{"id":243720,"date":"2025-10-27T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243720\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:22:10","slug":"the-nbas-latest-around-the-league-personnel-rumblings-and-whispers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243720\/","title":{"rendered":"The NBA&#8217;s latest around-the-league personnel rumblings and whispers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!egGV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F07a64daa-d32b-4fd2-bed8-191600004784_1100x220.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/07a64daa-d32b-4fd2-bed8-191600004784_1100.png\" width=\"1100\" height=\"220\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/07a64daa-d32b-4fd2-bed8-191600004784_1100.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:220,&quot;width&quot;:1100,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:105351,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/i\/177188945?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F07a64daa-d32b-4fd2-bed8-191600004784_1100x220.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The week began with an email from Adam Silver.<\/p>\n<p>Not exclusively direct to me, mind you, but the NBA&#8217;s marketing machine always makes it look that way when a new season is starting.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!zuhX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1d9e71bf-e9f8-4cd3-b42d-c10bcb9554fe_1171x1760.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/1d9e71bf-e9f8-4cd3-b42d-c10bcb9554fe_1171.jpeg\" width=\"1171\" height=\"1760\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/1d9e71bf-e9f8-4cd3-b42d-c10bcb9554fe_1171.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1760,&quot;width&quot;:1171,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:884806,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/i\/177188945?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1d9e71bf-e9f8-4cd3-b42d-c10bcb9554fe_1171x1760.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"   class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The league&#8217;s 80th season. Milestone year indeed. It all sounded pretty grand. Then &#8230; kablooey.<\/p>\n<p>The stunning FBI-led arrests Thursday of Heat guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/roziete01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=marcstein.substack.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-26_bbr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Rozier<\/a> and Trail Blazers coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/billuch01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=marcstein.substack.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-26_bbr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chauncey Billups<\/a> have justifiably dominated Week 1 discussion and will surely continue to do so. Yet Sundays around here are synonymous with around-the-league notes and that continues on this one &#8230; with a promise of a broad look at the gambling scandal forthcoming Monday.<\/p>\n<p>To my notebook we go for items on the otherworldly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wembavi01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=marcstein.substack.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-26_bbr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Wembanyama<\/a>, early panic in Dallas, Indiana&#8217;s injury woes and more of the NBA&#8217;s freshest chatter:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The week began with an email from Adam Silver. Not exclusively direct to me, mind you, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-243720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}