Getty Images The next time Victor Wembanyama wears a jersey it’ll be for the San Antonio Spurs. Wembanyama, the heavy favorite to be the No. 1 pick in next week’s NBA Draft, saw his season with Metropolitans 92 conclude Thursday at the long end of a broomstick, with his team eliminated in a Pro A Finals sweep in three games …

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Jama Mahlalela reportedly is returning to where he began his NBA coaching career. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported Thursday, citing sources, that the 43-year-old Warriors assistant coach is joining Darko Rajakovic’s new staff with the Toronto Raptors where he and former Washington Wizards assistant Pat Delaney are expected to be named top assistants on Rajakovic’s bench. Born in present-day Eswatini, Mahlalela …

Two men were shot and a police officer was struck by a fire truck in separate incidents in Denver Thursday as the Nuggets celebrated their NBA championship. The Denver Police Department confirmed both incidents that took place in downtown Denver around the Nuggets’ championship parade. The shooting took place in the aftermath of the parade a block away from 16th …

Another year, another Bradley Beal-to-Boston rumor. Because of Beal’s lifelong friendship with fellow St. Louis native Jayson Tatum, the Celtics automatically are considered a potential destination whenever the Washington Wizards star’s name is brought up in trade talks. That was the case again on Wednesday when The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported the Wizards will work with Beal to find a …

The NBA Draft is one week away and the assumed No. 1 pick, Victor Wembanyama, just completed his final game in France. His team, Boulogne-Levallois Metropolitans 92, was swept by Monaco 3-0 in the LNB Pro A Finals. In his final outing, Wembanyama scored 22 points and added seven rebounds and four blocks in the 92-85 loss. Throughout his French …

Getty Images The NBA and Miami Heat are investigating accusations against Conor McGregor that took place during this year’s NBA Finals. An incident involving the UFC star is alleged to have occurred at Kaseya Center in Miami during Game 4 between the Miami Heat and Denver Nuggets. TMZ Sports published a report detailing accusations levied by a woman against McGregor, a …

Subscribe to Ball Don’t Lie Jake Fischer and Dan Devine are back with their first episode after the end of the 2022-23 NBA season and that means…it’s trade season! The guys talk through the trade rumors and whispers and the value of guys like Bradley Beal, Chris Paul and Zion Williamson. Jake Fischer and Dan Devine kick off this week’s …

Getty Images Bradley Beal may be a former All-Star, but his trade market as the Washington Wizards enter a rebuild has been surprisingly tepid. With a four-year max contract, a scary recent injury history and a no-trade clause at his disposal, the Miami Heat were the only team known to have registered interest early in the process. But now, according …

If the Chicago Bulls hope to propel themselves back into the world of relevancy, which seems to be their goal, they will need to make some big-time changes this summer. Arturas Karnisovas seems determined to bring the same core back and compete for the playoffs, but that won’t be good enough. Rolling out Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan, and Nikola Vucevic …

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Getty Images In the immediate aftermath of the Denver Nuggets winning their first NBA championship on Monday, Finals MVP Nikola Jokic said he wanted to go home rather than attend Thursday’s parade. Then he attended the parade. Jokic saw fans flood the streets to celebrate. He saw his coach chugging beer and generally stealing the show. He couldn’t help but …

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With the 2022-23 NBA season fully wrapped up, we now enter a period of potential player movement coming up, one that could feature a lot of big names being traded, as the 2023 free-agent class isn’t anything to write home about, meaning teams looking to improve will likely attempt to do so through trades. We’re already starting to see some …

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A Denver police officer is seriously injured after being struck by a firetruck during the Nuggets’ championship parade on Thursday morning. The Denver Police Department said the incident happened towards the end of the celebration at West 13th Avenue and Cherokee Street after 11:30 a.m. MT. The injured officer who was in SWAT gear was seen conscious after the crash …

Getty Images At the Denver Nuggets’ championship parade on Thursday, coach Michael Malone upstaged the players.  Here he is saying that the Nuggets are “greedy bastards” and are “not done yet,” playing to the camera as if he were a professional wrestler: Here he is chugging a beer, then throwing the can into the crowd: Here he is spraying fans …

Boston Celtics veteran forward Danilo Gallinari has officially opted in to the final year of his contract, a player option worth $6.8 million, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Gallinari joined the Celtics in free agency last summer before tearing his left ACL a few weeks later playing for his native Italy in a FIBA qualifying game. Gallinari did not appear …

The No. 1 overall basketball player in the state of Kansas for the class of 2024 is Sunrise Christian four-star center John Bol. In addition to being first in Kansas, Bol (no relation to former NBA player Manute Bol) is ranked No. 3 at his position and No. 23 nationally in his class. This past weekend he announced his commitment …

Michael Jordan powered the Bulls to a Game 5 win despite having flu-like symptoms. (Photo by John W. McDonough /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images) We all remember Michael Jordan’s famous “Flu Game,” right? The legendary Jordan scored 38 points for the Chicago Bulls in a 90-88 win over the Utah Jazz in Game 5 of the 1997 NBA Finals despite …

Bradley Beal might be the most popular name in the rumor mill entering next week’s 2023 NBA Draft after reports surfaced Wednesday that the Washington Wizards would work with the star guard to find a trade if the franchise chooses to rebuild. Beal will be 30 years old on June 28 and has averaged 23.2 points per game over 11 …

A woman has accused Conor McGregor of sexually assaulting her at Game 4 of the NBA Finals, but the UFC star has denied the allegation, according to TMZ. TMZ reported Thursday that it obtained demand letters authored by South Florida-based attorney Ariel Mitchell that were sent to McGregor, the NBA and the Miami Heat, which hosted Game 4 of the …

Xavier Musketeers forward Zach Freemantle Xavier Musketeers forward Zach Freemantle was cleared for non-contact work and is expected to be fully cleared for basketball-related activities sometime in July, according to a report Thursday via Twitter from CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein. Rothstein cited Muskies head coach Sean Miller. Freemantle, who averaged 15.2 points, 8.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists in 28.6 minutes …

The Bradley Beal rumor mill is Heating up. If the Washington Wizards guard is traded soon, Miami is widely seen as his likely destination, per Marc Stein’s latest newsletter. From Stein:  For all the efforts in print Wednesday to paint the situation as exploratory, few rival teams see it that way. The Miami Heat are already widely regarded as the …

The Marquette men’s basketball team expects to be one of the top teams in the country next season, and the Golden Eagles will be challenged with their nonconference schedule. MU released its full slate of non-Big East games on Thursday, with the season opener set for Nov. 6 against Northern Illinois at Fiserv Forum. The conference schedule is usually released …