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Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell is Under Duress ahead of NBA playoffs | First Things First

Chris Broussard alongside Nick Wright and Kevin Wildes releases the latest edition of the Under Duress List featuring Philadelphia Eagles coach Nick Sirianni, Los Angeles Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell and Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid. Other nominations include New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and the Golden State Warriors franchise.

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Jimmy Butler injury: Heat star out for Play-In game vs. Bulls on Friday with knee injury

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Miami Heat forward Jimmy Butler has been ruled out of the team’s Play-In Tournament game against the Chicago Bulls on Friday night due to MCL sprain in his right knee, the team announced. The injury took place during the first quarter of Wednesday’s 105-104 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers in the No. 7 vs. No. 8 Eastern Conference Play-In matchup. 

Butler remained in the game after the injury, finishing with 19 points, five assists and five steals on 5-for-18 shooting. There’s added importance on Butler’s health because the Heat will face the Chicago Bulls on Friday for the No. 8 seed, with the loser being eliminated from the postseason.

The Miami star is expected to miss multiple weeks, according to a report from Shams Charania. 

Butler suffered the injury with seconds remaining in the first quarter when Kelly Oubre

Ashley Moyer-Gleich is first woman picked to officiate NBA playoff game since 2012

Ashley Moyer-Gleich checked her email just before heading to the airport on Saturday for a trip to what she thought would be her final game of the season.

That’s when the news came in: She has more games to do.

Moyer-Gleich will soon become only the second woman in NBA history to referee a playoff game. She was one of 36 referees announced by the league Thursday as its referee selections for Round 1 of the playoffs starting this weekend.

“It’s surreal,” Moyer-Gleich said. “It really is.”

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She joins Violet Palmer as the only women picked by the NBA for a playoff assignment. Palmer worked nine playoff games between 2006 and 2012.

Moyer-Gleich, a former Division II player at Millersville University in her native Pennsylvania, was promoted to the full-time NBA officiating ranks in November 2018. She’s worked more than 200 regular-season games in her six seasons and is one of three first-time playoff selections by the league this year — Marat Kogut and J.T. Orr are the others.

“I worked four games as an alternate last year, so obviously, my goal was I wanted to be an alternate again because that’s just sustaining the growth that I’ve had in my career,” Moyer-Gleich said. “And then to see my name on list of working floor officials … I mean, my mom was with me, she came with me on my last two games for a little trip, and to open that email and have her there with me and share that news, it was really quite amazing.”

The full list of first-round referees chosen by the NBA: Ray Acosta, Brent Barnaky, Curtis Blair, Tony Brothers, Nick Buchert, James Capers, Sean Corbin, Kevin Cutler, Marc Davis, JB DeRosa, Mitchell Ervin, Tyler Ford, Brian Forte, Scott Foster, Pat Fraher, Jacyn Goble, John Goble, David Guthrie, Bill Kennedy, Courtney Kirkland, Karl Lane, Mark Lindsay, Ed Malloy, Gediminas Petraitis, Kevin Scott, Aaron Smith, Ben Taylor, Dedric Taylor, Josh Tiven, Justin Van Duyne, James Williams, Sean Wright, Zach Zarba, Kogut, Orr and Moyer-Gleich.

“Congratulations to these 36 officials on the well-earned and prestigious honor of being selected to officiate in the NBA Playoffs,” NBA President of League Operations Byron Spruell said. “We appreciate the professionalism, dedication and teamwork that our officiating staff displays on a daily basis throughout the season.”

The league trims the officiating roster down for each round, typically culminating with a 12-person list for the NBA Finals. Those referees receive white warm-up jackets for Finals games, something the league has made a tradition for years.

Moyer-Gleich isn’t there yet — but she’s one step closer.

“Just like playoffs are coveted, the white jacket is even more super-coveted,” she said. “Obviously that’s an aspiration and that’s a goal way far down the road. And hopefully I can continue on the same trajectory, continue to increase my responsibility on the floor, maybe going from the referee to a crew chief at some point and then hopefully getting to the finals — the epitome of what we do. And whether I’m the first or not, I think just a female breaking through and getting that opportunity would be monumental.”

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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NBA futures odds 2024: Top championship predictions, series picks, best bets by proven basketball expert

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The 2024 NBA playoffs don’t technically begin until Saturday but several teams will still be fighting to get into the postseason when the NBA play-in tournament concludes on Friday. The Boston Celtics finished with the best record in basketball at 64-18 and now they’re just waiting to see who their first-round matchup will be. It’s been an unbelievable season for the Celtics, but can you trust a team that hasn’t won a title since 2008 as +175 favorites to win the NBA championship and -200 favorites to win the East?

Elsewhere in the 2024 NBA futures, the Denver Nuggets are +125 favorites to win the West and go back to the NBA Finals. They’re followed by the Clippers (+600), Thunder (+625) and Mavericks (+700) in the Western Conference championship odds. So who wins each

Coby White's 42-point performance in Play-In Tournament showed why he should win Most Improved Player

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CHICAGO — Coby White drained a 31-foot 3-pointer with just under seven minutes left in the game to put the Chicago Bulls up by 21 points against the Atlanta Hawks Wednesday night. It gave him 37 points, tying his career high, and forced Hawks coach Quin Snyder to call a timeout. White’s 3-pointer sent the fans inside the United Center into a frenzy, and booming “Coby White” chants filled the 23,500-capacity arena as he put the finishing touches on the best performance of his professional career.

The seventh overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft ended the game with 42 points, and while it won’t count in the official record books as no statistics from play-in games do, it will serve as the pinnacle of what’s been a standout fifth season for the