Bones Hyland signs deal with Under Armour

Nick DePaula: OFFICIAL: Nuggets guard Bones Hyland has signed a footwear & apparel endorsement deal with Under Armour. “It’s amazing to have a brand that believes in me and sees my potential like Under Armour,” said @BizzyBones11
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Nick DePaula @NickDePaula
OFFICIAL: Nuggets guard Bones Hyland has signed a footwear & apparel endorsement deal with Under Armour.
“It’s amazing to have a brand that believes in me and sees my potential like Under Armour,” said @BizzyBones11 pic.twitter.com/AElPpRtjrF – 5:57 PM Michael Singer @msinger
Bones Hyland, asked about the trust level of Denver’s second unit in January.
“The trust level has gone from like a 6 to like a 9 right now.”
….. 🤣 – 11:17 PM Michael Singer @msinger
Malone: I’ve seen so much growth from Bones recently. – 9:26 PM Adam Mares @Adam_Mares
WWWWWinner’s Lounge is live. Come join.
Did Bones solve the bench?
The Nuggets are finding a rhythm
Ball is poppin
5 in a row
youtube.com/watch?v=IIm33D… – 9:23 PM Adam Mares @Adam_Mares
Bones is so good. Complete difference maker with the bench tonight. – 9:04 PM Ryan Blackburn @NBABlackburn
Here’s the thing about the geometry of the floor: the Nuggets can run players off screens now with Bones as the handler, because if his man digs into the passing/driving lane, Bones is gonna take and make open threes.
There really is a logical explanation. I promise. – 8:57 PM Adam Mares @Adam_Mares
Bones is so good at getting the ball up the court quickly. – 8:54 PM Duvalier Johnson @DuvalierJohnson
Nuggets go into the half w/ a 65-57 lead over the Bucks.
Gordon has 13 points. Guards got going w/ Morris & Hyland with 11 points apiece and the MVP has 9 points, 9 assists and 5 rebounds.
Denver is taking care of the ball, getting hell from bench & knocking down the 3-ball. – 8:12 PM Ryan Blackburn @NBABlackburn
Halftime rotations for the Nuggets as they lead the Bucks 65-57.
-Joker with 9 points, 5 rebounds, 9 assists, and 3 steals. Not aggressive as a shooter but creating infinite shots
-AG 13 points on 11 shots, mostly outside jumpers
-Bones 11 points, 2 assists, just 1 TOV. +4 pic.twitter.com/sQmGP6ycAF – 8:10 PM Michael Singer @msinger
#Nuggets knock down 11 3-pointers, dish 19 (!) assists for 65-57 first-half lead.
Giannis with 22, Joker with 9 pts, 9 asts, 5 rebs.
AG with a team-high 13, Bones/Monte with 11 each. – 8:07 PM Adam Mares @Adam_Mares
Love the confidence Bones and Zeke are playing with so far tonight. – 7:53 PM Michael Singer @msinger
Bones just looked Giannis dead in the eye, about four feet beyond the 3-point line, and pulled. Even though he missed, there was no question that shot was going up. Bones with 11 and 2 assists so far.
Denver’s bench? 23 points so far. – 7:51 PM Katy Winge @katywinge
Bones Hyland is doing everything right now as the backup point guard.
Seeing another example of what Coach Malone liked: his pace, his aggressiveness, and his ability to get his team organized. – 7:47 PM Gordon Gross @GMoneyNuggs
That behind-the-back fast break pass from Bones to Nnaji would have been so sweet if Zeke had finished it. Really do like Bones in a pro-active bench role, leading the action. – 7:43 PM Adam Mares @Adam_Mares
Bones point guarding pretty well again. – 7:42 PM Ryan Blackburn @NBABlackburn
I for one think Bones is pretty good at PG. – 7:41 PM Michael Singer @msinger
#Nuggets bury six 3-pointers in the first quarter, toss 11 assists (Joker had 8 of them).
Denver up 33-30. We’re gonna get a few more minutes of the bench (Bones, Bryn, Austin, Zeke and J-Myke). – 7:37 PM Michael Singer @msinger
Hyland’s as microwavey as it gets. Bangs two 3-pointers a minute after he checks into the game. – 7:29 PM

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As the U.S. and other countries grow more vocal in denouncing China’s actions in Xinjiang, Congress has repeatedly called upon NBA stars to drop their deals. Those stars include Wade, who initially signed a 10-year, $75 million contract with Li-Ning in 2012 that was later converted into a lifetime agreement in 2018, ahead of Wade’s final season. Warriors sharpshooter Klay Thompson signed with Anta Sports in 2014 and re-upped in 2017 on a reported 10-year, $80 million deal. Trail Blazers guard and players’ association president CJ McCollum left Nike in 2017 for a richer, five-year agreement with Li-Ning, while the Hornets’ Gordon Hayward joined Anta in 2018 on a four-year deal. In 2020, Warriors swingman Andrew Wiggins struck a multiyear deal with Peak, and Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon agreed to a contract with 361 Degrees, making him what the company called “the new face” of its basketball division. -via ESPN / January 28, 2022 Roberts said the union would share lawmakers’ concerns with affected players, but several agents representing those with Chinese shoe deals told ESPN the union never alerted them to the request from Washington. Asked about that discrepancy, a union spokesman insisted the information had been passed along. “The National Basketball Players Association has previously had an impressive track record of using their voice for social change, and I would like to see them do more to raise awareness about the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang and to help their members understand the risks of partnering with companies that promote products made with forced labor,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, told ESPN. “These sponsorship deals need to end.” -via ESPN / January 28, 2022 Another speaker at the Washington event was Kalbinur Gheni, a Uyghur whose 39-year-old sister was taken to a Chinese “reeducation” camp in 2018 and later sent to a prison. Gheni said her sister, an art teacher with two children, has been sentenced to 17 years for observing religious rites and for keeping religious books and loaning them to others. Gheni, who studied in Malaysia before moving to the U.S. in 2019, said her sister is among a dozen family members who have been detained in China over the past four years. “They are using our loved ones in the camp as slave labor,” Gheni later told ESPN. “And they are profiting off them. “When you talk about this NBA business, they should be supportive. It is not because I am a Uyghur, but as a human being. If they keep silent no matter what the Chinese government does, that means they are going to lose for long term their dignity and humanity.” -via ESPN / January 28, 2022