{"id":411867,"date":"2026-01-14T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411867\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:06:11","slug":"and-ones-fields-ote-nba-europe-2026-draft-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/411867\/","title":{"rendered":"And-Ones: Fields, OTE, NBA Europe, 2026 Draft, More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Hawks general manager Landry Fields has a new job, having been hired by Overtime Elite (OTE) as its president of league operations, writes Alex Schiffer of Front Office Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The nine-team league, which launched in 2021 and is made up of prospects between the ages of 16 and 20, has several notable alumni, including recent NBA lottery picks like Alex Sarr<\/a>, Amen Thompson<\/a>, and Ausar Thompson<\/a>. Fields will look for ways to continue growing OTE while overseeing all competitive, development, and operational aspects of the league, Schiffer writes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got four unique parts of his career that touch everything we do,\u201d Overtime CEO Dan Porter explained to Schiffer. \u201cHe was a player so he understands that ecosystem. And he\u2019s a young guy. He knows what social media is. He deeply understands college. He played four years at Stanford. At the Spurs he really did player development and scouting and clearly our league is driven by talent. And at the Hawks, he dealt with all of the business side.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of (our other staff) have gone all the way up and down. We haven\u2019t had someone who touches NBA, college, who was a player and touches all of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are several more odds and ends from around the basketball world:<\/p>\n

The NBA is aiming for franchise valuations of up to $1 billion as it prepares to pitch investors on its new European league, according to Giles Turner and Jake Rudnitsky of Bloomberg<\/a> (subscription required). With NBA commissioner Adam Silver overseas this week for games in Berlin and London, the league is expected to hold meetings this week with potential investors and teams for NBA Europe.
\nThe EuroLeague is seeking 10-year commitments from its A-license teams as it looks to avoid losing clubs to NBA Europe. According to Aris Barkas of Eurohoops<\/a>, the EuroLeague has set this coming Friday as a deadline for those decisions and has threatened potential legal action against the NBA if it tries to recruit clubs that have committed to the EuroLeague.
\nESPN\u2019s Jeremy Woo<\/a> has updated his 2026 mock draft, which features Kansas star Darryn Peterson<\/a> in the No. 1 spot on Houston point guard Kingston Flemings<\/a> sneaking into the top five.
\nLooking back at past transaction cycles, Zach Kram of ESPN<\/a> analyzes 14 blockbuster trades completed since 2013 to determine what we can learn from them, while The Athletic\u2019s NBA writers<\/a> identify one trade that each of the NBA\u2019s franchises would like to be able to undo.
\nMichael Pina of The Ringer<\/a> identifies his seven \u201cleast improved\u201d players of the 2025\/26 season so far, ranging from stars like Ja Morant<\/a> and Evan Mobley<\/a> to young role players like Rob Dillingham<\/a> and Ochai Agbaji<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Hawks general manager Landry Fields has a new job, having been hired by Overtime Elite (OTE) as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,22567,39603,12988,217829,217830,196518,20454,85],"class_list":["post-411867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-darryn-peterson","tag-evan-mobley","tag-ja-morant","tag-kingston-flemings","tag-landry-fields","tag-ochai-agbaji","tag-rob-dillingham","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411867","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=411867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}