Stephen A. Smith fires back at Jaylen Brown after Team USA snub originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Jaylen Brown opened the door Wednesday, and Stephen A. Smith happily stepped through. After Team USA tabbed Boston Celtics guard Derrick White as Kawhi Leonard’s replacement for its 2024 Paris Olympics squad, Brown reacted with a pair of social posts suggesting he …

The news on NCAA Tournament expansion is … there is no news. The NCAA men’s basketball committee wrapped its annual summer meetings on Wednesday and didn’t move closer to a decision on whether to expand the NCAA Tournament, sources told CBS Sports. The topic was discussed at length Tuesday and remains up for debate for many reasons, arguably the biggest …

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Three Boston Celtics are playing for Team USA at the Paris Olympics. Jaylen Brown, widely considered the team’s second-best player, is not among them. It didn’t seem like much of a slight when the rosters were initially announced. The star-studded group had to make cuts somewhere when LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant all surprisingly agreed to play following …

Among the targets on Hubert Davis and the North Carolina Tar Heels’ 2025 recruiting big board is five-star forward Nate Ament. The Tar Heels joined the recruitment a little late for the forward, offering him in May after watching him for months. Davis and his staff eventually liked what they saw in him to extend the offer and now the …

Steph puts on Team USA show but sees simplicity as best path to gold originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area LAS VEGAS – Steph Curry’s superhero cape became torn, tattered and worn down to its final threads the last few seasons, carrying the Warriors to a fourth NBA championship in 2022 but seeing the franchise’s sovereignty fall by the …

Louisville men’s basketball head coach Pat Kelsey has described his offensive philosophy as being rooted in randomness. His up-tempo teams have had a calling card over the years, however; and it’s very much by design. They’ve liked to shoot 3-pointers — a lot of them. That’s not going to change anytime soon. In a video the Cardinals posted to X, …

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LAS VEGAS — There are precious days between now and the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, and it appears like the United States men’s basketball team couldn’t afford to wait on Kawhi Leonard to ramp it up to get to full strength. USMNT managing director Grant Hill intimated as much in a media session before the team’s exhibition …

Yahoo Sports senior NBA Vincent Goodwill reports from Las Vegas on the men’s national team’s performance in Thursday night’s exhibition – its final stateside game before continuing its preparations for Paris. View more Video Transcript The biggest takeaway from the United States exhibition game against Canada Sloppiness. Very sloppy the turnovers, the five man units, Joel and B getting in …

The last time Team USA stepped on the court in a major tournament, it lost a 127-118 thriller against Canada for the bronze medal at the FIBA World Cup. That loss compelled many of the best players in the world, including LeBron James and Stephen Curry, to suit up for Team USA in the 2024 Olympics. Fittingly, their journey to …

Grant Hill explains why Team USA tabbed Derrick White over Jaylen originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston LAS VEGAS — After Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown appeared to express some frustration with being ignored for an open roster spot on Team USA, managing director Grant Hill did his best to explain Wednesday why Brown’s teammate Derrick White was the ideal …

Mychal Thompson shares only regret from son Klay’s Warriors tenure originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Some NBA fans loved them. Most fans hated them. Regardless of where fans stood on the Kevin Durant-era Warriors, one thing was certain: that team was historically good. Durant only stayed in Golden State for three seasons, but it’s hard not to wonder …

One Michigan State player has been included in a preseason list of top sophomores entering the 2024-25 season. Can you name which former McDonald’s All-American it is? Jeremy Fears Jr. was listed as the No. 19 player among best sophomores entering the 2024-25 college basketball season. He was the only Spartan to make the list, with many (including myself) wondering …

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Forsberg: Jaylen will be ‘supremely motivated’ by Team USA snub originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Even after earning Eastern Conference Finals MVP and NBA Finals MVP honors, Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown has a chip on his shoulder. Brown was surprisingly left off Team USA’s roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics despite coming off the best season of his …

Canada’s first Olympic men’s basketball team since 2000 includes 10 NBA players, a record for any nation other than the U.S. The team is headlined by a backcourt tandem: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, an All-NBA First Teamer for the Oklahoma City Thunder, and Jamal Murray, the point guard for the 2023 NBA champion Denver Nuggets. The other NBA players are Nickeil Alexander-Walker …

KATIE STRATMAN FOR THE ENQUIRER-USA TODAY NETWORK As college basketball coaches scramble over the next few weeks trying to secure top talent in the all-important month of July, we take a look at four 2025 commitments over the last two weeks that could pay off big in the long run. All four prospects currently fall outside of the top 50 …

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By Raphielle Johnson As is always the case with the NBA, it doesn’t take much time for the league to transition from the end of one season to the beginning of the next. With the draft completed and many of the significant moves in free agency made, the next stop on the calendar is the NBA 2K25 Summer League in …

LAS VEGAS – With the U.S. men’s basketball team standing behind him, former President Barack Obama delivered a 10-minute speech about the importance of representing the United States. At USA Basketball’s 50th anniversary party Tuesday night, Obama, whose attendance was a surprise to most in the room, opened his message by telling the audience that there is no bigger basketball …

Jaylen’s post after Derrick White’s Team USA nod raises eyebrows originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Kawhi Leonard’s withdrawal from Team USA opened the door for a Boston Celtics star to join teammates Jayson Tatum and Jrue Holiday at the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer. But it’s not All-Star and NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown. USA Basketball confirmed at noon …

Jimmy Butler, Roquan Smith bringing new music venue, bar to Chicago originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago A former Bulls player and a former Bears player appear poised to join forces to help bring a new multipurpose music venue, restaurant and bar to Chicago. Both Jimmy Butler and Roquan Smith are listed on a social media post from new business …

Memphis basketball will host Arkansas State on Dec. 8 at FedExForum. The Red Wolves announced the matchup on social media on Wednesday. It’ll be the 18th matchup between the two teams, with Memphis having won 13 of the first 17. In the last matchup, in 2020, Memphis earned an 83-54 win at FedExForum. Arkansas State hasn’t beaten Memphis since a …

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