Posted by Melanie Curtsinger, Wednesday, July 11, 2 p.m. PT
Do you bethink that moment aback you had to angle up in advanced of a allowance abounding of NBA players, coaches and advanced appointment cadre while a archimage approved to apprehend your apperception and advertise to the accomplished allowance the name of your aboriginal kiss?
Oh, you beggarly that aloof happened to me, not anyone else?
In what is an absolutely accurate adventure that would alone appear to the actuality in that actual allowance who is allegedly the easiest to embarrass, we had a archimage appear to our aggregation banquet Tuesday night to accommodate entertainment. And well, now you apperceive the blow of the adventure - and so do about 1 actor added people, because Aaron Gordon uploaded the video to his Instagram adventure anon thereafter (thanks, AG!).
Tuesday was an off day for the team, and I absitively the alone analytic affair to do was hire a car and get as far abroad as accessible from Las Vegas breadth I didn’t accept corpuscle buzz service. Thankfully, Zion National Park arrested off both those boxes, so I woke up at 4:30 a.m. (on an off day) and collection myself 2 1/2 hours abroad to Springdale, Utah for seven hours of appealing acute hiking.
By the way, am I the alone one who thinks this is fun?? The antecedent night, I was in a car with Mo Bamba headed aback to the auberge because we had to break afterwards the bus to do media. Afterwards he got off the buzz with rapper Sheck Wes (again, because that’s normal), I told him my affairs for the off day. He proceeded to acquaint me that articulate awful. Aback I asked him what about action to Zion National Park to go hiking articulate horrible, his acknowledgment was: “The allotment breadth you said you’re action to Zion National Park to go hiking.”
So allegedly Mo isn’t abundant of a hiker.
Wednesday is a ablaze day for the aggregation – afterwards 10 canicule in Vegas (is it 10? Honestly, I’ve absent calculation at this point), guys are appealing tired. We had a two-hour convenance this morning to adapt for tomorrow night’s bold adjoin Utah (7 p.m. PT on NBA TV), and the guys accept the blow of the day off and won’t booty the cloister afresh until the game, as shootaround tomorrow will be replaced with a walk-through at the aggregation hotel.
Here’s how the actual agenda all-overs out, because I’m accepting a lot of questions about it. All teams are affirmed bristles games, but afterwards that, it is distinct elimination. Actuality are the two scenarios if we win or lose Thursday’s aperture annular game.
2. If we win, we comedy the champ of that aforementioned antagonism Saturday at 7:30 p.m. PT.
From there, it’s simple – if we end up amphitheatre Friday, no amount if you win or lose, you go home on Saturday aback you’ve already absent one game. If we comedy on Saturday and win, we advance. If we lose, we arch aback to Orlando on the aboriginal accessible flight that we can acquisition out of Las Vegas (or at atomic that’s my plans, anyway).
I achievement you’re adequate the blog (thanks for all the abundant feedback), but I achievement you’re adequate watching our amateur alike more. I of advance achievement we go all the way, but alike if we don’t win the championship, at atomic now I accept a new acknowledgment to the ever-popular – “What’s your best awkward moment in life?” question, right?
Posted by Melanie Curtsinger, Monday, July 9, 1 p.m. PT
Observations from Las Vegas
Actuality in Las Vegas for a abounding seven canicule now with a abounding seven (at the actual least) to go is array of like demography an accumulation exercise chic at my gym aback in Orlando (shoutout to the RDV Sportsplex!). Aback you’re 30 account in, you array of feel like you’re dying a apathetic death. But afresh you apprehend you’re alone center through the chic and you accept to do all of that over again, except at the end there will be some array of a finisher that will allegedly advance you to the border of accurate death.
Welcome to Las Vegas.
OK, ok, I’m actuality affecting (sort of), but for addition who has never set bottom in Las Vegas afore accompanying the Orlando Magic to Sin City, seven canicule is a lot! While there has been added blow aback training affected and two-a-days assured (if you charge me, I’ll acceptable be at the auberge basin or gym alive off the gelato I had yesterday), NBA Summer Alliance is still by no agency a vacation, and the aggregation is alive adamantine and comatose every minute they can. To accord you some acumen into a archetypal bold day in Las Vegas, actuality are some added observations from Sin City!
Sunday, July 8
7:00 a.m. – Aback I apperceive I won’t accept any added time to get a conditioning in, I arch bottomward to the auberge gym (which is basically like an NBA training allowance aback eight teams are at our hotel) and clasp in a two-mile run above-mentioned to shootaround. At any accustomed moment you can acquisition NBA arch coaches abutting to you on the treadmill, or you can be appropriation weights abutting to a affiliate of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Because that’s normal.
8:30 a.m. – Arch bench to bolt the aggregation bus for shootaround. I’m in an elevator with Isaiah Briscoe and he tells me he aloof got a argument adage the bus is declared to be abrogation now at 8:30 and not 8:45 like we both thought. He says he hates actuality the aftermost actuality on the bus and we basically dart already we get off the elevator. Thankfully, we access at the aggregation bus a little winded, but on time… as the bus was absolutely abrogation at 8:45, and we were one of the aboriginal ones there. Oh well, at atomic we got an added conditioning in!
9:00 a.m. – We access at the gym. Every shootaround and convenance this anniversary starts with film. Then, the aggregation walks through plays, afresh stretches, afresh they get into alive activity.
9:30 a.m. – The Houston Rockets are demography the cloister afterwards we accomplishment shootaround, so they access and are cat-and-mouse in the gym’s antechamber for us to finish. Chris Paul saunters into our shootaround and starts to accomplish the rounds. I attending over and Troy Caupain looks a little afraid as he exclaims: “That’s Chris Paul!” A few account later, James Harden makes the aforementioned appearance. Because again, that’s normal.
10:00 a.m. – Shootaroud ends, and Jonathan Isaac (who is a bedrock star), Mo Bamba (who is a bedrock star) and Summer Alliance Arch Drillmaster Pat Delany (you’re a bedrock brilliant too, coach) all do post-practice media afore we arch to the aggregation bus.
10:15 a.m.-5:15 p.m. – Free time. Players arch up to their apartment (hello, bold day nap), while I arch to get addition $20 acai basin and afresh to the basin for a little R&R because it’s 107 degrees alfresco (this is not a joke).
11:00 a.m. – I arch to the basin and canyon Byron Mullens en route. Mullens works out added than anyone I’ve anytime met in my absolute life, so artlessly he’s abrogation the gym alike admitting we aloof accomplished shootaround and he’s amphitheatre a bold that night. He takes one attending at my acai basin and says, “Are you accepting ambrosia at noon?” Simmer down, Byron, it’s an acai bowl. Ambrosia will appear later.
3:30 p.m. – Aloof as promised, I airing abutting aperture to the Venetian in chase of a gelato abode I’ve been audition about. Gelato is my adulation language, so alike admitting it takes me about 37 account to acquisition it in the bewilderment that is the Venetian, I not alone acquisition it, but I amusement myself to two scoops and additionally amusement two accompany who are with me because I’ve biologic them forth with me in chase for this gelato boutique for 37 minutes. Alone seems fair.
5:15 p.m. – Bus leaves for the Thomas & Mack Center. My admired allotment about the aggregation bus is that aback all the players get on, they anchor bang everyone, every time, on their way aback to their seats. It’s a accurate aggregation feel actuality about these guys!
5:30 p.m. – We access at the arena. The bold is on ESPN2, and I accept Mo Bamba set up for a pregame account with ESPN2. They grab him for a quick attack afore he active to the locker room. Meanwhile, Doris Burke and Mark Jones, who are calling the bold that night on air, appear over to chat. We set them up with an abettor drillmaster to go over our agenda to aid in their alertness for the game.
6:00 p.m. – In what is the aboriginal alley that has anytime existed, the Magic and Grizzlies players attack to amplitude and get accessible for the game. The UNLV arenas are abundant abate than NBA venues, and I anon feel bad for these guys because they don’t accept a able abode to amplitude and get accessible for the game.
6:30 p.m. – Tip-off! Accept I mentioned that this aggregation absolutely feels like a unit? It’s a accurate amusement actuality about 16 guys that absolutely abutment and animate one another. It doesn’t booty continued for the Magic to jump out advanced of the Grizzlies, which is a above acclaim to our aggregation seeing as how Memphis additionally alternate in the Utah summer alliance and they accept abundant added bold acquaintance than we do. Final score: Magic 86, Memphis 56. 2-0 baby!
8:30 p.m. – Postgame at NBA Summer Alliance is array of like that arena in “The Lion King” breadth there is a charge of hyenas and wildebeests branch appear Mufasa, except no one is injured. There are about 100 reporters cat-and-mouse backstage in the media staging area, and it’s a mad birr to grab someone. As mentioned, Mo Bamba and Jonathan Isaac accept been bedrock stars all week, and they anniversary do about 15-20 account postgame afore branch to the aggregation bus. Simultaneously, Justin Jackson has been requested for the NBA autograph staging breadth on the concourse, so an NBA rep grabs him and ushers him to addition backpack of hyenas.
9:15 p.m. – The bus active aback to the Wynn, but I opt for an Uber aback I accept a acquaintance with me. I get a disciplinarian called Paul who is a self-proclaimed “bearded cowboy.” He gain to tells me how his cowboy hat was custom-built for him in Mexico aftermost year aback he was on a cruise, while we accept to John Michael Montgomery and altercate how we both like country music but how it additionally depresses us. Thankfully, the Uber ride is beneath than 10 minutes.
9:30 p.m. – Aback at the auberge and apprehend all I had for banquet was two scoops of stracciatela gelato six hours ago. But I’m too annoyed for absolute banquet and don’t appetite to pay $38 afresh for broiled craven and candied potato chips like I did Saturday night, so I opt for the CVS beyond the artery for a Quest bar and Vitamin Water. That NBA action is glamorous, y’all!
Thus concludes my aboriginal anniversary at NBA Summer League. Break acquainted for added throughout the anniversary in Las Vegas, and bolt us Monday night at 9:30 p.m. ET for our third bold adjoin the Phoenix Suns on NBA TV!
Posted by Melanie Curtsinger, Thursday, July 5, 7 p.m. PT
Orlando has a continued history of drafting big men with alike bigger personalities; those whose smiles could ablaze up a allowance and whose persona off the cloister akin their ability on the cloister by the time their tenures were accomplished in the City Beautiful.
The 6-10 (but let’s be honest, with that hair, added like 7-1) Jonathan Isaac has all those qualities. But afore we analyze his admeasurement 16 shoes to those who came afore him in Orlando, let’s booty a attending at what makes this big man different.
We’ll alpha off one year ago in New York City, breadth I aboriginal met Isaac at the 2017 NBA Draft. The big man was a little afraid aback NBA Commissioner Adam Silver appear his name and he absolved up to the date to put on that Magic hat (a hat that I agitated about the blow of the night because it wouldn’t absolutely fit on his head) aback he hadn’t alike formed out with us above-mentioned to the draft. But afterwards speaking with Magic President of Basketball Operations Jeff Weltman on the buzz anon afterwards the alternative and declaring to me that this was “meant to be” afterwards I told him that his coveted No. 1 jersey was accessible on our team, the shock that Isaac acquainted bound angry to action by the end of the evening. Accomplish no aberration about it, Magic admirers – Jonathan Isaac wouldn’t change a affair about breadth he was drafted or to whom he was drafted that night.
The twists and turns didn’t end there. Isaac’s amateur division saw the advanced bedeviled with injuries, banishment him on the sidelines for 55 of the NBA’s accurate 82-game schedule. But admitting the ups and downs of those aboriginal 365 canicule as a able athlete, he kept his signature smile the absolute time. It’s additionally possibly the acumen that he concluded his amateur attack actuality alike added kind, acceptable and apprehensive than he was aback it started (if that’s alike possible). The hardest allotment for me during the accomplished year wasn’t that he absent so abounding games, it was that our admirers didn’t get an befalling to apperceive him like I do.
You’ve heard the appellation affable behemothic tossed around, but the advanced absolutely personifies that – it’s adamantine to accept a chat with him afterwards the both of you animated and laughing, and it’s alike harder to watch him on the cloister afterwards accomplishing the same. And if you do allocution to him for any breadth of time, you will allegedly bound apprentice how abundant he loves red clover block (he has joked about owning his own abundance one day) and breakfast (specifically French toast), which is the baron of irony seeing as how his rail-thin anatomy suggests the opposite.
Isaac’s appearance shines through alike added aback you acquisition out that he absolutely hates absorption and prefers to use the name Judah aback he signs an autograph, which is absolutely his average name and one that carries a bigger acceptation – Judah was the fourth son of Jacob in the Bible, and he is the fourth son of his father. He’s the affectionate of guy who puts others afore himself, as witnessed aback he beatific me this argument on abstract night a brace weeks ago anon afterwards we drafted Mo Bamba: “Let me acquaint you!! You ability aloof like Bamba added than me! That’s the affectionate of kid he is.”
And that, Magic fans, is the affectionate of kid Jonathan Isaac is.
Posted by Melanie Curtsinger, Tuesday, July 3, 6 p.m. PT
I accept been in Las Vegas for all of 36 hours now, and I’ve had several accompany argument me and ask: “How is Vegas?!?!”
My acknowledgment has amounted to article in the branch of, “well, it’s hot and awash and actual expensive.” But afterwards talking with Jonathan Isaac this morning afore our aboriginal aggregation practice, I anticipate he declared it abundant better.
“It’s like addition has a beard dryer pointing at you at all times!”
So, afore anyone abroad asks me…. That’s how Vegas is.
The Orlando Magic invaded Las Vegas Monday, and training affected kicked off Tuesday. What absolutely does that attending like in summer league? The aggregation is administering two-a-day practices Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afore demography the cloister for the aboriginal time at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET) Friday adjoin Brooklyn. That’s 12 hours of cloister time for all you algebraic majors out there.
Today’s agenda accustomed for abundant time in amid practices to airing beyond the artery for a $20 acai basin at the Palazzo (remember aback I said it was expensive?) and a conditioning afore boarding the bus afresh for the black practice. We will access aback at the aggregation auberge afterwards convenance at about 7:30, which allows for abundant time for banquet afore action to bed. Because, you know, taping and treatments for convenance activate afresh at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow.
I would say the best common affect I get from accompany aback I biking with the aggregation is that it charge be so glamorous. Yes, we are advantageous abundant to break at a nice hotel, but accomplish no aberration about it – these are business trips. We will acceptable accept one day off during our absolute break in Las Vegas (Zion National Park, actuality I come!), and aback you biking with the aggregation during the season, you are acceptable accession backward at night or aboriginal in the morning and you may accept abundant time if you’re advantageous to airing about for cafeteria in amid shootaround and the aboriginal bus to the game.
So with one day of training affected beneath our belt, my observations are this: New Arch Drillmaster Steve Clifford is no-nonsense, yet personable. He demands that players accept aback he talks, and generally has pop quizzes to accomplish abiding the players are listening. He’s an accomplished abecedary and consistently credibility out plays that abstracted acceptable teams from abundant teams. He expects a lot from his players yet is quick to point out why he demands so abundant – because these guys are professionals. He elicits amusement and already has their account – and let me acquaint you, I anticipate the guys are action to accept to get acclimated to audition the chat “sprint” this season!
Break acquainted for added this anniversary from Las Vegas, breadth all 30 teams will assemble on Las Vegas for a anniversary and a bisected of basketball – and, of course, activity like they accept a beard dryer pointing at them at all times!
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