Iowa State newcomer Curtis Jones scored 32 points in the Cyclones’ first game of their foreign trip to the Bahamas Sunday. Newcomer Curtis Jones had an impressive Iowa State basketball debut, scoring 32 points in the Cyclones’ 119-48 rout of Lucayans Sunday in the first game of the trip to the Bahamas. Jones’ big game included making 8-of-12 3-point attempts. …

The NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) was designed with punishing high-spending ball clubs like the Boston Celtics in mind, the idea being to make it fairer for the other teams to acquire top-shelf talent for their rosters. As a result, to fill out the remaining roster spots, Boston needs to find players willing to take a pay cut for …

Since the Golden State Warriors season ended at the hands of the Los Angeles Lakers, Klay Thompson has been away from the media spotlight. Where Steph Curry has been attending multiple interviews, Thompson hasn’t been seen since losing in ‘The Match’ – where he and Curry came up short against Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce. However, it would appear that …

MIAMI – The Miami Heat will be adding 3-point insurance to their training-camp roster with an agreement with former Los Angeles Lakers forward Cole Swider. The agreement, an Exhibit 10 contract, can only become finalized once the Heat add a 14th player under standard contract. The Heat currently have 13 such players: Bam Adebayo, Jimmy Butler, Tyler Herro, Kyle Lowry, …

Jason Richardson gets a bit overlooked in the channels of basketball history. Despite somehow never making an all-star appearance, he had a five-year stretch in the mid-2000s with averages of about 20 points, six rebounds and three assists per game while being a good 3-point shooter. He was a key part of a few playoff appearances, including the Phoenix Suns’ …

If the supposed beef between rising NBA prospect Cooper Flagg and Phoenix Suns star Bradley Beal stemming from a rumored one-on-one embarrassment of Beal at star Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum’s summer basketball camp sounded a little bit too good to be true, it seems that it very well may have been a made-up tale. Flagg recently came clean about …

According to Bleacher Report’s Chris Haynes, former Boston Celtics first-round draft pick R.J. Hunter is joining the Charlotte Hornets for the upcoming season. Hunter came into the league as the 28th pick in the 2015 NBA draft and had a reputation as a high-level perimeter scorer who could shoot off the catch and the dribble. At the time, the rebuilding …

With conference realignment being the hot topic in college athletics right now, rumors are swirling left and right about the future for college football and basketball. Oregon and Washington left for the Big Ten and Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah left for the Big 12, as a lot of things changed in a span of just under 24 hours. As …

Getty Images The Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Wings announced a historic partnership Sunday afternoon that would make the Mavericks the jersey sponsor for the Wings. The deal makes the Wings the first team in the WNBA to agree to a jersey sponsorship with an NBA team. The jersey patch will feature the Mavericks logo, as well as the “Girls Empowered …

The Nebraska basketball program added guard Jarron “Boogie” Coleman out of the transfer portal on Sunday. He entered the portal on Aug. 1. The 6-foot-5, 210-pound Coleman spent a total of four seasons at Ball State and one at Missouri. He enters the Husker program as a graduate transfer immediately eligible with one season left to play. >>> Subscribe: Get …

Payton Pritchard needs to do everything he can this season to raise his profile as he heads towards the end of his current contract, and playing for the Team USA scrimmage team to help prepare the US National Team for the 2023 FIBA World Cup is one avenue the Oregon native has chosen to such an end. It certainly did …

Big 12 basketball is the big winner of the conference’s most recent expansion. Not to mention Iowa State fans residing full- or part-time in the state of Arizona. Yes, the nation’s best men’s basketball conference got significantly better in recent days when Arizona, Arizona State and Utah came aboard to make this a 16-team league (for now) starting in the …

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Longtime college basketball coach Doc Sadler, who spent last year as a special advisor at Oklahoma, was hired Wednesday as an analyst at Kansas, where he served as the director of basketball operations a decade ago. Sadler was a successful head coach in his own right, particularly at UTEP, which he led to the NCAA Tournament …

Marvin Williams and Brandan Wright were two of the best one-and-dones to play basketball at UNC. Williams, who helped the Heels capture the 2005 NCAA Championship over Illinois, averaged 11.3 points per game and shot 50.6% from the field, while grabbing 6.6 rebounds per game in Chapel Hill. He was named 2004-2005 NCAA and ACC Rookie of theYear, plus he …

The Brooklyn Nets are looking to make it back to the playoffs next season with the hope of winning a series or two to give the fanbase something to cheer about. One action that could increase their chances of achieving that goal would be to pull off a massive trade this offseason. It should be noted that Brooklyn was once …

The Chicago Bulls made sure to keep hold of their players this summer. In addition to re-signing Nikola Vucevic and Ayo Dosunmu, they also brought back Coby White on a three-year contract. The 23-year-old guard will be entering his fifth NBA season next year and hoping to take another leap with the Bulls. And with his new contract, White decided …

The shooting guard position has seen better days, though it has seen an influx in elite, potential-laden talent over recent years. Still, the days of Kobe Bryant and Dwyane Wade roaming the perimeter are long gone. As we continue our preview series ahead of the 2023-24 NBA season, today, we are going to take a look at who we believe will be …

Training camp for the 2023-24 NBA season is slowly but surely approaching, and while there is plenty of time before it begins, it’s time for players to start ramping up their training and preparation. That’s especially true for the Los Angeles Lakers, who are hoping to win their 18th world championship next summer. They magically remade what was a broken …

For Jabari Smith Jr., the No. 3 overall pick of the 2022 NBA draft by the Houston Rockets, his 2022-23 rookie season wasn’t all that he envisioned. While Smith did earn All-Rookie Second Team honors, the projected sharpshooter out of Auburn connected on just 40.8% of his overall shots and 30.7% from 3-point range. His 2023-24 league year, however, is …

The Brooklyn Nets are transitioning from a team that many believed to be a championship contender to a squad that has some good players, but does not have the superstar to take the organization over the top. After the superstar era of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, and James Harden did not result in much, Brooklyn looks to move forward in …

MIAMI – On Saturday night in Springfield, Mass., Dwyane Wade will attempt to sum up a career in a matter of minutes during his induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. But for the Miami Heat icon, there was more than a single chapter of his life, even of his basketball life. Over the past two weeks, as …

Is star Boston Celtics wing Jaylen Brown going to conclude his upcoming supermax contract extension with the Celtics? Brown’s future with the Celtics seems uncertain to some due to various factors, including potential contract issues for the ball club under the NBA’s new, punitive collective bargaining agreement and Brown’s desire to compete for a championship. On a recent episode of …

Greece v Slovenia – International Friendly Vlatko Cancar, the floor-spacing reserve power forward for the Nuggets who averaged 15 minutes a game for the defending champions, suffered a torn ACL during a FIBA World Cup tune-up game for Slovenia and will almost certainly miss the entire upcoming season. Mike Singer of the Denver Post broke the news. It was a …

Wisconsin guard A.J. Storr is quickly making a positive impression on Badger fans leading into the 2023-24 season. The transfer guard was in action this week playing on the Bahamian national team in a scrimmage against the Kansas Jayhawks. Former Michigan forward Hunter Dickinson and the Kansas Jayhawks, to be specific. Kansas won the contest 92-87 after fending off several …

The Boston Celtics have more retired jerseys than any other team in the NBA, but that doesn’t mean the rest of their jerseys have little history of interest tied to them. In fact, with 17 titles to their name and decades of competitive basketball played in them, their unretired jersey numbers pack in some of the most history not hanging …