A few months before he reached free agency earlier this year, Kelly Oubre strongly suggested that he wanted to be a starter, telling reporters, “I can offer a lot more than coming off the bench.” However, he has been willing to accept a bench role with the Hornets so far, having started just five of 13 games for the team to open the season. On Wednesday, his reserve role put him in position for a historic performance — his 37 points off the bench represented a new franchise record for most points in a game by a non-starter, per Sam Perley of Hornets.com.
Here’s more from around the Southeast:
- As first reported by Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports, Heat star Jimmy Butler will miss Thursday’s game vs. the Clippers due to his right ankle sprain. It remains unclear whether the injury will keep Butler out of action for multiple contests.
- Count Montrezl Harrell among those who believe the Wizards hit a home run by hiring Wes Unseld Jr. as their new head coach this offseason. “I think it was just a great job picking the right head coach, man,” Harrell said, per Ava Wallace of The Washington Post. “As you can see, it’s resulted in our play.” Washington is tied for the East’s best record at 8-3 and the team has the fourth-best defensive rating in the NBA.
- One reason for the Hawks‘ slow start to this season has been Clint Capela‘s inability to be the sort of two-way impact player he was last season, writes Chris Kirschner of The Athletic. Capela tells Kirschner that he’s still working his way back to 100% after dealing with a lingering Achilles issue. The veteran center was limited during training camp and head coach Nate McMillan doesn’t believe his conditioning is where it would be if he had been fully healthy. “The fact that he didn’t really start running until he got to training camp set him back,” McMillan said. “He’s now trying to play himself into game shape with the season starting.”
Alt Oubre headline “Stupid player with low IQ is wrong”.
You really are a piece of work aren’t you?
Man, chill.
It’s just a game.
He’s only jealous because Oubre was so bad with his Warriors.
no surprise from Oubre he shines for 1 game than he will disappear the next few games. Exactly what he did with the warriors. That is why they did not want to resign him. He is a inconsistent player.
Marty is a lost soul. He can’t separate the Warriors and it’s failures. Gotta be on suicide watch when Curry retires.
That won’t happen until at least 2026 when Steph will be making about $60M that season, which sounds like an insane number.
I feel like that isn’t really an alternate headline, he has started, and he is playing decent with some volatility from night to night
Not too mention “stupid” and “low IQ” being redundant, and journalists try to use alliteration in their headlines so they catch your attention better
Like oblivious Oubre offers obtuse opinion? Too creative for Marty.
Marty’s real problem, like so many people on these websites, is he doesn’t know what he is talking about. If you are on here, you are probably not a Basketball genius. I include myself. You don’t know how seasons will turn out. Why do you pretend you know how it will.
Wizards are surprising this year. They got depth now. Gotta give them credit. They are playing well. They should be looking to move Bertans. To find a center.
They also got rid of the anchor around their necks, who is now pulling the Lakers down to their doom.
It was so funny last season how so many people here thought that Russ was the best player on the Wizards roster instead of Beal.
If triple-doubles were indeed the best way to measure how good a player is, then Westbrook would be the best player in NBA history.
He’s gotta be top ten stupidest hair though
He’s def not good enough to be publicly demanding starter minutes, over his teammates.
Haven’t followed the nba in 4 years or so, mainly because KD ruining the league for that stretch with GS, along with John wall leaving the wizards and the political wokeness of the league, but the wizards bringing Wes unseld jr in peaked my interest. Still haven’t watched, but glad to see they are off to a hot start. And is that Oubre up above? What happened to him?