[Rowland] Buddy Hield yelled, “There you go!” Gabe Vincent gave a look of pleasant surprise. Zaccharie Risacher belted, “We got a f****ing squad now.” And before Jonathan Kuminga hit the locker room door, ex-NBA star Alex Len hugged him & said, “Y’all look so different.”

“At the end of the day, I like being around guys that want to win and work hard,” Jonathan Kuminga said. “I know I demand a lot of excellence in my teammates. I demand it out of myself too. We are going to play as well as we can and put ourselves in contention to compete for another play-in tournament. And that’s my mindset."