Mr. Urso, 41, and several other backgammon enthusiasts were meeting for the Clinton Hill Backgammon Club’s weekly game at Funny Bar, a new jazz-bar-restaurant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

The Jazz re-routed Dennis Schroder, who the team acquired Wednesday night, for K.J. Martin, Josh Richardson, and a 2028 second-round pick to finish off a busy deadline period.

The Big Band Jubilee is an ode to jazz, a style born in New Orleans and brought to New York and other major U.S. cities by Black Americans moving north and west in search of better lives during ...