Southwest Notes: Geriot, Edey, Murphy, Fort

Dan Geriot is becoming a member of the Pelicans as an assistant coach beneath Willie Inexperienced, ESPN’s Tim Bontemps tweets. Geriot spent the previous 9 years with the Cavaliers. New Orleans’ curiosity in Geriot was reported earlier this week.

We’ve got extra from the Southwest Division:

• Grizzlies lottery decide Zach Edey sat out Friday’s Summer season League recreation towards the Kings with a light ankle sprain, based on Michael Wallace of Grizzlies.com (Twitter hyperlink). Edey is anticipated to return to motion in Las Vegas in some unspecified time in the future.
• The Pelicans’ Trey Murphy, who’s taking part this summer season with the Choose Staff, mentioned that if Zion Williamson can keep wholesome, New Orleans can be a severe contender. “You get to see what a generational expertise seems like with a wholesome staff. That’s the most important factor. We’ve acquired to be wholesome,” Murphy instructed Michael Scotto of Hoops Hype. “That’s at all times been our factor for my complete time in New Orleans. If we’ve got a wholesome staff, I believe we will make a deep run.”
• Spurs lottery decide Stephon Fort has aspirations to be a place to begin guard nevertheless it in all probability received’t occur this yr with Chris Paul signing with the membership. Fort says he’s trying ahead to the expertise of taking part in with and studying from the long run Corridor of Famer. “I’m tremendous comfortable about that,” Fort instructed Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Categorical Information. “To have a man like that and play alongside him and have him mentor me a bit, it’s going to be enjoyable.”