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Steph Curry shares throwback video to celebrate his brother Seth’s birthday

After Luka Doncic and Seth Curry pushed the Mavs past the Clippers in overtime, Steph Curry shared a throwback clip to celebrate his brother’s birthday.

After serving as the Golden State Warriors’ representative at the NBA Draft Lottery, Stephen Curry broke out his camera for another virtual appearance.

With his father Dell, the two-time Most Valuable Player was virtually in the Orlando Bubble to watch the Dallas Mavericks versus the Los Angeles Clippers’ postseason tilt.

Along with viewing a “ridiculous” game-winning 3-pointer from Luka Doncic, Curry had the chance to watch his younger brother play in the playoffs. In 31 minutes off the bench, Seth Curry tallied 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the field.

Following his brother’s postseason win, Golden State’s six-time All-Star shared a throwback video to celebrate his brother’s birthday on Instagram.

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Curry also shared a message for the Mavericks guard’s 30th birthday on Twitter.

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After celebrating his birthday, Seth will be back on the court at Disney World for game five of the Mavericks and Clippers playoff series. With the series knotted at 2-2, game five is slated to tip-off in the Orlando Bubble on Tuesday at 6 P.M. PST.

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Steph Curry was a virtual fan during Mavs-Clippers and Jeff Van Gundy had jokes about his hair

Steph Curry couldn’t stop laughing at this.

The Golden State Warriors and Steph Curry, sadly, aren’t a part of the NBA playoffs this season but the two-time NBA MVP still made an appearance at the Mavs-Clippers game on Sunday.

Curry was seen as one of the virtual fans as he was cheering on his younger brother Seth, who is a member of the Mavs.

Steph’s new hairdo stole the show at Thursday’s NBA Draft Lottery and he’s still going with the cornrows. Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson had some fun with Steph’s new look and Curry could only laugh as the announcers broke him down a bit:

Too good.

The Curry family were all “at” the game, too:

The Mavs need a win Sunday to pull even with the Clippers in their first-round series.

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The HoopsHype Weekly: The Top 10 X-Factor players for the 2020 NBA playoffs

HoopsHype chooses and ranks 10 X-Factor type players who might come out of nowhere and come up huge in the upcoming 2020 playoffs.

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TOP 10 PLAYOFF X-FACTORS: At times, players come out of nowhere in the playoffs and elevate their games, giving their teams the unexpected push they needed to win a vital game or two.

Who could those players be at the Orlando bubble playoffs? Below, we rank our Top 10:

10. Dion Waiters: Averaging 11.9 points and 2.4 assists in the bubble, Waiters never runs low on self-confidence and has the capability to get hot at a moment’s notice. The Lakers could certainly use his perimeter scoring in the playoffs, and his drive-and-kick game remains underrated.

9. Seth Curry: The younger Curry brother is an elite outside shooter in his own right, and his knockdown prowess from three-point range could come up huge for Dallas against the favored Clippers in the first round.

8. Andre Roberson: In his first action since a year-plus-long injury recovery, the Colorado product averaged merely 2.8 points in the bubble, but did knock down a healthy 37.5 percent of his three-point looks. Against a high-powered offense in Houston in Round 1, Roberson’s defensive chops will be hugely important for OKC’s chances.

7. Donte DiVincenzo: A non-star player stepping up for the Bucks in the playoffs would be almost unfair considering how loaded they are as is, but if anyone can do it, it’s DiVincenzo, thanks to his competitiveness, his confident nature and his ability to get hot quick.

6. Eric Gordon: With Russell Westbrook set to miss time with a quad injury, Gordon will be even more important for Houston’s chances in the postseason. Gordon has dealt with his own injury troubles this year, including recently, but he’s going to need to be ready to go as soon as the postseason rolls around.

5. Norman Powell: Powell stepping up wouldn’t be a new thing, as he’s been solid for Toronto all year long, averaging 16.0 points this season while shooting 39.6 percent from three. But if he can elevate his production even more in the playoffs, the Raptors would be getting a much-needed boost to their offense in the bubble.

4. Tyler Herro: The bucket-getting 2-guard has had a solid rookie season, but seems to be taking his play to an even higher level in the bubble, where he’s averaging 19.2 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.2 assists over his last six games while slashing fiery 53.9/39.4/100.0 shooting splits. If he can maintain that level of production, Miami will be a tough out in the postseason.

3. Mike Conley: The Jazz point guard came into this season with huge expectations, as many thought he’d give Utah the dynamic point guard they’d been missing. To this point, however, that hasn’t really been the case. The playoffs will be a good chance for Conley to live up to the hype, especially with Bojan Bogdanovic out for the rest of the year.

2. Al Horford: Without Ben Simmons available, Horford was reinstated into Philadelphia’s starting lineup this week, and he’s going to need to be in top form for the Sixers to make a deep playoff push without their star point guard.

1. Michael Porter: The young, exciting swingman was sensational in the bubble, averaging over 22 points and eight rebounds per game while shooting north of 42 percent from three. If Denver is going to make a run in the postseason, he’s going to need to keep up that level of production, especially with Gary Harris and Will Barton not showing signs of returning any time soon.

MAJOR RETURN: It looks like the Clippers will have their Sixth Man of the Year candidate big man Montrezl Harrell available for the playoffs, which was not a sure thing as recently as yesterday morning.

ANOTHER COACHING FIRING: After an uncomfortably long wait, the Bulls finally announced that they would, in fact, be firing head coach Jim Boylen after two seasons on the job. Boylen went 39-84 in that stretch, but even beyond that, had various public, odd slip-ups while in Chicago.

Kenny Atkinson, Ime Udoka and Adrian Griffin will be among the Bulls’ top candidates to take over the job.

FREE-AGENT FORESHADOWING? Without hinting as to who he could be thinking about, Jimmy Butler confidently told ESPN he expects another star to join him on the Heat.

TOP TARGET: After last year’s fireworks, the Nets will have a quieter offseason over the coming months. Nevertheless, one order of business they’ll need to take care of is re-signing Joe Harris, which GM Sean Marks called their top priority.

Harris was the league’s 157th-highest-paid player this year, a number that will undoubtedly rise as soon as he signs his next deal.

BARKLEY TO BARSTOOL? After making huge waves in the media world this week by hiring NFL legend Deion Sanders, Barstool Sports president Dave Portnoy has his eyes on picking up Charles Barkley next. We’ll see what TNT has to say about that.

BUBBLE MVP RANKINGS: With the seeding games wrapped up, we ranked the Top 10 bubble MVP candidates. No. 1 is pretty obvious.

FRESH POD: Myles Turner joined our own Michael Scotto this week for a new edition of the HoopsHype podcast. The two talked about a variety of topics, including Victor Oladipo free-agency rumors, life in the bubble and dating.

MEDIA FOLLOWINGS: We ranked popular NBA media Twitter accounts by which ones had the highest number of NBA players following them. Somewhat surprisingly, Woj did not come in first.

30 AWARD CANDIDATES: We chose the top candidate for an end-of-season award from every single team. Some are a bit more plausible than others.

WINNING PLAYERS: NBA teams are lucky in that landing a single star player can lift up their entire team. To take a deeper look at that, we ranked various players by how much they elevated their teams’ winning percentages while they were on the roster.

Steph Curry may be virtual fan and support Seth Curry during playoffs

Steph Curry said he might hop on the virtual board to watch his brother Seth and the Dallas Mavericks play.

Golden State Warriors fans might get to see Steph Curry on TV for one of the NBA’s games after all.

Curry won’t be on the floor, as he and the Warriors are one of the eight teams not in the Orlando bubble. But Curry could be among other fans on the league’s virtual board. Curry told CNBC’s Jabari Young that he may hop on as a virtual fan for one of the Dallas Mavericks’ games. Curry’s younger brother, Seth Curry, plays for the Mavericks.

“During the playoffs, when they get to the first round, I might be in there and wear my Dallas uniform and make everybody go crazy,” he said, per Young.

Seeing Curry as a virtual fan would make him one of several people to make an appearance on the board. Former NBA players Shaquille O’Neal, Paul Pierce and Chris Bosh are just some others who have been virtual fans. Along with them, players such as Giannis Antetokounmpo and Chris Paul have had their children be on the virtual screen. Paul’s wife also made an appearance.

Seth Curry is scoring 12.5 points a game and shooting 45.0% from the 3-point line on a career-high 5.1 attempts. The Mavericks are coming off a loss against the Los Angeles Clippers. The Mavericks are 1-3 in the bubble, and they will play the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. ET.

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SLAM releases Call of Duty Warzone loadouts of Alex Caruso and others

Lakers guard Alex Caruso uses a quality loadout on Call of Duty Warzone

Call of Duty Warzone is a battle royale of cat and mouse — it’s the ultimate give and take. If a player is too aggressive, their squad might find themselves in a situation that’s tough to emerge from alive.

But if a player is too passive, the team could end up having an early exit from the battle field.

So to be the last team standing — or last person if playing solos — having a quality loadout that works well is key. Los Angeles Lakers guard Alex Caruso has a loadout that would be conducive to winning on any squad and would span multiple styles of play.

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SLAM Gaming released Caruso’s loadout Wednesday, along with the loadouts of players such as Semi Ojeleye, Mario Hezonja and Seth Curry. Caruso uses the M4A1 as his primary weapon, with an RPG as his secondary. For his lethal, he uses C4; for his tactical, he uses a heartbeat sensor, which scans for nearby players.

The M4A1 is one of the most effective assault rifles in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. It is especially productive at medium range and can earn a decent player kills if used correctly.

With the RPG, Caruso can use that and the C4 to blow up oncoming trucks or vehicles in Warzone. The heartbeat sensor is particularly helpful when a team is around the top 15 left, as there are fewer players to account for. Being cognizant of where those players are is helpful to win games.

According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, the hotels will have video games available for players during the Orlando restart. Perhaps Caruso could play some Warzone during his down time.

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Seth Curry on playing in the G League: ‘The travel is nuts’

Curry detailed his experience playing two seasons in the G League with the Santa Cruz Warriors and Erie BayHawks.

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Players throughout the years have often said how different it is playing in the G League compared to being in the NBA. Of course, the salaries are significantly different and the travel accommodations are far superior in the NBA.

Teams often travel by bus from city to city and on those road trips where it is necessary to fly, players are taking commercial flights in standard seating versus being on private charter flights in the NBA. The hotel arrangements are also not quite five-star, either.

On a recent episode of the J.J Redick Podcast, Dallas Mavericks guard Seth Curry shared some of the details of playing in the G League when he was with the Santa Cruz Warriors and Erie BayHawks for the first two years of his career.

It was rough when I was there. I feel like they crafted it, in a sense, to where they don’t want you to get comfortable, it’s not like you’re there for an extended period of time. You go there and the travel is nuts. You’re getting on 5 a.m. flights playing some back-to-backs, commercial flights, bussing 6-7 hours at times. Playing in front of 100 fans or 1,000 fans maybe.

You just got to really love the game when you’re at that level. For me, I was having fun because I was playing 40 minutes a night, I had the ball in my hands the whole time. I was just figuring it out. Obviously, I wanted to get that shot at the NBA level.

Curry went undrafted out of Duke in 2013 and played the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons in the G League before receiving an opportunity to play with the Sacramento Kings the following year. In 81 games played between his two seasons in the G League, Curry averaged 21.9 points, 4.9 assists and 3.5 rebounds while he shot 42.5% from 3-point range.

Curry mentioned in the podcast that he knew once he received an opportunity to play with the Kings, he had to take advantage of it. He has since become a key contributor with the Portland Trail Blazers and the Mavericks this season, where is averaging 12.6 points per game.

Curry has the second-best 3-point percentage (.4432) in NBA history.

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LeBron James turns in dominant 35-16-7 in big win at Mavs

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James had one of his best games of the season in a big road win against the Mavericks.

On the road against one of the better teams in the Western Conference without his leading-scorer Anthony Davis, LeBron James delivered one of his best end-to-end performances of the season, scoring 35 points, 16 rebounds, and seven assists in a 129-114 win over the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night to push L.A.’s current win-streak to seven games.

As unbelievable as it may seem in his 17th season, Friday was the first time in LeBron’s career that he scored over 35 points and grabbed over 15 rebounds in a game. James also passed Michael Jordan for fourth on the NBA’s All-Time career field goal list. LeBron closed the game playing center as the Lakers big men were either all hurt or in foul trouble. The Lakers led by as many as 21 in the game as James led the way but he also got a massive hand from Kyle Kuzma, especially early.

In a big spot without Davis, Kuzma came out on fire to begin the game with 11 points in the first quarter and 21 in the first half overall. He cooled off considerably in the second half but the spark he provided early helped the Lakers build a major lead that was difficult, if not impossible, for Dallas to come back from. Kuzma finished with 24 and struggled to hit in the second half but little of that mattered with the way LeBron was playing. Kuzma also had six rebounds, including four offensive rebounds.

And on a night where both Dwight Howard and JaVale McGee had five fouls in the third quarter, the Lakers survived much of this game without any of their traditional big men. LeBron himself played great and after a season where he’s been the leading man with the assists, James played center to help the Lakers get a win.

The Lakers are back on the court tomorrow night in Oklahoma City against Chris Paul and the Thunder, who have won eight of their last 10 games.

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LeBron said he wanted to copy Currys when rooting for his son, school

LeBron James said he wanted to take some notes from Steph Curry’s Mom Sonya on how to support diverging rooting interests.

This weekend was a new experience for LeBron James, not because he and his Los Angeles Lakers are barnstorming through the Eastern Conference on their current road trip, but because he saw his son play in a real high school game for the first time and it happened in LeBron’s home state of Ohio against his alma mater, St. Vincent-St. Mary’s of Akron, Ohio.

His son Bronny honored his father by wearing his Dad’s first signature shoe, the Air Zoom Generation, in the St. Vincent-St. Mary’s colorway. But LeBron himself took a more neutral turn, not even wearing a pair of his own signature shoes. During a halftime interview with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols, LeBron said that he wanted to take a page from the book of Sonya Curry and Dell Curry, the parents of Steph and Seth, who often wear gear for both of their rooting interests.

James will always have an interest in St. Vincent-St. Mary’s, still coached by his high school coach Dru Joyce II. James also donated $1 million to SVSM a few years ago to refurbish their home gym.

But he may not need the Sonya Curry strategy until Sierra Canyon plays against St. V again.