[ad_1] The Chicago Bulls were a very active team in free agency, adding key depth pieces and retaining their own players as well. They brought in Jevon Carter and Torrey Craig to help solidify their bench and re-signed Coby White, Ayo Dosunmu, and, most importantly, big man Nikola Vucevic. Vucevic earned himself a three-year, $60 million extension with Chicago. The …

[ad_1] When the Golden State Warriors acquired Chris Paul in a trade with the Washington Wizards at the start of free agency, it was a short-term move designed to boost their chances of winning a championship in the coming season. Paul has two years remaining on his current deal and is set to earn $30.8 million this season, while his …

[ad_1] The NBA Players Association issued a statement saying it was “alarming” that the Orlando Magic donated $50,000 to a super PAC supporting Ron DeSantis for president, “given recent comments and policies of its beneficiary.” The statement, which was posted Thursday on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, by the basketball players union, continued: “NBA governors, players and personnel …

[ad_1] John Lauro, the attorney helming the sprawling criminal defense of former President Donald Trump, has recently taken up a civil rape lawsuit against basketball player Josh Jackson, the No. 4 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft. In a civil case filed last month in U.S. District Court, a woman accused Jackson of sexually assaulting her after they met at …

[ad_1] 5 things analytics say about Danilo Gallinari’s game originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington One of the unknowns for the Wizards entering next season is what they can expect from Danilo Gallinari, a proven veteran but one coming off a torn ACL. He did not play at all last season with the Celtics and was then shipped to D.C. …

[ad_1] FLORENCE, Italy − Guard Cameron Carr and forward Cade Phillips won’t play for Tennessee basketball against the Lithuania U21 national team Friday in Florence. The freshmen joined Zakai Zeigler on the injured list for UT’s first game of its international tour in Italy. Zeigler is recovering from ACL surgery following his torn ACL on Feb,. 28 against Arkansas. Carr …

[ad_1] August commemorates the league looking ahead to the following season as schedules begin to get announced. With rosters mostly settled, teams prepare to begin the 2023-24 season. With the league in its quietest part of the calendar year, the Oklahoma City Thunder officially announced the entire 2023-24 preseason schedule. The Thunder will play five preseason games from Oct. 9 …

[ad_1] At 20 years old, Jabari Smith Jr. remains one of the youngest players on the Houston Rockets by age. Despite having a year of NBA experience under his belt, during which he earned All-Rookie Second Team honors, Smith is actually younger than newly drafted rookie Amen Thompson (No. 4 overall pick of the 2023 first round). That gives Smith, …

[ad_1] The Brooklyn Nets announced on Thursday that they signed free-agent forward Trendon Watford to a standard non-guaranteed NBA contract. Watford is now one of a few free-agent signings that Brooklyn has made as it looks to make it to the playoffs next season and try to get out of the first round. Watford will most likely come to the …

[ad_1] Star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown recently secured the title of the player with the richest contract in the history of the NBA through a groundbreaking supermax contract extension worth up to $304 million over the course of five seasons. There has been plenty of sticker shock and perhaps nearly as much confusion about why the Celtics would offer …

[ad_1] Clippers rookie forward Kobe Brown learned a lot watching Kobe Bryant and the Lakers while growing up, but his father wanted to him to tailor his game around Magic Johnson’s playing style. (Jamie Squire / Getty Images) The basketball game that changed Greg Brown’s life and set the course for that of his oldest son came on a winter …

[ad_1] The 2012-13 season was a disastrous one for the Los Angeles Lakers. They went into it thinking they had assembled a superteam after trading for Dwight Howard and Steve Nash and adding them to a lineup that already featured Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol. But instead of winning another NBA championship, the Lakers’ season dissolved before their eyes amidst …

[ad_1] The Boston Celtics have more retired jerseys than any other team in the NBA, but that doesn’t mean the rest of their jerseys have little history of interest tied to them. In fact, with 17 titles to their name and decades of competitive basketball played in them, their unretired jersey numbers pack in some of the most history not …

[ad_1] Montrezl Harrell After tearing his ACL and meniscus in a summer workout, it’s highly unlikely that Montrezl Harrell will play for the 76ers this season. That doesn’t mean Philly is dumping him. The 76ers plan to keep Harrell around for a specific reason, reports Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer. But keeping Harrell on the roster makes sense for …

[ad_1] The Brooklyn Nets have made their picks in the 2023 NBA Draft and have seen most of those players in action while signing some vital free-agents for the team’s playoff aspirations next season. With training camp months away, it may be time to explore a possibility for the Nets to get better if a certain player is available. In …

[ad_1] Final in a four-part series on former Marquette star and NBA great Dwyane Wade as he prepares to be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Aug. 12.  Since he left Marquette, Dwyane Wade has ascended into a global celebrity. He was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by People Magazine …

[ad_1] While he is now a member of the Dallas Mavericks after leaving the Boston Celtics in free agency, former Celtics reserve forward Grant Williams still looks back at his time in Boston fondly. The Charlotte native recently sat down with Celtics short-timer Theo Pinson on his Tidal League “Run Your Race” podcast to reminisce about some recent high points …

[ad_1] Q: Hello, Ira. I’m confident that sooner or later Damian Lillard will be traded to the Miami Heat. I’m sure the front office for the Heat knows which current Heat players are most likely to be included in the trade. Being that the Heat are already over the cap, current free agents know that they’d have to take the …

[ad_1] During a recent event, Boston Celtics star forward Jayson Tatum was asked about who he thought the next face of the NBA might be, considering the aging of some prominent players of the league today rapidly approaching the end of their primes, some of them already past it. Ever the diplomat, the St. Louis native had an expansive response …

[ad_1] Kansas basketball head coach Bill Self was back on the sideline Thursday, as the Jayhawks won 106-71 against a Puerto Rico Select Team during an exhibition matchup held in Puerto Rico. Self had missed the Jayhawks’ Big 12 Conference tournament and NCAA tournament games at the end of the 2022-23 season due to a health scare. But he continued …

[ad_1] New starting Boston Celtics point guard Derrick White recently sat down with ESPN’s Malika Andrews to discuss his basketball journey to Boston and the upcoming season. From his game-winning buzzer-beater in the Eastern Conference Finals vs. the Miami Heat in the 2023 NBA Playoffs to White’s role on the team next season, the duo covered a lot of ground. …

[ad_1] On this day in Boston Celtics history, the team signed Hall of Fame big man Shaquille “Shaq” Rashaun O’Neal to the final stint of his storied career.  The Newark, New Jersey native was enticed by the principal owner of the Celtics Wyc Grousbeck, who used O’Neal’s rivalry with Kobe Bryant over the number of banners each had won to …

[ad_1] It used to be true that if a basketball player went undrafted, he had two chances of making it in the NBA: slim and none. But that has changed over the last few years, as a handful of undrafted men have become viable NBA players. One great example is Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves, who had a promising …

[ad_1] In a recent interview with radio legend “Big Boy,” Steph Curry was asked an interesting question. The four-time NBA champ with the Golden State Warriors was asked who he would give one of his rings to for a player from NBA history that never won a championship.  Before revealing the two players he would give a ring to, Curry took a …

[ad_1] There has been a surprising amount of gripes over the size of star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown’s historic, $304 million supermax contract extension, but when it comes down to it, are there other teams in the NBA that would have handled the Georgia native’s extension differently? After Brown qualified for the contract slot worth between 31 and 35% …