<!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', '/jazz-news-talen-horton-tucker-allegedly-loses-170000-jewelry-in-robbery');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jazz’s Talen Horton-Tucker allegedly loses $170,000 in jewelry in robbery');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jazz-news-Talen-Horton-Tucker-allegedly-loses-170000-in-jewelry-in-robbery.jpg"></figure><h1>Jazz’s Talen Horton-Tucker allegedly loses $170,000 in jewelry in robbery</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-06-23T17:44:09-07:00">June 23rd, 5:44pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-06-23T17:44:09-07:00">June 23rd, 5:44pm</time><address><a>Rexwell Villas</a>Rexwell Villas is an experienced sports writer covering a variety of sports, including the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and college football. He's a Communications Arts graduate from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines, and he claims to have JR Smith's conscience with his shot selection. He has won a basketball, a baseball, and a football championship in fantasy all within a year.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Utah Jazz guard Talen Horton-Tucker is soon going to look for a new contract in the NBA, as he is set to become a free agent. But he’s already suffered a big financial loss before he could even ink a new contract, as his home has been <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/06/23/nba-talen-horton-tucker-home-broken-into-170k-in-jewelry-stolen/" rel="noopener">reportedly burglarized</a>, with suspects getting away with jewelry that costs an estimated total of $170,000, per TMZ Sports.</p><p><i>“A Los Angeles-area home belonging to NBA guard Talen Horton-Tucker was broken into earlier this week … and law enforcement sources tell TMZ Sports cops believe the suspect made off with $170,000 in jewelry.”</i></p><p>There has been no footage available yet of the said incident as of this writing, but TMZ Sports said that at least a part of it was caught by camera.</p><p><i>We’re told the break-in — or at least part of it — was actually captured on camera … showing the thief entering the property by jumping over a back fence — before leaving out of one of the residence’s side yards.</i></p><p>Even for a multi-millionaire professional athlete, getting robbed of such belongings with that kind of value must hurt. But at least no one got hurt on the scene, with the soon-to-be free agent Jazz guard not at home when the robbery took place. The home incursion was only reported to the police after a house sitter found out about it. No one has yet to be arrested in relation to the incident,  TMZ Sports added.</p><h2><b>Jazz guard Talen Horton-Tucker’s NBA free agency outlook</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Talen-Horton-Tucker-on-the-court-during-a-Jazz-Rockets-game.jpg"><figcaption>Rob Gray-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption></figure><p> </p><p>Horton-Tucker is one of a number of Jazz players with expiring contracts. Among other Utah assets who are about to become either restricted or unrestricted free agents are Kira Lewis Jr., Kris Dunn, Luka Samanic, and Micah Potter. The former Iowa State Cyclones star arrived in Salt Lake City in the summer of 2022 when the Los Angeles Lakers traded him to the Jazz along with Stanley Johnson for Patrick Beverley. The Jazz also got a trade exception via that deal with the Lakers.</p><p>There is no assurance that the Jazz would retain the services of Horton-Tucker, who could get a much more lucrative deal from another team than what Utah probably is willing to pay him. In the 2023-24 NBA season, Horton-Tucker was able to stay in Utah by picking up his player option that was worth $11.02 million. Given his unspectacular 2023-24 campaign with the Jazz, it could be tough for him to find a long deal that carries over $10 million in average annual value. For what it’s worth, the Jazz own Horton-Tucker’s bird exception.</p><p>Horton-Tucker, who was selected by the Orlando Magic in the second round (16th pick overall) of the 2019 NBA Draft, mostly acted as a backup guard for the Jazz over the last two seasons. Across a total of 116 games in Jazz uniform, Horton-Tucker, averaged 10.5 points, 2.9 rebounds, and 3.6 assists.</p><p>While he can do a little bit of everything, Horton-Tucker’s value is weighed down by his <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/jazz-biggest-disappointment-early-in-2023-24-nba-season">inefficient ways</a> on the offensive side of the floor. He has a career 42.3 field goal percentage and has connected on just 29.3 percent of his attempts from behind the arc since entering the league. He is also carrying just a career 47.2 effective field goal percentage and a 51.3 true shooting percentage.</p><p>Still just 23 years old, Horton-Tucker could be someone the Jazz can keep and hope that he’ll one day blossom into a more dangerous weapon at a potential bargain price.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jazz’s Talen Horton-Tucker allegedly loses $170,000 in jewelry in robbery

<!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', '/jazz-news-talen-horton-tucker-makes-11m-decision-amid-free-agency/');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jazz stud Talen Horton-Tucker makes massive $11 million decision amid looming free agency');   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/2023/06/Jazz-news-Talen-Horton-Tucker-makes-massive-11-million-decision-amid-looming-free-agency.jpg"></figure><h1>Jazz stud Talen Horton-Tucker makes massive $11 million decision amid looming free agency</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-06-27T21:38:37-07:00">June 27th, 9:38pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-06-27T21:38:37-07:00">June 27th, 9:38pm</time><address><a>Paolo Songco</a>A father of two over-energetic boys, Pao has been a writer for ClutchPoints for many years. His passion lies in all things NBA and he has a knack for speaking his mind in his articles -- even when at times it gets him into trouble with the fans. Controversial? Maybe. Excellent writer? Definitely.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Utah Jazz made waves of late after <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/jazz-next-trade-utah-must-make-acquiring-john-collins/" rel="noopener">agreeing to a deal</a> with the Atlanta Hawks to acquire John Collins and his massive contract in exchange for Rudy Gay and a future second-round pick. The Jazz are looking to give Collins a fresh start and are hoping that the change in scenery allows him to somehow live up to the $78.5 million he is set to pocket over the next three seasons.</p><p>The Jazz have more on their plate this summer, though, with <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-las-austin-reaves-rui-hachimura-official-fa-announcements/" rel="noopener">NBA free agency coming up</a>. The good news for them is that Talen Horton-Tucker’s future with the squad — at least in the short term — has now been secured. This is after the 22-year-old <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPointsApp/status/1673882841044893696" rel="noopener">decided to opt into</a> his $11 million player option for 2023-24:</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Talen Horton-Tucker has opted into his $11 million player option for next season with the Utah Jazz, per <a href="https://twitter.com/WindhorstESPN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WindhorstESPN</a>. <a href="https://t.co/JYyQLarQ54">pic.twitter.com/JYyQLarQ54</a></p><p>— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPointsApp/status/1673882841044893696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Horton-Tucker would have become an unrestricted free agent if he decided to opt out of his current deal. It seems that the 6-foot-4 guard was not confident that he would get a better offer in free agency as opposed to the $11 million guaranteed money he will receive from the Jazz next season. Either that or he just really, really enjoys playing in Utah.</p><p>For what it’s worth, this deal is the same one THT signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2021. It’s worth $30.8 million for three years, which will expire in the summer of 2024. Unless he secures an extension with the Jazz this season, Horton-Tucker is going to enter free agency this time next year. Needless to say, it’s going to be a big season ahead for the one-time NBA champ.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jazz stud Talen Horton-Tucker makes massive $11 million decision amid looming free agency

<!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', '/jazzs-jordan-clarkson-reacts-to-talen-horton-tucker-exploding-for-37-vs-hornets');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson reacts to Talen Horton-Tucker exploding for 37 vs. Hornets');   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/Jazz-news-Jordan-Clarkson-reacts-to-Talen-Horton-Tucker-exploding-for-37-vs.jpg"></figure><h1>Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson reacts to Talen Horton-Tucker exploding for 37 vs. Hornets</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-03-12T08:24:58-07:00">March 12th, 8:24am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-03-12T08:24:58-07:00">March 12th, 8:24am</time><address><a>Abhinav Kini</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>It’s fair to say Talen Horton-Tucker is growing into his point guard role with the Utah Jazz. He racked up 37 points, eight rebounds, and 10 assists in the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/hornets-news-pj-washington-truth-bomb-loss-jazz" rel="noopener">Jazz’s 119-111 win</a> over the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday.</p><p>It was his third straight game with at least 20 points while he was notably just two rebounds short of becoming the first Jazz player to record a triple-double since 2008. Overall, it’s been a remarkable improvement for the former Laker who initially struggled taking up the point guard position following <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/jazz-news-collin-sexton-suffers-hamstring-injury-ruled-out-vs-grizzlies" rel="noopener">Collin Sexton’s injury</a>.</p><p>And everyone associated with the Jazz has been pleased with THT’s improvement, including Jordan Clarkson who could only <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/sports/jazz/2023/03/11/talen-horton-tucker-experiment-is/" rel="noopener">heap praise on his teammate</a>.</p><p>“He’s been doing a lot of great things: Getting us into sets, making plays, making the spot-up trey — I’ve been telling him to shoot those!” Clarkson was quoted as saying on The Salt Lake Tribune. “All in all, he’s made strides throughout the whole season, and he’s been really good for us recently. Now you’re kind of seeing his winning plays and what he brings to us.”</p><p>Kelly Olynyk echoed that sentiment while acknowledging that the Horton-Tucker experiment at point guard was a work in progress.</p><p>“Obviously it’s a work in progress. He hasn’t really played the point position [before] — he’s more of a 2-guard or a big guard. But he’s so talented,” Olynyk stated. “He gets to the rim so easily, he gets by people, uses his body really well, he’s shot the ball well lately, which has been good.</p><p>“He makes big plays for us, athletic plays that other guys can’t make, just getting by guys, drawing contact, finishing, and then making shots. So he’s been big for us, especially with Collin out.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">now THaT was a <a href="https://twitter.com/Thortontucker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thortontucker</a> game to remember 📚<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TakeNote?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TakeNote</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/ZionsBank?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@zionsbank</a> <a href="https://t.co/7MfPoM4yN4">pic.twitter.com/7MfPoM4yN4</a></p><p>— Utah Jazz (@utahjazz) <a href="https://twitter.com/utahjazz/status/1634754750938750977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2023</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>The Utah Jazz currently occupy the last play-in spot at 10th with a 33-35 record.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson reacts to Talen Horton-Tucker exploding for 37 vs. Hornets

<!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', '/jazz-news-jaren-jackson-brutally-posterized-by-talen-horton-tucker-as-fans-go-crazy');   ga('set', 'title', 'Jaren Jackson brutally posterized by Talen Horton-Tucker as fans go crazy');   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/Talen-Horton-Tucker-Jazz-Jaren-Jackson-Grizzlies.jpg"></figure><h1>Jaren Jackson brutally posterized by Talen Horton-Tucker as fans go crazy</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2023-02-15T19:43:35-08:00">February 15th, 7:43pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2023-02-15T19:45:57-08:00">February 15th, 7:45pm</time><address><a>Rexwell Villas</a>A Communications Arts graduate from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines, Rex claims to have JR Smith's conscience with his shot selection. He has won a basketball, a baseball, and a football championship in fantasy all within a year.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Jaren Jackson is an elite rim protector, a job that comes with some hazards — like getting brutally posterized. The Memphis Grizzles big man got reminded of that <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/nba-odds-jazz-vs-grizzlies-prediction-pick-how-to-watch-2-15-2023" rel="noopener">Wednesday night</a> during the second period of their home game against the Utah Jazz when Talen Horton-Tucker slammed one in his face.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">THT met Jaren Jackson at the rim 👀 <a href="https://t.co/5Wbhy3nsXP">pic.twitter.com/5Wbhy3nsXP</a></p><p>— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNNBA/status/1626043301110632450?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>Horton-Tucker’s dunk caused tremors on Twitter, with Jazz and NBA fans left buzzing about what they just witnessed.</p><p>“JESUS CHRIST TAYLEN HORTON-TUCKER😳🫢 big time #YamTing on Trip J 😬,” <a href="https://twitter.com/PravEarlyy/status/1626038971674263554" rel="noopener">said</a> @PravEarlyy.</p><p>Another Twitter user, @mustseeDC, <a href="https://twitter.com/mustseeDC/status/1626038950581137411" rel="noopener">thought</a> it was a perfect time to bring up the Jazz guard’s wingspan: “In case you’re wondering, Horton-Tucker has a 7’1” wingspan.”</p><p>Evan Barnes, meanwhile, <a href="https://twitter.com/evan_b/status/1626038446052474882" rel="noopener">marveled</a> not only at that Jazz on Grizzlies aerial crime but also on the play that occurred before it: “Now that was a sequence. Ja with the fancy passing magic behind the back to JJJ. And Talen Horton-Tucker throws it down on Jaren Jackson Jr. with no mercy.”</p><p>Jaren Jackson and the Grizzlies, however, had the last laugh, as they scored a 117-111 win over the Jazz. Jackson paced the Grizzlies with 26 points on 8-of-19 shooting from the field and added five rebounds. The bitter taste of that Talen Horton-Tucker dunk was also rinsed off not only by the Jazz’s loss, but also of the four shots Jackson swatted away in the contest.</p><p>The Grizzlies, who recovered right away from Sunday’s loss to the Boston Celtics, will now prepare for a Thursday meeting with the Philadelphia 76ers. The Jazz, on the other hand,  <a href="https://www.nba.com/jazz/schedule" rel="noopener">host</a> the Oklahoma City  Thunder on the same day.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Jaren Jackson brutally posterized by Talen Horton-Tucker as fans go crazy

<!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', '/jazz-news-talen-horton-tucker-has-marcus-morris-clippers-looking-lost-with-nasty-stepback-jumper/');   ga('set', 'title', 'VIDEO: Talen Horton-Tucker has Marcus Morris, Clippers looking lost with nasty stepback jumper');   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://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Talen-Horton-Tucker-Marcus-Morris-Jazz-Clippers.jpg"></figure><h1>VIDEO: Talen Horton-Tucker has Marcus Morris, Clippers looking lost with nasty stepback jumper</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2022-11-06T20:48:41-08:00">November 6th, 8:48pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2022-11-06T20:48:41-08:00">November 6th, 8:48pm</time><address><a href="https://letterboxd.com/splooshpuhrty/films/by/your-rating/">Jedd Pagaduan</a>a film enthusiast. loves horror &amp; the coming of age genre. A24 fan. end goal is to write stories for movies &amp; television.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>One player that has generated <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-embarrassed-themselves-with-talen-horton-tucker-trade-when-they-couldve-had-kyle-lowry/" rel="noopener">considerable hype</a> over the past few years without having done much on the court is Utah Jazz guard Talen Horton-Tucker. Back when Horton-Tucker was with the Los Angeles Lakers, the 46th overall pick of the 2019 NBA Draft drew rave evaluations from scouts and fans alike for possessing immense ballhandling and defensive potential. Alas, Horton-Tucker failed to emerge as the piece the Lakers sorely needed last season, and the Lakers ended up shipping him in a package for Patrick Beverley only a year into the three-year, $30.8 million deal he signed.</p><p>But if the surprising early-season performances of the 2022-23 iteration of the Jazz are any indication, then perhaps THT has landed in the best spot imaginable for him to hone his craft.</p><p>During the first quarter of the Jazz’ Sunday night clash against the Los Angeles Clippers, Talen Horton-Tucker had Marcus Morris switched onto him after a Rudy Gay dribble handoff. After sizing up the Clippers’ 6’8 forward, THT appeared to be on his way to the rim with a left-hand power dribble, only to stop on a dime and step back beyond the arc with a nasty crossover between his legs.</p><p>Morris had absolutely no chance to keep up with THT the moment he turned his back in an attempt not to get blown by to the hoop.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPointsApp/status/1589464339207127040" rel="noopener">Per ClutchPoints Twitter</a>:</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">THT had Marcus Morris spinning in circles 🥶</p><p> <a href="https://t.co/V5gIsntn8e">pic.twitter.com/V5gIsntn8e</a></p><p>— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPointsApp/status/1589464339207127040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>It’s a good thing that Horton-Tucker ended up making the shot to finish the highlight, what with him being a career 27 percent shooter from downtown. The goal of basketball is to put the ball through the hoop, and a move like that, while certified filthy with or without the made basket, would have been all for naught had he not sunk the triple.</p><p>Jazz fans will hope that this move jolts Talen Horton-Tucker wide awake, as his struggles with shooting the ball with the Lakers has carried over to his stint thus far in Salt Lake City. Despite carving a role in the Jazz rotation during their 7-3 start, THT has averaged only 7 points per game on 40.6 percent shooting from the field and 20.7 percent shooting from deep. But with the Jazz still winning despite his less-than-stellar performances, then anything THT gives the team is just gravy.</p><p>At the time of writing, the Jazz are locked in a tight 85-84 contest with the Clippers on the road at Crypto.com Arena at the end of three quarters. Horton-Tucker has pitched in five points and two rebounds in eight minutes of action, while Jordan Clarkson and Lauri Markkanen continue to lead the charge for the surging Jazz.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

VIDEO: Talen Horton-Tucker has Marcus Morris, Clippers looking lost with nasty stepback jumper

<!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', '/lakers-news-talen-horton-tucker-reveals-lebron-james-endearing-gesture-after-jazz-trade/');   ga('set', 'title', 'Talen Horton-Tucker reveals Lakers star LeBron James’ endearing gesture after Jazz 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://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/lakers-news-talen-horton-tucker-reveals-lebron-james-endearing-gesture-after-jazz-trade.jpg"></figure><h1>Talen Horton-Tucker reveals Lakers star LeBron James’ endearing gesture after Jazz trade</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2022-11-05T15:28:22-07:00">November 5th, 3:28pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2022-11-05T19:10:29-07:00">November 5th, 7:10pm</time><address><a>Paolo Songco</a>A father of two over-energetic boys, Pao has been a writer for ClutchPoints for many years. His passion lies in all things NBA and he has a knack for speaking his mind in his articles -- even when at times it gets him into trouble with the fans. Controversial? Maybe. Excellent writer? Definitely.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>On Friday, Talen Horton-Tucker returned to his old stomping ground for the first time since his <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/grading-the-lakers-jazz-trade-swapping-talen-horton-tucker-for-patrick-beverley/" rel="noopener">offseason trade</a> to the Utah Jazz. It was an opportunity for the 6-foot-4 guard to face off against his former team, the Los Angeles Lakers, in what was a revenge game of sorts for him.</p><p>To be clear, however, Horton-Tucker does not appear to hold any ill will against his former team or his former teammates. As a matter of fact, the 21-year-old had nothing buy good things to say about his time with the Lakers, including how LeBron James continues to reach out to him even after his Hollywood exit:</p><p>“Just being able to be around great players, just coming into the league with an understanding of how to work hard, how to become a star in the NBA,” Horton-Tucker said, via <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2022/11/04/former-laker-talen-horton-tucker-sees-silver-lining-in-new-chapter-with-jazz/">Kyle Goon of The Orange County Register</a>. “Being able to be around them guys, I appreciate it. I appreciate (the Lakers), too. Just welcoming me with open arms, even Bron texts me to this day, wishing me luck and stuff like that.”</p><p>The Lakers even presented a tribute video for Horton-Tucker on Friday night as the team showed their appreciation to him for the three years he spent in LA:</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Your <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lakers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Lakers</a> THT tribute video: <a href="https://t.co/8ojkIDxpsl">pic.twitter.com/8ojkIDxpsl</a></p><p>— Daniel Starkand (@DStarkand) <a href="https://twitter.com/DStarkand/status/1588726483450986497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Horton-Tucker, whom the Lakers traded to the Jazz this past summer in exchange for Patrick Beverley, logged 16 minutes on Friday. He posted seven points, three rebounds, an assist, and two steals off the bench as Utah handed LeBron and the Lakers with their sixth loss of the season, 130-116.</p><p>The Jazz have been quite the revelation this year. This team is in the midst of a full rebuild, but even though they traded away their two superstars in the offseason, the squad has been surprisingly good to start the new campaign. For his part, THT admitted that this team has been playing with a chip on their shoulder:</p><p>“I feel like guys are hungry to prove they’re good,” Horton-Tucker said. “And I feel like we know that we’re good. We got NBA players. So we feel like we can compete with pretty much anybody. So being able to have a team like that, to have an attitude coming into games adds to everything else.”</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Talen Horton-Tucker reveals Lakers star LeBron James’ endearing gesture after Jazz 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', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Report: The blockbuster trade Lakers discussed with Pacers before Talen Horton-Tucker deal');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Russell-Westbrook-Talen-Horton-Tucker-LeBron-James-Pacers-Lakers.jpg"></figure><h1>Report: The blockbuster trade Lakers discussed with Pacers before Talen Horton-Tucker deal</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2022-08-31T06:36:06-07:00">August 31st, 6:36am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2022-08-31T08:25:44-07:00">August 31st, 8:25am</time><address><a>Jedd Pagaduan</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The roster churn is alive and well in Los Angeles. The first domino has fallen after the Los Angeles Lakers shipped out Talen Horton-Tucker and Stanley Johnson to the Utah Jazz for Patrick Beverley. Both the Lakers and Jazz <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/grading-the-lakers-jazz-trade-swapping-talen-horton-tucker-for-patrick-beverley/">acquired players who fit their timelines better</a>, the former focused on returning to contention and the latter rebuilding. However, the Lakers could have gotten even more valuable pieces from the Indiana Pacers had they been willing to part with their limited draft capital.</p><p><a href="https://hoopshype.com/lists/lakers-rumors-russell-westbrook-lebron-james-patrick-beverley-carmelo-anthony-austin-reaves/">According to HoopsHype’s Michael Scotto</a>, the Pacers were looking to acquire Horton-Tucker, in addition to absorbing Russell Westbrook’s expiring deal, and the Lakers’ 2027 and 2029 first-round picks in exchange for stretch big/shot-blocking hybrid big man Myles Turner, sharpshooter Buddy Hield, and Daniel Theis.</p><p>“One note that’s interesting is before the Lakers traded Talen Horton-Tucker to Utah in the Patrick Beverley trade, the Pacers were trying to get Horton-Tucker, I’m told,” Scotto said in a HoopsHype podcast with Jovan Buha. “Essentially, Indiana was hoping to get Westbrook’s expiring contract, the Lakers’ two first-round picks in 2027 and 2029, along with Horton-Tucker for Turner, Hield and they wanted to make LA take […] Theis, who has some years looking ahead on his contract.”</p><p>In the end, the Lakers’ hesitation to part with two unprotected first-round picks just to get out of Westbrook’s expiring contract nixed the potential deal. Additional concerns on the Lakers’ end were that they felt like they were essentially swapping Horton-Tucker and Theis’ contracts in the potential deal.</p><p>Still, the Lakers have barely any leverage on a potential Westbrook trade, as Scotto added that any team in the league that’s willing to take on Westbrook’s contract wants both of the Lakers’ first-rounders. After a poor season for Westbrook in purple and gold, it’s not difficult to see why.</p><p>Nonetheless, the addition of Turner next to defensive extraordinaire Anthony Davis would have made scoring on the Lakers’ interior an impossible task, while Hield would have gifted LeBron James an outlet from deep who can capitalize on LeBron’s gravity. It’s fun to think about the what-ifs, but the Lakers still have a lot of work left to do with their roster before the season begins before they can truly be considered championship contenders.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Report: The blockbuster trade Lakers discussed with Pacers before Talen Horton-Tucker deal

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', '2 things that changed Lakers mind on Talen Horton-Tucker-Patrick Beverley 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><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Lakers_news_2_things_that_changed_L.A._s_mind_on_Talen_Horton-Tucker-Patrick_Beverley_trade.jpg"></figure><h1>2 things that changed Lakers mind on Talen Horton-Tucker-Patrick Beverley trade</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2022-08-28T11:54:00-07:00">August 28th, 11:54am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2022-08-28T15:09:03-07:00">August 28th, 3:09pm</time><address><a>Jack Winter</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Los Angeles Lakers finally <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/grading-the-lakers-trade-for-patrick-beverley/">made a win-now move</a> in hopes of maximizing the twilight of LeBron James’ career. Why? Not because Patrick Beverley was their most prized prospective target on the trade block, but due to a pair of developments that reportedly increased the front office’s sense of urgency with the 2022-23 season fast approaching.</p><p>According to <a href="https://marcstein.substack.com/p/nba-notes-on-a-sunday-as-it-should?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">veteran league insider Marc Stein</a>, Kevin Durant’s heel-turn back to the Brooklyn Nets and James putting pen to paper on a contract extension played a major part in Los Angeles sending Talen Horton-Tucker to the Utah Jazz in exchange for Beverley.</p><blockquote>League sources say that the Lakers were clearly resistant to the idea of swapping Talen Horton-Tucker for Beverley when the teams began discussing a potential swap in July, owing to the Lakers’ desire to be younger, faster and more athletic this season. Six weeks later at least two things changed: 1) It became apparent that a trade for Kyrie Irving would not be available in the near term after Kevin Durant rescinded his trade demand in Brooklyn; 2) LeBron signed a max contract extension with the Lakers on Aug. 18 that firmly steered the franchise into an urgent win-now mode.</blockquote><p>It’s hardly surprising to learn that Rob Pelinka’s approach was altered by Durant and James re-committing to their current teams.</p><p>Kyrie Irving was trying to repair his damaged relationship with the Nets even before Durant requested a trade, but the likeliest outcome was always that he’d be moved either before the start of the regular season or at the February trade deadline. Brooklyn is all in on winning a championship in 2022-23 in wake of Durant’s about-face, though, and surely can’t get equal on-court value for Irving—a free agent this summer—until he burnishes his league-wide reputation.</p><p>The Lakers’ realistic hopes of acquiring Irving before February basically died when Durant mended fences with the Nets, forcing the front office’s hand into addressing the team’s need at point guard. James’ extension played a similar role in Los Angeles’ trade for Beverley.</p><p>The Lakers would’ve been lambasted for failing to seek roster upgrades that could up their chances of contention with James in the final years of his career, but his prior status as an impending free agent would’ve at least afforded that approach <i>some </i>degree of sympathy. Why would they sacrifice the future for the present without knowing for certain that James would be wearing purple and gold beyond this season? But the four-time champion is locked in through 2023-24 now, giving Los Angeles a sense of stability at the top of the roster that allows for more aggressive team-building.</p><p>Next up for the Lakers? Resolving the Russell Westbrook situation, one that got even more fraught upon their acquisition of Beverley, his longtime personal rival.</p><p>[<a href="https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Marc Stein</a>]</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

2 things that changed Lakers mind on Talen Horton-Tucker-Patrick Beverley 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', '');   ga('set', 'title', '‘He was kind of on an island’: The truth about Talen Horton-Tucker’s Lakers tenure, revealed');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Horton-Tucker.jpeg"></figure><h1>‘He was kind of on an island’: The truth about Talen Horton-Tucker’s Lakers tenure, revealed</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2022-08-26T15:50:05-07:00">August 26th, 3:50pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2022-08-27T10:47:29-07:00">August 27th, 10:47am</time><address><a href="https://joeymistretta.wordpress.com">Joey Mistretta</a>Joey Mistretta is a writer/editor who covers multiple sports. Notably, Mistretta covers baseball, basketball, and football. He is originally from a small town in Southern California and spent the majority of his time growing up playing baseball and basketball. He graduated college with a degree in broadcast journalism. In addition to writing, Mistretta runs a sports Youtube channel and works as a seasonal play-by-play sports broadcaster.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Los Angeles Lakers <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-la-trades-talen-horton-tucker-stanley-johnson-to-jazz-for-patrick-beverley/">recently acquired</a> Patrick Beverley from the Utah Jazz in return for Talen Horton-Tucker and Stanley Johnson. The trade caught many by surprise, as Horton-Tucker is a 21-year old with a high-ceiling. But a<a href="https://lakersdaily.com/report-talen-horton-tucker-was-kind-of-on-an-island-with-lakers-and-didnt-have-many-friends/"> revelation</a> in reference to his time in LA recently came to surface, per Lakers Daily and the Ringer’s Chris Vernon.</p><p>“When I talked to some people connected to Horton-Tucker, he was kind of on an island in the sense of he’s like the only young guy,” Vernon said. “He didn’t have buddies to go run around with. This is an old team with a bunch of veteran guys. He didn’t have a bunch of friends.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><p>The Lakers were known for having a number of older players on their roster last year. Meanwhile, Talen Horton-Tucker won’t be 22 until November of this year. So it makes sense that he felt alone on the Lakers.</p><p>In the end, this is probably a trade that will benefit all parties involved in the long run. Patrick Beverley provides the Lakers with a talented guard who is not afraid to play physical defense. He also gives them another starting option should they decide to move on from Russell Westbrook.</p><p>For Talen Horton-Tucker, he gets a fresh start in Utah along with teammate Stanley Johnson. Horton-Tucker could emerge as a star down the road in Utah. And he might even become the face of the franchise at some point if the Jazz trade Donovan Mitchell.</p><p>Talen Horton-Tucker has the potential to succeed in the NBA. This change may be exactly what he needed.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

‘He was kind of on an island’: The truth about Talen Horton-Tucker’s Lakers tenure, revealed

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Grading the Lakers-Jazz trade swapping Talen Horton-Tucker for Patrick Beverley');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/grading-the-lakers-jazz-trade-swapping-talen-horton-tucker-for-patrick-beverley.jpeg"></figure><h1>Grading the Lakers-Jazz trade swapping Talen Horton-Tucker for Patrick Beverley</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2022-08-25T07:46:46-07:00">August 25th, 7:46am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2022-08-25T07:47:46-07:00">August 25th, 7:47am</time><address><a href="http://hoopnut.blogspot.com/">Enzo Flojo</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">Editorials</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>After a terrible 2021-22 season, the Los Angeles Lakers really needed to make changes. They just made a big one by trading Talen Horton-Tucker to the Utah Jazz for Patrick Beverley. Stanley Johnson is also going to Utah.</p><p>Keep in mind that the Lakers were the oldest team last season, and they certainly played like it and wanted to get younger. With this Beverley deal, the Lakers traded away a promising 21-year-old wingman and a 26-year-old forward for a 34-year-old defensive specialist who has been one of the more abrasive personalities in the league over the past years.</p><p>How’s that for irony, eh?</p><p>Is this the <a href="https://fansided.com/2022/08/24/nba-trade-grades-lakers-patrick-beverley-jazz/">Lakers’ big move this offseason</a>? Surely not, right? This THT-Beverley deal alone won’t <i>really</i> move the needle for LeBron James &amp; Co, even if Beverley can help this team. It certainly doesn’t enable them to compete with the defending champion Golden State Warriors on even footing.</p><p>Take note that these Lakers are trying to milk everything they’ve got as long as James is still with the team. In their minds, they’ve got to win at least one more title, especially with James agreeing to a new deal that all but guaranteed his future with the organization.</p><p>Perhaps they liked Patrick Beverley’s winning and no-nonsense mentality in addition to his tenacious defense? He’ll certainly irritate the Lakers’ opponents, if not at least some of his own teammates.</p><p>As for the Jazz, well, let’s see how well they did below.</p><h2><b>Jazz-Lakers Trade Grades</b></h2><p><b>Utah Jazz</b></p><p>It’s a bit surprising to see the Jazz take action without obtaining any draft assets in return. At just 21 years old, however, Horton-Tucker could perhaps be considered a young building block in the same vein as a draft pickup. He has the skill set and the potential to impact the Jazz, especially on the offensive end.</p><p>As for losing Beverley, one may argue the Jazz didn’t technically lose anything. Beverley was part of the Rudy Gobert trade and was never expected to stick around in Utah.</p><p>Acquiring Horton-Tucker, meanwhile, calls for the Jazz to return to their roots as a talent development squad. With Donovan Mitchell potentially following Gobert out the door, there should be plenty of opportunity for THT to develop under new head coach Will Hardy.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Talen Horton-Tucker: This guy can hoop 🔥 <a href="https://t.co/NthPRWzPQ1">pic.twitter.com/NthPRWzPQ1</a></p><p>— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/1348749297332875265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2021</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Horton-Tucker is a stout wing with a strong upper body who can handle the ball well, but he must work on his outside shot in order to make the most of his potential. He also has to keep improving his fundamentals. THT could learn from the likes of Mike Conley Jr. and Jordan Clarkson while in Utah, if those players stick around. He could be a good rotation piece for this squad moving forward, though they could also use him in another possible deal at some point down the road.</p><p>This wasn’t really an upgrade for the Jazz. They basically acquired youth and potential, with Johnson as a decent throw-in thanks to his defensive ability.</p><p><b>Grade: C+</b></p><p><b>Los Angeles Lakers</b></p><p>First and foremost, it’s objectively funny to have <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-patrick-beverley-reacts-to-trade-to-l-a/">Westbrook and Beverley on the same squad</a>. They have long had animosity toward one another. Their animosity is so intense that it has persisted over such a long period of time. Fans should expect some awkward exchanges between these two on the court and possibly on social media as well … if Westbrook is actually still on the Lakers.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Russell Westbrook 🤝 Patrick Beverley</p><p>Companheiros de time 🙂 <a href="https://t.co/BMIC6mN5Iy">pic.twitter.com/BMIC6mN5Iy</a></p><p>— Camisa 23 | NBA (@camisa_23) <a href="https://twitter.com/camisa_23/status/1562649250596798465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>The assumption is the Lakers are still pushing to trade Westbrook, even if Kyrie Irving is no longer on the table. The Indiana Pacers are a popular potential destination, with Buddy Hield and Myles Turner viewed as the targets.</p><p>But back to this Beverley trade. Beverley adds great value to the Lakers. Although Horton-Tucker was a promising wing for them, his lack of consistency, awful jumper and need for the ball in his hands made him a poor fit. After he signed a three-year agreement worth more than $30 million, things just didn’t go well.</p><p>Beverley, on the other hand, is considerably more reliable in a supporting role. In Minnesota, he had a decline in his shooting, but over the previous six seasons, he averaged just over four attempts per game while shooting 39.3 percent from outside the arc. On a strong sample size, that clip is pretty good.</p><p>Beverley also isn’t the kind of guard who can beat a defender off the dribble and find others. Still, for a majority of the time, he makes smart, straightforward, and team-oriented decisions. Westbrook is definitely not a believer of Beverley’s reputation as an elite defender, but the latter can surely guard a variety of positions. In fact, he has been named to the All-Defensive Team thrice in his career.</p><p>Westbrook, Austin Reaves, Lonnie Walker IV, and maybe Kendrick Nunn are the Lakers’ primary guard rotation players, at least for now. Beverley’s inclusion is a significant improvement for them in that regard. It’s a little risky to give up on Horton-Tucker while he is still so young, but the Lakers need to win now and are done waiting on him.</p><p>This is an interesting move that has some real short-term value for the Lakers, but it also doesn’t make them an instant title contender. We’ll see what they have in store next.</p><p><b>Grade: B</b></p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Grading the Lakers-Jazz trade swapping Talen Horton-Tucker for Patrick Beverley

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Patrick Beverley’s original beef with Lakers resurfaces after trade for Talen Horton-Tucker');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Lonzo-Ball-Patrick-Beverley-Lakers.jpg"></figure><h1>Patrick Beverley’s original beef with Lakers resurfaces after trade for Talen Horton-Tucker</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2022-08-24T22:47:41-07:00">August 24th, 10:47pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2022-08-24T22:47:41-07:00">August 24th, 10:47pm</time><address><a>Rexwell Villas</a></address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Patrick Beverley is headed back to Hollywood, but not with the Los Angeles Clippers. As reported Wednesday night, Beverley is on his <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-la-trades-talen-horton-tucker-stanley-johnson-to-jazz-for-patrick-beverley/">way</a> to the Los Angeles Lakers, with the Utah Jazz sending him to La La Land in exchange for Talen Horton-Tucker and Stanley Johnson. It will take some time before Lakers fans will be able to completely digest the trade. For one, Patrick Beverley has quite a track record when it comes to agitating the Lakers, and you can ask former Los Angeles guard Lonzo Ball about it.</p><p>As news of Beverley’s trade started to spread on social media, NBA fans felt as though it was the perfect time to reminisce about the time when Patrick Beverley rolled out the bloody red carpet for Ball in the latter’s <a href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201710190LAL.html">first-ever career</a> regular-season game in the league.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Never forget when Patrick Beverley did this to then Lakers’ Lonzo Ball in his first career NBA game.</p><p>Ball ended his debut with 3 points on 1-6 shooting 👀<a href="https://t.co/j1AyPy4v85">pic.twitter.com/j1AyPy4v85</a></p><p>— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPointsApp/status/1562648314280960000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Patrick Beverley was all over Ball’s face in that game. There could not have been a worse defender to face for a rookie to face in the NBA than Beverley, who’s got a loud reputation as one of the stingiest perimeter defenders to ever play in the league. When you combine his defensive skills with his antics, it’s easy to see why players Beverley covers always lose their focus. If grizzled NBA veterans struggle to keep their composure whenever they see Beverley coming at them, just imagine the knots in Lonzo Ball’s guts during that game.</p><p>Los Angeles Lakers fans will have to start learning how to cheer for Patrick Beverley, though.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Patrick Beverley’s original beef with Lakers resurfaces after trade for Talen Horton-Tucker

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Lakers Twitter goes nuts over Patrick Beverley for Talen Horton-Tucker 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><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Lakers-Twitter-goes-nuts-over-Patrick-Beverley-for-Talen-Horton-Tucker-trade.jpg"></figure><h1>Lakers Twitter goes nuts over Patrick Beverley for Talen Horton-Tucker trade</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2022-08-24T22:24:13-07:00">August 24th, 10:24pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2022-08-24T22:24:43-07:00">August 24th, 10:24pm</time><address><a>Angelo Guinhawa</a>Angelo Guinhawa is a basketball and soccer/football editor/writer. He uses his background in digital marketing to make sure you get to read his work. He has previously worked for FOX Sports PH and a number of reputable sports media outlets. If he's not writing or watching sports, he's likely scouring online for his next NBA card purchase.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>After the Los Angeles Lakers traded Talen Horton-Tucker to the Utah Jazz for Patrick Beverley, the NBA Twitterverse went nuts for one important tidbit: Pat Bev is going to be playing alongside Russell Westbrook.</p><p>For those not in the know, Beverley and Westbrook had a longstanding beef that has spanned decades now. It started when Beverley played a role in Russ’ injury–a torn meniscus in his right knee–in 2013 that needed surgery. Ever since then, the two have traded jabs whenever they get the opportunity to do so.</p><p>Remember in 2019 when <a href="https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon/status/1194826273702531072" rel="noopener">Westbrook said that Beverley fooled everyone to think that he’s playing defense</a>? This past season, Beverley got back at Westbrook for that amid the All-Star guard’s struggles with the Lakers, and he didn’t stop there when the Purple and Gold missed the postseason.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">I remember when somebody said all I do is run around and I trick y’all 😂 well my boy is The Real Magician this year.</p><p>— Patrick Beverley (@patbev21) <a href="https://twitter.com/patbev21/status/1491796902223876098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Playoffs every year. 2 western conference finals with 2 different Teams👀👀👀 individual stats or team stats? I thought it was a team sport?? <a href="https://t.co/wlPhFB9alQ">https://t.co/wlPhFB9alQ</a></p><p>— Patrick Beverley (@patbev21) <a href="https://twitter.com/patbev21/status/1504303243983302659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Of course, NBA Twitter had a field day poking fun at the fact that the two are going to be teammates–at least for now. Veteran commentator Skip Bayless was among the first ones to share their reactions to the news, noting that the show is going to be better than the WWE.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">PatBev to the Lakers? The bad blood between him and Westbrook dates back a decade. And now he'll take some of Westbrook's minutes? This is better than WWE. It's now "SideShowtime."</p><p>— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSkipBayless/status/1562650328993910784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Several others echoed the same sentiment, with some even joking that the two are going to fight once training camp starts.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">lakers fans realizing they need to root for pat bev now <a href="https://t.co/lFoVYU7YaI">pic.twitter.com/lFoVYU7YaI</a></p><p>— Isaac K. Lee (@IsaacKLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsaacKLee/status/1562642853599203328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">82 GAMES OF PAT BEV AND WESTBROOK <a href="https://t.co/lKcQa0AA1r">https://t.co/lKcQa0AA1r</a></p><p>— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) <a href="https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/status/1562641537300721665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Pat Bev and Westbrook at Lakers training camp <a href="https://t.co/Z4qxRH5Lia">pic.twitter.com/Z4qxRH5Lia</a></p><p>— Josiah Johnson (@KingJosiah54) <a href="https://twitter.com/KingJosiah54/status/1562644737005273088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Westbrook seeing the Pat Bev news <a href="https://t.co/RCWZCBo6S0">pic.twitter.com/RCWZCBo6S0</a></p><p>— Jasmine (@JasmineLWatkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasmineLWatkins/status/1562645698184548352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Of course it’s not all about Patrick Beverley and Russell Westbrook. The fact that the Lakers only got Pat Bev for Talen Horton-Tucker, who was once considered their most prized young asset, was also largely mocked online. After all, the Purple and Gold <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-embarrassed-themselves-with-talen-horton-tucker-trade-when-they-couldve-had-kyle-lowry/" rel="noopener">once refused to trade THT</a> to the Toronto Raptors in order to land Kyle Lowry, only to settle for Beverley in the end.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">THT went from a “centerpiece for a star trade” to getting dealt for Pat Bev 💀💀💀💀</p><p>— #StartGrimes (@blamesdolan_) <a href="https://twitter.com/blamesdolan_/status/1562642199808196608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>It will definitely be interesting to see Beverley join the Lakers though, especially if the team ends up keeping Westbrook. Can old enemies with hostility towards each other really become teammates and play well? We’re about to find out.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Lakers Twitter goes nuts over Patrick Beverley for Talen Horton-Tucker 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', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'The Lakers embarrassed themselves with Talen Horton-Tucker trade when they could’ve had Kyle Lowry');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/The-Lakers-embarrassed-themselves-with-Talen-Horton-Tucker-trade-when-they-could_ve-had-Kyle-Lowry.jpg"></figure><h1>The Lakers embarrassed themselves with Talen Horton-Tucker trade when they could’ve had Kyle Lowry</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2022-08-24T21:33:08-07:00">August 24th, 9:33pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2022-08-24T21:35:13-07:00">August 24th, 9:35pm</time><address><a>Angelo Guinhawa</a>Angelo Guinhawa is a basketball and soccer/football editor/writer. He uses his background in digital marketing to make sure you get to read his work. He has previously worked for FOX Sports PH and a number of reputable sports media outlets. If he's not writing or watching sports, he's likely scouring online for his next NBA card purchase.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Mini-Editorials</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Los Angeles Lakers are finally trading Talen Horton-Tucker, but not for a return that they would have expected 17 months ago.</p><p>Los Angeles <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-la-trades-talen-horton-tucker-stanley-johnson-to-jazz-for-patrick-beverley/" rel="noopener">is sending THT</a> along with Stanley Johnson to the Utah Jazz in exchange for veteran guard Patrick Beverley. It was a straight swap with no picks involved, a move that certainly makes sense for Lakers at this moment in time. For a team that has collapsed multiple times in games during the past season, they certainly need that gritty attitude that Pat Bev brings.</p><p>Not to mention that Beverley brings backcourt defense and leadership. He is not afraid to hold anyone accountable, even if it’s the superstars.</p><p>However, while bringing in Beverley could be beneficial for the Lakers in the 2022-23 season, it’s hard not to be in shock that he is all the team has gotten for Horton-Tucker, who was just the Purple and Gold’s most prized young asset a little over a year ago. LA even had to throw in Johnson just to pull off the deal!</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">The trade sending Patrick Beverley to the Lakers is expected to be finalized Thursday morning, per <a href="https://twitter.com/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wojespn</a>. <a href="https://t.co/JRVH2GVrvo">https://t.co/JRVH2GVrvo</a></p><p>— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClutchPointsApp/status/1562644190835511296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Remember: the Lakers <a href="https://nba.nbcsports.com/2021/03/26/report-lakers-refused-to-trade-talen-horton-tucker-for-kyle-lowry/" rel="noopener">once refused to include THT in a trade deadline deal</a> in 2021 that would have landed them Kyle Lowry from the Toronto Raptors. At that time, Rob Pelinka and co. could have gotten the All-Star guard for Dennis Schroder, Kentavious-Caldwell and Horton-Tucker along with some draft compensation.</p><p>Now we are not certain how the Lakers would have performed with Lowry in 2021-22, but considering the result of the Russell Westbrook experiment and the fact that the Miami Heat finished at the top of the East with the addition of Lowry in free agency, we can only assume it would have been way better for LA.</p><p>Indeed, the Lakers embarrassed themselves with the latest Talen Horton-Tucker trade. That’s not a knock on Beverley, but rather a criticism on LA’s front office. For a team that has always been built through drafts and free agency acquisitions to compete for the title every year, they certainly botched the handling of THT in a massive way.</p><p>Who knows how many more great deals the Lakers passed on to keep Horton-Tucker? There were several interests on the youngster before, but the team really had to wait until his value hit rock-bottom before moving him.</p><p>Of course hindsight is always 20/20 and it’s easy to say that the Lakers failed miserably this time. But when you also consider the fact that there were other options for the team in the past season as well–<a href="https://twitter.com/MikeAScotto/status/1491675997204361216" rel="noopener">like landing Cam Reddish and Alec Burks for Talen</a> and some draft compensation–it’s hard to defend the LA front office. They basically showed they were willing to let Horton-Tucker develop, only to ditch him when the market is really, really bad.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Sources: The Lakers, Knicks and Raptors have discussed a 3-team trade.</p><p>Lakers get Cam Reddish and Alec Burks.</p><p>Knicks get Goran Dragic and draft picks.</p><p>Raptors get Talen Horton-Tucker and Nerlens Noel.</p><p>There’s also a chance Kendrick Nunn is added to the trade as talks continue</p><p>— Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeAScotto/status/1491675997204361216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>There are a lot of “What ifs” in this Talen Horton-Tucker situation. Unfortunately for fans, those questions will never be answered. The only thing the LA faithful can do now is hope for the best and pray that Beverley can make as much impact as he did during his lone stint with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2021-22.</p><p>As for Horton-Tucker, he’ll probably benefit more with the move to the Jazz. At 21 years old, there is a lot of room for him to develop–something the Lakers just didn’t have the time or resources to do so as they look to maximize the remaining time LeBron James has in the NBA.</p><p>The Lakers got a solid vet in Beverley for Horton-Tucker. That’s good. But in the grand scheme of things, they took a big L.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

The Lakers embarrassed themselves with Talen Horton-Tucker trade when they could’ve had Kyle Lowry

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', 'Lakers trade Talen Horton-Tucker, Stanley Johnson to Jazz for Patrick Beverley');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/patrick-beverley-talen-horton-tucker-lakers-jazz.jpeg"></figure><h1>Lakers trade Talen Horton-Tucker, Stanley Johnson to Jazz for Patrick Beverley</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2022-08-24T20:32:16-07:00">August 24th, 8:32pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2022-08-24T22:23:41-07:00">August 24th, 10:23pm</time><address><a>Michael Corvo</a>Los Angeles Lakers beat reporter and writer for ClutchPoints. Aspiring Shane Falco. NYC native, LA resident, USC grad. Tennis Fan.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Los Angeles Lakers have made a trade! But not one involving Russell Westbrook. According to <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1562641398263738368">various</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1562641949806325760">reports</a>, the Lakers will acquire veteran point guard Patrick Beverley from the Utah Jazz in exchange for Talen Horton-Tucker and Stanley Johnson. It’s a straight-up transaction— no draft picks are involved.</p><p>THT + Johnson <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelcorvoNBA/status/1562644613654908929">seems like a lot</a> to give up for Beverley, at least at first glance. Of course, it’s possible — and Lakers fans will hope — that more moves are in the works, perhaps involving Westbrook. The Lakers freed up an extra roster spot in the trade — they have two open spots now — and potentially <a href="https://twitter.com/jovanbuha/status/1562652801192185856">crucial cap room</a> next summer.</p><p>The Jazz have been oft-cited as a plausible Russ taker (then buyout-er) throughout the offseason, as they seem to be on the verge of a total teardown and are looking to shed veteran salary. The Lakers are seeking depth and floor-spacing, so the prospect of swapping Westbrook (and, ideally, zero picks) for some combination of Beverley, Mike Conley Jr., Bojan Bogdanovic, and/or Malik Beasley made sense.</p><p>For now, the teams settled on this reported deal.</p><p>Horton-Tucker’s third season in Los Angeles was undoubtedly a disappointment. Fresh off signing a three-year, $32 million while still 20 years old (the third year is a player-option at $11 million) — making him the fourth highest-paid player on the roster — the Klutch client, who the Lakers took no. 46 overall in the 2019 NBA Draft, took a glaring step back in 2021-22. In an unnecessarily Sophie’s Choice, the Lakers <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/15-million-reasons-why-lakers-messed-up-with-alex-caruso/">infamously opted</a> to keep Horton-Tucker instead of Alex Caruso.</p><p>In training camp, Frank Vogel and Rob Pelinka — who <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-biggest-mistake-at-the-2021-nba-trade-deadline/">did not include him in a package</a> for Kyle Lowry the season prior — hyped THT as ready to step into a potentially game-changing 3-and-D guy. Instead, Horton-Tucker shot 26.9% from three and struggled defensively. (Training camp wrist surgery and a bout with COVID-19 in December didn’t help.)</p><p>Overall, Horton-Tucker averaged 10.0 points on 41.6% shooting.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Darvin Ham laughed when I brought up that he basically hadn't (publicly) mentioned THT's name since being hired before he said nice things about him. Makes sense <a href="https://t.co/jfn7NOS4Za">https://t.co/jfn7NOS4Za</a></p><p>— Michael Corvo (@michaelcorvoNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelcorvoNBA/status/1562648292634161153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Stanley Johnson became an unexpected <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-covid-19-protocols-addition-that-they-must-lock-up-for-rest-of-season/">vital contributor</a>, spiritually and defensively, to the 2021-22 Lakers. The veteran-laden roster severely lacked in the grit, toughness, and accountability departments, but the 26-year-old former lottery pick helped fill <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-stanley-johnson-unfiltered-assessment-of-las-failed-season/">those voids</a> when he was signed in December. Johnson shut down James Harden in the fourth quarter on Christmas and carved out a niche as one of the few Lakers whom Vogel trusted to scrap, hustle, and compete on D.</p><p>Johnson averaged 6.7 points and 3.2 rebounds in 22.8 minutes per game for the Lakers, while shooting 31.4% from three. The Lakers <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-la-picks-up-options-on-stanley-johnson-wenyen-gabriel/">picked up</a> his 2022-23 option in June.</p><p>“Me personally, I’ve enjoyed every moment I’ve had here, Johnson said at <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/10-biggest-takeaways-from-los-angeles-lakers-exit-interviews-2021-22-season/">exit interviews</a>. “I’ve learned a lot, especially being around all this Hall of Fame talent and a bunch of really good people. I will look forward to being here if they will have me, but for me, I’ve grown a lot even coming from South Bay all the way up. … I would love to have the opportunity to take a whole summer and get ingrained in what we do as an organization all over the place and be around.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><p>Both Johnson and THT were question-marks to make the Lakers opening night rotation considering their one-way natures and, in THT’s case, the propensity of 6’4-and-under wings on the roster. Horton-Tucker also thrives off having the ball in his hands, and part of his unproductiveness last season was a symptom of Westbrook’s ball-dominant presence. Johnson, at 6’7, is a more curious inclusion in the deal, simply due to the Lakers’ dearth of large, defensive-minded wings.</p><p>The Lakers can certainly expect defensive tenacity from Beverley, who averaged 9.2 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 4.6 rebounds while hitting 34.3% of his threes for the Minnesota Timberwolves last season. The 34-year-old, whom the Lakers drafted in the second round in 2009 (traded on draft night for a future 2nd and cash) and played four seasons for the Clippers, is due to make $13 million in 2022-23 — the final year of his contract. He was traded to Utah in the Rudy Gobert deal earlier this summer.</p><p>Surely, the Lakers would have preferred to add Beverley on the buyout market, but perhaps figured they had to act now to acquire him without sending a pick and are setting up a Westbrook move in the near future. Parting with THT now almost assures the Lakers will have to include two first-round picks in any Westbrook trade.</p><p>Beverley is now only the third active Lakers player over 30, and he’s appeared in 60 games in only one of the past five seasons.</p><p>(Perhaps he <a href="https://twitter.com/home">knew about the trade to Los Angeles all along</a>…)</p><p>Prior to the deal, the Lakers had only one point guard on the roster (Russ), unless you count combo guard Kendrick Nunn.</p><p>BTW, speaking of Westbrook and Beverley…</p><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><figure class="op-interactive"></figure><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">of course let's not forget this <a href="https://t.co/CKOiggOw6F">https://t.co/CKOiggOw6F</a></p><p>— Michael Corvo (@michaelcorvoNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelcorvoNBA/status/1562656255121842176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p> </p><p>We’ll see how this develops.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Lakers trade Talen Horton-Tucker, Stanley Johnson to Jazz for Patrick Beverley

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '');   ga('set', 'title', '‘That boy real’: Grizzlies icon Tony Allen shares hilarious encounter with Lakers’ Talen Horton-Tucker in NBA G League');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article><header><figure><img src="https://clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Tony-Allen-shares-hilarious-encounter-with-Talen-Horton-Tucker-in-NBA-G-League.jpg"></figure><h1>‘That boy real’: Grizzlies icon Tony Allen shares hilarious encounter with Lakers’ Talen Horton-Tucker in NBA G League</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2022-08-23T16:27:02-07:00">August 23rd, 4:27pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2022-08-23T16:27:28-07:00">August 23rd, 4:27pm</time><address><a>Paolo Songco</a>A father of two over-energetic boys, Pao has been a writer for ClutchPoints for many years. His passion lies in all things NBA and he has a knack for speaking his mind in his articles -- even when at times it gets him into trouble with the fans. Controversial? Maybe. Excellent writer? Definitely.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">NBA</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Talen-Horton Tucker and his rise to fame is one of those feel-good stories that you love to hear. From being a 46th overall pick in the draft to extended stints in the NBA G League during his rookie year, the 6-foot-4 shooting guard has now made a name for himself as a relatively <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/lakers-news-lebron-james-will-want-to-see-talen-horton-tucker-eye-popping-pro-am-run/">prominent</a> member of the Los Angeles Lakers roster.</p><p>Horton-Tucker took quite the journey getting to where he is today, though. Just ask Memphis Grizzlies icon Tony Allen.</p><p>Allen recently went on a podcast to share his unforgettable story about the Lakers stud. This was during the early days of THT’s career when he was still plying his trade in the G League with the South Bay Lakers. Allen was in attendance in one of Horton-Tucker’s game, and it didn’t take too long for him to realize that the kid was the real deal (h/t <a href="https://twitter.com/RTNBA/status/1562210467308883968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1562210467308883968%7Ctwgr%5E823fc563af3a4f75db899e9469a827eb7a44ea9a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbleacherreport.com%2Fnba">NBA Retweet</a> on Twitter):</p><blockquote>“I saw him in the G League and he killed it,” Allen started. “He had like 20 at halftime. I’m like, ‘He with us.’ He looked at me and said, ‘I don’t even belong down here.’ … He hit a three next play down, looked dead at me. I said, ‘that boy real.'”</blockquote><p>Allen also admitted that he actually had no clue as to who Horton-Tucker was before watching him play in the G League:</p><blockquote>“I didn’t know who he was until I looked at the brochure and it said he’s from Chicago, Illinois,” Allen said. “I’m like, ‘Oh, he from Chicago. My man!'”</blockquote><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">This story about Talen Horton-Tucker from Tony Allen is 🔥 <a href="https://t.co/c4xvmUFV4q">pic.twitter.com/c4xvmUFV4q</a></p><p>— NBA Retweet (@RTNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/RTNBA/status/1562210467308883968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2022</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Obviously, Talen Horton-Tucker left quite an impression on the former six-time All-Defense swingman. Tony Allen is no scrub, and he’s earned the respect of his peers throughout his career, so his narrative here speaks volumes of THT’s reputation around the NBA.</p><p> </p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

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