The necklaces shooting guard Zach Lavin was limited to just 39 appearances in the 2025/26 regular season due to injuries. He tells Tomer Azarly of ClutchPoints it wants to recover on the 26/27 eve of 2027.
“I didn’t have much hand injurybut every year for me, I go into the offseason, I see what I can do better” said Lavigne.I see how I can try to help the team and what role or what area I’m going to fit. Obviously, they’re going to put you in the role that suits you best.
“But I am very excited. It’s a shame that I had an injury last year, even the season we had, we started very well. I started well. But as far as the standards for me, they are very high, so I’m looking forward to this year.”
LaVine, a two-time All-Star who is 31, says he is motivated by both internal and external reasons.
“I think that if you have nothing to prove to yourself or to anyone, you are very complacent” said Lavigne.I think I am my own biggest critic. So if anything, I have something to prove every year.”
We have more from the Western Conference:
- with Mark Williams is going to miss most of the season with a torn labrum in his left shoulder, Sports360AZ’s Gerald Burge makes a case for Haman Maluach to be The sun‘ new launch center. According to Burge, the 2025 lottery pick is seen as the team’s center of the future, and there’s an argument to be made that his development will accelerate if he’s given the opportunity to play in the starting lineup. The big man from South Sudan offers more size, length, shot blocking and shooting potential than Very IgadaraPhoenix’s primary backup last season, Burge notes.
- The Mavericks recently announced Rob Fodor as one of their new assistant coaches under the first-year head coach Dusty May. For the past decade, Fodor has worked in Miami as a shooting and player development coach, writes Grant Offset of Dallas Hoops Magazineand received previous praise from the former Heat sniper Duncan Robinson as well as the head coach Erik Spoelstra. Prior to his time with the Heat, Fodor spent one year with the WNBA’s Seattle Storm and coached professionally in several countries overseas, among other basketball-related jobs.
- For the second year in a row, Grizzlies will hold their training camp at Belmont University in Nashville, TN DeMichael Cole of The Memphis Commercial Appeal. Grizzlies training camp will be held from September 29 to October 2, and the preseason is scheduled to start on October 5 (in Atlanta).
