When the Houston Rockets selected Auburn’s Jabari Smith Jr. with the third pick of the N.B.A. draft on Thursday, it continued a tradition of basketball as a family inheritance. His father, also named Jabari Smith, played in the N.B.A. in the early 2000s. “My dad just told me it was time to amp it up
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The Las Vegas rehauled their front office this offseason, bringing in Becky Hammon as head coach and Natalie Williams as general manager to replace Bill Laimbeer and Dan Padover, respectively. They also lost veterans Liz Cambage and Angel McCoughtry in free agency. Those are dramatic changes for a team that finished with the second-best record