2013–14 NBA season
October 29, 2013 – April 16, 2014
April 19, 2014 – May 31, 2014 (Playoffs)
June 5 – 15, 2014 (Finals)
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Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City)
San Antonio Spurs
Oklahoma City Thunder
San Antonio Spurs
Miami Heat
Kawhi Leonard (San Antonio)
On April 18, 2013, was fired by the Cleveland Cavaliers after three years with the team.[3]
Byron Scott
On April 18, 2013, was fired by the Detroit Pistons after two years with the team.[4]
Lawrence Frank
On April 18, 2013, resigned from the Philadelphia 76ers after three years with the team.[5]
Doug Collins
On April 23, 2013, was fired by the Charlotte Bobcats after one season with the team.[7]
Mike Dunlap
On May 1, 2013, the announced that interim head coach Jim Boylan was not offered the full-time job.[9]
Milwaukee Bucks
On May 5, 2013, the announced that interim head coach P. J. Carlesimo was not offered the full-time position.[10]
Brooklyn Nets
On May 7, 2013, the named former Boston Celtics assistant general manager Ryan McDonough as the new general manager.[11]
Phoenix Suns
On May 21, 2013, the announced that Vinny Del Negro will not return as head coach after three years with the team.[12]
Los Angeles Clippers
On May 21, 2013, the announced that GM Bryan Colangelo will not be returning as general manager after several seasons with the team.
Toronto Raptors
On May 28, 2013, the replaced interim head coach Lindsey Hunter with former Suns player and Utah Jazz assistant coach Jeff Hornacek.
Phoenix Suns
On May 28, 2013, the replaced Larry Drew, whose contract was not renewed, with former San Antonio Spurs assistant coach Mike Budenholzer.[13]
Atlanta Hawks
On May 31, 2013, the announced that Larry Drew replaced Jim Boylan as head coach.[15]
Milwaukee Bucks
On June 2, 2013, the announced that Michael Malone will be the head coach for the 2013–14 season.[16]
Sacramento Kings
On June 6, 2013, the announced that George Karl would not be returning as the head coach for 2013–14.[17]
Denver Nuggets
On June 10, 2013, the announced that Lionel Hollins's contract was not renewed for 2013–14.[18]
Memphis Grizzlies
On June 10, 2013, the named Maurice Cheeks the head coach for the 2013–14 season.[19]
Detroit Pistons
On June 25, 2013, the approved a trade of an unprotected 2015 NBA first round draft pick, which included an anti-trade clause prohibiting the Clippers and Celtics from engaging in future transactions between each other, including the exchanging of players for the duration of the 2013–14 season, for the release of the contract of Doc Rivers from the Boston Celtics, freeing him up to sign with the Los Angeles Clippers.[22]
NBA
On June 27, 2013, the named Dave Joerger the head coach for the 2013–14 season.[23]
Memphis Grizzlies
On August 14, 2013, the named Brett Brown the head coach for the 2013–14 season.[25]
Philadelphia 76ers
Preseason[edit]
The Preseason began on October 5, 2013, and ended on October 25, 2013. Earlier in March 2013, Commissioner David J. Stern announced that the NBA would be playing its first preseason game in the Philippines on October 10, 2013, at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila featuring the Houston Rockets versus the Indiana Pacers. The arena was also the venue of the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship.
z – Clinched home court advantage for the entire playoffs
c – Clinched home court advantage for the conference playoffs
y – Clinched division title
x – Clinched playoff spot
* – Division champion
The officially renamed their franchise to New Orleans Pelicans to begin the 2013–14 season.[81]
New Orleans Hornets
The officially announced that the franchise would be renamed to the Charlotte Hornets for the 2014–15 season. This will return the Hornets name to Charlotte for the first time since the team now known as the Pelicans moved from Charlotte to New Orleans after the 2001–02 season.
Charlotte Bobcats
The NBA officially implements a tournament system in both of their systems; the Oklahoma City Thunder and Golden State Warriors were the inaugural champions of the Orlando and Las Vegas Summer League Tournaments, beating out the Houston Rockets and Phoenix Suns respectively.
Summer League
The officially announced that the Rose Garden would be renamed to the Moda Center before the start of the season.
Portland Trail Blazers
The NBA Finals will return to the 2–2–1–1–1 format for the 2014 Finals, with the owners approving the format on October 23.[83] The NBA originally decided to have the NBA Finals enter a 2–3–2 format starting in the 1985 NBA Finals in order to accommodate commercial travelling from the east to the west and vice versa, as well as bring up economic advantages for marketing and newspapers at the time.
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The NBA experiments with on-court beginning this season. The Indiana Pacers court at Bankers Life Fieldhouse will be sponsored by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation with the slogan A State That Works. The Toronto Raptors court at Air Canada Centre will be sponsored by the Bank of Montreal, while the New York Knicks court at Madison Square Garden will be sponsored by Chase. The Miami Heat's American Airlines Arena court in November 2013, and the Golden State Warriors' Oracle Arena court on March 7, 2014, added Samsung Electronics as its on-court sponsor promoting the Samsung Galaxy. On January 11, 2014, the Philadelphia 76ers' Wells Fargo Center added PartyPoker.com as its on-court sponsor.[84]
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On October 29, the regular season opened with a record of 92 international players on the opening night rosters. The set an NBA record of 10 international players.
San Antonio Spurs
The start out their season with Joe Prunty coaching their games against the Cleveland Cavaliers and Miami Heat instead of their original head coach Jason Kidd. The reason why Prunty was coaching at the start of the Nets' season instead of Kidd was due to Kidd serving a coaching suspension for having a DUI in July 2013. Prunty would start the year off with 1–1 for the Nets before Kidd came back and coached the team for the rest of the season.
Brooklyn Nets
coaches his first game ever as an interim head coach for the Charlotte Bobcats. He ended up coaching the Bobcats on November 8, 2013, against his former team, the New York Knicks, due to their coach Steve Clifford having heart surgery around that time period.[85] He would end up losing that game 101–91.
Patrick Ewing
In a double overtime game on December 3, 2013, rookies of the Orlando Magic and Michael Carter-Williams of the Philadelphia 76ers recorded triple-doubles in the same game. Oladipo recorded 26 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in 52 minutes, while Carter-Williams recorded 27 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists in 47 minutes. These were the first career triple-doubles for both players. This marked the first and only time in NBA history that two rookies have recorded triple-doubles in the same game. The last time that two players had recorded their first career triple-doubles in the same game was when Detroit Pistons Donnie Butcher and Ray Scott did it on March 14, 1964 (they were not rookies). It was also the first time that two opponents had recorded triple-doubles in the same game since Caron Butler and Baron Davis had done so on November 23, 2007. Philadelphia won the game 126–125.[86][87]
Victor Oladipo
The planned regular season game in between the San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Timberwolves on December 4 was postponed after a generator malfunction inside the Mexico City Arena. The rescheduled game was played on April 8, 2014, at Target Center in Minneapolis.[88]
Mexico City
On December 6, 2013, of the Atlanta Hawks set a new NBA record for most consecutive (regular season) games with a three-point field goal made with 90. The previous record holder was Dana Barros.[89][90] The streak ended at 127.
Kyle Korver
On December 11, 2013, of the Los Angeles Clippers became the 39th player in NBA history to reach 20,000 career points.[91]
Antawn Jamison
On December 13, 2013, of the Brooklyn Nets surpassed 14,000 career rebounds, becoming only the tenth player in NBA history to do so. In reaching the milestone, Garnett also joined Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone as the only players to reach 25,000 points, 14,000 rebounds and 5,000 assists. He reached the milestone in the third quarter of a 99–103 road loss to the Detroit Pistons.[92]
Kevin Garnett
On December 16, 2013, of the Brooklyn Nets scored 29 points in the third quarter of a 130–94 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. In the quarter Johnson made 10 of 13 shots from the field and tied an NBA record with 8 of 10 three-pointers.[93]
Joe Johnson
On December 23, 2013, of the Dallas Mavericks passed Alex English for 13th place on the NBA's all-time scoring list with a 13-foot jumper in the opening minute of the third quarter of a 111–104 road win over the Houston Rockets.[94]
Dirk Nowitzki
On December 25, 2013, of the Oklahoma City Thunder recorded the eighth triple-double on Christmas Day in NBA history. He recorded 14 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists in 29 minutes in a 123–94 road victory over the New York Knicks. The win was also the largest margin of victory in a Christmas Day game in NBA history.[95]
Russell Westbrook
On December 27, 2013, of the Miami Heat passed Larry Bird and Gary Payton for 29th on the NBA's all-time scoring list. James did so in a 108–103 loss versus the Sacramento Kings.
LeBron James
On January 16, 2014, the scored a season-high 73 points in the first half, and a season-low 19 points in the second half. That 54-point disparity is the largest by a team in a game in NBA history. They ended up losing to the Oklahoma City Thunder 104–92.[96]
Houston Rockets
On January 24, 2014, of the New York Knicks scored a career, franchise, and league season-high 62 points against the Charlotte Bobcats.
Carmelo Anthony
On January 25, 2014, of the Toronto Raptors scored a career-high 51 points against the Los Angeles Clippers. His 51 points tied a franchise-high.[97] Ross recorded the lowest season scoring average the year of a 50-point game,[98] averaging only 10.9 points.
Terrence Ross
On January 31, 2014, the recorded an all-time low of 17 rebounds in a 125–90 blowout loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. This broke a record low of 18 rebounds that was originally recorded by the Detroit Pistons in a November 28, 2001 game against the Charlotte Hornets.
Brooklyn Nets
officially retires as commissioner of the NBA on February 1, 2014. Adam Silver would end up taking his place as commissioner in the process, with Mark Tatum taking on the role of deputy commissioner in the process.
David Stern
The that the New Orleans Pelicans played under was re-branded as the Smoothie King Center on February 5, 2014. Therefore, while some of the earlier games played in New Orleans were under the New Orleans Arena name, further home Pelicans games, as well as the All-Star break that happened from February 14–16, 2014, will end up being mentioned as the Smoothie King Center from now until at least 10 more NBA seasons.
New Orleans Arena
On February 23, signed a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets, becoming the first openly gay athlete in North America's four major professional sports.[99]
Jason Collins
On March 3, scored a career-high 61 points against the Charlotte Bobcats. His 61 points was also a franchise-high.[100]
LeBron James
On March 4, recorded the fastest triple-double since 1955. He recorded 13 points, 14 assists and 10 rebounds while playing only 20 minutes and 17 seconds against the Philadelphia 76ers.[101]
Russell Westbrook
On March 16, 2014, with a 122–104 victory over the , the San Antonio Spurs notched their 50th win of the season and extended their 50+ wins in a season streak to 15 seasons.
Utah Jazz
The would assign former player and Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson as the team's newest president of basketball operations on March 18, 2014.[102]
New York Knicks
On March 27, The tied a league record of 26 consecutive losses. This mark is currently tied with the 2010–11 Cleveland Cavaliers.[103]
Philadelphia 76ers
On April 11, 2014, of the Minnesota Timberwolves scored a franchise record-tying and career-high 51 points against the Houston Rockets. He also joined Allen Iverson, Michael Jordan & Rick Barry as only players with 50 points & 6 steals in a game.[104]
Corey Brewer
The won their franchise-record 18th straight win against the Indiana Pacers. The Spurs also finished March with a 16–0 record, the second time in franchise history that they recorded a perfect month going back to the 1995–96 NBA season during the same month.[105]
San Antonio Spurs
The and the Los Angeles Lakers failed to qualify for the playoffs. This marked the first time in 20 seasons that both teams missed the playoffs in the same season. For the Lakers, it marked the first time in nine seasons that they missed the playoffs.[106] With the New York Knicks also missing the playoffs, this marked the first time in NBA history that none of the three teams qualified for the playoffs.[107]
Boston Celtics
On April 25, 2014, leaked an audio recording of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling allegedly making racist comments to his girlfriend, causing the NBA to launch an investigation.[108] The team held a meeting the following day to discuss the incident. Both coaches and players reportedly expressed anger toward the comment and they briefly raised the possibility of boycotting Game 4 of their series against the Golden State Warriors before deciding against it.[109] On April 29, 2014, Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling for life as well as fining him $2.5 million. Silver also began proceeding of forcing Sterling out of the league.[110]
TMZ
On April 29, 2014, the Memphis Grizzlies and Oklahoma City Thunder played in their fourth straight overtime game, the first time in NBA playoff history that there have been four straight overtime games.