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[Music] [Music] [Music] guard for the Milwaukee Bucks. As we know, their point guard situation is in flux. or should we say point guard by committee, guys. So, that’ll be interesting if Cole Anthony does indeed lead land with the Bucks. They are in need of a a point guard. A conversation we’ll have throughout the broadcast here with the departure of Damen Lillard. Here’s our starting lineups for tonight’s game between the Bucks and the Clippers. For the Milwaukee Bucks, it’ll be Ryan Jackson, Livingston, Smith, and Nance. The Clippers rolling with Miller, Baldwin, Neerhauser, Christy, and Simpson. Today, the Clippers do not have Kobe Brown. He’s out with an injury, but good to see Patrick Baldwin Jr. making his 2025 summer league debut. Milwaukee Bucks in the green jerseys, the Clippers, and the white jerseys. And Chris Lington starts us off with some thunder, but he can’t put it down. And the Clippers will quickly turn it the other way. And looking for Neerhouser. Miller’s pass is errant and goes out of bounds. How about that start by Chris Livingston? You know, Milwaukee just ran a simple three-man weave and Chris Livingston was just up too high. I’m I’m used to that and I understand why he missed it. He just sometimes got too much being too high. Yeah, way too high. Just underway here. Milwaukee firing on a three from Tyler Smith. It’s no good. And Cam Christie has it to Baldwin. Baldwin, the former draft pick of the Warriors now with the Clippers. Three ball from Miller. No good. Boom. It’ll be Milwaukee basketball. So this is the third game for the Milwaukee Bucks as we showed you courtesy of Jamari Buouay. They won at the buzzer Thursday against Denver. Then they lost yesterday by 10 to Cleveland. Milwaukee playing backto back. That poked away by Xavier Simpson in the backboard. So it will be Milwaukee basketball. [Music] The Bucks only committed nine turnovers in the loss yesterday but got beat up inside. Here’s Cormarmac Ryan. Cutting to the basket is Tyler Smith. Good defense. Oh, no. Sorry. Are you watching a different game? No. No. I said good defense until he dished it and then I was like, “Oh, boy.” But it was already coming out. So, you have your iPad out. Are you watching something else? Not playing a Andre Jackson running the court. And we got to travel. Take another look at the good offensive execution. Great, Channy. Channy, look at the monitor and tell everybody what you think. Listen, right here, I was like, “Oh, that’s great defense.” And then all of a sudden, he got a great slash and and finishes with the two-hand slam. The LA Clippers playing just their second game out here in Vegas. It is day four of the summer league. Clippers opened up with Houston on Friday. Jeremy Castleberry’s team won that game 95 to 92. Christy and Miller combined for 44 points. Good to see Jeremy Castleberry on the sidelines. He’s entering his seventh year with the Clippers and this is his second run as the summer league head coach. He also headed the squad back in 2021. Christie gets creative, but right there for the tip is P Nance. Now Ryan gets it deflected. Patrick Baldwin got his hands on it. Another deflection. Feels like the Clippers have had like three of those in the first two minutes. They are a tall, lanky team. That’s Jason Love who’s the head coach for the Milwaukee Bucks summer league team for Matt Ryan from downtown. He’s been open a number of times and other than that travel and uh that little almost turnover right here, he’s been really aggressive shooting and the Bucks are going to need that. Jordan Miller driving. Miller adjusting and Miller scoring. First points of the night for the Clippers as it’s a five to2 lead for the Bucks for Mac Ryan who had that last three gets the rookie in the air and then Nance off the great feed from Ryan. The Bucks are cutting so much better today than they were yesterday. And that’s what you know, wins and losses, do they matter? No. But it’s it’s just about improvement every single day. Already I’m seeing a different Bucks team. Miller on the drive again. Kicking in the corner. Three ball is pure. Xavier Simpson knocking it down. There is Patrick Baldwin Jr. Here’s that last offensive possession by the Bucks with Ryan finding Nance for Mac Ryan entering his second professional year out of UNC. A deep triple drive off. Can’t take him with you. Clippers finished fifth in the West last year, losing in the first round in seven games to Denver. Baldwin talking a little mess. I love it. Baldwin didn’t play in the opener on Friday with an injury. Had a left ankle sprain. Ryan the floater and Baldwin comes down with the rebound. Baldwin drafted 28th overall by the Warriors back in 2022. Can’t finish there, but he got fouled. Late whistle and Patrick Baldwin Jr. will go to the free throw line. Take a look at Patrick Baldwin from the outside. Hey, Pedro Baldwin said, “Listen, you must I know the scouting report. I can shoot it from anywhere.” Baldwin averaging 17 and seven, playing in the GLeague last year. He did get into 24 NBA games, split between Washington and the Clippers. Got signed to a two-way deal last season by the Clippers. He’ll remain on that two-way contract split between the G-League and NBA roster next season. He’s one of three two-way players under contract. Kobe Sanders and Trenton Flowers the other Baldwin knocks down the free throw. But let’s get back into the conversation that 3D started at the top of the broadcast with the reports that Cole Anthony could end up in a Milwaukee Bucks uniform as they are severely depleted at the point guard position with the departure of Damen Lillard. Ryan got hit. No whistle. Offensive board by Nance. Ryan gets it back. Misses yet again. Ryan and the Bucks are now one for five from three to start the game. Christy on the drive. Christie, no. Nance gets tangled up. Last touch by the Bucks. It’ll be Clipper basketball. So, what’s your thoughts here on the potential of a guy like Cole Anthony uh stepping into that back court? I think that’s a great addition. And and here’s the the real question is are you going to play Giannis at the point? If you play Giannis at the point, have you know Gary Tren Jr. or um uh uh uh Kevin Porter Jr. on the side with him? Uh, for me, you’re just putting players that can drive that drive that kick out, can shoot the ball from three efficiently, you can make good decisions. So, anytime you can add a guy like Cole Anthony who’s young, athletic, uh, hungry, and gifted, uh, it’s just a good move, especially at that point guard position. Bucks with the ball down by three. We’re tied. Chris Livingston knocking down the three. He’s the 58th pick of the 2023 draft. Third consecutive summer league appearance by Livingston in summer league. Nicole Anthony really got lost in the rotation at times in Orlando last year. Baldwin, but as we saw in the playin game against the Atlanta Hawks. He could really be explosive scoring the basketball. Kovich checks in and immediately makes a play for the Milwaukee Bucks. And a foul on the Clippers. That’ll lead to our first timeout. We’ll get more thoughts from 3D and Channing on the potential addition for the Milwaukee Bucks regular season roster when we come back. 516 to go in the first quarter. It’s a tie game between the Bucks and the Clippers. [Music] [Music] [Music] 516 to go in the first quarter here and your business. The second round draft pick by the Milwaukee Bucks this year. Bogalobe Marovic at the free throw line. The 20-year-old 6’11 out of Serbia. Status unclear for next year whether he will be with the Bucks or whether he will go back overseas after celebrating his 20th birthday yesterday playing in his third summer league game with Milwaukee. 3D chanting. We’re talking about potential of a Cole Anthony and what that may do to this roster uh 3D. What’s your take on the type of fit he would be around Giannis and Miles Turner? Well, I think to Shannon’s point, the ball’s going to be in Jiannis’s hand more here. One thing we know about Cole, he can score and get hot to the to our question. Well, from about now on the weak side of the floor is when you make good decisions to make sure the offense Livingston the bucket. I think for me, you’re showing Giannis that you’re committed. Sorry. You’re showing Giannis that you’re committed to just making and improving this roster. And so, you know, everyone’s like, “Is Jiannis going to leave? Is Jon going to leave?” You wouldn’t make these moves if he was going to leave. You’d be making different moves. So, I think what you’re showing them is we’re taking the best available guys and we’re being active to give you a chance to go in a chip. There’s Jason Love who’s been rotating every other game sharing the head coaching responsibilities with Spencer Rivers inside the ball. Sorry, Jared. I think it’s going to be great for Cole. He’s willing to pick up full court, right? And that’s the part of the game where Milwaukee desperately needs defensive end to change that energy and tempo. Well, they’re going to have a great front line with Miles Turner and Jonas Koopo defensively. Maris Noel got fouled. He’ll go to the free throw line. [Music] The Bucks coming off of a 4834 season where they’re the fifth seed before being bounced out by the Pacers in the first round. So they bring back Kevin Porter Jr. and Gary Trent where Lopez ends up as a member of the Clippers and they also lose some of their depth sending out Pat Conington in a move they had to make to free up the salary cap space to sign Miles Turner. I think the Miles Turner acquisition was huge. Nobody saw that coming. Um being able to replace basically a better version of Brook Lopez. Um with a guy who’s going to just getting off of going to the NBA finals. Um again, you’re making moves to show Giannis, hey, we’re going to surround you with the kind of guys that you need to be successful and and take us to another finals. They off Maris Noel 57 out of Kansas State part of that magical wildat run to the Sweet 16 pardon me to the Elite Eight back a couple of years ago. The well had six points and three assists in 17 minutes yesterday in the loss against Fle knocking down the free throws. Bucks have scored the last nine. They lead it by six. 425 to go first quarter. Janny Fry, Dennis Scotch, Eric Greenberg, our NBA TV crew. Simpson just checking in as Flowers. Now it’s Christy. Six on the shot clock. Ryan defending Christie long two. Christie sweet jumper. Tough move. It’s good defense but better offense. Christie coming off a 21-point outing in Friday’s game against the Rockets. Now Livingston. He’s been the leading scoreer. He goes down. Marovic gets it. Misses the bunny. Loose ball. Clippers come out with it. It’s Telford now. Up ahead to Flowers. Takes the dribble. Three. And he turns around and talks some smack to the Buck’s bench. How much time did he take to shoot that ball? Dribbled it. Got his hands on the seams. Said a little prayer. Maris Noel getting into the teeth of the defense now to Cormarmac Ryan. Back to Noel. Livingston has it. Hoist up a three. No. Ryan fights for it. Comes to Flowers to Simpson rather. And the ball goes out of bounds and will stay on this end of the court. Couple of substitutions coming in. Take a look at that three. Look at this. For him to have time to dribble, touch, look like he was shooting them in warm-ups. Pure. Three out of the first five made field goals for the Clippers have been three-pointers. Clippers lose Norm Powell. this off season in the trade that sent him to Miami. Christie strong take couldn’t finish. Noel no look feed. Another bounce pass. Three good for Stanley Mmoodier. Amoodier a two-way player coming off the bench. Struggled in Saturday’s game. Just had two points. Now a three by Simpson. No good. This Milwaukee Bucks zone is really giving up the Clippers some issues here. Sounds like the dry air is giving you some issues. I just used my mute button. Congratulations. You found it. Barovic. It’s been there the whole time. I’m new to this. Flowers on the drive. Flowers. Give him the flowers. He’s got five early on. Flowers running the court. Whips it right into the hands of the Bucks. Bucks coming on strong. Jackson over to Marovic. Marovic with the bucket. And it’s 2117 Milwaukee. Bucks doing a great job of transition offense. Flowers. Here’s Simpson. Flowers thinks about it. Flowers inside. Nice move by Trenton Flowers. Love that guy’s aggressiveness coming off the bench and really making an impact early. A guy out of the Australia league that’s making an impact in the NBA. Trenton Flowers will be on a two-way deal this season. Aure battling a wrist injury that kept him out for a while. Had surgery on that left wrist. Jackson a rare three and he makes it. There we go. Andre Jackson didn’t take many threes at all last year with the Bucks and here puts one up and in. Flowers thinks about it. Drives over to Simpson for corner three. Miller Clippers have hit four threes in the first nine minutes of this game and they’re back within two. 53 seconds to go. Noel the drive. Reverse. No, but right there on the putback attempt is Malik Williams. That’ll lead us to our second media timeout. We are flying along here in the first quarter between the Bucks and Clippers. Milwaukee will go to the stripe when we come back to Las Vegas. You’re watching summer league action on NBA TV. What are you doing? Crunching numbers on every NBA match up. But with the NBA app, you get real time stats and highlights while you watch all season long. We’re talking exciting play. [Music] [Music] [Music] Welcome back to Las Vegas and the NBA 2K26 Summer League. Day four of action. Shannon, you’re surviving. Doing great. Congratulations. I’m actually being a responsible adult this time. do that. We do. You know, I did see you out last night. Yeah, I went to dinner. That’s his responsible adult. So, what are you working on? Dinner was great. Malik Williams going to the free throw line for the Milwaukee Bucks. 611 out of Louisville where he played four years for the Cardinals. You don’t hear that very much anymore. Four years at one spot. Right. Right. Right. Right. Think of the past. league. One of the older certainly not the oldest in summer league here. He’s 26 years old. The oldest player we have this year is 29 years old in summer league. Hey, Kobe Sanders in for the first time. He gets to Flowers. They whip it in the corner. Good ball movement so hard by the Clippers. Flowers penetrates. Flowers rises up. Punches it home. [Applause] Trenton Flowers. He tried to turn the hinges off of that. Jackson, who hit a three couple of possessions ago, gives it up. My gosh. Foul away from the ball. Take another look at Trenton Flowers who got angry at the rim. Just being aggressive, knowing that the help is going to come over and said, “I don’t care if you’re here or not. I’m going to throw this down.” Andre Jackson Jr. 0 for three from the field, two points in the loss Saturday. Six points in the opener Thursday, two for two. So he’s already way more integrated into the offense today than he has been in the first two games combined. It’s not even close. It’s not even close. This is what you look for um really for him to be active. I’m not looking necessarily to shoot um or look for a shot, but to create and and create opportunities for his teammates and defensively, I thought he’s done a great job today. Shot clock off. Sanders driving and he scores with 7 seconds to go in the quarter. Wade Taylor getting his first summer league action. One second to go. Taylor’s got to put it up. Taylor beats the buzzer, but it does not go down. So, a fun fast moving First quarter, the Bucks end the first 10 minutes with a 2726 lead. We’ll hear from Chris Livingston of Milwaukee with 3D next. [Music] [Applause] [Music] You’ve waited a lifetime for this moment. Now it’s time to celebrate the official collection, the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA champions. [Music] Available now at NBA Store. A fanatics experience with 3D $5 duo at BK. Step up to the plate and have it your way. Get two of your faves. It’s up to you. just figure it out. They hit the drive-thru. 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Uh, I would just say, um, taking no plays off, being more effective defensively, um, picking up full court, playing hard, and being a leader, being more vocal. Appreciate you. No, sir. Thank you. While we hear from Chris Livingston, Andre Jackson makes a sensational defensive play. That’s what got him into the league is his ability to defend really almost any position on the court. But they throw right away to the Clippers. The Clippers are off and running. Patrick Baldwin knocking down the three. I really love Jackson’s enthusiasm today. I know I made that mistake and that’s fine, but this defensive play is what we wanted to see yesterday. And I love that he’s not stacking two bad games together. Uh he’s being aggressive. He’s he’s being a leader out there, communicating, having a lot of energy. Baldwin knocks it out of bounds. It will remain with the Bucks. Jackson drafted 36th overall back in 2023 and acquired on draft night by the Bucks. Was in Doc River starting lineup for the first 43 games last season. Then not only was sent to the bench, but was out of the rotation post allstar break. Corner three up and no good from Tyler Smith. Here comes Patrick Baldwin up top. Oh, great defensive effort there by the Bucks. That was Amoodier. Now the three up and no good. And the Clippers will have it. Fun first half here between the Clippers and Bucks. LA with a two-point lead. Clippers coming off a 50 and 32 season, finishing fifth in the West. Their defense among the best in the league. It’s peanut butter jelly time. PBJ hits another three. Shannon, that was kind of deep. That Listen, this guy can score the basketball. With his size, man, he is a going to be an asset for the Clippers. He gets an opportunity. Wade Taylor over to Marovic. Soft touch the foul. Bogaloo. Marovic a day after he turned 20. Gets an opportunity for a three-point play. Take another look at Marovic. to be so young. He’s done a really good job of just being in the right spots. Um, giving himself opportunities to uh to finish around the rim and just being active. Feel like you just turned into a golf announcer right there. Yeah. I wanted I just wanted to talk so I can say his name. Bogaloupe. Bogaloupe. That’s my dog Bogaloupe. Bogaloupe. Known for his face up offense. As you read the scouting reports from those draft experts, it’s almost everybody’s discussed how he needs to improve his defense, but he’s young. He’s just 210 lbs on that 6’11 frame. Pulakitus misses on a three. Pulakitus undrafted out of Yale. He’s a good story. We’ll get into him as he continues to play. Marovich couldn’t track that one down. So, it’ll be a turnover on the Bucks. That’s their fifth here in the first half. No, they’re going to say the Clippers get it. What? Pardon me, the Bucks. They’re going to say the Bucks keep the ball. Oh, well, took a time out. Jeremy Castleberry is going to take a timeout to challenge this. It looked like it was last touched by the Bucks. Do you want to waste your challenge on an out- of- bounds call in the first half? Hey, can’t with you. We’ll see if that’s costly. [Music] [Music] [Music] on the court. They ruled it Bucks basketball. Teresa Stuck, our lead official today. Discussing it with the crew. Let’s see if we get the call. Here’s Teresa coming to the mic. After review, there is no clear and conclusive evidence that the ball went off Milwaukee. LA will lose their timeout and their ability to challenge. And nobody happier with that call than the man who has just joined us at the table, the president of the Milwaukee Bucks. I had some other things that Barry Bound provided to me to say about your resume, but I would I wouldn’t follow that those notes. Yeah. Peter Fagan joining us here to talk about the uh state of the Milwaukee Bucks as we watch them down by two right now. Peter, in all seriousness, thanks for joining us here. You’ve always been so kind to us over the years. Um, we’re going to go over a variety of things going on with the Bucks right now and I think uh we’d be admiss with the Giannis Antmpo effect and and how there’s been so much conversation the offse about will he won’t he stay. What is your take on where the Bucks are with Giannis right now moving forward? You know, we kind of laugh internally. It’s where we’ve been for 10 years. Uh Giannis loves Milwaukee. Milwaukee loves Giannis. Um, we’re in a good place. We we we feel great about it. Um, it’s business as usual. Um, I think we get kind of a a fun little joy in uh everybody else thinking they know what’s going on and and kind of and and what the clickbait is, but you know, for us, we’re in a good spot. Giannis is in good place. He’s enjoying the summer and we’re looking forward to next season. What what has been the Giannis effect in Milwaukee for not only the Bucks but your city and your state? You can’t quantify it. So what does it mean to have a global super generational superstar in a small market? You know, this is someone that affects attendance. It’s someone affects your audience and then it affects the fabric of your community. So, what is the, you know, what is the value of pride, you know, of of Bucks fans in the city of Milwaukee to have such an unbelievable symbol and a human that just just exudes love, you know, for the place he plays, plays hard every night, uh, is proud to be a citizen of of Wisconsin. So, you you can’t quantify it. We’ve been very, very lucky. And it just doesn’t happen doesn’t happen in sports. It doesn’t happen in the NBA too often. We’re very lucky. Yeah. No, Giannis is I’ve seen it personally even when he was at the beginning with Jason Kid and his evolution. Um, you guys have made some pretty big acquisitions acquisitions this summer uh with Miles Turner and how as as the as the energy in the city started to come back and you know it was a little off last year with Damen Lillard hurting his Achilles and now getting a guy like Miles Turner who’s one of the better big men uh defenders and three-point shooters in the league. I I think it’s a testament to John Horse certainly like our owners like we want to compete. We’re we’re showing it in in literally our actions, you know, to me it’s we acquired the best free agent in the market, you know, to make that statement to to kind of compliment Giannis and it’s a statement to certainly our fan base in a big way. So So there’s nothing more than results and actions, you know, and we just need to translate it into, you know, more wins and more playoff runs, right? Trenton Flowers going to get the opportunity to shoot three as he was fouled in the act of shooting. Trenton Flowers has been really good so far in what is a 3533 lead for the Clippers. Your organization has really set a trend if if you at home had not gotten the opportunity to go out and see a Bucks game advisor forum. So you got to get there early and you’ve got to stay late because of what you guys have developed at the Deer District. How have you seen that help the organization? And not only that, but how other organizations around the league have used Milwaukee as a model. I mean, you see it with Thrive City in San Francisco. You’re going to see it in the next couple of years in Atlanta outside their refurbished area downtown. Um, how much have you seen people try and emulate what you guys have developed? Well, I think it’s a perfect model. You take this nucleus of like our platform of the NBA, which is so strong and so great, and then build economic development around it. you know, whether it’s where people live, whether it’s hotels, whether it’s restaurants and bars, and you create these gathering places that just make so much sense around an entertainment center like an NBA arena and a concert venue. So you know we took that example and now you know the whole world is realizing like what the economic effect can be of leveraging your sports entertainment properties for residential for commercial for entertainment and entertainment and things like that. So yeah we take great pride in it and continue to build it and you know we want it’s all about the fans. So how do you go about this to all the fan? How do you get them there early keep them there later? It all kind of makes sense in the model. And the best part about it for us broadcasters is that no team provides more free food to us slobs than you guys. Well, there’s no bigger fan than the cluckery than in the history of the world. Like if you’ve consumed How many pounds of cluckery chicken do you think you’ve consumed in Fiser? 37 lbs. 37 lbs. 37 pounds this year. 37 pounds in five visits. That’s seven pounds of That’s That’s a lot of chicken. Well, that’s too many numbers. Thanks for contributing to my pre-diabetes. you know, when you have a guy like Giannis and and this is a both question for like just a city, the pressure of putting a championship caliber team around him. How is how has that evolved over the years of like how you adjust to what happens outside the arena and what doesn’t? Well, Chad, I mean, I think you can appreciate when when you have a centerpiece of a team that makes you competitive with him himself, how do you take advantage of that and work around it? And I think our owners have kind of like have known that from the beginning and John Horse certainly knows how to put that puzzle together. It’s really building around this superstar centerpiece and and and that’s kind of what’s worked for us. And uh and telling the narrative is not difficult, right? Like we want to win. Giannis is our centerpiece and uh let’s go bigger picture here. You guys went through a ownership transition in the last couple of years. What what has the new ownership group brought to the table? Well, I think number one, a total energy. So, you know, what what Jimmy Hasslam brings is kind of the awareness of the NFL of Major League Soccer and and the ability to kind of join the ownership group and really inject kind of a new energy. certainly a a great perspective of uh kind of where it is and and change is change is good. You know, we’ve had we’ve had like an an interesting few years and uh our ownership group is very tight and kind of works as a partnership to to figure out solutions like free agency and kind of directionally where we’re going. So, it’s uh it’s been welcoming and uh you know, I think I think really great for John Horse and I to to kind of have almost that board of directors to report to. Well, it’s interesting. You know, you mentioned John Horse. There’s been so much focus understandably on Giannis and his future, but but you guys made a a long-term commitment to John Horse to say he’s going to be the basketball decision maker now. Yeah. I don’t think again I think pretty consistent. And I think the one thing like West Wes Edens has certainly done over time and certain and you know Jimmy is let the managers manage and kind of have confidence in in uh in people like John Hor and kind of directionally like what he’s done. So it’s you know we’ve we’ve kind of quietly been you know very consistent in in in direction and management which I think has helped us kind of be productive and win and build a good culture. Peter Fagen, last one for you. True or false? You’re the only president of an NBA team that travels with his own makeup person to make sure you’re always ready for TV appearances. Unfortunately, it’s true. It’s radio. I do the makeup for, but yes, that is true. That is true. And it’s an expense that we’re probably going to have to cut. Well, we’ll see at some point if we can get the behind the scenes footage of Barry Bomb applying that makeup to you. We’ve enjoyed this Bucks infomercial. Thanks for taking the time, Jimmy, uh, or pardon me, Peter Fagan. Uh, you’re always great to chat with, always appreciate having fun with you. Best of luck with the Buck season. Can’t wait to get some more cluckery next season from you. Good. Well, big fan. Go Bucks. That was almost like a Duval County type of thing. Go Bucks. Peter Fagan joining us here. Nicely done, Channy. Thank you. Slide back over here closer to me, friend. Wonderful. While we’re away, the Clippers took a one-point lead. [Applause] 4241. 317 to go in the half. Take another look at what just happened here. Channing, break it down for us. Oh my goodness. Little guy gets in there, dishes it off for a easy two-hand slam. These guys are so athletic and and the Milwaukee Bucks have been cutting so well today uh after that penetration into the paint. Peter joining us here. Pete Nans the big man driving throws it right to Patrick Baldwin Jr. Baldwin in front of the floor. Baldwin putting it up and we get a traveling violation. Jackson picked him up. That’s going to lead us to a timeout. You know what else happened during the interview? It was this. Take a look at Tyler Smith getting up. Bucks within one. Back with more live in Vegas. For adults with obesity, Zepbound means change. It’s changing what I believe is possible when it comes to weight loss. Zapbound helps adults with obesity lose weight and keep it off. 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[Music] Then a triple header on ESPNU Monday with the Bulls and Pacers, Celtics and Heat and Suns and Kings. I really like the Bucks movement. Uh that play out of that timeout uh or that break was great. I thought if they had planned it better, they could have gave uh Lance the ball. I almost said I know that’s a fine. That’s a fine. Well, I have yet to say Max Christie. So, here we go. Yeah, I’m waiting to screw that one up and say Max instead of Cam Christie. Another quick whistle here on Patrick Baldwin Jr. 4241 final game of the night here inside the pavilion. Across the hall, they’re playing basketball at Thomas and Mack. This is the smaller, more intimate setting. A nice crowd on hand for Clippers and Bucks. Nance seven on the shot clock. Has it to Livingston. Livingston four on the shot clock. Living falls to the ground and he got hit. Baldwin Jr. They are going at you. Patrick Baldwin played his college ball in Milwaukee, University of Milwaukee. He has good size and skill on him. Yeah. 69 220. Yeah. Can shoot the mess out of that rock. He’ll be a two-way player this year for the LA Clippers. Didn’t play on Friday with a left ankle sprain. Here’s Andre Jackson for Mac. Bryan for three. No, he’s having a tough day for M. Ryan now one for six from the field. He’s missed four out of his five three-point attempts. We got a foul on the Clippers on that rebound. So Jackson will inbound the ball. Andre Jackson today taking one shot. He’s got five points. [Music] Four on the shot clock. Comes up short. Baldwin is going to take it and run. Baldwin picked up by Naz. Baldwin flips it up. No, but right place, right time is Jordan Miller. Good activity on offensive boards. Donitos. Oh my goodness. Xavier Simpson comes up with the poke. Baldwin slotted by Nance. Basket interference. Baldwin just consistently being aggressive. Baldwin has 17 now. That leads all scorers. Flowers has 11. They’ve combined for 28 in of the first 46 for the Clippers. Andre Jackson. Oh, great pass. And Nance throws it down with a left hand. Pete Nance’s energy is is infectious. He’s screening. He’s rolling. He’s Good defense by Livingston. Livingston takes it away. Under 90 seconds to play in the half. Gives it to Ryan and Ryan gets an easy uncontested look. He needs that one. Hopefully that’ll get the lid off. 11 Jordan Miller three for six down low to Christie. He got hammered. No call. Hey, that was all head. First down. First down. Pass interference. That’s a great cut. Wow. Jordan Miller. Great feed. And no foul. That’s all right. Let him play. Let him play. Okay. Let him play. Here’s Cam Christie, the brother of Max, who’s now a member of the Dallas Mavericks. Christie comes up short. Jordan Miller under a minute to play. Miller goes up. Jackson gets a finger on it. Christie loses it. Nance up with it. Jackson running. It’s a threeon two Milwaukee break. Marovic up and in. Oh, Marovic the Serbian slam. I know my dog Bugaloo. He got that boo but Chris. Sorry. What? Jackson is balling today. What? But don’t boo. Livingston loses it. Simpson has it. I’m sweating, man. Me, too. Christie for three. Yes. 5147 Clippers. Shot clock off. Milwaukee can get the final possession. Climbers have a foul to give. You’ve been liking how Andre Jackson’s been playing here. Man, lot more activity today than we saw yesterday. Livingston has it. Livingston inside to NAS. Four seconds to go. Ball tipped out of bounds off the Clippers and it will be Bucks basketball with 3.2 on the clock and a timeout by Jason Love to draw up the final play. We’ll take it with him. We’ll come right back and show you the final 3.2 seconds of the first half between the Clippers and Bucks. liking how we saw yesterday only at Chili is now available with the all new [Music] [Music] to go in the first half. Clippers up 5147. Bucks took a timeout to drop the final play. They got double big action in there with Nance and Marovic. They get it in. Two seconds to go. Got to force it up. Bryant doesn’t get a shot off. Great defense by Jordan Miller right in front of his own bench. And that’s how the first half ends. Fun first half. Clippers. [Music] [Music] [Music] Our [Music] score at halftime, Bucks 47, Clippers 51. As we round out day four of summer league, let’s take a look back at the best of Wired from the first few days. Summer League. Everybody go out there, compete, play hard, do what we do. Here we go, guys. Let’s get down together on three. One, two, three. Red. Yo, he cut there. Here we go. Good. Coup. We still got that one when we need it. Go right back to that. Hey, Mr. Ref. What’s bonus? 10. Hey, Mr. Ref. 10 fouls. It was crazy. Mr. Ref, next one’s bonus. Oh, is it under two minutes? Hey, I’m still learning the rules. Just stay together. We’re We’re We’re moving too fast. Calm down. We got five guards out here. We calm down. Hey, we got to have pace after a lot of goal screen. It’s too much one-on-one. That’s not That’s not the type of basketball we’re going to play today. Hey, we just got to get some stops and run. Get some stops. Run. Try and play in transition real quick. Great defense on a miss. Remember, we crash on the high side and we pressure. Okay, pressure them. You see when you pressure, they turn the ball over. Way to settle in. Good job. Good job. You and stack. They giving a mid-range up so I could drive at you like I drove a deal. back there. Sir, sir, my three was a two. Yeah, it was two. Damn. Why you ain’t Why you ain’t tell me? Scoot back. Oh, that’s a pro foul. That’s NBA foul. Remember, just got to smile a little bit. Hey DJ, I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. Stay up. Come on. Get it back. Second half action coming up. Bucks 47 clips 51 NBA 2K summer league. The truth about DIY is [Music] [Music] [Music] Welcome back to NBA 2K 26 Summer League. Day four action. One more half to go on this Sunday evening inside the pavilion on another steamy day in Vegas. The sun has set, but we still have more hoops. It is a 5147 lead for the LA Clippers. Jenning Fry, the NBA champion. Dennis Scott going to join us in a moment. I’m Jared Greenberg. So, the first couple of days of summer league with the Milwaukee Bucks. You talked about the inactivity and lack of offensive production from Andre Jackson. He’s known as a defensive first guy. We saw that activity in the first half. Oh man, I was really impressed with his with his energy in the first half defensively, his his his ability to just stay in front of guys, the way he contest the basketball. He also has other skill sets that I’d love to see more of. His decision- making right here, he has quick hands. Look, he’s playing with his head up. He’s leading all both teams with with assist with four. So for me, he can make plays for others. Um on the other end of that man, this guy Patrick Baldwin Jr. has an absolute fainth thrower. big guy, but also don’t sleep. He got bunnies, too. Man, I love his skill set. I love this game right now. Uh, this is a close game, and I really like that these teams are playing and cutting. It’s not a lot of one-on-one. This is good basketball. Baldwin leads all scorers with 17 in the first half, and we’re about set to get underway here from the pavilion. Your reservation to see the Backstreet Boys is going to have to wait a few more minutes, Channing, because we’ve got two more quarters of basketball to play. I’m actually not going. My wife is going next week. Back. All right. Don’t sleep. 3D. You going tonight? No, sir. [Music] Now, if you said NC cuz my boy Justin Timberlake, I’m like, “Hey, little JT.” Okay. Ain’t nothing but a mistake. 950 to go. 5147. Miller on the drive. Got hit. We didn’t see too many fouls in the first half. I feel like we may make up for that here in the second half. Yeah, I think it’s going to get a little more physical since it is a close game and um you know, both these teams really want to win. You’re a special human being, Danny Fry. Don’t ever change. Don’t ever change. It’s too late now. Cam Christie the fake on the three then got himself in a precarious situation. Baldwin fires. Baldwin off the back of the iron and it’s taken down by Pete Nance. Milwaukee in the green jerseys. One and one so far here in Vegas. Beating Denver at the buzzer on Thursday. Losing by 10 yesterday. Playing the second night of a backtoback tonight. Nance the drive with four on the shot clock. They got to get a shot off for Mac. Ryan at the buzzer doesn’t connect and a foul underneath. [Music] Loose ball foul called the ball. It’s going to be on Miller. That’s going to be his first. Again, if you’re just joining us, here in the round robin round portion of the summer league, you get 10 fouls. Christie on the drive. No, you know, we’ve not heard much from the rookie, Yannik Neerhouser. Uh, we can say we have heard nothing from Netherhauser. Yeah, Neerhouser was the last pick of the first round by the Clippers a couple of weeks ago. There he is. Conan Nehauser. He is a big dude today. He has not scored, has not taken a shot, has two rebounds. He scored one point and had 10 rebounds and four block shots in Friday’s game out of Penn State. It just looks like it’s uh the game is a little fast for him right now and that’s okay, but this is where you work on that. Um yeah, you can’t you know, you can’t cheat size and he is a big kid. Um, he moves his feet well defensively, but you could tell he’s still thinking about where to be. Um, I wish it would have got a little bit more aggression out of him. Uh, even if on the offensive board, make something happen. 611 242. He’ll take a a seat here as you saw Tyoo with a contingent of Clipper executives in front office. Lawrence Frank is here. Steve Bomber of course is here. Clipper superfan/owner. It just looks like it’s the game. Good driving. [Music] Miller knocks it down. Clippers last year, their offense was middle of the pack, 15th in the NBA. But a lot of people in that organization pointing directly to the addition of Jeff Van Gundy on Tyoo staff or why they came up with a great defense. Andre Jackson misses on a three, gets his own rebound and the back. That’s what we want to see from these guys. When you’re getting opportunities in the NBA, like you started 43 games, you need to come out here. I don’t need you to wow me with scoring. I needed to be energy. I needed to be, you know, defensive intention. Um, and I think Andre Jackson is definitely doing that today. Take another look at what Andre Jackson did after missing the three. Follows his shot. But he shot the three. That’s the right shot. He’s just shooting the right shot. And right here, just using his athletic ability, getting up and making layups. It didn’t seem like he wanted to shoot the ball yesterday. Much more active today. And listen, here’s the deal, right? You talked about this yesterday, 3D, you brought this up as well. Everything that the Bucks do is about Giannis Antono. If you’re going to play your way onto the court with Giannis who’s not a outside shooter, you’ve got to be a guy that defenses have to acknowledge out there, right? You can’t they can’t ignore you out there because that’s just going to collapse on Yiannis. In today’s basketball, Channy, you got to have guys that can make shots. I think Porzinga showed that when the Celtics wanted this past year with with OKC, everyone throwing the floor can make shots. So now for Andre, if you’re not making an open shot, you got to be slashing to the basketball, be in the dunker spot, right? Or you have to be able to be a decision maker, right? Look what Golden State did with Andre or Andre Drummond with Draymond Green, right? He’s at the top of the key now. Can you trust Andre to make decisions, do dribble handoffs, and be that roller and then catch that little short roll and kick out to shooters? Baldwin. Wow. Splash. Largest lead by either team. The Clippers are up by eight. For Matt Ryan, who’s had a difficult day shooting the ball. One for five from three. There’s a three by Pete Nance. Nance has played 13 games in the NBA. Split between Philadelphia and Milwaukee. Of course, the brother of Larry and the son of Larry. Yeah. [Music] Just too too big, too slow to get out. I know it’s a nice contest, but when somebody 69, 610, they got a jumper like that, it’s too late. Then right here, Pete Nance line that thing up, knocked it down. Five-point game. and Jordan Miller trying to find his way back to the NBA. Miller waved by the Clippers a couple of days ago on the summer league roster. He be picked up by someone. The Clippers do have some roster spots available among their 15 standard roster spots. Barren Frank, the president of the team, sitting next to Steve Balmer. Mentioned the addition of Jeff Van Gundy to that staff. By the way, let’s give Steve Bomber some flowers for that intimate dome. Yeah. Oh man, that place was absolutely unbelievable state-of-the-art. Really cool facility. Marcus Noel finds Nance. Nance doing a little bit of everything here to start the third quarter and the Bucks back within three. among their injures facility. Got their first taste of basketball in in Dome this year as bodies hit the floor. Mentioned the addition of Neerhouser Ryan on the ground also got their small taste of playoff basketball. Good crowds in there. You know, when you talk about the Clippers this past year, the biggest thing with them is always Kawhai’s health and he missed the first 34 games once he came back from that knee injury. Clippers went 26 and 11 with him and Kawaii averaged 21 and a half points per game. They are a tough tough team. You know, I think you look at just a build between uh big big zoo, you look at PG, you look at or not PG, good, you look at Kawawaii, Norman Pal. Uh this team just has it all. They have length. James Harden had a great year up until, you know, the playoffsish, but this is a team that can do both things. Um and I’m really liking the makeup of this team. I thought Chris Dunn did absolutely wonderful really establishing who he was night in and night out on the defensive end. And uh Too is my favorite coach uh in the league right now. Well, taught you everything you need to know about how to win a champion. Or did I teach him? We never know. Maris Noel back to Nance. Going to try another three. Way off. Tyler is making a pass. Give him the assist. Give him the assist. Give him the assist. Clippers traded for Ps. Oh, David Freed thought that was coming right for his head. He moved out of the way. Cam Christie drive. Got it knocked out of his hands. [Music] John Collins signed Brook Lopez gave new deals to Harden and Batum. Cam Christie spins the floater. No, no basket. It’s on the floor. That’s a good call. The officials are going to talk about it though. Gets the guy up in the air. Then there’s a foul. It’s on the ground. Looked like the good call initially. [Music] People are very antsy in the crowd today. Two shots. They’re going to say it can’t be two shot. It can’t be two shots. One shot, right? So, they’re counting the basket on the continuation. And they’re going to give Cam Christie a shot, which it clearly looked like the foul was on the ground. The initial official who made the call looked like she had it correct and then she was overboard. Well, ball don’t lie. Andre Jackson initiating offense. Bringing it up board here a lot. This what you want to see. There’s Noel. No long feed. Jackson ifi cutting back door. Goodness. He is an elite athlete. Let’s keep eye on Jackson and Miller. Oh, I love it. Yeah, when when Jackson was playing defense here. Yeah, I saw it. Look at this. Jackson coming up with the steal. Going in for another one. Can’t finish. Jackson doesn’t get back to five on four. Flowers for three. Air ball. Oh my goodness. Time out on the floor. Starting to get some fireworks here in Vegas. The lead in to the Backstreet Boys. Noel the no look feed and Jackson rising up. Oh my goodness. Bucks within two [Music] for adults with obesity. Zound means change. [Music] [Music] [Music] Two-point game. Clippers leaded 532 to go in the third quarter. The NBA champion Channing Fry 3D Dennis Scott Jared Greenberg. I feel Bucks getting ready to go on a run. You want to know why? Cuz my dog Booaloo is back in the game. Here we go. Oh, a number. Noel looking for Marovic. Eight on the shot clock. Cormarmac Ryan the drive. He got hammered. Brian forces up the shot and he’ll shoot two. So Cormarmac Ryan gets his first trip to the free throw line after what has been a difficult shooting night for him. It started two for eight from the field, one for five from three. Cormarmac Ryan out of UNC. came off the bench to tie for team high honors with 18 against Denver a couple of days ago. Last year, Ryan was playing in Oklahoma City for the Thunder G-League team, the Blue. Milwaukee Bucks made their ninth consecutive playoff appearance last year. That’ll certainly be a challenge to make it a decade straight of playoff basketball. Oh, great screen by the rookie. Christie the three connects. Cam Christie has the Clippers up by four. Ualoo Marovic gets it stripped away. Sanders no look feed. Christie looking for backto back buckets. Christie got hit. It’ll be on the ground as Cam Christie got fouled. There have been a lot of fouls this quarter. It feels like the intensity coming. It was coming. Great screen by the rookie. The three connects. 11 fouls. 18 on the shot clock. Brett Flowers inbounds right in front of Steve Bomber. If anybody’s allowed to be that close to Steve Bomber. It’s It’s mindboggling for him. Ryan comes up with it. Here’s Booaloo. [Music] No help. No looks beat N. Oh, tried to get fancy. Did he try and dunk that behind his head? I don’t know what he tried, but it worked. You ever try and do something like this? Uh, no. I couldn’t jump that high. He just He got Nan’s blood. Oh, he did. He might have. It looked like he was trying to take flight and he got bumped there. Yeah. [Music] See the next generation of NBA stars at NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. Tickets are going fast. Get yours now at NBAvents.com. If you’ve never been here before, it’s such a cool setup. 20th year they’ve had summer league out in Las Vegas. We’re on the campus of UNLB just off the strip in Vegas and there’s two arenas going simultaneously. We’re in smaller, more intimate arena here, the pavilion across the hall. Literally just walk a couple of feet the other way down the hallway and you can go into Thomas and M running. Sanders misses the layup. Noel has it. He’s been fancy with his passes. Noel again, but he loses it. Trenton Flowers has it. Flowers twoon two. Right. Flowers r and the foul. Count it flowers. Great way to attack the rim with the low pickup for the end of one. Let’s watch Flowers right here. [Music] got off to a good start in this game with 13 points. Patrick Baldwin leads all scorers with 20. Three-point play converted for Trenton Flowers, the two-way player, who has pro experience internationally playing in Australia. Livingston kicks it to Noel, but he turns it over. That’ll be the 12th turnover, pard, the 13th turnover for the Bucks tonight, which in all actuality for a summer league game is not that much. No, no, no. I’ve been to some games. I saw 26. What do you think the summer league record is for turnovers? 90. That’s not kept. David Free got real nervous right there and just fired off to us. It’s not kept. Don’t ask for it. We don’t know. Good defense. There’s another turnover. Noel has it. He whips it ahead. Amoodier over to Livingston with a hand at his grill. Thumbs up short and it will be Clipper basketball. That shot was definitely I haven’t shot one for a while so I’m getting this one up. No, Livingston tonight. Nine points on three of six. Chris Livingston has led the Bucks in scoring each of their first two games here in summer league. Miller lefty stroke. No. And it will be Milwaukee basketball. Things have gotten a little cold here, but the Clippers still shooting 54%. Bucks shooting 49%. over to Livingston with a hand. Yeah, this portion of the game is when they’ve gone a little bit deeper into their bench. Guys are trying to figure their rhythm out. Um, I haven’t for a while. Whispering things to yourself? No, no. I was making sure the the guys I was trying to talk about were in the game cuz I was looking at these guys. No, I feel Look, some of these guys don’t even haven’t even warmed up yet. They’re just now getting a chance to get in there and you only got three minutes, you know, while the starters going to probably come back in and play the first six minutes uh of this really close game. 6863 Clippers. Sometimes I do talk to myself, right? You know, rebound. Yeah. [Music] Clock still running despite [Laughter] They got to reset the shot clock here. Well, they want to put 14 on the starters. [Music] No, they got to fix the clock. They got to fix the clock. It says 910. We’ve had some issues with the clock here in the pavilion over the last couple of days. I think it was like 307. Yeah. Yeah. I think 301. Okay. Welcome to summer league. Not just for the players or coaches or refs, but the clock and you and me too, Channing. Yeah, definitely for me. All right, here we go. And he’s got to get to the back street, boys. We got to hurry this thing up. No. No. I got some honey walnut shrimp waiting for me. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It’s delicious. Chinese food here in Vegas is amazing. Not sure where the delay is now. We fix the clock. You me too. Yeah, definitely for me. 301 to go. Third quarter. 14 on the shot clock and we’re going to go back to the scorers table and talk about it again. Got some honey walnut shrimp. We just got to play at this point. Yeah, it’s time to go. Yeah. Delicious. Thank you. is amazing. Yep. So, the Bucks are going to inbound it and we get a whistle. Okay, guys. I don’t think the ball was inbounded when there was it was action. So, after the ball’s released, you could foul. Correct. So, that’s what I do. Yes. It was pretty close. Very close. I’m not advocating for more free throws, but I think it was close. [Music] Keith Noel, who have one of the more special NCAA tournament runs, the step back give him another highlight. He feeling good after that. Reminds me of uh Kemba Walker. Well, he he spoke to guys like Kemba, Isaiah Thomas, Mugsy Bogs have all been mentors of his. Jordan Miller comes right back with a three. I’m not advocating. Well, and operating the offense here. Loses it. Goes out of bounds. It will remain with Milwaukee when we come back. Maris Noel, [Music] an understudy or a mentee for Mugsy Bogues and Isaiah Thomas coming up with a big three here. 5’7 playing big and so is Jordan Miller. He’s got 13. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] live in Las Vegas. 217 to go in the third quarter. Bucks basketball down by five. Clippers largest lead with eight. Chris Livingston has it. Livingston can fire from there. Gives it to Noel. Deep triple try. No good. The ball is taken down by the Clippers. anywhere else. Here’s Sanders. 69. Sanders. Good defense. That is great defense. Noel so far today. 5.6 assist. Looking for another one. Jackson on the deck. Back to Noel. Noel dumps it off. Livingston forces it up. Plus the foul. Tough bucket by Chris Livingston. He’s now got 11 points and he’ll look for one more. Take a look at Maris Noel continuing with these nifty creative passes. He is just so crafted getting two feet in that paint, getting the the weak side defense together and then dishing off to the big man. Maris Noel played in the G- League last year where he averaged 16 points and eight and a half assists with two steals per game. Noel, this is a guy who set an NCAA tournament record with nine assists in the Sweet 16 several years ago. If any team ever takes a shot to see if those numbers can translate at the NBA level. Great point. And I think as the game continues to evolve, it will partner despires there. Two-point game. Bucks looking to tie or take the lead. Livingston off the window. We’ve got a brand new shiny one in Vegas. 71 to 71. Livingston is doing exactly what he said he’s doing. putting pressure on the interior defense of of the Clippers and getting shots. Marovic amidst the silly foul out in the perimeter. Could not stop the puppies. All gas. No breaks right here. Livingston just creating creating the contact and finishing over a tall sevenfooter coming block from the weak side. Simpson. Under a minute to go in the quarter. Baldwin too strong. Fight for the loose ball. Jackson comes up with it. Good hands there. Marco [Music] Milwaukee run. There’s the run stopper Cam Christie. 30 seconds to go. Seventh second game to shot clock differential. Noel driving deep into the teeth of defense, but he turns it over. The Bucks 14th miscue. Baldwin in transition. Jackson with the rebound. 16 seconds to go. Shot clock off. Bucks can take the final shot. Noel has attracted the defense each time he’s driven. He steps back. He comes up short. Oh, Chan, you left the window open. Ch. That’s the end of the That’s the end of the third quarter. Bucks up 7473. We’ll come back with the fourth live on NBA TV. Oscar Meyer Deli Fresh Meats are so deli fresh people think they’re fresh from the deli. Hello. I’ll have a pastrami ride. I’m sorry, babe. We moved in next to [Music] [Music] [Music] All right, guys. Here with Patrick. Patrick, I know the shoot. Those last two, you kind of match yourself being wide open. Those two got to go down, but we’re having a good night as a team. We got 10 more minutes to lock in and get this done. You’ve been here before. What’s the biggest thing you need to work on? So when the regular season comes, Tyler have confidence putting you in the ball game. You know, I mean, I’m going say it’s everything, but defense is most important right now. Um, you know, we got a lot of scores. We got a lot of guys that can put the ball in the basket a lot of different ways. Uh, so just finding ways to fit in there is what’s important. Appreciate you. Yes, sir. Thank you. I’m pretty impressed with that. Knowing this guy was a McDonald’s All-American, highly coveted, come out of high school, went to the small school, Milwaukee where he’s from, where he grew up, and then now here he is now trying to find his way in this NBA and admitting that defense is the way it’s going to get you on the court. Yeah. And I think in today’s game, you have to be able to play defense. You cannot be a traffic cone out there. Even no matter how good your offense is, and we saw that with Oklahoma City and Indiana, they were out there taking advantage. If you’re bad at a screen and roll, if you ain’t moving your feet, these guards are too good and too skilled. They’re going to go right at you. Clippers have the basketball. There’s been a new found focus of defense. They’ve always had elite defenders like Kawi Leonard and prior to and Paul George on the team, but now with Jeff Van Gundy coming in, he has certainly elevated the team’s overall mindset. A lot of misfires to begin the fourth quarter, but the third best defense in the NBA really started not with necessarily Hawaii or any of the names the average fan might think about. Ch. He started last year in the middle with a visa Zubots becoming not just a great defender, one of his best in the NBA last. Big Zoo is a workhorse, dude. Anything you ask him to do, he’s going to do it 110% every single night. And we talked about this. He’s the most underrated big man in the NBA. And there’s a reason why the Clippers have had success. When he’s out there, you can put him in the drop of the ice and he can take care of both guards and bigs. You can switch. He’s rebounding. He’s defending one-on-one. Um, man, his development over the years and imagine the Lakers gave him away for a button and a like boot galler too, man. He is he is a monster and I’m really really proud of the way he’s evolved as a player and playing with James Harden also doesn’t hurt on the offensive end. No question. Zubots took a massive step forward last year. second team all defense, second in the most improved player award voting, and he increased his scoring by five points per game. Truly becoming an elite two-way center in the NBA. A lot of props go to, you know, that that assistant coaching staff is tremendous. You saw Brian Shaw, Larry Drew sitting there with Tai Lua. on the sideline. Jay Larenga deserves a lot of credit for the one on word one-on-one work he does with the Avita Zubats and of course a lot of the schemes they ran this year. It’s 3D due to Jeff Van Gundy coming in as the defensive coordinator. Now you add Brook Lopez to that mix, right? It’s a perfect combination. One guy’s inside, Brook Lopez is shooting threes, so it creates more space now in the fourth quarter for driving lanes. And one thing that people don’t really think about sometimes when you get a guy in Brook Lopez, you get to practice against a guy like Brook Lopez. Good defense there by Taylor. And it will I think it touched the referee. So it’s going to remain with the Clippers, but they have just one second to get it across before an 8second violation. [Music] How many fouls have been called on inbounds plays of guys folding and grabbing and I should ask Dave Freed. He’s our official stat man. Dave, how many fouls on inbounds? Eight. I think you’re wrong. I think it’s seven. Jeez, Dave, I thought you were accurate. Baldwin fakes a three. Travel. Oh my goodness. 3D. I I I thought it was going to be a travel call, too. And I think he shocked himself. That’s why he missed it. I don’t I’m speechless. And it doesn’t matter. The fans are behind me going crazy like, “Come on, 45.” That’s a He definitely jumped. But did he get rid of it? He He may have dropped the ball. Dribble it. Marovic misses the turnaround. You are outwardly rooting for Marco. Yeah. I like my dog Baloo. My dog Christie got fouled and he’ll go to the free throw line. Does he know that you guys are Hey, listen. He doesn’t know, but he we will be. I might get me a Baloo jersey. You know, going to say boooo, right? No, I’m going to get a custom made jersey. Say where you see Booaloo play at. Yeah, man. Listen, Summer Lake, he was killing Christy to the line for two. Christie misses the first. 811 to go. It’s It’s unclear in all seriousness uh what John Horst and the Bucks front office is is going to end up doing with Marovic. Bugaloo. Marovich could very well go back overseas. uh played at Mega Basket played for Mega Basket last year in Serbia. To me, a a prospect like that, I like his feel for the game, but he’s not going to get opportunities to play enough to really develop this year the way he’s built. I say give him one more year, allow him to grow, allow him to have opportunities to learn again a little bit more, get a little bit bigger, and then bring him back when he can really contribute. Cam Christie knocking down the three. He’s got 21 points to lead the Clippers. Good defense there by Simpson. Taylor gets it back. Taylor in some trouble. The Puppies. So, it’s a turnover on the Bucks. Their 18th turnover of the game. Remember I said 13 wasn’t that much? 18 is now we’re getting about the summer league status. not seen Deari Buouay quite some time. [Music] Bucks trying out that zone again. N0 run by the Clippers. Taylor gets it back. Taylor [Applause] Simpson pardon me u not playing tonight but there he is on the bench after having some impressive showings here. So keep this in mind what the Bucks are doing. You know has been their second leading scorer. He’s had all the theatrics. So, him not playing tonight going obviously have an impact on how they execute down the stretch because they’ve been really good in clutch situations with him at the head of the snake there. He’s been great at getting to his spots, getting open, and making the shots, the tough ones. Wow. Bucket and the foul for Jordan Miller. Speaking of tough buckets, Brewers on an 110 run. They have a 10-point lead, which is now their largest for either team in the game. Gordon Miller again, if you’re just joining us, as there’s an LAC chant coming from behind us, not started by Steve Bomber. He’s loving it. Jordan Miller just joining him is waved by the Clippers due to a guarantee that was coming up in his contract. They bring him on for summer league. He gets to audition for the Clippers who do have an open roster spot and for the other 29 teams who are watching. Nance knew it was off as soon as he let it go. Great rebound. Livingston fighting for it and Livingston got fouled. So after a relatively clean and fast first half, it’s come to a halt here in the second half. A lot more fouls called. What? Whoa. Shacked in a fool. There you go. Shacked in a fool. That is the first summerly shacked in a fool. Wait a minute. What just happened? Was he open up there? Was there open, man? What? Okay. Wasmbby in the game today? No. Wy’s on vacation. Livingston got fouled. That’s funny. Up top. Oh, the rookie. Khan Nerh Hower rising up and scoring. First NBA summer league bucket. And it comes in style. I see why they have him out there. I see him now. That is a big boy to get up that high that quick. That’s a lot to work with those lot to work with. 611 242 drafted 30th by the Clippers. Come on, we can work with that. Open three. No good from Livingston. By the way, did you guys see draft night 3D? You were in Barlay Center. You got the drive to the basket by Flowers and he got hit while you were in the arena 3D. They’re getting ready to call Yan Neahauser’s name and he gets a tip that he just got selected by the Clippers. He’s in the sweep, not in the green room. So, he’s sprinting through Barlay Center to go down to shake Adam Silver’s hand. One of the cool moments of the NBA draft. Right on. It was one of the coolest things to see it, too, because you see the guy, we thought you just coming out of the stands. They said, “No, no, no. He’s coming out of a different sweep, private sweep.” So, it was awesome. To your point, great call. That’s one night Shannon never gets old. Never because to see the guys with the genuine crocodile tears coming down their faces like in interviewing VJ and he’s saying I’ve been on a generator the last seven years with my family. Yes. It’s like oh man he plays like it too but out with a thumb injury for Philadelphia for Matt Ryan. No good big body sore for the rebound. Flowers has it. He’s all gas. Pitching a shut out here in the fourth quarter. A 150 run by LA to start the period. It’s a 14-point LA lead. [Music] [Music] Bucks score this quarter. It’s been all Clippers. They’ve scored the first 15 points over the first four minutes of action here. A 150 run while the Bucks have missed all eight shots they’ve taken. and committed four fourth quarter turnovers. Chris Livingston’s been their go-to man offensively. Doesn’t end the run. The putback no good either. They’re now 0 for 10 after those two shot attempts. Christy corner three. No good. We can do this together. What are you working on? Livingston. How do they get some offense here? Channing Livingston back. Got it. He’s going to the way he attacks the the paint with his size and his skill set is is awesome and I I appreciate that. He just doesn’t settle for the jumper. He wants to get to a spot. Um make sure he gets gets his buckets. The Bucks missed their first 10 shots the quarter to 76. There’s the three by Kobe Sanders. It’s back up to a 15-point lead. Noel Smith way off on the three. Bucks now shooting eight for 32 from three. Take another look at Kobe Sanders, 69 out of Nevada. He’ll be one of the two-way players chanting for the Clippers this upcoming season. Yeah, he just, you know, usually we used to call him tweeners, but he’s a handling 69 shooting guard. Uh really coming in and getting buckets. I’m excited to see what he can do this last 445. for the Wolfpack of Nevada. He averaged nearly 16 points, handed out four and a half assists per game last year. Timeout Bucks as they had trouble inbounding the basketball. We’ll take the timeout with them and come back for the final 4:45 on day four out here at Summer League Action in Vegas. ZBound means change for adults with obesity to help lose weight and keep [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Maris Noel has put on a show at 5’7. He is an artist with the basketball. He doesn’t like to look at his teammates when he throws him the basketball. No, he doesn’t. The look away. The Subaru He knows you don’t have to do that every pass, right? Nope, he does not. He’s been awesome tonight. Had some big buckets as well. Cormat Ryan back out there trying to find a shot from the outside. Wisely takes it inside. Ryan off the front of the rim. Bucks continue to struggle. They’re one of 11 this quarter. On the other end, shot no good, but Baldwin there for the garbage day pick up. Baldin has been everywhere getting dunks, put backs, three-pointers. Ryan finally gets it to fall and now two for seven from three. He’s got nine points. It’s a 9379 game. Clippers have led by as many as 17 in this game. Here’s Cam Christie. Be a big secondyear jump for Christie. out of Minnesota. Baldwin off on the three. That was Sanders. Pardon me. Sanders. My bad. Thanks for the correction. Noel off target there. Butts went frozen cold. Three and a half to play. Sanders. Great cut by Miller. And Miller will go to the free throw line. Clippers have led by as many as 17. Clippers as of right now have three two-way players. They’re committed to Sanders Flowers and Baldwin for next year on two-way contracts, but three of their 15man standard NBA roster spots are open. So, they can still sign three more guys. Obviously limited with salary cap restrictions. NBA summer league action continues on NBA TV, ESPN, and the ESPN app. NBA TV tomorrow as the Hawks and Rockets at 4:30. Triple header on ESPNU pulls Pacers at 6, followed by the Heaton Celtics. The night wraps up at 10:00 with the Suns and the Kings. It’s been a fun first four days out here in Vegas. Plenty more to do. play 11 consecutive days of basketball culminating with the summer league championship. Chris Livingston gets the bucket for the Bucks. Now got 18 points. He’s led the team in scoring each of the first three games out here in Vegas. Bucks playing the second game of a backto back, losing yesterday to Cleveland by 10. [Music] Clippers looking to go 2 and0 to open things up. They got a combined 44 points from Christian Miller in the win on Friday against the Rockets. Turnover by the Clippers. Livingston uncontested jam. All of a sudden 12-point game manageable here with three minutes to go. Livingston forces the turnover. Barovic Noel was slow to get back. Now it’s Nance for three. It’s a npoint game. Don’t go anywhere. These swings are unbelievable. Bucks couldn’t make a shot the first four minutes of the quarter. Now they’re playing defense and that’s leading to offense. him was a fant. [Music] Special things happen in Las Vegas when this band’s in the building. You may call him Mr. Vegas. Darvin Ham, assistant coach for Doc Rivers and the Bucks. He He doesn’t lose here in Vegas. He’s undefeated in the NBA Cup, baby. He only wins with the Lakers here. Only wins with the Bucks. Bet on Ham. And tonight, the Bucks trying to come back 15 down. He’s in the building. You may go throw some cash at the Bucks right now. Somebody run to the tables tonight. Ham’s in the building. Sports books are open in Milwaukee. He’s the uh face of the Calderon Club. One of the great Italian eeries, the great USA. The ball was not inbounded yet, so we’re going to shoot for the Clippers and they’re going to get the ball back. One free throw on the ball. Baldwin wanted to shoot it, but Miller’s like, “Nah, nah. Come on, brother.” After the away from the play bout, Jordan Miller, he’s got 19 points now. Feels like he’s doing something to to show some team somewhere. Yeah, he’s that he’s somewhere. Well, to your point earlier, Janet, this is good tape for him. Offensive foul. Cormarmac Ryan took a shot and he is down. Hopping back up now. Have to take another look at that. They may take a look at this. Oh, this is definitely a Miller elbow right to the jaw. And yeah, they got to look to see if that’s going to be upgraded. You are responsible for your extremities when it comes to making contact above the shoulder. Now, they may say that was a basketball move, but contact was still made, so it will be looked at. It’s going to be a flagrant one. Yeah, it will. It’ll be a flag. It’s fine. It should be It should be quick. It is what it is, Jar. We We’ve seen too many plays like this and guys say, “Well, I didn’t mean to. We didn’t say you meant to.” But you still clocked him in the nose, right? The intent is not right. It’s not part of the call. Right. The previous play is being reviewed for a potential flagrant foul. popping back up. Oh, Teresa’s stuck. Our crew chief looking at it. [Music] We’ll take another look as well with 246 to go here. And this could be another momentum swing here. Channing for the Bucks were down by 15 17 not long ago. For sure. They started to press, you know, uh they started to get some deflections. Now, this when you take that elbow above the head and swing in that action, it’s it’s going to be a flagrant one whether you meant to hit him or not. It’s it’s But the question is, was it a basketball play with him going from right to left? I’m going to say apted looking at this. Yes. But I don’t know. Like to me, it’s not like you’re going to get flagrant too and kicked out. It wasn’t. No, I don’t think it wasn’t malicious. I don’t if you have any malice in your heart playing summer league, you know, right? The question is, is it unnecessary? Yeah. As the officials continue to talk about it, [Music] looks like we’re close to a decision. Jordan Miller, the offending player. It was ruled a common foul on the court. Question is whether it will be upgraded. Either way, the Bucks will have the basketball. [Music] 10-point game. At this point, see if we get a call. And here we go with uh our lead official. After review, the foul on the floor has been upgraded to flagrant foul penalty one. Wind up impact follow through. Number 29 will shoot two free throws. to resume play. [Applause] That’s about right. Here we go. Two free throws and the ball, which now we got an opportunity here to be an eight-point game with Milwaukee getting an offensive set coming. It’s Ryan who got drilled, no question, in the chin. Yeah. Is at the free throw line. He’s now in double figures. One of four Bucks to score more than 10. [Music] Really appreciate his aggressiveness continuing to look for a shot. Yep. Not settling for threes all the time. You know, I know he’s made his mistakes, but you’re you’re seeing him try to get himself involved on offensive end. But at this point, you need to get the ball to Livingston. Let him get something done. Maybe attack the rack. Attack that paint. Kick off the grease. Noel spinning and a foul. at the free throw line. He’s now in double fig. Livingston driving. Livingston offensive foul as I believe Cam Christie. Yeah. Went down in a heat. That’s fine. Yeah. Chrissy just gets hit with a screen and Sanders didn’t call it out. Loses it. Turnover number 21 for the Bucks. Loses it. Turnover number 21 for the Bucks. Could be costly. Big possession here for the Clippers. They need to get something moving. Xavier Simpson out of Michigan. To Miller. Miller. Back to Simpson. Eight on the shot clock. Baldwin. Five on the shot clock. Simpson with Livingston on him. Drive. Scoop and score. Big play. Scoop to the hoop for the deuce. 988. Noel back to Livingston. Nance. Hand off the format. Ryan. He lose the turnover number 22 Miller. Miller getting them buckets. 100 to 88. Mats to Noel for three. No needed that one. And the Clippers can do can all but put this one away here as Christie has it. Double team over to Simpson. Sanders. No good. And there’s a minute to play. Bucks got to hurry up here. Bucks missed their first 10 shots of the fourth quarter. That’s what put them in a 17-point hole when the Clippers scored the first 15 points of the fourth. 100 to 88. Third game for the Bucks. Second game for the Clippers. came off a win against Houston a couple of days ago. Nats for three in and out. Baldwin has the rebound. [Music] [Applause] Sanders reacting and adjusting in midair to throw the knockout punch. 102 to 88. Noel to Livingston. And that should just about do it. Shot clock still on and there’s a foul in the back court. No, a traveling violation and it will be Bucks ball with the shot clock off. 23 and 12 seconds. Take another look at Kobe Sanders getting the feed from Christie adjusting with one hand and laying it in. What a play. What a play. reacting. Awardw winning analysis. He jumped very high and caught it and made a layup. He didn’t catch it. He kind of coralled it. He scooped it. Yeah, it Livingston to Nance with 19. Nance off target and yep, another foul. [Applause] 23 seconds. Well, fellas, it’s been an absolute pleasure here with you over the last several days. Wish you the best as you continue the journey on on NBA TV over the next several days. Thank you. Channing here for the duration 11 days calling games every single night here on NBA TV. Yeah, brother. Marathon man. Yeah, the way my paychecks are set up. No, I’m not. You’ll be hearing from the bosses violating company policy wearing shorts. Sorry that it’s 115 degrees and I have a glandular is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is it is its tmi? You asked just get the ball fullourt pressure. I think he was trying what do we do? Oh foul. Why? Uh to stop the clock. Okay. Is this game seven of the NBA finals or is this game game three? There’s Dave Jagger behind the stansion. Another one of Doc Rivers assistant coaches. Sanders to inbound it. gets it into Jordan Miller and a foul on the perimeter with 10.4. I’ve had enough. It’s the game that won’t end. I have had enough. I’ve never seen nobody come back in 12 points in 10 seconds. Shannon, like what are we doing here? Although, hold on a second. 133 December 26th, 2024. or Luca Donic did something against the Knicks, David Freed, that was very similar to this. Not this. This is close. Not close enough. Closer than horseshoe. Luke ain’t walking through that door. On vacation. Yeah. Yeah. Luke on vacation. Okay. He’s in Greece, by the way. What’s he doing? Oh, he’s been in Giannis. We just had that Jordan thing last week or I think it was last night. Hugh Rich was telling us about it and then Luca was there. You just name dropping him. who Rich is a personal friend of mine and he is one part of the NBA fraternity. So that’s not name dropping. That’s just factecking. I think by definition what you just did is actually a name. Chris Livingston and a foul. Hey, we’ll go back to the free throw line, folks. Hope you’re enjoying sticking around with us here. This is fantastic. We do get paid by the hour. Hey, then me and B are going to be on a jet going back. room. What we got going? If we get paid by the hour for this 40minute game, here we go. If you are sticking with us, we appreciate it. NBA game time will be coming up next after this to recap every game that went down today with NBA Summer League and get you set for tomorrow’s action. Day five of summer league. Some more good basketball. Young talent, the stars of tomorrow. Today right here live in Las Vegas. He inbounds. Yeah. Call that foul. Two to go. This is wild. Got to work on end game strategy. Huh? What did you just say? Xavier Simpson will get an opportunity to pad the stats. Let me just empty the uh prep board here. And Xavier Simpson in his fifth consecutive Vegas summer league. game that went he tied the uh Michigan program record for most wins in school history. He’s second all time in Wolverine history in assists. I didn’t look that far. David Freed finds it. Well, we’ll have plenty of time. There’ll be at least one more foul at two. 106 to 91. A man. That’ll do it. Another fun one out here in Vegas.
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