by Zak Hanshew, Rotoworld Previous team recaps: DET, WAS, POR, CHA, SAS, TOR, MEM, UTA, BKN, ATL At a glance: Record: 39-43 (9th, West)  Offensive Rating: 114.0 (19th) Defensive Rating: 115.7 (22nd)  Net Rating: -1.7 (20th)  Pace: 96.9 (28th)  2024 NBA Draft Picks: 11 Things haven’t gone quite the way the Bulls wanted in recent seasons. The team made a blockbuster trade for Nikola Vucevic to close out the 2020-21 …

1 Kansas This ranking is based on Bill Self’s Jayhawks returning three of the top six scorers – specifically Hunter Dickinson, KJ Adams and Dajuan Harris – from a team that secured a No. 4 seed in the 2024 NCAA Tournament. The additions of AJ Storr (Wisconsin), Rylan Griffen (Alabama) and Zeke Mayo (South Dakota State) from the transfer portal, …

Three close games between Minnesota and Dallas, and three times that the Mavericks — specifically Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving — were better in the clutch. That’s why Dallas is up 3-0 in the Western Conference Finals and one game away from reaching the NBA Finals. It’s also why the Mavericks could win those Finals. Here are three takeaways from …

New Arkansas coach John Calipari landed Kentucky transfer D.J. Wagner from the transfer portal Sunday. Wagner is the sixth Kentucky player or committed player to follow Calipari to Arkansas this offseason. The Wagner family has deep ties to Calipari as D.J.’s father, Dajuan Wagner, played for Calipari when he was the coach at Memphis. Calipari has landed serval high-profile commitments this …

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Draymond says KAT ‘lying’ about taking 1,500 shots per day originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Draymond Green, serving as a TNT analyst, has spent a majority of the 2024 Western Conference finals targeting Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert. But after the Timberwolves’ Game 3 loss to the Dallas Mavericks, the Warriors forward turned his attention to fellow Minnesota …

The commitments in the transfer portal keep coming for new Kentucky coach Mark Pope after the Wildcats landed West Virginia guard Kerr Kriisa and Dayton sharpshooter Koby Brea — one of the top 3-point shooters in college basketball. Brea, who led Division I by shooting 49.8% on 3-pointers last season after making 100 of his 201 attempts from deep, is …

The Boston Celtics can complete a sweep of the Indiana Pacers on Monday, and given the fact the Mavericks are also up 3-0 on the Timberwolves, additional rest could be a strong motivator for Boston. The Celtics erased a 12-point halftime deficit before winning Game 3, 114-111, on Saturday behind 36 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists from Jayson Tatum …

Just before the new year, the Knicks traded RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley, two of their most prized prospects at the time, for OG Anunoby in the biggest shakeup of the Leon Rose era. Not only would they be gambling on Anunoby as the missing piece, giving up two core pieces, but they did so with full knowledge of his …

John Calipari and Arkansas basketball reportedly added another player through the transfer portal over the Memorial Day Weekend in former Kentucky guard D.J. Wagner. According to multiple reports, Wagner has committed to his former Wildcats coach after entering the transfer portal in mid-April. He only took visits to Arkansas and USC, where former coach Eric Musselman now leads the Trojans …

The No. 1 seed Boston Celtics are going for the sweep in the 2024 NBA Eastern Conference finals when they play the No. 6 seed Indiana Pacers on Monday evening. The Pacers are hoping to get a win on their home court to keep the series alive. In Game 3, Indiana blew an 18-point lead as Boston defeated the Pacers …

The Arkansas basketball offseason is upon us, and new Razorbacks head coach John Calipari has some work to do to fill the remaining five open scholarships on the roster ahead of the 2024-25 season. Arkansas received its first transfer commitment of the offseason when Kentucky stretch big man Zvonimir Ivisic followed his former head coach and made his pledge to …

INDIANAPOLIS — Neither of Boston’s All-Star wings, 6-foot-6 Jaylen Brown nor 6-foot-8 Jayston Tatum, could stop T.J. McConnell on Saturday night. The Pacers’ pesky reserve point guard dribbled along the baseline of Game 3’s second quarter against the Celtics, sneaking around Brown and then drawing Tatum, before faking the first-team All-NBA selection out of his shoes. McConnell buried that midrange …

John Calipari and Arkansas basketball added another player through the transfer portal over the Memorial Day Weekend in former Kentucky guard D.J. Wagner. According to multiple reports, Wagner has committed to his former Wildcats coach after entering the transfer portal in mid-April. He only took visits to Arkansas and USC. Wagner, a three-time SEC Freshman of the Week in 2023-24 …

The conference finals are underway in the 2024 NBA playoffs, and the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks are each just one game away from the NBA Finals. The Celtics, up 3-0 against the Indiana Pacers, will go for the series sweep on Monday night in Indiana, where the Pacers just dropped their first game in these playoffs. Boston, the No. …

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Scalabrine: C’s gave ‘championship-level performance’ in Game 3 originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The Boston Celtics’ Game 3 win over the Indiana Pacers wasn’t their prettiest, but it still may have been their most impressive postseason performance thus far. After taking an early nine-point lead, the C’s found themselves down 18 in the second quarter while getting pummeled in …

SNY’s Ian Begley will be responding to and breaking down answers to Knicks questions from readers. Here’s the latest… Ian, what is your sense of what the Knicks will do this offseason, do they believe that if this current team is healthy going into next season, they’re title contenders or will they look for that star to pair alongside Brunson …

D.J. Wagner, a 6-foot-3 guard and former No. 1 overall recruit in the class of 2023, is following John Calipari to Fayetteville, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s Richard Davenport reported late Sunday. Wagner was a consensus five-star recruit out of high school and a McDonald’s All-American. In his freshman season at Kentucky, he averaged almost 10 points per game (9.9) to go …

The Boston Celtics look to complete the sweep and advance to the NBA FInals for the second time in three seasons when they visit the Indiana Pacers for Game 4 of the 2024 Eastern Conference finals on Monday. Boston, which lost to Golden State in the 2021-22 Finals and is seeking its first championship since 2007-08, rallied from an 18-point, …

Wisconsin basketball will play a neutral site game against Butler this season at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, according to CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein. The game is added to an out-of-conference schedule that has been a challenge for the Badgers in recent years. The 2024-25 slate now includes a home battle with top-ranked Arizona, the Greenbrier Tip-Off, this game against …

After parting ways with Mo Bamba and reportedly leaning towards not picking up the option on Malik Beasley’s $16.5 million contract, the Lakers are poised to have the full non-tax-payer midlevel exception at their disposal come the start of free agency. Using the $12.5 million exception will hard cap the team, but also open up a critical resource to add …

NBA: Playoffs-Boston Celtics at Indiana Pacers The game was decided before the final play took place — Indiana had been up 18 in the third quarter and by eight with three minutes left, but Jayson Tatum and the Celtics had walked the Pacers down. Jrue Holiday’s steal on Andrew Nembhard was the best clutch play of the night and sealed …

Draymond responds to heckling Timberwolves fans by dragging Gobert originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Draymond Green made his opinion on Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert perfectly clear on Friday night. Green joined TNT’s “Inside the NBA” as a guest analyst for Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinal round between Minnesota and the Dallas Mavericks at Target Center, …

2024 NBA Playoffs – Denver Nuggets v Los Angeles Lakers LeBron James has until June 29 to decide whether to opt in to the final year of his contract with the Lakers, which means signing an extension with the team (totaling $164 million over three years), or opting out, in which case he becomes a free agent and can re-sign …