Tag: Victor Oladipo

Kyrie Irving out for matchup against Pacers

Spencer Dinwiddie will have to fill in for Kyrie Irving again. Brooklyn’s point guard is still dealing with a right shoulder impingement.

Kyrie Irving will be sidelined again for the Brooklyn Nets on Monday. He is still dealing with a right shoulder impingement.

The issue first arose before Brooklyn faced the Denver Nuggets on Friday and kept Irving out of Saturday’s win over the Chicago Bulls — in which Spencer Dinwiddie started at point guard.

While Irving was out, Dinwiddie led the Nets with 24 points in the 117-111 finish, closing out the five-game road trip with a win. Joe Harris also had his highest-scoring game of the season, finishing with 22 points against the Bulls.

The Indiana Pacers will also be without their top-two players on Monday. Malcolm Brogdon is out with a sore back and Victor Oladipo is still rehabbing from his knee surgery.

Additionally, the Pacers will be without Jeremy Lamb due to an ankle sprain and T.J. McConnell is sidelined, as well, due to a sore groin.

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Victor Oladipo keeps denying he’s on ‘The Masked Singer’ … but all signs point to it

Seriously, it’s got to be Oladipo … right?

We were over this like two months ago: every single sign has pointed to and will continue to point to Indiana Pacers guard Victor Oladipo being the Thingamajig on The Masked Singer.

A reminder: per the initial clues, he wears No. 4, used to play for the Orlando Magic and has one of the best singing voices of any athlete in pro sports.

Since then, however, Thingamjig has continued to sing his heart out and hasn’t been revealed. And Oladipo — who is working his way back to the Pacers from a knee injury — keeps denying it.

Here’s one from a Pacers broadcast in October:

And he said it again the other day: “I keep getting that stuff, too, can y’all please stop @ing me? … I don’t even know what that is. Look at me, why would I hide my face, anyway?

Mhmmm. That’s EXACTLY what someone who was on The Masked Singer would say!

The clues since his first appearance have included more magic references and not “(running) with Bulls” (!):

Anyway, here’s more of someone who is likely Oladipo performing some beautiful tunes:

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Where are they now? The Class of 2010 in boys basketball

USA TODAY High School Sports revisits the boys basketball recruiting Class of 2010 and what its members achieved in college and the NBA in the subsequent decade.

As boys basketball Early Signing Period gets underway Wednesday, a new cast of players hoping to be the stars of the future will officially end their recruitment.

On this day, fans will see which schools sign the best high school prospects and position themselves for success in the coming seasons.

With that in mind, let’s take a look back to the signing class one decade ago, the 2010 class, and what became of its top recruits.

High school stats and info are compiled from MaxPreps or the player biography on the respective college websites, unless otherwise stated. The class ranking is based on the 247Sports Composite.

Harrison Barnes

School: Ames (Iowa)
College: North Carolina
NBA team: Sacramento Kings
Noteworthy: Barnes looked like the next big thing when he enrolled at North Carolina as the No. 1 player in the Class of 2010. Named the 2009-10 ALL-USA Player of the Year, he averaged 27.1 points, 10.4 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 4.0 steals per game, became the school’s all-time leader in points and lead Ames to back-to-back undefeated championships. He was drafted by the Golden State Warriors, where he won a title in 2015 and has since played for the Dallas Mavericks and Sacramento Kings.

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