Boston Celtics majority owner Wyc Grousbeck was among the lucky who was able to work with Boston Hall of Fame big man Bill Russell in the years before he passed through their connection via the Celtics organization. “He was all-in on everything, including laughter and having fun and poking fun and smiling and just enjoying life and trying to make …

This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Update your settings here to see it. Warriors unveil new Statement Edition jerseys with old-school nod originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea The Warriors unveiled a new Statement Edition uniform for the upcoming 2022-23 NBA season on Tuesday, and it arrived with a blast from the past. The jerseys, per …

No, Jeanie Buss doesn’t have a PS5 connect. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) No, Jeanie Buss doesn’t have an in for PlayStation 5s. Well, she might. But the Los Angeles Lakers owner wasn’t trying to sell them on Twitter on Monday night. Buss confirmed through the Lakers official account on Tuesday morning that her personal account had …

Cal hoops, Twitter react to Warriors’ Statement Edition uniforms originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea The Warriors unveiled their Statement Edition uniforms for the 2022-23 NBA season on Tuesday, and while the jury still is out on how the collective fan base feels, Cal’s basketball team made its thoughts known. While the Warriors’ new uniforms do bear a striking resemblance to …

Magic Johnson calls for NBA to retire Bill Russell’s No. 6 league-wide originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston In 1997, more than 20 years after baseball legend Jackie Robinson’s death, Major League Baseball retired No. 42 league-wide in his honor. Jackie Robinson was a hero for many, including Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell. Robinson broke MLB’s color barrier with the …

Bulls reveal Goran Dragić’s jersey number originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago The Chicago Bulls took care of a key piece of offseason business Tuesday afternoon by officially announcing the signing of Goran Dragić, with whom the team initially agreed to terms in July. In doing so, the Bulls also revealed the jersey number that “The Dragon” will don for the …

The Pacers currently have just under $30 million in cap space and could help facilitate one of the bigger unresolved trades this offseason. They are also projected to generate maximum cap space in 2023 as long as they don’t add more long-term salary. Key: • Player Option / • Team Option / • Partially guaranteed / • Non-guaranteed / • Two-way …

Kevin Durant is still a member of the Brooklyn Nets, which wasn’t exactly Durant’s plan about a month ago. The Nets star’s request for a potential landscape-changing trade has so far gone unheeded, and now he is slated to meet with team owner Joe Tsai to discuss the situation, according to Steve Deleney of Heavy. The Nets have declined comment, …

Getty Images The Los Angeles Lakers might be going through a tough period, but team owner Jeanie Buss is not actually resorting to selling PlayStation 5s to help her team. Buss’ Twitter account was hacked this week and the hackers made posts saying she was selling three video game consoles to donate all the proceeds to charity.  The suspicious tweet …

The book Rick Pitino sought to suppress has come back to bite him. Merl Code’s “Black Market,” which paints the former Louisville men’s basketball coach as complicit in the bribery scheme behind the 2017 recruitment of Brian Bowen, prompted the NCAA’s Complex Case Unit (CCU) to lodge additional allegations of infractions months after submitting its Amended Notice of Allegations on …

Boston Celtics v Indiana Pacers Myles Turner has been here before. For the past five years, to be more specific. Turner finds himself mentioned in trade rumors — most prominently to the Lakers with teammate Buddy Hield for Russell Westbrook in a deal that is currently dead, but there are other rumors, too — and the big man shrugs them …

One of the top players in the Class of 2023 committed to Oregon on Tuesday, when five-star forward Kwame Evans Jr. chose the Ducks over Arizona, Auburn and Kentucky. Evans is ranked the No. 7 player of the class by 247Sports and is considered the No. 3 power forward.  At 6-foot-9 and 200 pounds, Evans is an athletic four with …

Celtics player spotlight: How Danilo Gallinari can be X-factor for C’s originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston If Celtics fans want a sense for how Danilo Gallinari can impact winning, they need only re-watch Boston’s game against the Atlanta Hawks on Feb. 24, 2021. Gallinari absolutely torched the Celtics that night, hitting 10 of 12 3-pointers to finish a game-high …

It was a great day for Dana Altman following a tough month of July. After both 5-star PG Dior Johnson and 5-star SF Mookie Cook decommitted from the Oregon Ducks over a month ago, Altman turned things around and picked up a commitment from 5-star PF Kwame Evans, the No. 2 ranked player in the 2023 class, per ESPN. Evans, …

What Boston Celtics Hall of Fame big man Bill Russell did on the basketball court is unparalleled in the history of sport, winning 11 NBA championships while helping to integrate the sports as part of the first all-Black starting five in league history, its first Black superstar, and first Black head coach among countless accolades. But it is easy to …

The Philadelphia 76ers figure to be one of the top teams in the East in the 2022-23 season led by a star duo of Joel Embiid and James Harden. The two of them are at the top of the league in terms of their talent and the impact they can have on the game and they’re feared around the league. …

Brooklyn Nets sharpshooter Seth Curry has been talking a lot to the media recently, including a couple of comments on the recovering Ben Simmons. In an interview, Curry talked about how tough it can be to mentally get back into the game after a hard injury. It can be tough. I think it’s going to be really tough for him …

Australian guard Josh Giddey and the Oklahoma City Thunder will reportedly host the Adelaide 36ers of the National Basketball League during their upcoming preseason slate. The game will mark the first time since 2019 that teams from the NBL and NBA will meet on the court. The two leagues started facing each other during the 2017-18 season but the annual …

Another summer of trade rumors has not fazed Indiana Pacers big man Myles Turner, who says he found peace during a recent trip to Tanzania and is “numb” to all of the drama at this point in his career.  Earlier this offseason, Turner went to Tanzania to work with Malcolm Brogdon’s Family Foundation and Hoops for Humanity, helping build wells …

We recently published a two-part deep dive that got into the nitty-gritty — and lavish luxury — of what it’s like to recruit at a prestigious power-conference program. Florida coach Todd Golden allowed me to shadow him and his staff over a five-day spell for the entirety of the pivotal late-July live period.  If you’ve not read both pieces, Part …

2022 NBA All-Star Game On Thursday, Aug. 4, the Lakers can and will offer LeBron James a contract extension of two years, $97.1 million.  If LeBron doesn’t sign it immediately — and there’s no reason to believe he will, LeBron has always been patient and used his leverage — the speculation will start. Speculation that will ignore the fact that …

Grant Williams: Bill Russell’s prediction will drive 2022-23 Celtics originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston In the wake of the basketball community’s loss of Bill Russell, members of the Boston Celtics family have been paying tribute to the legend through social media posts as well as various comments on television. Grant Williams was among the many players to honor Russell …

Sixers plan to increase size of site first proposed for new arena originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia To successfully build a new arena in Center City before the 2031-32 NBA season, the Sixers must answer many logistical questions. One of those is rather straightforward: Where exactly will “76 Place at Market East” be? The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Joseph N. Distefano …

With Kevin Durant’s career stretching over the last 15 years, it’s safe to say that the former MVP has become impactful on the game of basketball. For Indiana Pacers big Myles Turner, it was Durant’s game that he looked up to. In an interview with Fan Nation, Turner opened up about how the forward has made an impact and the …

We have written about this before at NBC Sports, but as Marc Stein noted in his latest substack newsletter, the early headlines didn’t tell the real story: The much-discussed weight clause in Zion Williamson‘s five-year, $193 million max contract extension will only cost him money in the unlikely event the Pelicans waive him. If things ever get to that point, …