediate help. Here’s a look at a few targets they could inquire about.</p><h2><b>1. Walker Kessler<br></b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_0931.jpeg"><figcaption>Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>This is probably a swing for the fences type move and could be more of a pipe dream for the Pacers on the trade front. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-rumors-lakers-linked-walker-kessler-trade">Kessler is coveted by other teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers</a>. Indiana would certainly have competition for him.</p><p>If the Pacers do trade for a center, it will be for someone coming off the bench as Myles Turner is the starting big man. Kessler has started all six games for the Utah Jazz so far and he may not be very amenable to moving to the bench for Indiana.</p><p>But he’s a developing player with size and talent at center. Through the first six games of the season, he’s averaging 9.7 points, 11.2 rebounds and 3.0 blocked shots while shooting 62.2 percent from the field. He would be a perfect addition for the Pacers. If the Pacers could get some kind of assurance that Kessler would be fine coming off the bench, some form of trade involving rookie Johnny Furphy and second-year guard Ben Sheppard could work.</p><p>But the Pacers like Sheppard and he’s been a big part of their rotation after a strong playoff run last year as a rookie. Kessler probably isn’t a realistic target, but one they should reach out about just in case.</p><h2><b>2. Kelly Olynyk<br></b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_0932.jpeg"><figcaption>Eric Bolte-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Olynyk is a more realistic target than Kessler and would be fine with a bench role as the backup center. He’s currently dealing with back injury though and is likely a few weeks away from a possible return. The Pacers might not be able to wait that long to pull a move for a center.</p><p>But if they are willing to wait, Olynyk would be a solid addition to a team looking to make the playoffs. Even though Olynyk would be okay coming off the bench, it’s not likely he’s looking to be moved after being dealt to his hometown team last year in the Toronto Raptors.</p><p>He’s a quality veteran too, coming off a season during which he averaged 12.7 points, 5.6 rebounds and 4.6 assists in the 28 games he played for the Raptors after the trade last year. He’s a stretch big too who spaces the floor with his three-point shooting at a career average of 36.9 percent.</p><p>It’s not a stretch to imagine the Raptors asking about Canada native Bennedict Mathurin in a possible trade, but the Pacers should not do such a thing. There should be other avenues towards getting an Olynyk deal done that does not include a key piece of the team’s future.</p><h2><b>3. Zeke Nnaji<br></b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_0933.jpeg"><figcaption>Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Another potential center trade target for the Pacers is Nnaji, who has not been able to establish himself in the Denver Nuggets rotation despite signing a long-term contract extension during preseason last year.</p><p>Nnaji played around 17 minutes per game during the 2021-22 season and a little over 13 in 2022-23. But his minutes dropped to just under ten last year, and he’s down at three per game this year. He’s a rim-running big man who can be active in the paint. He’s also able to shoot the midrange jumper and has worked on his three-point shot.</p><p>It likely won’t take much to pry Nnaji away from the Nuggets. And at this point, a change of scenery might be what he needs. Nuggets coach Mike Malone has gone to playing Deandre Jordan over him this season. The Pacers should most certainly reach out and inquire about a trade.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

3 best Pacers trade targets after James Wiseman, Isaiah Jackson injuries

<!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', '/pacers-news-tyrese-haliburton-honors-james-wiseman-achilles-injury');   ga('set', 'title', 'Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton honors James Wiseman following Achilles injury');   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/2024/10/Pacers-news-Tyrese-Haliburton-honors-James-Wiseman-following-Achilles-injury.jpg"></figure><h1>Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton honors James Wiseman following Achilles injury</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-25T13:26:39-07:00">October 25th, 1:26pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-25T13:26:39-07:00">October 25th, 1:26pm</time><address><a>Jaren Kawada</a>Jaren Kawada is a former full-time sports bettor and is now a NFL, College Football and Betting Associate Editor at ClutchPoints. Kawada was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, but now resides in Indianapolis, Indiana, after graduating from Butler University with a B.A. in sports media. Aside from football, Kawada is an avid combat sports and basketball bettor.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Indiana Pacers</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>James Wiseman’s NBA career has not gone as planned, and his fifth season in the league is already over before it began. <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pacers-news-james-wiseman-torn-achilles-season-opener">Wiseman tore his Achilles</a> in the Indiana Pacers’ season opener on Oct. 23 leading to season-ending surgery the following day.</p><p>Following Wiseman’s catastrophic injury, Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton <a href="https://x.com/pacers/status/1849856146435412475?s=46" rel="noopener">honored his downed teammate during pregame warmups</a> in Madison Square Garden on Oct. 25. Haliburton wore Wiseman’s practice jersey over his long-sleeve warm-up shirt ahead of Indiana’s road clash against the New York Knicks.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Tyrese Haliburton showing love for James Wiseman 🫶 <a href="https://t.co/1nqGN7FQ63">pic.twitter.com/1nqGN7FQ63</a></p><p>— Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pacers/status/1849856146435412475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Wiseman came off the bench and lasted just five minutes in the game before going down after attempting a three-pointer. He scored six points in his limited minutes against his former team, the Detroit Pistons. Without him in the lineup, Obi Toppin filled in as backup center, with second-round rookie Enrique Freeman seeing seven minutes off the bench.</p><p>Initially entering the league as the No. 2 overall pick of the 2020 Draft, Wiseman spent three years with the Golden State Warriors. He appeared in just 39 games as a rookie before missing his entire second season with a torn meniscus. During his third year, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-trade-deadline-warriors-send-james-wiseman-pistons-3-team-trade-hawks">Wiseman was traded to the Pistons</a>, where he would spend the next year and a half.</p><h2><b>Pacers seek 2-0 start to 2024-2025 season</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Tyrese-Haliburton_0f2db6.jpg"><figcaption>Dale Zanine-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Despite the loss of Wiseman in the Pacers’ first game of the year, Indiana went on to beat the Pistons on the road, 115-109, in its season opener. The Pacers were led by 20 points, nine rebounds and four blocks from Myles Turner to hold off Cade Cunningham’s game-high 28 points.</p><p>For their second game of the year, Indiana remained on the East Coast for their first season matchup <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pacers-vs-knicks-prediction-odds-pick-10-25-2024">against the New York Knicks</a>. The teams will meet for the first time since the Pacers eliminated the Knicks in the 2024 playoffs to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.</p><p>New York is coming off a lopsided 132-109 loss to the Boston Celtics in their first game. Miles ‘Deuce’ McBride was the only player on the Knicks to find any success on offense with 22 points off the bench to match Jalen Brunson for the team lead. Jayson Tatum led the Celtics with 37 points while Derrick White and Jaylen Brown both also scored over 20.</p><p>Once the Pacers finish up their current road trip in New York, they will return to Indianapolis. The team’s home opener will be on Oct. 27 when they host the new-look Philadelphia 76ers in the Gainbridge Fieldhouse.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton honors James Wiseman following Achilles injury

<!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', '/pacers-news-james-wiseman-torn-achilles-season-opener');   ga('set', 'title', 'Pacers’ James Wiseman suffers torn Achilles in season opener');   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/2024/10/James-Wiseman-suffers-torn-Achilles-in-season-opener.jpg"></figure><h1>Pacers’ James Wiseman suffers torn Achilles in season opener</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-24T14:03:47-07:00">October 24th, 2:03pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-24T14:22:19-07:00">October 24th, 2:22pm</time><address><a>Brett Siegel</a>Brett Siegel joined ClutchPoints as a credentialed NBA insider and reporter in May 2023 after previously covering the NBA for Fastbreak on FanNation and NBA Analysis Network, as well as working with Louisville Basketball. From playing to coaching to covering the game as a media member, Brett has been involved with the game of basketball from many different perspectives. Breaking the news of various free agent signings, yearly NBA Draft news and other key stories around the league, Brett is always on the phone, getting the latest news and rumors around the NBA. Be sure to follow him on Twitter @BrettSiegelNBA.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Indiana Pacers center James Wiseman suffered a <a href="https://x.com/BrettSiegelNBA/status/1849555669449572781" rel="noopener">torn left Achilles</a> in the team’s opening night victory over the Detroit Pistons and will miss the remainder of the 2024-25 season, league sources told ClutchPoints on Thursday.</p><p>With 1:15 remaining in the first quarter of Wednesday night’s game in Detroit, Wiseman attempted a three-point shot over Pistons big man Isaiah Stewart and appeared to tweak something in his left leg while backpedaling. He immediately struggled to put weight on that leg, and Wiseman looked behind him as if someone had kicked him in the calf or he had stepped on something.</p><p>At the next dead ball, Wiseman was helped to his feet and off the court to the bench with Pacers medical personnel. Shortly after, he was helped to the locker room, where the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pacers-news-james-wiseman-leaves-pistons-game-injury">team ruled him out with a left calf injury</a>. Upon further testing on Thursday, it was determined that Wiseman did tear his left Achilles, an injury that the team initially feared. The next steps in his recovery are unknown at this time.</p><p>Wiseman, 23, was the second overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors. After being traded to the Pistons during the 2022-23 season, Wiseman proved to be a serviceable big man that showed potential as a lob threat in pick-and-roll situations. As a result, the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pacers-news-james-wiseman-former-warriors-free-agency">Pacers signed the young center</a> to a two-year, $4.78 million free agent contract in the offseason. The second year of Wiseman’s contract contains a $2.54 million team option.</p><p>Indiana was expecting Wiseman to hold a key role behind Myles Turner in the frontcourt, but he will now spend the remainder of the 2024-25 season rehabbing from this devastating Achilles injury. Prior to exiting Wednesday night’s game, Wiseman had recorded six points and a rebound in five minutes off the bench.</p><p>Without Wiseman in their rotations, the Pacers will now turn to Isaiah Jackson to be the second-string center behind Turner in the team’s nightly rotations. However, Jackson missed Indiana’s season opener in Detroit due to a right groin strain, which resulted in Obi Toppin and rookie second-round pick Enrique Freeman being the team’s two bench options in the frontcourt. Turner and Pascal Siakam played 36 and 32 minutes, respectively, following Wiseman’s injury.</p><p>In a total of 148 NBA games with three different organizations, Wiseman has averaged 9.1 points and 5.6 rebounds per game while shooting 56.0 percent from the floor. The fourth-year big man now faces an uphill battle to resume his basketball career in the wake of his Achilles injury.</p><p>As team and Wiseman will evaluate treatment options, Indiana will provide further updates as appropriate.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Pacers’ James Wiseman suffers torn Achilles in season opener

<!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', '/pacers-news-james-wiseman-leaves-pistons-game-injury');   ga('set', 'title', 'Pacers’ James Wiseman leaves Pistons game with concerning injury');   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/2024/10/James-Wiseman-leaves-Pistons-game-with-concerning-injury.jpg"></figure><h1>Pacers’ James Wiseman leaves Pistons game with concerning injury</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-23T16:54:45-07:00">October 23rd, 4:54pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-23T17:20:52-07:00">October 23rd, 5:20pm</time><address><a>Troy Finnegan</a>Troy Finnegan is an Associate Editor at ClutchPoints. He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023 with a degree in journalism and minors in communications and sports media, as well as a critical sports studies certificate. He has had a passion for sports his entire life, and enjoys covering and writing about all sports.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>It didn’t take long for the injury bug to strike the Indiana Pacers in 2024-25. During the first quarter of their <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pistons-news-cade-cunningham-detroit-synergy">season opener against the Detroit Pistons</a>, big man James Wiseman <a href="https://x.com/ClutchPoints/status/1849235353065893956" rel="noopener">went down with a non-contact injury</a> after shooting a three-pointer.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">James Wiseman limped off the floor after suffering a non-contact leg injury after shooting this 3-pointer.</p><p>Prayers up to the Pacers big man 🙏<a href="https://t.co/oaixcTapg3">pic.twitter.com/oaixcTapg3</a></p><p>— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPoints/status/1849235353065893956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Wiseman immediately left the game and went to the Pacers’ locker room with the training staff. He has a <a href="https://x.com/BrettSiegelNBA/status/1849235272157843540" rel="noopener">left calf injury</a> and will not return to tonight’s game, according to ClutchPoints NBA Insider Brett Siegel.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pacers-news-james-wiseman-former-warriors-free-agency">Wiseman singed a two-year contract with the Pacers</a> this summer in free agency, and is looking to revive his career after unsuccessful stints with the Golden State Warriors and the Pistons. He has a chance to provide solid depth in the Pacers’ frontcourt if he’s able to get back on the floor soon.</p><p>Wiseman never found his footing in Golden State after the team drafted him No. 2 overall out of Memphis in the 2020 NBA Draft, and an injury forced him to miss the entirety of his second season in the NBA in 2021-22. He was traded to Detroit in the middle of the 2022-23 season, where he immediately found a role with the Pistons.</p><p>Following the trade, Wismean played 25 minutes per game with the Pistons and averaged 12.7 points and 8.1 rebounds per game, giving the team optimism that he could fulfill his potential there. However, he struggled to carve out a consistent role there last season, as fellow Memphis alum Jalen Duren passed him on the depth chart. Wiseman was limited to just over 17 minutes per game last season before departing in free agency.</p><p>Wiseman was off to a good start in the season opener, scoring six points in five minutes for Indiana off the bench. He was projected to be the backup five behind Myles Turner in hopes that he can provide some size and versatility off the bench. Any time there’s a non-contact lower body injury there is significant worry, so Pacers fans will be eagerly awaiting an update on Wiseman’s status.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Pacers’ James Wiseman leaves Pistons game with concerning injury

<!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', '/pistons-news-james-wiseman-drops-truth-bomb-on-taj-gibsons-impact');   ga('set', 'title', 'James Wiseman drops truth bomb on Taj Gibson’s impact');   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/2024/03/pistons-news-james-wiseman-drops-truth-bomb-on-taj-gibsons-impact.jpg"></figure><h1>James Wiseman drops truth bomb on Taj Gibson’s impact</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-03-12T16:45:09-07:00">March 12th, 4:45pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-03-12T16:45:09-07:00">March 12th, 4:45pm</time><address><a>David Yapkowitz</a>David is an NBA Associate Editor at ClutchPoints. He is based in Los Angeles and currently covers basketball at every level from NBA/WNBA to men/women college and boys/girls high school.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>There hasn’t been much for Detroit Pistons fans to cheer about this season. It’s been a struggle, with the team setting a <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pistons-news-cade-cunninghams-humbling-historic-28-game-losing-streak" rel="noopener">not-so great accomplishment</a>. With a losing team, it’s important to have quality veterans in the locker room who can keep the team together and help maintain focus. For James Wiseman, one of the younger guys on the Pistons, <a href="https://twitter.com/Pistons__Talk/status/1767388121698631853" rel="noopener">that role</a> has been filled by veteran big man Taj Gibson as per Bally Sports Detroit.</p><p>“In just a short time, he’s given me a lot of confidence,” Wiseman said. “Just always speaking to me, just always telling me to play my game, play free out there and play with a clear mind.”</p><p>The Pistons signed Taj Gibson to a 10-day contract and it appears as if he’s earned more time on the roster, even if he doesn’t contribute on the court. James Wiseman has solidified the Pistons backup center spot after they traded Marvin Bagley at the trade deadline.</p><p>Gibson has yet to appear in a game for the Pistons, but if he can be a mentor to Wiseman, he’s worth his roster spot. Gibson played briefly for the New York Knicks this season, appearing in 16 games including one start at a little over ten minutes per game. He averaged 1.0 points per game and 1.8 rebounds with splits of 30.4 percent shooting from the field and 100 percent shooting from the free throw line.</p><p>Gibson’s value to a team now lies in his leadership and experience rather than what he can bring on the court.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

James Wiseman drops truth bomb on Taj Gibson’s impact

<!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', '/pistons-news-monty-williams-opens-up-james-wiseman-value-near-double-double-lakers');   ga('set', 'title', 'Pistons’ Monty Williams opens up about James Wiseman’s value after near double-double vs Lakers');   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/2024/02/Pistons_news_Monty_Williams_opens_up_about_James_Wiseman_s_value_after_near_double-double_vs_Lakers.webp"></figure><h1>Pistons’ Monty Williams opens up about James Wiseman’s value after near double-double vs Lakers</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-02-14T01:38:42-08:00">February 14th, 1:38am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-02-14T01:39:37-08:00">February 14th, 1:39am</time><address><a>Alex House</a>Alex House is a sportswriter who is comfortable covering many different sports. He grew up in a New York sports-heavy region in Connecticut and earned his journalism degree at the University of Rhode Island. His in-depth knowledge of two of the most passionate and raucous fan bases in the country gives him a truly unique writing voice.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Detroit Pistons’ season has not been about winning basketball games since they started a historic 29-game losing streak at the end of October. It is utterly dejecting for fans to witness this franchise fail to earn double-digit wins before All-Star break after the organization signed head coach Monty Williams to a six-year, $78.5 million contract. Shifting focus to the young roster’s development, however, allows people to feel a sliver of optimism going into the 2024-25 campaign.</p><p>There are multiple players currently in Detroit who can be <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pistons-news-why-cade-cunningham-will-be-a-big-nba-problem-per-clippers-paul-george" rel="noopener">potential franchise pillars</a> like Cade Cunningham and Jalen Duren. Expectations are not nearly as high for backup center James Wiseman, but the Pistons are still hoping he can be a successful reformation project.</p><p>The former Memphis Tigers star flashed the talent and production that inspired the Golden State Warriors to select him <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/search?q=James+Wiseman" rel="noopener">with the No. 2 overall pick</a> in the 2020 NBA Draft in Tuesday’s 125-11 road loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. Wiseman was sensational on offense, shooting 8-of-12 from the field for 18 points in just 23 minutes of action. He also pulled down nine rebounds and recorded one block.</p><h2><b>Pistons not ready to give up on James Wiseman just yet</b></h2><p>The 22-year-old was one of the only bright spots in the game, as Cunningham and backcourt mate Jaden Ivey shot a combined 9-for-31 from the floor. LeBron James and Anthony Davis both set the tone for the Lakers with D’Angelo Russell again proving to be a critical secondary scorer. Monty Williams made sure to highlight Wiseman’s play and <a href="https://twitter.com/JLEdwardsIII/status/1757644364971667733" rel="noopener">expressed the team’s big-picture view</a> of him.</p><p>“He’s not someone that we’re just holding onto as a body,” the coach said, per The Athletic’s James L. Edwards III. “We see him working his tail off every day.”</p><p>James Wiseman is averaging 5.7 points and 3.9 rebounds in only 13.9 minutes per game, but the progress is noticeable. The hard work Williams is referring to, coupled with big outings like Tuesday’s, should eventually lead to a more significant role. If he can blossom into a true force off the bench, Wiseman’s growth will be another moral victory for the languishing Pistons (8-45) this year.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Pistons’ Monty Williams opens up about James Wiseman’s value after near double-double vs Lakers

<!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', '/warriors-news-james-wiseman-confusion-about-why-it-didnt-work-out-with-warriors-will-have-fans-rolling-eyes');   ga('set', 'title', 'James Wiseman’s confusion about why it didn’t work out with Warriors will have fans rolling eyes');   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/2024/01/Warriors_news_James_Wiseman_s_confusion_about_why_it_didn_t_work_out_with_Dubs_will_have_fans_rolling_eyes.webp"></figure><h1>James Wiseman’s confusion about why it didn’t work out with Warriors will have fans rolling eyes</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-01-05T18:15:07-08:00">January 5th, 6:15pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-01-05T18:16:15-08:00">January 5th, 6:16pm</time><address><a>Jack Winter</a>Jack Winter is a veteran NBA writer and editor based on the West Coast. He currently lives in Oakland, covering the last legs of the Golden State Warriors' dynasty.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Golden State Warriors remain a long, way way from regretting the James Wiseman trade. The No. 2 overall pick of the 2020 NBA Draft hasn’t lived up to that billing since the Dubs moved on from him at last year’s trade deadline, searching for a consistent role with the lowly Detroit Pistons.</p><p>Wiseman returns to the Bay on Friday for the first time as an opponent. Asked how he’s grown the most after leaving the Warriors, Wiseman <a href="https://twitter.com/JDumasReports/status/1743371775596192048" rel="noopener">pointed to the nuances</a> of NBA basketball he never quite learned during a two-and-a-half season stint in Golden State.</p><p>“Really just my defense and just being able to stay active, me as a player—running the floor, getting rebounds,” Wiseman said, per Jason Dumas of KRON 4. “Really just focusing on the small details of my game. I feel like that’s gonna make a difference.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">James Wiseman is back here in the Bay Area for the first time since he was traded by the Warriors last February. I caught with him Friday morning at Equinox. He says he doesn't know why it didn't work out here in the Bay.</p><p>More from James ahead of his return: <a href="https://t.co/NREGz2W9uo">pic.twitter.com/NREGz2W9uo</a></p><p>— Jason Dumas (@JDumasReports) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDumasReports/status/1743371775596192048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><h2><b>James Wiseman’s role with Pistons after Warriors exit</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/469ABF56-5355-4C6B-963E-B1B467C9AA2F.jpeg"></figure><p>Wiseman holds no ill will toward Golden State despite his highly forgettable tenure in blue and gold.</p><p>He was out of the rotation when the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-trade-grades-after-sending-away-james-wiseman-bringing-back-gary-payton-ii" rel="noopener">Warriors effectively swapped him for Gary Payton II</a> last year, affording Wiseman the chance for crucial developmental minutes while adding another versatile, disruptive defender who’s intimately familiar with the team’s unique style of play. The 22-year-old says he’s in regular contact with “really everybody” on his former team, too and “can’t wait to see ’em.”</p><p>Unlike many players who face their former teams for the first time, though, Wiseman isn’t relishing the chance to beat the Warriors. He just wants to help the Pistons avoid the same losing fate they’ve experienced again and again and again during a disastrous start to 2023-24.</p><p>“The same mindset. I wanna win. I’m trying to get a win for the team,” Wiseman said. “We’ve been having a lot of hard times down this stretch, but just trying to get a win. That’s what I’m worried about.”</p><p>Wiseman is averaging 6.5 points and 4.3 rebounds in 14.3 minutes per game during his first full season in Detroit, splitting backup center duties behind Jalen Duren with fellow former top-five pick Marvin Bagley III. He’s shooting 71.0% from the field, among the highest individual marks in the league.</p><p>Honing the subtle details of basketball at its highest level has remained an ongoing process for Wiseman, though. Most of the deficiencies that prevented him from ever earning a full-time role under Steve Kerr when the Warriors were full-strength are still at play.</p><p>Wiseman has struggled splitting the difference between the ball and his man as a pick-and-roll defender; is a rudimentary screener at best; and struggles to create advantages for his team as a dribble hand-off operator or short-roll passer. He’s close to a black hole offensively and a debilitating minus on the other end.</p><p>Needless to say, Wiseman just hasn’t shown enough to be counted on as a nightly rotation player. For all the physical gifts and nascent skill with the ball that once made him a foundational building block in Golden State, Wiseman lacks the natural feel and instincts all players need to be successful. Even if he improves with the Pistons, don’t count on that changing any time soon.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

James Wiseman’s confusion about why it didn’t work out with Warriors will have fans rolling eyes

<!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', '/warriors-news-dubs-fans-reminded-why-traded-james-wiseman-win-pistons');   ga('set', 'title', 'Warriors fans reminded why they traded James Wiseman in win over Pistons');   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/2023/11/Dubs-fans-reminded-why-they-traded-James-Wiseman-in-win-over-Pistons.jpg"></figure><h1>Warriors fans reminded why they traded James Wiseman in win over Pistons</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-11-07T07:17:21-08:00">November 7th, 7:17am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-11-07T07:17:21-08:00">November 7th, 7:17am</time><address><a>Owen Crisafulli</a>Owen Crisafulli recently received his Masters in Business Administration from Nichols College. Previously, he obtained his Bachelor's degree in Sport Management and for a while ran his own sports website. Sports are his passion, and he thoroughly enjoys writing about thoughts and opinions that are related to the game. He has been a lifelong fan of the major professional teams in Boston and loves discussing all topics surrounding those teams.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Golden State Warriors continued their <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-draymond-green-issues-serious-stephen-curry-reminder-to-nba-on-whos-the-goat-pg" rel="noopener">hot start</a> to the 2023-24 campaign with a <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401584773" rel="noopener">120-109 victory</a> over the Detroit Pistons on Monday night, and along the way, they got to see their old friend in James Wiseman take the court for the Pistons. While Wiseman didn’t help the Warriors out much during his stint with the team, he actually found a way to help them in this game.</p><p>Wiseman has taken on a bench role with the Pistons, but he continues to struggle to find his footing in the NBA after he was taken with the second overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft. Golden State opted to cut their losses with Wiseman by <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/why-warriors-were-still-right-to-trade-james-wiseman-despite-eye-popping-pistons-stats" rel="noopener">dealing him</a> to the Pistons last year, and his stint on the floor for the Pistons in their loss here, in which he hauled in just three rebounds while missing all three of his shots, reminded Warriors fans why they got rid of the frustrating young big man last season.</p><h2><b>The Warriors must be thrilled to have gotten rid of James Wiseman</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Warriors-news-Golden-State-has-131-million-reasons-to-trade-James-Wiseman.jpeg"></figure><p>Wiseman has a lot of potential, but his stint with the Warriors was filled with injuries and inconsistent play on the court. With Wiseman unable to carve out a spot in Golden State’s rotation, they opted to move him in exchange for Gary Payton II and two second-round draft picks. Given Wiseman’s struggles, and Payton’s quick reassimilation into Golden State’s lineup, the move has been a big win for the Warriors.</p><p>There’s always going to be the thought lingering in the back of the minds of Warriors fans everywhere wondering if they moved on from Wiseman too soon, but his continued struggles are making this deal look more and more like a win for Golden State. Wiseman is still just 22 years old and has time to figure things out, but for a Warriors team looking to contend for titles, it’s obvious that they made the right decision to move on from the young center.</p><p> </p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Warriors fans reminded why they traded James Wiseman in win over Pistons

<!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', '/warriors-news-stephen-curry-klay-thompson-vocal-on-facing-james-wiseman-for-first-time-after-trade');   ga('set', 'title', 'Warriors stars Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson vocal on facing James Wiseman for first time after trade');   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/2023/11/Warriors-stars-Stephen-Curry-Klay-Thompson-vocal-on-facing-James-Wiseman-for-first-time-after-trade.jpg"></figure><h1>Warriors stars Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson vocal on facing James Wiseman for first time after trade</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-11-05T21:06:29-08:00">November 5th, 9:06pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-11-06T05:20:25-08:00">November 6th, 5:20am</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Jedd Pagaduan loves Arsenal and the Los Angeles Clippers, so his loyalty can never be questioned. This guy has been through enough sports trauma for one lifetime -- so he writes about it instead as a form of therapy. (It hasn't worked though. Someday maybe it will -- especially when he's been working for ClutchPoints since August 2022.)</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors will be looking to bounce back from their loss against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday night when they take on the Detroit Pistons on the second night of a back-to-back. The Warriors’ matchup against the Pistons isn’t without its fair share of subplots, one of them this being the first time Curry, Klay Thompson, and company will be facing James Wiseman after the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-trade-grades-after-sending-away-james-wiseman-bringing-back-gary-payton-ii" rel="noopener">Dubs traded the second overall pick</a> of the 2020 NBA Draft back in February.</p><p>The Warriors’ star point guard had <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCSWarriors/status/1721358356395577609" rel="noopener">nothing but kind words</a> for his former teammate, and he couldn’t wait to see how hard Wiseman works so that the former Dubs center would give the Pistons coaching staff no choice but to give him minutes.</p><p>“He’s a great dude, he’s a great teammate when he was with us. I look forward to crossing paths with him, talking to him, showing him love. I know he’s not playing much but it’s the challenge that he’s facing in terms of understanding how he can continue to get better and force them to play him. That’s the challenge,” Curry told reporters after the Warriors’ 115-104 loss to the Cavs, via NBC Sports Bay Area.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Steph wishes nothing but the best for Wiseman and remains confident he'll carve out a roll for himself in the NBA 💯 <a href="https://t.co/e18geXiaXH">pic.twitter.com/e18geXiaXH</a></p><p>— Warriors on NBCS (@NBCSWarriors) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCSWarriors/status/1721358356395577609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>At the very least, Stephen Curry believes that James Wiseman has what it takes to figure it out even if he’s currently stuck behind Jalen Duren, Marvin Bagley III, and Isaiah Stewart in the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/pistons-player-who-must-have-a-good-preseason-to-solidify-rotation-spot" rel="noopener">crowded Pistons frontcourt rotation</a>.</p><p>“I know he’ll have extreme confidence in himself to figure it out even if it’s not on the timeline he wants right now,” Curry added.</p><p>Meanwhile, Klay Thompson<a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1721355782262866358" rel="noopener"> expressed how “great”</a> it would be to see James Wiseman on Monday night even if he’s suiting up on the opposition bench, especially when the two <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-james-wiseman-gets-100-real-on-klay-thompson-major-impact-on-his-rehab" rel="noopener">spent a lot of time together</a> in their respective recoveries from long-term injuries.</p><p>“It’ll be great to see James. Me and James spent many many days and weeks together, rehabbing. We’re just excited to see him, especially as a friend. I think about him often and I hope he’s doing well,” Thompson said, per Anthony Slater of The Athletic.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Warriors will see James Wiseman tomorrow for the first time since the trade. Here are some comments from Klay Thompson and Steph Curry on Wiseman. <a href="https://t.co/llnvSbzkyT">pic.twitter.com/llnvSbzkyT</a></p><p>— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/1721355782262866358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Despite the kind words, the Warriors will be hoping that it’s them that gets the win over the Pistons tomorrow night, especially when they went 0-2 against them in the season series last year.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Warriors stars Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson vocal on facing James Wiseman for first time after trade

<!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', '/rockets-news-jabari-smith-jr-appearing-to-trash-talk-james-wiseman-during-monster-game-goes-viral');   ga('set', 'title', 'Rockets’ Jabari Smith Jr. appearing to trash-talk James Wiseman during monster game goes viral');   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/2023/07/Rockets-Jabari-Smith-Jr.-James-Wiseman-Pistons-2023-NBA-Summer-League.jpg"></figure><h1>Rockets’ Jabari Smith Jr. appearing to trash-talk James Wiseman during monster game goes viral</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-07-10T06:48:28-07:00">July 10th, 6:48am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-07-10T06:48:28-07:00">July 10th, 6:48am</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>Loves Arsenal and the Los Angeles Clippers, so his loyalty can never be questioned. This guy has been through enough sports trauma for one lifetime -- so he writes about it instead as a form of therapy. (It hasn't worked though. Someday maybe it will -- especially when he's been working for ClutchPoints since August 2022.)</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Jabari Smith Jr. did not have the most seamless of rookie seasons. The Houston Rockets, as a whole, were a mess during the 2022-23 season, winning just 22 games and drawing considerable flak around the league for <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/rockets-news-austin-rivers-drops-critical-houston-take-that-jalen-green-wont-like" rel="noopener">lacking the veteran presences</a> needed to help mold their youngsters into winning players. But Smith’s efficiency problems and less-than-ideal shot selection did not help matters at all.</p><p>However, Smith may be primed for a huge sophomore season, if his first two 2023 NBA Summer League performances are any indication. On Sunday night, Smith had his way against the Detroit Pistons — one of the strongest teams in Vegas — torching them for 38 points and dazzling the crowd with his improved offensive arsenal.</p><p>One play stands out in particular during his demolition job of the Pistons. With around eight minutes left in the fourth quarter, Jabari Smith Jr. took on James Wiseman off the dribble near the top of the key. Smith sized up Wiseman with a crossover and proceeded to pull up right in his face as if he wasn’t there. The Rockets forward <a href="https://twitter.com/AC__Hoops/status/1678183405127712769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1678183405127712769%7Ctwgr%5E894a9a1f1a1c0bd58011016dd6a5ed166b03badc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fftw.usatoday.com%2F2023%2F07%2Fjabari-smith-summer-league-highlights-rockets-pistons-james-wiseman" rel="noopener">swished the triple</a> then appeared to say that Wiseman <a href="https://ftw.usatoday.com/2023/07/jabari-smith-summer-league-highlights-rockets-pistons-james-wiseman" rel="noopener">“can’t guard him at all</a>” as he was going back on defense.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="hi">Jabari Smith Jr….sheesh <a href="https://t.co/0AAFNc96tg">pic.twitter.com/0AAFNc96tg</a></p><p>— Aram Cannuscio (@AC__Hoops) <a href="https://twitter.com/AC__Hoops/status/1678183405127712769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>James Wiseman was simply barbecue chicken for Jabari Smith Jr. Not only did he cook him from beyond the arc, he also got by him earlier in the game, scoring an incredible acrobatic off-hand layup to draw an and-one on the hapless Pistons defender.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Jabari Smith Jr cooks Wiseman and finishes the reverse with the bump <a href="https://t.co/P2RasPxn3Z">pic.twitter.com/P2RasPxn3Z</a></p><p>— Aram Cannuscio (@AC__Hoops) <a href="https://twitter.com/AC__Hoops/status/1678181804581289985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>So all things considered, it’s not like Jabari Smith Jr.’s taunt towards James Wiseman was unwarranted. Smith was in his bag, which should <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/rockets-news-jabari-smith-jr-playing-2023-nba-summer-league" rel="noopener">bode well for his development</a> as one of the long-term cornerstones for a Rockets team that has struggled over the past few seasons.</p><p>All in all, Smith had 38 points, seven rebounds, and six assists on 13-25 shooting from the field, although he did miss seven of his 10 attempts from deep on the night. It’ll be interesting to watch if the Rockets youngster carries over his newfound efficiency from two during Summer League into the regular season, as he should be a much better sniper from three than he showed against the Pistons.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Rockets’ Jabari Smith Jr. appearing to trash-talk James Wiseman during monster game goes viral

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He is based in Los Angeles and currently covers basketball at every level from NBA/WNBA to men/women college and boys/girls high school.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>It was always going to take some time <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-steve-kerr-reveals-painful-reason-james-wiseman-didnt-work-out-in-golden-state" rel="noopener">for James Wiseman</a> to get acclimated to the basketball court again after missing all of last season with a knee injury. Apparently the Golden State Warriors weren’t willing to be patient as they shipped him off to the Detroit Pistons at this season’s trade deadline. Whether or not the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-james-wiseman-trade-leaves-joe-lacob-gsw-with-sense-of-regret" rel="noopener">Warriors will regret that decision</a>, depends on how well Wiseman plays with the Pistons. Wiseman has had a few standout performances already with the Pistons and <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/36047033/pistons-james-wiseman-stays-patient-says-success-going-take" rel="noopener">he revealed</a> via Nick Friedell of ESPN how this almost feels like his rookie year again.</p><p>“This is apparently like my rookie year, I can say, because just the amount of games I’ve played,” Wiseman said. “Seriously. So I just got to take it one day at a time. I can’t be so hard on myself about anything, about trying to be good right now, all the instant gratification stuff. Sometimes it comes into my mind, but I got to just look at it for what it is and be real with myself. It’s going to take time. It’s not going to be now. It’s going to be within time, it just takes time within the craft. I just got to keep working. That’s it.”</p><p>James Wiseman has played in 19 games for the Pistons so far including 17 starts. In those games he’s averaged 13.1 points per game and 8.4 rebounds with shooting splits of 54.5 percent shooting from the field and 68.4 percent shooting from the free-throw line. He’s averaging around 25 minutes per game.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

James Wiseman speaks out on fresh start with Pistons

<!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', '/why-warriors-were-still-right-to-trade-james-wiseman-despite-eye-popping-pistons-stats');   ga('set', 'title', 'Why Warriors were still right to trade James Wiseman despite eye-popping Pistons stats');   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/2023/03/Why-Warriors-were-still-right-to-trade-James-Wiseman-despite-eye-popping-Pistons-stats.jpeg"></figure><h1>Why Warriors were still right to trade James Wiseman despite eye-popping Pistons stats</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-03-21T13:14:24-07:00">March 21st, 1:14pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-03-21T13:14:24-07:00">March 21st, 1:14pm</time><address><a>Jack Winter</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">Editorials</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Over a month removed from re-joining the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba/golden-state-warriors" rel="noopener">Golden State Warriors</a>, Gary Payton II has yet to suit up with his former team this season, and there’s still no concrete timetable for his return.</p><p>The defending champions were out-shot from beyond the arc in last week’s losses to the Memphis Grizzlies and Atlanta Hawks. A lack of collective size has been exposed on the glass of late, the Warriors allowing eight of their last nine opponents to grab at least 30% of their own misses. Draymond Green has already been suspended one game for hitting the technical foul threshold, and Kevon Looney is dealing with nagging back pain that’s left him questionable to play on multiple recent injury reports.</p><p>Making burgeoning fan criticism of Golden State <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-trade-grades-after-sending-away-james-wiseman-bringing-back-gary-payton-ii" rel="noopener">moving James Wiseman</a> at the trade deadline even louder? The former No. 2 overall pick is putting up big raw numbers with the Detroit Pistons, averaging 17.0 points, 10.4 rebounds and 1.1 blocks on 56.4% shooting over the last seven games despite playing just 29.3 minutes per night.</p><p>There’s no doubting the Warriors would be better off employing another proven two-way option up front.</p><p>JaMychal Green has come alive offensively after a rough start, hitting open threes and finishing with authority around the rim, but is no longer a capable switch defender and doesn’t have the length or girth to make his presence felt in the paint defensively. While his <a href="https://www.nba.com/stats/team/1610612744/onoffcourt-advanced?SeasonSegment=Post%20All-Star&amp;dir=D&amp;sort=NET_RATING" rel="noopener">-23.6 net rating</a> since the All-Star break is inevitably noisy, that ugly team-worst number still speaks for itself.</p><p>What happens if Draymond or Looney gets in foul trouble or suffers injury come the postseason? They’ll get pretty much every available minute at center in the playoffs, but it sure would be nice if Golden State had another experienced big man with positional size to play the five when Draymond or Looney is forced to the bench.</p><p>But Wiseman’s solid box score production and more sustained flashes of all-around offensive dynamism with the Pistons hardly mean he’d be well-suited to playing that role for the Warriors as they chase another title. Golden State doesn’t need a center who has the nascent skill to score on the block, face-up for perimeter jumpers or rake-and-take in transition.</p><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><p>What this team needs more than anything else behind Draymond and Looney is reliable rim-protection and defensive rebounding, areas in which James Wiseman has continued to struggle with Detroit amid mounting fanfare of his counting stats.</p><p>The Pistons own a porous <a href="https://www.nba.com/stats/team/1610612765/onoffcourt-advanced?LastNGames=12" rel="noopener">118.6 defensive rating</a>—just better than the San Antonio Spurs’ league-worst mark, per NBA.com/stats—over the last 12 games with Wiseman on the floor, all of which he’s started. That number dips all the way down to 105.6 when he’s been on the bench, yielding an easy team-high net defensive rating of +13.0.</p><p>Dubs fans know the genesis of that massive discrepancy all too well.</p><p>Opponents are shooting a whopping <a href="https://cleaningtheglass.com/stats/team/9/onoff#tab-opponent_shooting_fg" rel="noopener">10.6% better at the rim</a> against Detroit with Wiseman in the game, per Cleaning the Glass, also taking slightly more shots from that hallowed ground. His 69.7% shooting allowed at the basket over that timeframe <a href="https://www.nba.com/stats/players/defensive-impact?LastNGames=12&amp;TeamID=0&amp;dir=D&amp;sort=DEF_RIM_FGA" rel="noopener">ranks fourth-worst</a> among the 37 players contesting at least five such attempts per game, according to NBA.com/stats. The Pistons’ defensive rebound rate is 2.1% lower with Wiseman manning the middle, too.</p><p>It’s still too early to count out Wiseman going forward as a positive contributor at the highest levels. Learning the intricacies of NBA defense takes time for all young players, but especially big men, and Wiseman’s career path dating back to his lone season at Memphis has been beset by starts and stops. He’s nowhere near a finished product.</p><p>But the Warriors need to win <i>right now</i>, and nothing he’s done in Detroit—with a much longer leash than he ever got in the Bay—indicates Wiseman is a more sound, consistent back-line defender than earlier this season when he was an abject liability. It’s also not like Wiseman’s individual scoring ability would be prioritized even if he was <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-james-wisemans-unfortunate-circumstances-have-steve-kerr-feeling-bad-for-him" rel="noopener">able to get on the floor</a> for Golden State. Kerr’s offense requires quick, canny decision-making from bigs as passers and screeners, nuance Wiseman clearly needs time to grasp.</p><p>There’s still a chance the Dubs <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-james-wiseman-trade-leaves-joe-lacob-gsw-with-sense-of-regret" rel="noopener">come to “regret” trading Wiseman</a> at the deadline, as Joe Lacob admitted in early March. Any notion that possible misgiving has already been cemented by James Wiseman putting up hollow numbers for one of the league’s worst teams not only ignores Golden State’s win-now mandate during Steph Curry’s extended prime, but his inability to actually impact winning for the Pistons—the very same trend that marked his ill-fated tenure with the Warriors.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Why Warriors were still right to trade James Wiseman despite eye-popping Pistons stats

<!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', '/warriors-news-james-wiseman-trade-leaves-joe-lacob-gsw-with-sense-of-regret');   ga('set', 'title', 'James Wiseman trade leaves Joe Lacob, Warriors with sense of ‘regret’'); 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But as much as I love the guy, I can’t overrule what our basketball ops and our coaches and our players felt was the right thing to do. So it’s a consensus thing. We’re ‘we’, we’re not ‘me’. And we’re going to do what the best thing is and we felt it would improve our team short term and kind of went for it for Gary.”</p><p>Lacob had previously pushed back just in January on the notion that certain factions of Golden State’s front office held Wiseman in higher regard than others. He not only copped to keeping track of Wiseman’s box scores with Detroit of late, but also that other lead decision-makers had to “convince” him to pull the trigger on the trade that brought Payton back to the Bay.</p><p>“I think James is a really good young player and we’re not going to get many opportunities to draft a young guy like that again,” Lacob said. “And he really didn’t…let’s be honest, he didn’t really have a chance; it’s partially his fault, partially bad luck, partially our fault for not playing him enough.</p><p>“But we’re not getting an opportunity to get a big talent like that with size very often. I mean, it was a very hard decision for the organization, to be quite honest.”</p><p>Wiseman was <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/1-warriors-player-in-danger-of-being-benched-in-2022-23-nba-season" rel="noopener">never going to play a meaningful role</a> on Golden State’s quest for back-to-back titles. He’s still far too raw on both ends to get consistent minutes for a contending team, and the Warriors’ preference for small-ball and ultimate trust in Draymond Green and Kevon Looney always ensured Wiseman would spend the playoffs riding the bench—even if he’d impressed during the regular season.</p><p>But that never came to pass, obviously, the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-steve-kerr-reveals-the-1-key-area-james-wiseman-must-improve" rel="noopener">subtle progress Wiseman made</a> after being recalled from the G League interrupted by a foot injury that cost him a month play leading up to the trade deadline.</p><p>Moving him in a straight salary dump might’ve been worth it for Golden State given Lacob’s hesitance to pay a record luxury tax bill come 2023-24. Swapping Wiseman for a proven impact player—the Dubs weren’t aware of Payton’s injury upon agreeing to the trade—should’ve been a no-brainer.</p><p>Does that mean Wiseman has no chance to develop into a quality starting center? Opinions differ, but it’d be foolish to do away with that possibility entirely.</p><p>What became abundantly clear during the early stages of 2022-23, though, is that he wasn’t ready to play a part in this team’s core winning a fifth ring—the one goal that should be Golden State’s franchise-wide priority until Curry finally ages out of his extended prime.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

James Wiseman trade leaves Joe Lacob, Warriors with sense of ‘regret’

<!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', '/warriors-news-draymond-green-delivers-encouraging-words-james-wiseman-after-pistons-debut');   ga('set', 'title', 'Warriors’ Draymond Green delivers encouraging words to James Wiseman after Pistons 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 id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/warriors-news.jpg"></figure><h1>Warriors’ Draymond Green delivers encouraging words to James Wiseman after Pistons debut</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-02-16T08:36:47-08:00">February 16th, 8:36am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-02-16T13:04:00-08:00">February 16th, 1:04pm</time><address><a>Quenton Albertie</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Whether you love him or hate him, Golden State Warriors forward <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-draymond-green-blasts-championship-hangover-narrative-behind-gsws-struggles" rel="noopener">Draymond Green</a> tells it how he sees it. So, when the seasoned champion addressed the trade that sent 7-foot-0 center <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-do-the-math-steve-kerr-on-james-wiseman-injury-return" rel="noopener">James Wiseman</a> — the second overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft — to the Detroit Pistons, one could only accept his perspective.</p><p>Not that he was wrong. Wiseman’s career got off to a <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-draymond-green-on-james-wiseman-gary-payton-ii-trades" rel="noopener">rocky start with Golden State</a>. A naturally gifted athlete with potential as a three-level scorer, injuries and a lack of on-court awareness quickly dampened expectations for the young pivot. Green, an integral part of the Warriors dynasty, would say as much.</p><p>That doesn’t mean that Green isn’t hoping Wiseman can reach his potential on a team that can afford to give him the reps he needs to develop.</p><p>Possibly tuning into Wednesday’s matchup between the Pistons and Boston Celtics primarily to see what his former teammate looked like on his new squad, Green took to Instagram to shoutout Wiseman:</p><p>“Young fella in the mitten!” Green exclaims.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">“Go be a star.” </p><p>Draymond reacts to James Wiseman’s first game with the Pistons <a href="https://t.co/HiEOcTCxPx">pic.twitter.com/HiEOcTCxPx</a></p><p>— Dalton Johnson (@DaltonJ_Johnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/DaltonJ_Johnson/status/1626125539693203456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>“Go be a star.”</p><p>Wiseman would finish the contest with 11 points and 5 rebounds in 23 minutes. Figuring to be a core piece of the rebuild, his versatile scoring and improved defensive acumen was a worthwhile watch for Pistons fans.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">James Wiseman is having himself a great Pistons debut </p><p> <a href="https://t.co/2Oj1oQHwCz">pic.twitter.com/2Oj1oQHwCz</a></p><p>— Pistons Talk (@Pistons__Talk) <a href="https://twitter.com/Pistons__Talk/status/1626044819880529922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>With the Pistons sitting at 15-44, they’ll be in position to have one of the top picks in the <a href="https://www.nba.com/draft/2023" rel="noopener">2023 NBA Draft</a>. However, by acquiring a big man with the potential of Wiseman, they’ve also opened up doors that include moving that pick for win-now talent.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Warriors’ Draymond Green delivers encouraging words to James Wiseman after Pistons debut

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Like general manager <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-1-big-james-wiseman-reason-dubs-went-through-with-gary-payton-ii-trade">Bob Myers and the Golden State Warriors</a>‘ other head decision-makers, though, Curry seems certain the No. 2 overall pick of the 2020 NBA draft is better off with the Detroit Pistons.</p><p>“[I have] a lot of confidence that he’ll be around this league for a long time. I don’t know what his ceiling is, but it’s a guy I want to see figure it out and have an opportunity,” the reigning Finals MVP said of Wiseman on Monday. “It just wasn’t gonna be here. I’m happy and excited for him. I hope he does great things in this league.”</p><p>The Warriors <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-trade-grades-after-sending-away-james-wiseman-bringing-back-gary-payton-ii">finally moved on from Wiseman</a>, the de facto leader of the team’s now-defunct “second timeline,” in a four-team trade that sent him to Detroit, bringing back Gary Payton II from the Portland Trail Blazers.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The Warriors earn high marks after swapping James Wiseman for Gary Payton II.</p><p>(Via <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmstrongWinter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@armstrongwinter</a>)<a href="https://t.co/sP3yDsvo6O">https://t.co/sP3yDsvo6O</a></p><p>— Warriors Nation (@WarriorNationCP) <a href="https://twitter.com/WarriorNationCP/status/1623829917787111426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>The deal was agreed upon shortly before Thursday’s trade deadline, but only officially completed on Sunday after Golden State filed a complaint against Portland with the league office for allegedly misleading the front office about Payton’s recovery from September surgery for a core muscle injury. He failed his post-deadline physical with the Warriors, and Myers announced Monday that Payton would be <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/warriors-news-gary-payton-iis-injury-timetable-gets-official-update-after-4-team-trade-goes-through">re-evaluated in a month</a>—with the “hope” he’d be back on the floor before playoff time.</p><p>Golden State ultimately <a href="https://www.nba.com/news/golden-state-warriors-trade-gary-payton-james-wiseman-4-team-pistons-blazers-hawks">approved the trade anyway</a>, remaining confident swapping Wiseman for Payton was the best short and long-term move for both parties. Curry sees it the same way, also echoing Myers by expressing care and admiration for a player who it was clear long ago just wasn’t going to work out with the Warriors.</p><p>“We all love James, like that’s the biggest thing,” Curry said. “It’s a guy that you root for, it’s a guy you know will be able to figure it out. It’s a guy that approaches every part of his the job the right way. Has a great attitude considering everything he’s been through and the expectations around him and the conversation around him.”</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

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