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Mark Cuban “open” to in-season tournament, supports expanded draft
2022 NBA Playoffs – Dallas Mavericks v Golden State Warriors When it was reported the NBA is close to a framework for an in-season tournament — which could start as soon as the 2023-24 season — a video began circulating on Twitter of Mavericks owner/governor Mark Cuban saying his team might rest players for those tournament games. It didn’t take …
Read More »Russell Westbrook is ‘very open’ to Lakers trading him
By all accounts, the dynamic between Russell Westbrook and the Los Angeles Lakers has been tense and awkward for the last several months. The team has repeatedly tried to trade him, but publicly, it has expressed support for him and even given him praise, in particular new head coach Darvin Ham. It has also appeared that there is tension between …
Read More »Kobe Bryant’s top 100 games: No. 63
Throughout his 20-year NBA career, everyone in the world expected Kobe Bryant to try to defeat teams by shooting lots of shots and scoring plenty of points. Of course, that was his default modus operandi, but he was also a willing passer, not to mention an adept one at that. Even now and then, depending on the situation and the …
Read More »GM Jones says there was ‘not much discussion’ of Suns trading for Durant
Brooklyn Nets v Toronto Raptors When Kevin Durant brought chaos to the NBA offseason with his trade request, he wanted to go to one of two teams: The Suns or Heat. While speculation flew around about the Suns and a possible Deandre Ayton sign-and-trade for Durant, the sides were never really close to a deal, Suns GM James Jones told …
Read More »Kobe Bryant’s top 100 games: No. 64
In the spring of 2009, Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers were on a crusade to win their first NBA championship since 2002. For Bryant, it was personal, as he had to prove he could win it all as “the man” without the presence of Shaquille O’Neal. In the Western Conference Finals, L.A. faced a very stiff challenge from …
Read More »Sixers’ Furkan Korkmaz plays well, but Turkey eliminated from EuroBasket
The Philadelphia 76ers will convene for training camp in Charleston, South Carolina on Sept. 27 looking to begin anew for the 2022-23 season. That means that now is the time for players to get their final workouts in before joining their team. Sixers veteran Furkan Korkmaz had been competing in EuroBasket 2022 for his native country of Turkey and the …
Read More »Florida plummets in AP poll after disappointing home loss to Kentucky
The Florida Gators come in at No. 18 in the latest AP poll after losing to the now No. 9 Kentucky Wildcats 26-16 at home. The Orange and Blue started the season unranked but jumped to No. 12 after beating then No. 7 Utah Utes in a thrilling 29-26 victory in Billy Napier’s first game as Florida head coach. There …
Read More »Lauri Markkanen drops 43 points in EuroBasket win
Oklahoma City Thunder v Cleveland Cavaliers Lauri Markkanen hit 19-of-29 shots and three 3-pointers for a Finland record 43 points in Sunday’s 94-86 win over Croatia in EuroBasket. He added nine rebounds, three assists, three steals and had zero turnovers in 32 minutes in what was basically the game of his life. Markkanen is just 25 years old but has …
Read More »Draymond Green hilariously has no chill, trash talks college football player
Draymond hilariously trash talks college football player originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea There is no offseason when it comes to Draymond Green’s trash talk. Green, a Michigan State alum, was in attendance for the Spartans’ 52-0 victory over Akron on Saturday afternoon. He had a few words for one Zips player before the game. Once his Spartans took a …
Read More »Boston Celtics ranked just third in Marc Stein’s latest NBA power rankings
The Boston Celtics’ widely-lauded offseason has taken a bit of a hit among analysts after one of the two major moves made by the organization appears to have been for naught after veteran forward Danilo Gallinari tore his left ACL in FIBA qualifiers earlier this summer. With the rest of the NBA’s Eastern Conference getting better via trades and signings, …
Read More »Watch Warriors’ Klay Thompson drain 22 straight threes in offseason workout
Watch Klay drain 22 straight 3-pointers in offseason workout originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea Even while Klay Thompson is busy having the summer of his life, he’s still putting in work at the gym. The Warriors star showed why he’s one half of the Splash Brothers in an incredible clip from one of his offseason workouts posted on Saturday. …
Read More »Celtics president Brad Stevens makes honorable mention for Bleacher Report all-time best coach list of the modern NBA
While you won’t find Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens behind a clipboard on the sidelines anymore, his time as a head coach for the team he is now the president of forged a reputation for the Indiana native as one of the better NBA coaches of the modern era. So much so that Stevens made the “Honorable …
Read More »Which players might the Boston Celtics lose in an expansion draft?
It might be fun to daydream about a return of the Seattle SuperSonics, or the arrival of an NBA team in Mexico City or Las Vegas, Nevada, but there will be impacts from the reality of such a move that fans of a team might be a lot less enthusiastic about once the daydream becomes a reality. For fans of …
Read More »Does veteran big man DeMarcus Cousins make sense as a potential depth option for the Boston Celtics?
“If you were more concerned about Robert Williams III than Al Horford, then DeMarcus Cousins is probably the guy for me,” posits Heavy’s Adam Taylor on a new short taken from a recent episode of the “Celtics Collective” podcast. For now at least, the Boston Celtics are reportedly planning to see what they have on their roster in terms of …
Read More »Karl-Anthony Towns delivers surprise gift to community superhero: ‘He’s done so many amazing things’
With the entirety of his 7-foot, 250-pound frame stuffed into a commercial airline seat, Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns simply can’t stop fidgeting. Nerves, excitement, anticipation — you name it, he’s running the full gamut of emotions. But Towns isn’t on his way to a playoff game or training camp with a Timberwolves team poised to make a significant leap …
Read More »Will they get over the hump this year?
The Sixers haven’t made the Conference Finals since 2001, which seems odd considering that they’ve had many successful competitive seasons since. Since ending the tanking portion of “The Process” and making the playoffs in 2018, Philadelphia has made it to the second round in all but one season. They have now put together the best-fitting team around Joel Embiid in …
Read More »USA falls to Argentina at AmeriCup, will play for bronze medal
RECIFE, Brazil (AP) — USA Basketball won’t repeat as AmeriCup champions. Gabriel Deck scored 30 points, Nicolás Laprovittola added 18 and Argentina topped the U.S. 82-73 in the semifinals on Saturday. It was a rematch of the gold-medal game from the most recent AmeriCup tournament in 2017, a game where the U.S. prevailed. Not this time, not after Argentina outscored …
Read More »Kobe Bryant’s top 100 games: No. 65
Late in the 2009-10 season and in the first round of the playoffs, Kobe Bryant’s left knee was causing him problems, and it looked like his days of being a great player may have been over. But that quickly changed when the Los Angeles Lakers faced the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference semifinals. L.A. won the first two games …
Read More »Zach Lowe’s prediction on Lakers’ starting lineup this season
Other than LeBron James and Anthony Davis, there are plenty of questions about who will be in the starting lineup for the Los Angeles Lakers this season. Will Russell Westbrook still be there? What about Kendrick Nunn and newcomer Patrick Beverley? Will Austin Reaves get the nod, as some have suggested? Who will be the team’s starting center? NBA reporter …
Read More »Watch Manu Ginobili be inducted into the Hall of Fame
He was drafted No.57 by the Spurs, and even after that spent three more years playing in Italy before coming to San Antonio. He came off the bench in 67% of his NBA games. He was not near the most physically gifted player in the league, averaging 13.3 points per game for his career. It’s an unusual resume for a …
Read More »Are the Miami Heat an option for a Russell Westbrook trade?
With training camp nearing, the options for a Russell Westbrook trade have been quickly evaporating for the Los Angeles Lakers. The two possible landing spots at this point many have mentioned are the Indiana Pacers and the Utah Jazz, and both are reportedly demanding two future first-round draft picks from L.A., a price it seems unwilling to pay to get …
Read More »Is Boston Celtics star wing Jaylen Brown a future Hall of Famer?
While he might not like his most recent ratings update on the latest edition of NBA 2K, Boston Celtics star wing Jaylen Brown has had himself a very solid start to his career. If the Georgia native keeps working on his game while his Celtics start winning titles, Brown could conceivably find himself looking at making a much more important …
Read More »Tim Hardaway says Run TMC ‘ahead of our time’ in Hall of Fame speech
Hardaway says Run TMC ‘ahead of our time’ in HOF speech originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea A little over 19 years since his last NBA game, former Warriors great Tim Hardaway was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday. “A kid from the east side of Chicago who made it all the way to Springfield, …
Read More »If you think Payton Pritchard’s dribbling drill is intense, you should see Pete Maravich’s
If you squint very hard, you can see the template for a player such as Boston Celtics reserve guard Payton Pritchard in Hall of Fame sharpshooter “Pistol” Pete Maravich — and not just because of their shooting. The taller Maravich was also a fanatic about dribble practice drills, and while Fast PP’s certainly looks intense, the worst thing that happened …
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