Yearly Archives: 2024

Warriors Trade Pitch Would Move Haul for Bucks’ Lopez & More

The Golden State Warriors and Milwaukee Bucks find themselves in a tough position. Both winning championships in recent seasons and having a clear superstar good enough to win another championship, the rest of their rosters could use some work. In a proposed trade from Allen Stiles of Bleacher Report, the Bucks and Warriors would help each other out. The deal …

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Celtics’ 2024 NBA Summer League schedule includes game vs. Bronny James

Celtics’ 2024 NBA Summer League schedule includes game vs. Bronny James originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The historic rivalry between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers will extend to the 2024 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas next month. The Lakers, who made headlines Thursday by drafting Bronny James — son of superstar forward LeBron James — with …

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Kansas State agrees with women’s hoops coach Jeff Mittie on new 5-year deal through 2028-29 season

Jeff Mittie MANHATTAN, Kan. — Kansas State and women’s basketball coach Jeff Mittie have agreed to a new five-year contract through the 2028-29 season. Wildcats athletic director Gene Taylor announced the deal. The financial terms were not immediately available. Mittie’s previous contract, which was signed in 2022, would have lasted through the 2025-26 season. Mittie has spent the past 10 …

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Celtics assistant GM gives NBA player comp for Baylor Scheierman

Celtics assistant GM gives NBA player comp for Baylor Scheierman originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The Boston Celtics kept their first-round pick (No. 30 overall) in the 2024 NBA Draft and used it to select Creighton wing Baylor Scheierman. Scheierman is a well-rounded player who averaged 18.5 points, nine rebounds and 3.9 assists per game, while shooting 38.1 percent …

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Way-too-early 2025 NBA Mock Draft: Duke’s Cooper Flagg bucks trend, goes No. 1 ahead of Rutgers’ Ace Bailey

Getty Images A player from France has been selected No. 1 in each of the past two NBA Drafts — first Victor Wembanyama in 2023, then Zaccharie Risacher in 2024. That streak should end next year because, barring a surprise, the first player selected in the 2025 NBA Draft should be Cooper Flagg, the projected one-and-done star at Duke. He’s …

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Brandon Ingram on the trade block? | No Cap Room

Yahoo Sports Senior NBA writer Dan Devine and The Ringer’s Michael Pina look at the value Brandon Ingram brings after reports the Pelicans forward could be available via trade. Hear the full conversation on “No Cap Room” – part of the “Ball Don’t Lie” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript …

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Warriors apply logical draft strategy with championship clock ticking

Warriors apply logical draft strategy with championship clock ticking originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SAN FRANCISCO – There are hundreds of examples, in every major professional sport, of draft-day misjudgment, of flowery self-flattery that in a matter of months turns to regret and, often, an executive losing his job. So, the Warriors on Thursday utilized their limited options …

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Rick Pitino says he has donated to Kentucky football’s NIL, would do the same for Mark Pope and basketball

For close to two decades, Rick Pitino was a villain to Kentucky basketball fans, a man whose life and career had an almost Shakespearean arc. After leading the Wildcats from the depths of scandal to championship glory, and after an ill-fated three-year run with the Boston Celtics, Pitino stunned many nationally and angered hundreds of thousands across the commonwealth by …

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New Team Emerges In Brook Lopez Trade Talks

The Milwaukee Bucks have made it known that they are going to be making some pretty significant changes to their roster. When they were eliminated from the NBA Playoffs following their first-round loss to the Indiana Pacers, the immediate discourse and rumors were that they might trade All-Star point guard Damian Lillard. Of course, the usual Giannis Antetokounmpo rumors started …

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Why Kerr knows every way Steph ‘fits perfectly’ into Team USA

Why Kerr knows every way Steph ‘fits perfectly’ into Team USA originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Steve Kerr still remembers sitting in his new Oakland office a few months after being named the Warriors’ head coach in 2014, watching his backcourt of Steph Curry and Klay Thompson take home gold for Team USA at the FIBA Basketball World …

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Kentucky’s Justin Edwards is first top-3 recruit to go undrafted; can he find NBA redemption on two-way deal?

Justin Edwards went undrafted in the 2024 NBA Draft. The former Kentucky wing is the first top-3 recruit to go undrafted in the history of internet-era recruiting rankings (no top-3 prospect, per the industry-generated 247Sports Composite, had ever fallen out of the first round before Edwards).  Reed Sheppard’s catapult up draft boards to being the No. 3 pick by Houston …

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2024 NBA free agency: Ranking top 30 players, tracking latest news as Immanuel Quickley staying with Raptors

Getty Images The 2024 NBA offseason has officially begun after the Boston Celtics finished off the Dallas Mavericks in the Finals on Monday night. Unlike previous years, the league’s new collective bargaining agreement states that teams are allowed to negotiate with their own players right after the final game of the season.This applies to any player who’s set to hit …

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Former N.C. State star DJ Burns goes undrafted, joins Cavaliers for Summer League after losing 45 pounds

DJ Burns will get a chance to make the Cavaliers. (Photo by Brett Wilhelm/NCAA Photos via Getty Images) DJ Burns has gone from NCAA tournament hero to the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Summer League team. The N.C. State big man went unselected in the 2024 NBA Draft, which concluded with the second round Thursday. Not long after, he was reported by cleveland.com’s …

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Restricted free agent Immanuel Quickley agrees to 5-year, $175 million contract with Raptors: Report

Immanuel Quickley dribbles during the second half of a game at the Scotiabank Arena on April 7, 2024, in Toronto. (Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images) Restricted free agent guard Immanuel Quickley has agreed to terms on a five-year, $175 million contract with the Toronto Raptors, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The 25th pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, Quickley spent …

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2024 NBA free agency top-20 rankings

No league does the offseason like the NBA. The Association gave us the first two-day draft just over a week after the Finals ended, and now we can look ahead to free agency, which is just days away. The NBA’s free agency period begins Sunday, June 30 at 6:00 p.m ET, and we’re in for an exciting flurry of moves. …

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