Curry, Kerr revel in VP Harris’ visit to Team USA’s practice originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area LAS VEGAS – Team USA Men’s Basketball welcomed a special guest appearance Tuesday at UNLV following their final training camp practice ahead of their exhibition game against Canada. Surrounded by Secret Service security members, Vice President Kamala Harris strolled onto the practice …

Getty Images Kevin Durant will miss Team USA’s exhibition game against Canada in Las Vegas on Wednesday because of a strained left calf. Since training camp for the 2024 Olympics opened on Saturday, Durant has been held out of all the scrimmages and full-contact portions of practice, including Tuesday’s walkthrough. USA Basketball maintains, however, that this is only a minor …

Podz’s vocal leadership, competitiveness on display vs. Team USA originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area LAS VEGAS – Full-court press guarding Steph Curry. Trapping Jrue Holiday in the corner to force a turnover. Diving on the floor and securing loose balls. Pushing the pace and hitting a 17-year-old super prospect Cooper Flagg in stride for a dunk. Everything that …

The Detroit Pistons have claimed center Paul Reed off waivers, the team announced Tuesday. The Philadelphia 76ers waived the big man on Saturday, and by claiming him, Detroit has acquired his existing contract.  The contract has two years and $15.7 million remaining, but there’s a twist: both seasons are non-guaranteed. (The Utah Jazz initially designed the deal, with whom Reed signed …

Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill sat down with the Pacers guard at USA Basketball men’s national team camp in Las Vegas to discuss Indiana’s success this past season & their role as being the upset team in the Eastern Conference. View more Video Transcript Now, the last time we also saw you at the Eastern Conference looked a …

Paul Reed claimed off waivers, now teammates with Tobias Harris again originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Paul Reed’s back in NBA business. The Pistons announced Tuesday that they’ve claimed the 25-year-old big man off waivers. The Sixers officially waived Reed three days prior. Waiver claims aren’t common in the NBA, but the Pistons were able to add Reed because …

Chris Paul “didn’t need a sales pitch,” the future Hall of Famer told reporters during his introductory press conference on Tuesday. When he talked to San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich about the possibility of signing with the team in free agency, the two “more than anything had a conversation,” Paul said. The 39-year-old guard said he had admired Popovich …

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Here’s everything to know about the Bulls’ 2024 Summer League team originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Fans will get a taste of Bulls basketball soon, as the team finalized its roster for the 2024 Summer League action in Las Vegas. The team will open up this summer’s action against the Bucks on July 13. They will play four games …

As the search for Notre Dame basketball’s first 2025 commit continues, it is being considered by some highly sought-after prospects. One of them is Maryland shooting guard Adrien Stevens, who on Tuesday announced that he has trimmed his list of schools to six. Along with the Irish, the 6-foot, 4-inch and 195-pounder has Tennessee, Marquette, Villanova, Georgetown and Florida State …

Getty Images Klay Thompson is done playing for the Golden State Warriors, but he’s not done as an NBA player and he sounds like he can’t wait to get to work for the Dallas Mavericks. As this new and perhaps final chapter of Thompson’s Hall-of-Fame career begins on a three-year, $50 million contract in Dallas, he told reporters on Tuesday …

Flashback: Relive Tatum’s game-winner in C’s Summer League debut originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Jayson Tatum is no stranger to putting in work during the summer. The Boston Celtics forward is in Vegas this week as a member of the USA Basketball team training for the 2024 Paris Olympics, three years after helping Team USA win a gold medal …

Early last week, the Bucks made their initial salvo of moves to reshape their roster for the 2024–25 season, and they look like pretty good ones. After lacking reliable bench play last season outside of Bobby Portis, they signed combo guard Delon Wright and forward Taurean Prince to minimum contracts (. Both are two-way players who play quality defense, have …

BLOOMINGTON – As expected, Indiana’s 2024-25 nonconference schedule will be headlined by the Hoosiers’ November trip to The Bahamas for the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament. On Tuesday, we learned Atlantis will eat up most of the oxygen on that schedule, period. The program announced its 11-game out-of-conference slate via email and on social media Tuesday. The announcement added little color …

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Dillon Brooks is perhaps USA Basketball’s top opposing villain entering the 2024 Olympics. He feuded with returning Olympian LeBron James during the 2023 NBA playoffs. He’s feuded with first-time Olympian Stephen Curry and his Golden State Warriors for years now. And last summer, with James and Curry watching from home, Brooks scored 39 points to help Canada defeat Team USA …

Ben McCollum, the new head coach of Drake Men’s Basketball, speaks during his introductory press conference Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at the Knapp Center in Des Moines. Drake men’s basketball will be one of eight teams competing in the field of the 2024 Shriners Children’s Charleston Classic, the school announced Tuesday. The Bulldogs join Florida Atlantic, Miami (FL), Nevada, Oklahoma …

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Klay implies Warriors breakup necessary, as he was ready for change originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Klay Thompson finally spoke Tuesday about his surprising Warriors departure. At his Dallas Mavericks’ introductory press conference, sitting alongside fellow free-agent signees Naji Marshall and Quentin Grimes, Thompson provided honest answers about his mindset during a turbulent 2023-24 NBA season and why …

Getty Images Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons have agreed to a five-year maximum rookie extension worth a projected $224 million, his agents told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Tuesday. If he makes an All-NBA team next season, that projection will bump up to $269 million, with a first-year salary that equals 30% of the 2025-26 salary cap. The contract does not …

Breaking up is hard to do. Sometimes, it’s a long time coming. That was the case with Klay Thompson and the Golden State Warriors, who failed to reach agreement on a new contract this offseason after 13 years and four NBA championships together. Now Thompson’s a Dallas Maverick. And he’s ready to turn the page. The Mavericks introduced Thompson alongside …

Gary Trent Jr. is arguably the best player still available on the free-agent market, and he might have already passed on the best offer he will get. Before they made several other transactions, the Toronto Raptors would have re-signed him on a deal that would have paid him an annual salary of around $15 million, but that offer is no …

Indiana basketball went 19-14 and ended the 2023-24 season ranked No. 91 on KenPom, its worst finish since 2010 when the program was still recovering from NCAA sanctions. The consternation after a lost season mixed with an influx of green-laced resources has crescendoed almost flawlessly in the transfer portal. Coach Mike Woodson, armed with a war chest, hit the portal …

How Monk’s Kings re-signing shows NBA can be more than business originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Born and raised more than 2,000 miles away, Malik Monk has found a new home in Sacramento. It was one of the main reasons the Arkansas native decided to take less money elsewhere in NBA free agency and re-sign with the Kings. …

At his introductory press conference on Tuesday, Mikal Bridges told reporters it was “surreal” to reunite with his college teammates Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Donte DiVincenzo on the New York Knicks. Leading up to the blockbuster trade between the Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets, Bridges did not think such a deal would actually happen, he said.  He did, however, …