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Report: Sixers to sign big man Willie Cauley-Stein to a 10-day deal

The Philadelphia 76ers will bring in Willie Cauley-Stein on a 10-day contract.

The Philadelphia 76ers have been in need of a big man after they sent Andre Drummond to the Brooklyn Nets in the deal that sent James Harden to the Sixers. They were using young big man Paul Reed as well as new addition Paul Millsap, but the Sixers have been looking for somebody bigger.

With a roster spot open, Philadelphia will sign 7-year veteran Willie Cauley-Stein to a 10-day deal. He last played on Nov. 27 for the Dallas Mavericks before he was waived by the team on Jan. 15.

Cauley-Stein averaged 1.9 points and 2.1 rebounds for Dallas in 18 games before he was waived. He has also played for the Sacramento Kings and the Golden State Warriors before now joining the Sixers.

The Sixers now have their Drummond replacement to backup Joel Embiid, at least for the moment. Cauley-Stein will have 10 days to impress coach Doc Rivers and the Sixers before they make a decision on his future after the 10 days.

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Rockets center DeMarcus Cousins ejected after two technicals in under three minutes

Cousins has said in the past that he thinks his reputation leads to quicker technical fouls, and that may have been the case versus Dallas.

Prior to missing the majority of the last two seasons with injuries, DeMarcus Cousins was routinely among the NBA’s leaders in technical fouls. On at least one occasion, the new Rockets center said he believed his reputation for whistles was helping spark some of those calls.

That may have been the case on Monday night versus Dallas, when Cousins was ejected after picking up a pair of technical fouls in less than three minutes. The second seemed particularly innocuous, with Cousins gesturing after a made layup to suggest that he had also been fouled.

Nonetheless, Houston’s backup center was given his second technical, making for an automatic ejection. Rockets coach Stephen Silas loudly objected, as did the crowd at Toyota Center, but to no avail.

John Goble, Dedric Taylor, and Jonathan Sterling were the three game officials, as assigned by the NBA.

The first technical was given when Cousins pushed Willie Cauley-Stein after a brief dispute. The Mavericks center was given a technical, as well. The big men know each other well, having been teammates in Sacramento during the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons.

With Cousins ejected, starting center Christian Wood took on an even bigger role in Monday’s game for Silas and the Rockets.

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Notre Dame 15 Years Tournament: No. 1 Seed – 2014-15 Irish

Now, we get to the heavy hitters in the Notre Dame 15 Years Tournament, beginning with the top seed.

Now, we get to the heavy hitters in the Notre Dame 15 Years Tournament, beginning with the top seed. The 2014-15 Irish represented the program’s second season in the ACC, but they made it clear to everyone that they intended to compete in perhaps the best conference in college basketball, not simply lay down for the likes of Duke, North Carolina and Syracuse. No one could deny it when this season was over.

En route to a 32-6 record, the program’s best since going 33-7 in 1908-09, the Irish jumped out to a 15-1 start and ended up winning 20 of their first 22 games, including eight of their first nine ACC games. That run ended with a four-point win over the No. 4 Blue Devils, at which point the Irish were ranked eighth, as high as they would get during the season. In spite of their 14-4 conference record, it only netted them a No. 3 seed in the ACC tournament. That didn’t matter, however, because the Irish squeezed out wins over Miami, Duke and North Carolina by an average of 8.3 points to win Mike Brey his first championship and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

The close but meaningful games continued in March Madness. Seeded third in their region, the Irish needed everything to get by 14th-seeded Northeastern in a four-point first-round win, and the second-round win over in-state rival Butler required overtime. They breathed a little easier in an 11-point win over Wichita State in the Sweet Sixteen, setting up an Elite Eight matchup with Karl-Anthony Towns, Willie Cauley-Stein, Devin Booker and top-ranked Kentucky. The game was a classic, and the Irish would have made their first Final Four in 37 years had Jerian Grant not air-balled a corner 3 at the buzzer, giving the Wildcats a two-point victory.

Jerian Grant was named to the Consensus All-American First Team alongside Stein, Jahlil Okafor, D’Angelo Russell and Frank Kaminsky. He led the Irish with 16.5 points and 6.7 assists a game. Zach Auguste, Pat Connaughton and Demetrius Jackson all had scoring averages in the neighborhood of 12, and Steve Vasturia averaged 10.1 points a game. All of this made the Irish the second-best shooting team in the nation (50.9 percent), the third-best scoring team (2,963 points) and the ninth-best passing team (576).