Five Key Stories: 5/26/18 – 6/2/18

In case you missed any of the past week’s top stories from around the NBA, we have you covered with our Week in Review. Below are the most noteworthy stories from the last seven days.

In what is likely the most bizarre story of the 2017/18 NBA season, Sixers’ president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo is under investigation by the team for allegedly using burner accounts on Twitter to divulge confidential team information and criticize his own players. In a report rife with compelling circumstantial evidence connecting Colangelo to the burner accounts, Ben Detrick of The Ringer details how the accounts went after, among others, current Sixers’ players Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz and former Sixers’ players Jahlil Okafor and Nerlens Noel. Colangelo immediately denied the report, issuing statements such as “Someone’s out to get me” and “This is clearly not me.” The current narrative is that perhaps it was a family member who operated the accounts.

As the NCAA deadline for college underclassman to make a choice on their draft status came and went, we relayed numerous relatively high-rated players’ decisions on whether to stay or go:

The Magic have hired former Hornets’ head coach Steve Clifford to the same position, with league sources reporting that Clifford and Orlando management have agreed upon a four-year contract through the 2021-22 season. Widely respected, Clifford led the Hornets to a 196-214 (.478) record over five years before he was dismissed in April. He previously worked as an assistant coach for the Magic under Stan Van Gundy from 2007 to 2012.

Knicks’ guard Ron Baker has exercised his player option for the 2018/19 season and will remain under contract with the team for one more season. Baker’s decision comes as no surprise, as his salary for next season of $4.544MM is likely far more than he would have received as a free agent this offseason after he missed most of this season with injury and ended up averaging only 2.4 PPG and 1.6 APG with a .339/.333/.769 shooting line in 13.3 minutes per contest.

The Sixers and coach Brett Brown have reached an agreement on a three-year contract extension that will lock up Brown as the team’s head coach through the 2021/22 season. Brown, 57, has coached the team through some tough years, guiding Philadelphia through a now-famous rebuild colloquially known as “The Process.” This is Brown’s second contract extension after he received a two-year extension in December, 2015.

Here are 10 more headlines from the past week:

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