The Atlanta Hawks were fined $100,000 after All-Star guard Trae Young was held out of a Nov. 12 NBA Cup road victory over the Boston Celtics.

Teams are competing and not blatantly exercising organizational priorities, and in a culture where we’re waiting for the next “trades we want to see” piece to drop, I like that NBA Cup games take place just after the glorified feel-out games that mark the opening weeks of the season and wrap up just before all of those new contracts become tradeable.

The Golden State Warriors came in at No. 3 in the NBA’s power rankings for Week 6 of the 2024-25 campaign. NBA.com’s John Schuhmann released the latest power rankings and had this to say about the shortcomings of the Warriors’ supporting cast of late when Stephen Curry has come off the floor: “Two of the Warriors’ four losses have come to the Clippers,