“Exciting” would not be the word we’d use to describe the upcoming 2024 NBA Draft.  Unlike recent years, the 2024 draft lacks elite players and compelling storylines to keep fans engaged (Sorry, Rich Paul). This makes it easy for basketball lovers to tune out the mundane coverage of this subpar draft. However, in doing so, they miss nuanced decisions that …

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Getty Images Former NBA player Chase Budinger is headed to the 2024 Paris Olympics, but he is doing so on sand instead of hardwood. Budinger and teammate Miles Evans will be one of two men’s beach volleyball teams to represent the United States this summer. Budinger and Evans qualified for the Olympic team after Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner failed …

LAWRENCE — Although at first it appeared as if Elmarko Jackson might have avoided serious injury Tuesday, that turned out not to be the case. During a play at the end of a scrimmage with his teammates at a local basketball camp, Jackson suffered what was described in a Kansas basketball release Wednesday as a torn patellar tendon. The guard is …

Kyrie doesn’t seem concerned about C’s fans ahead of Game 1 in Boston originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Kyrie Irving has come a long way from flipping off Boston Celtics fans and stomping on the TD Garden logo, it appears. The Dallas Mavericks star is set to play his third postseason series against the Celtics since spurning Boston in …

Now would be a good time for Jeffrey Kessler to call it quits. The 69-year-old father of two and grandfather of four has hit the ultimate legal walk-off. By force of his will, experience and smarts he has taken down an entire industry – college sports. Or at least reshaped it.  Through his efforts, the NCAA lies in shambles after …

Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving reached the 30-point mark three times in five games against Minnesota during the Western Conference finals, and he will try to maintain that momentum against the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the 2024 NBA Finals on Thursday. Irving had 36 points, five assists and four rebounds in the series-clinching win over the Timberwolves, finishing without …

The state of Pennsylvania’s top recruit for the 2025 recruiting cycle was impressed with his recent visit to Auburn. Meleek Thomas, a five-star shooting guard from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, traveled south to Auburn for his official visit recently and was pleased with Bruce Pearl’s desire to win. He also learned plenty about Auburn’s culture. In a follow-up interview with On3’s Jamie …

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Draymond predicts how Celtics-Mavericks Finals series plays out originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Game 1 of a thrilling NBA Finals matchup between the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks kicks off Wednesday at TD Garden. The experts, including Warriors forward Draymond Green, have made their picks. On the latest episode of “The Draymond Green Show” podcast, Green made his …

John Calipari will face the school that knocked his Kentucky team out of the NCAA Tournament last March. Arkansas will host the Oakland Grizzlies as part of the Razorbacks’ 2024-25 non-conference schedule, according to a report from college basketball analyst Rocco Miller. The game will be December 30 at Bud Walton Arena, Miller shared in a social media post to …

Projected lottery pick Nikola Topić, a potential top-five prospect in the 2024 NBA Draft, has been diagnosed with a partially torn ACL in his left knee after suffering an injury late in May during Adriatic League playoff action, his agent told ESPN. Topić sustained the injury May 27 vs. Partizan in an aggravation from a previous left knee injury from …

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Ahead of the tipoff for Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night, let’s take a deep dive into what this championship series will mean for the legacies of so many of the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks. We talk a lot about legacies in basketball, probably too much, but the NBA Finals have an actual impact on how …

The Boston Celtics started the NBA’s superteam boom in the summer of 2007 when they united Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett with Paul Pierce to create a 66-win champion overnight. In the process, they established a rough blueprint of what we considered to be a superteam moving forward.  At least one superstar needed to be acquired through external means. In …

SNY’s Ian Begley will be responding to and breaking down answers to Knicks questions from readers. Here’s the latest… Hey Ian, do you think the Knicks would use at least 1 of their draft picks this offseason to get a young prospect or do you think they’ll end up trading all 3 picks (if you had to guess)? – @KNYT_Hoops …

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The 2024 NBA Finals have arrived. Game 1 is set for Thursday night. Dallas at Boston. The Celtics are the favorites, but most people, myself included, see this as more of a tossup series than that number would indicate.  I think this goes down as a classic series. I have the Mavericks in seven, but even if it’s Celtics in …

Head coach John Calipari and the Arkansas Razorbacks will reportedly host Oakland as part of the 2024-25 non-conference schedule, according to a report from Rocco Miller. Based out of Auburn Hills, Michigan, the Oakland Golden Grizzlies eliminated Calipari and the 3-seed Kentucky Wildcats from the NCAA Tournament on March 21 behind Jack Gohlke’s 10 made three-pointers. The Razorbacks are 2-0 …

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Giannis for the Bucks. Steph for the Warriors. Jokic for the Nuggets. The last three NBA championships have been built by finding the diamonds in the rough on draft night. This year, either the Boston Celtics’ Jayson Tatum or the Dallas Mavericks’ Luka Doncic will add to that list, but with an added variable: this season’s NBA Finals champion will …

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Barring any unforeseen changes, the Arkansas basketball roster is set for the upcoming season. In a surprising twist, Trevon Brazile announced his intention to return to the Razorbacks on Tuesday. Brazile declared for the NBA Draft and entered the transfer portal earlier this offseason, but he will instead play for John Calipari in the head coach’s inaugural …

How Luka Doncic developed his clutch gene at Celtics’ expense originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The NBA Finals formula for the Celtics is pretty simple: Don’t give Luka Doncic a chance to beat them. For an opponent Boston only sees twice a year, Doncic has put a hurting on the C’s in crunch time. It’s possible no opponent has …

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, …

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