It appears Anthony Davis will be waiting until next season to make his Washington Wizards debut.

The All-Star big man is expected to sit out the rest of the season to get fully healthy for 2026-27, according to Prime Video’s Chris Haynes. The 32-year-old Davis hasn’t played since early January due to a finger injury.

The Wizards acquired Davis earlier this week in a blockbuster trade with the Dallas Mavericks that saw eight different players get moved. The deal sets up Davis and Trae Young as the franchise’s two veteran pillars going forward.

Those two players also happen to both be out with injuries right now, which is highly convenient for Washington from a draft pick standpoint. In addition to Davis potentially being out for the season, Young hasn’t played since late December due to MCL and quad injuries in his right leg. He is expected to be out until at least the All-Star break, and it seems quite possible the Wizards will exercise similar “caution” with him.

If Davis indeed doesn’t play again, he will finish with a career-low 20 games played this season, all with the Mavericks.

The Wizards currently hold the fifth-worst record in the NBA, and it’s a competitive race to the bottom this season due to one of the best draft classes in NBA history. It’s hard to think of a season in college basketball with so many impact freshmen, and the trio of Kansas’ Darryn Peterson, Duke’s Cameron Boozer and BYU’s AJ Dybantsa all loom as potential franchise-changers.

Washington is one of five teams with 14 or fewer wins this season, and not playing their two best players certainly increases their chances of sticking at the bottom. Also in the hunt are the Sacramento Kings, Indiana Pacers, Brooklyn Nets and Atlanta Hawks, who can take the New Orleans Pelicans’ first-round pick this year because the latter fell in love with Derik Queen in last year’s draft.

The vision for the Wizards at this point is a pick-and-roll duo of Davis and Young, supplemented by young talents like Alex Sarr, Kyshawn George and whomever they get in the draft this year. Clearly, they are already thinking about the latter.

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The allegations against Emmanuel Clase appear to stretch much further than previously known.

A court filing has revealed that the Cleveland Guardians closer is accused of manipulating pitches in 48 different MLB games over the span of two years, according to ESPN’s David Purdum. That’s far more than the nine specific games identified in the federal government’s indictment last year.

Including playoffs, Clase appeared in 178 games ranging from May 2023 to June 2025, the timeline of the scheme alleged by prosecutors. If the 48-game figure is correct, that would mean Clase threw suspicious pitches (i.e. intentional balls to allegedly help his co-conspirators win prop bets) in 27% of his appearances with the Guardians in that span.

That figure reportedly comes from Clase’s co-defendant, Guardians teammate Luis Ortiz, who is accused of manipulating only two pitches in June 2025. It was Ortiz who was first implicated in the scandal, but his attorneys are now reportedly requesting that his case be severed from Clase’s due to “markedly different levels of culpability.”

Basically, Ortiz’s camp is arguing that the case against Clase is so overwhelming, it hurts Ortiz’s case to be at the same defendant’s table. From ESPN:

In Thursday’s filing, Ortiz’s attorney pointed to this difference in scale and emphasized that the indictment did not contain evidence of Ortiz communicating directly with bettors.

Georgalis argued that a jury presented “with 26 months of alleged criminal conduct by Mr. Clase — including suspect pitches during 48 games, dozens of communications with [a bettor], cash transfers and coordination of illegal wagers” could find Ortiz guilty by association.

Another court record reportedly shows that a judge asked prosecutors to provide Clase’s attorneys with evidence for suspicious pitches:

“[Clase] has identified at least 250 pitches on which bets were placed, so the Court encouraged the government to disclose discovery to [Clase] as to any additional pitches that it alleges were included in the conspiracy,” a record of the court proceeding states.

Clase and Ortiz were indicted in November on charges of wire fraud conspiracy, honest services wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to influence sporting contests by bribery. They have both pleaded not guilty to the charges, which carry a total maximum sentence of decades in prison. 

Their trial is scheduled for May.

The pitchers officially remain members of the Guardians organization, but they remain on the restricted list (i.e. unpaid leave). In addition to prison time, they face a lifetime ban from baseball, pending MLB’s investigation into the allegations.

Clase is alleged to have done all this despite his status as one of the top closers in baseball and a contract that would have paid him $6.4 million in 2026, with a pair of team options for $10 million each in 2027 and 2028.

The Houston Rockets have had players donning a total of 52 different jersey numbers (and have one not part of any numerical series for Houston assistant coach and general manager Carroll Dawson) since their founding at the start of the 1967-68 season, worn by just under 500 players in the course of Rockets history.

To honor all of the players who wore those numbers over the decades, Rockets Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who wore them since the founding of the team all those years ago right up to the present day.

With seven of those jerseys now retired to honor some of the greatest Rockets of all time to wear those jerseys, there is a lot of history to cover.

And for today’s article, we will continue with the fifth of 17 players who wore the No. 7, wing alum Adrian Griffin. After ending his college career at Seton Hall, Griffin went unselected in the 1996 NBA Draft, playing in other leagues until he signed with the Boston Celtics in 1999.

The Wichita, Kansas native played the first two seasons of his pro career with Boston. He also played for the Dallas Mavericks before he signed with Houston in 2003. His stay with the team lasted until he was dealt to the Chicago Bulls in 2004.

During his time suiting up for the Rockets, Griffin wore only jersey No. 7 and put up 1.0 rebounds per game.

All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.

This article originally appeared on Rockets Wire: Rockets jersey history No. 7 – Adrian Griffin (2003-04)

The Brooklyn Nets have 52 jersey numbers worn by over 600 different players over the course of their history since the franchise was founded in 1967 as a charter member of the American Basketball Association (ABA), when the team was known as the “New Jersey Americans”.

Since then, that league has been absorbed by the NBA with the team that would later become the New York Nets and New Jersey Nets before settling on the name by which they are known today, bringing their rich player and jersey history with them to the league of today.

To commemorate the players who played for the Nets over the decades wearing those 52 different jersey numbers, Nets Wire is covering the entire history of the franchise’s jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team.

And for today’s article, we will continue with the seventh of 14 people to wear the No. 42 jersey, big man alum Anthony Mason. After ending his college career at Tennessee State, Mason was picked up with the 53rd overall selection of the 1988 NBA Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers.

The Miami, Florida native played the first season of his pro career with the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets after being cut before the start of his rookie season and signing with the Nets that offseason. His stay with the team lasted until he was cut again, in 1990.

During his time suiting up for the Nets, Mason wore only jersey No. 42 and put up 1.8 points and 1.6 rebounds per game.

All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.

This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 42 – Anthony Mason (1989-90)