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  • Kings’ Zach LaVine set for season-ending hand surgery

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    The Sacramento Kings, leading a tight race to finish with the worst record in the NBA, reportedly will be without their leading scorer for the rest of the season.

    Zach LaVine will have right hand surgery following this weekend’s All-Star break, veteran NBA writer Chris Haynes reported on Friday.

    LaVine missed the Kings’ past three games due to what was described as a tendon injury to his right pinkie.

    The 30-year-old veteran has appeared in 39 games (37 starts) for Sacramento this season, averaging 19.2 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists. All of those figures are his lowest in the past eight seasons.

    The Kings acquired LaVine from the Chicago Bulls as part of a three-team deal at the February 2025 trade deadline. Sacramento picked up three first-round picks and three second-rounders in that transaction, which saw De’Aaron Fox go from the Kings to the San Antonio Spurs.

    Over 12 NBA seasons, LaVine has averages of 20.7 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.9 assists in 693 games (602 starts) with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Chicago and Sacramento. He was an All-Star for the Bulls in 2020-21 and 2021-22.

    The Kings (12-44) are battling with the Washington Wizards (14-39), New Orleans Pelicans (15-41), Indiana Pacers (15-40), Brooklyn Nets (15-38) and Utah Jazz (18-37) at the bottom of the league standings. The Pacers and Jazz were fined by the NBA on Thursday for holding players out of games in an apparent attempt to tank.

    Teams reportedly are keen to be in the draft lottery this year with a highly rated class set to enter the NBA.

    Sacramento returns from the All-Star break on Thursday with a home game against the Orlando Magic.

    –Field Level Media

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  • Buoyed by Nikola Jokic, Nuggets open 7-game trip at Orlando

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    The Denver Nuggets finished up a tough slate of games and now start a season-high seven-game road trip when they face the Orlando Magic on Saturday night.

    Denver played the Houston Rockets twice, went on the road against the Dallas Mavericks and won a thriller over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday night to wrap up a six-game stretch over 11 days. The Nuggets won four of those six contests.

    The Nuggets won’t have three starters for Saturday night after Cameron Johnson went down with a hyperextended right knee in a loss at Dallas on Tuesday.

    Johnson joins Aaron Gordon (hamstring) and Christian Braun (ankle) on the sideline, but the team’s depth is paying off. Tim Hardaway Jr. moved into the starting lineup against the Timberwolves, and Peyton Watson and Spencer Jones continue to fill in for Gordon and Braun.

    ‘We’ll just reinvent ourselves as we go here,’ Denver coach David Adelman said. ‘I’m looking at this as just another chapter in the season. It’s what it is.’

    Denver has kept winning — eight of the past 10 — and has thrived on the road. The loss to the Mavericks snapped the Nuggets’ 11-game road winning streak.

    A big reason is the play of Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray. Jokic had 56 points, 16 rebounds and 15 assists against Minnesota, making him the first player in NBA history to have a 55-15-15 triple-double. He is leading the NBA in rebounds (12.1 per game) and assists (11.0) and is fifth in scoring (29.8).

    ‘We can’t just continue to dismiss what this guy does on a night-to-night basis,’ Watson said. ‘Bro, it’s unbelievable. There’s no way that we can take for granted or it should go over people’s heads what Jok did (Thursday). And every night honestly.’

    Murray is averaging career highs in points (25.4 ppg) and assists (7.0 per game).

    Orlando is also dealing with significant injuries and is playing the second game of a back-to-back. Jalen Suggs (hip) has not played since Dec. 13, and Franz Wagner (ankle) missed his seventh straight game on Friday as the Magic fell 120-105 to the visiting Charlotte Hornets.

    Wagner, the team’s leading scorer at 22.7 points over 24 games, is starting to increase his activity while working his way back to action.

    ‘He’s just able to do spot shooting right now,’ Orlando coach Jamahl Mosley said Friday. ‘Not a lot of pressure on the foot, but being able to walk around again is very important for us.’

    The Magic sit sixth in the Eastern Conference after losing six of their past 10.

    Paolo Banchero, who is second for Orlando in scoring at 20.1 points a game and leads in rebounding (8.3), and Desmond Bane, third on the team at 19.1 points per game, both had rough shooting nights on Friday. Banchero hit 4 of 13 from the floor and scored 13 points while Bane went 7 of 19 en route to 15 points.

    Bane and Banchero combined to finish 0-for-8 from 3-point range.

    The teams met Dec. 18 in Denver, a 126-115 win for the Nuggets. Jokic set the all-time assists record for centers in the win and had one of his 15 triple-doubles this season.

    Jokic has 179 career regular-season triple-doubles, two behind Oscar Robertson for the second-best total in NBA history. Russell Westbrook is the all-time leader with 207.

    –Field Level Media

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  • Economy may be in a recession already, Conference Board says, after leading index drops for eighth straight month

    Economy may be in a recession already, Conference Board says, after leading index drops for eighth straight month

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    The U.S. leading economic index fell 0.8% in October, the Conference Board said Friday.

    Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected a 0.4% fall.

    This is the eighth straight decline in the leading index.

    The long period of declines suggests “the economy is possibly in a recession,” said Ataman Ozyildirim, senior director of economic research at the Conference Board. He said the data show a recession is likely to start around the end of the year and last through mid-2023.

    The coincident index, which measures current conditions, rose 0.2% in October after a 0.1% gain in the prior month. The lagging index increased by 0.1%, matching the September gain. 

    The LEI is a weighted gauge of 10 indicators designed to signal business-cycle peaks and valleys.

    Stocks
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    SPX,
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    were trading higher on Friday morning and the yield on the 10-year Treasury note
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    rose to 3.8%.

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  • Austin Pets Alive! | APA! Joins Mars Petcare to End Pet Homelessness

    Austin Pets Alive! | APA! Joins Mars Petcare to End Pet Homelessness

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    Today marks an important milestone in the fight against pet homelessness.

    Austin Pets Alive! is proud to join forces with Mars Petcare and leading animal welfare organizations to launch the State of Pet Homelessness Index. This first-of-its-kind tool pulls together credible, consistent data from 200+ sources to measure the scale of the pet homelessness issue at a country level and uncover its possible root causes. We hope this data will be used by animal welfare organizations, policymakers, pet professionals, academics, researchers, and others to better understand where and how to direct action to drive change. Click here to learn more! #EndPetHomelessness

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