UConn women’s basketball coaching legend Geno Auriemma happened to be with UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley on Wednesday night at the university’s “Road Show” event that brought the school’s coaches together to interact with fans. Unprovoked, Auriemma made a remark to his colleague that is fitting in hindsight given the bombshell report on Thursday that the Los Angeles Lakers …

Yahoo Sports Senior NBA reporter Jake Fischer examines the impact on various head coaching candidates as Los Angeles shifts focus to the two-time reigning national championship coach from UConn. View more Video Transcript The Los Angeles Lakers are now targeting uconn head coach Dan Hurley to be the next leader of the Lakers sidelines. A source confirmed to Yahoo Sports …

The Milwaukee Bucks will be named in a bunch of potential trades this summer. General manager Jon Horst needs to do what he feels is best for this roster for next season. Milwaukee will need to get younger this offseason. They need to get players that complement Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard well. The Milwaukee Bucks are known for making …

Getty Images The Dallas Mavericks and Boston Celtics will kick off the 2024 NBA Finals tonight, and both teams pulled out all the stops for their hype videos. Two of the greatest quarterbacks in the modern era, Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, helped get the respective fan bases fired up for Game 1. Mahomes, who grew up outside Dallas, narrated …

In a sharp turn from the rumors floating around in recent days, the Lakers are “targeting” two-time NCAA national champion coach Dan Hurley of UConn to take over as their next head coach. Los Angeles is preparing to offer Hurley—a gifted Xs and Os coach known for player development—a “massive, long-term contract” in hopes he cannot only coach LeBron James …

The transfer portal has become a hot topic across the realm of college basketball and that has been no different at West Virginia. The transfer portal is essentially a database that allows other schools to contact them regarding a transfer, and WVSports.com will track it. It’s important to note that because a player is listed in the portal does not …

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Beyond the scoring: Tatum opens up about ‘do-everything’ role for C’s originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston If you go back and read Jayson Tatum’s scouting reports coming out of Duke in 2017, you’ll find plenty about his scoring ability. You’ll find decidedly less about his other attributes — particularly his playmaking ability. “He wasn’t the most willing passer on …

The 2024 NBA Finals begin on Thursday when the Boston Celtics host the Dallas Mavericks in Game 1. Celtics forward Jayson Tatum led the way in a sweep over Indiana in the Eastern Conference finals, finishing with at least 23 points in all four games. He has posted 10 double-doubles so far this postseason, averaging 26.0 points, 10.4 rebounds and …

Jason Kidd faces one last NBA mountain with Mavs in Finals originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Having experienced the great and ugly of sports, and of life, the most popular high school athlete in Bay Area sports history now wears his gray facial hair like a badge of maturity earned through years of toil, turbulence and accomplishment. Jason …

The Dallas Mavericks are heading to the 2024 NBA Finals, where they’ll meet the Boston Celtics. Their best-of-seven series will open Thursday as Game 1 tips at 8:30 p.m. ET from TD Graden in Boston. It will be more than a decade since either franchise has hoisted the Larry O’Brien Trophy.  The Mavs ousted the Minnesota Timberwolves 124-103 to win the …

Tom Brady will always be woven into Boston sports fabric. The Celtics reminded fans of that with a video released on Wednesday, a day before they face the Dallas Mavericks in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. The latest in the Celtics’ series of hype videos featured throughout the NBA playoffs was narrated by Brady, who best represents Boston’s championship …

LAS VEGAS – The 2024 Pangos All-American Camp is in the books and so too are the individual performances that defined it. Today, Rivals national analyst Rob Cassidy doles out awards celebrating some of the most impressive efforts at the event. More from Las Vegas: Takeaways from day two | Pangos tips off with star-studded roster | Gabe Weis interview …

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Though the Boston Celtics are nearly a 2-to-1 favorite to win the title over the Dallas Mavericks, this feels like a much closer series than that. Maybe the books are right. Maybe Boston has been the best team all season and will validate that status with authority over the next few weeks. Personally, I don’t think it will play that …

After a few months of speculation, Michigan State basketball has made it official. The Spartans will bring Saddi Washington, a Lansing native, back to his hometown, after he has been in Ann Arbor on the Michigan basketball staff since 2016. To me, this is a great hire by the Spartans. Washington played for Western Michigan back in the 1990s before …

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UConn coach Dan Hurley celebrates after the NCAA men’s basketball title game in April in Glendale, Ariz. (Brynn Anderson / Associated Press) The Lakers are planning to offer their head-coaching position to UConn head coach Dan Hurley, according to people with knowledge of the team’s plans not authorized to speak publicly. The sides are expected to have increased discussions in …

The 2024 NBA postseason is well underway, and the basketball betting market is hotter than ever. CBS Sports will provide daily picks for the duration of the postseason. Sam Quinn will make at least one pick for every game between now and the NBA Finals. I’m going Dallas across the board in Game 1. Until I have visual evidence that Kristaps Porzingis …

On the heels of back-to-back national championships at the University of Connecticut, Huskies coach Dan Hurley has emerged as a priority target for the Los Angeles Lakers as they prepare to make an offer to him to become their next head coach, according to ESPN. The Lakers are preparing a “massive, long-term contract offer” to Hurley and have had preliminary …

Dan Hurley high fives center Donovan Clingan during this year’s NCAA Tournament, which UConn won. Photograph: Bob Donnan/USA Today Sports The Los Angeles Lakers aim to hire Dan Hurley, who has led UConn to back-to-back NCAA national titles, as their next coach, according to ESPN. Hurley is known for his tactical prowess as well as his ability to develop players, …

Teams with superstars generally win in the NBA, but you might not realize just how few exceptions there are to that rule. Prior to this year, 31 of the past 33 NBA champions had a current or former MVP on the roster. Since the MVP award was first given out, 65 of the 67 NBA Finals featured a player who …

by Zak Hanshew, Rotoworld Previous team recaps: DET, WAS, POR, CHA, SAS, TOR, MEM, UTA, BKN, ATL, CHI, HOU, SAC, GSW, MIA, PHI, ORL, LAL At a glance: Record: 47-35 (6th, East)  Offensive Rating: 120.5 (2nd) Defensive Rating: 117.6 (24th)  Net Rating: 2.9 (10th)  Pace: 102.1 (2nd)  2024 NBA Draft Picks: 36, 49, 50 After three straight seasons without a playoff appearance, the Pacers made a tremendous postseason run, making it to the …

Dan Hurley could be heading to the NBA. According to ESPN, the Los Angeles Lakers are targeting Hurley as the team’s next coach. UConn has won back-to-back NCAA tournaments under Hurley over the last two seasons. The Lakers are looking for a coach to replace Darvin Ham after getting eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Denver …

The Mavs are here because … Their trade deadline moves. The Luke Dončić-Kyrie Irving axis is what makes the Mavs go. But acquiring PJ Washington and Daniel Gafford transformed this team. The pair beefed up the team’s frontcourt and helped ratchet up the defensive intensity, covering up for any flaws in Dončić and Irving. OC The Mavericks made some very …