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Dub Nation bestows splashy nickname on new Steph-Buddy backcourt originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Now that the dust has settled on the Buddy Hield sign-and-trade deal, Warriors fans have given the new Golden State backcourt duo a fitting nickname. While Steph Curry and the recently departed Klay Thompson were known as the Splash Brothers, fans have dubbed the …

Report: Kings ‘team to watch’ for DeRozan sign-and-trade with Bulls originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The Kings have been mostly quiet this NBA offseason, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t putting in the work behind the scenes to land a big-name star. Sacramento has been having conversations around a potential DeMar DeRozan sign-and-trade deal with the Chicago Bulls, …

Franz Wagner and the Orlando Magic have agreed to a five-year contract extension, per ESPN and The Athletic. The extension will pay Wagner approximately $224 million, and that number could be even higher if he takes a leap forward next season. If Wagner makes an All-NBA team in 2024-25, then the extension will start at 30% of the following season’s …

Indiana Pacers v New York Knicks – Game Five The Knicks have expanded the Mikal Bridges/Bojan Bogdanovic trade by adding in a sign-and-trade of Shame Milton to Brooklyn, which is a clever bit of salary cap management by New York that frees it up to make future moves. The news of the expanded trade and Milton going to Brooklyn was …

Franz Wagner, who was selected eighth overall by the Orlando Magic in 2021, has re-signed with the team. (Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images) Franz Wagner is staying in Orlando. On Friday, the German forward signed a massive five-year, $224 million contract extension that will keep him with the Orlando Magic for the near future, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The deal, …

Report: How Hield turns Klay sign-and-trade into five-team deal originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The Warriors lost a franchise icon this offseason as Klay Thompson opted to join the Dallas Mavericks in NBA free agency, but their return hasn’t been shortcoming. Golden State reportedly agreed to contracts with Kyle Anderson and Buddy Hield, which capped off the Thompson …

Matisse Thybulle will not play for Australia at the 2024 Olympics. Thybulle is healthy and wanted to play for the Boomers at the Paris Games, but, when the coaching staff finalized the roster on Thursday, they cut him, per ESPN Australia’s Olgun Uluc. The final roster includes: eight current NBA players (Dyson Daniels, Dante Exum, Josh Giddey, Josh Green, Joe …

Steph unsurprisingly is first Team USA player to report to camp originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area In typical Steph Curry fashion, the Warriors superstar was the first person to report to Team USA training camp in Las Vegas this week. Curry, who is bracing for his first Olympics to represent his country this summer in Paris, arrived to …

Matisse Thybulle will not play for Australia at the 2024 Olympics. Thybulle is healthy and wanted to play for the Boomers at the Paris Games, but, when the coaching staff finalized the roster on Thursday, they cut him, per ESPN Australia’s Olgun Uluc. The final roster includes: eight current NBA players (Dyson Daniels, Dante Exum, Josh Giddey, Josh Green, Joe …

The Knicks had a whirlwind of an offseason, shocking the NBA world by trading for Mikal Bridges, but now recovering from losing Isaiah Hartenstein in free agency. Although it’s not over yet, we largely have an idea of what the top teams in the East will look like, and can analyze how the Knicks stack up with them. First, let’s …

The Golden State Warriors continued their quietly strong summer with a sign-and-trade with the Sixers for Buddy Hield on Thursday, replacing, at least one paper, some of the shooting hole left by the departure of franchise legend Klay Thompson.  You might be surprised to hear this, but the only player to make more 3-pointers than Hield’s 1,924 since 2016-17 (Hield’s …

Anderson shares photos of himself in Warriors jersey as a kid originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Kyle Anderson’s arrival to the Bay Area was a lifetime in the making. On Thursday, the 30-year-old free-agent forward, who reportedly will sign a three-year, $27 million contract with Golden State, shared pictures of himself as a kid, wearing a retro Warriors …

Report: Celtics have interest in bringing back Oshae Brissett originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The Boston Celtics are bringing back 11 of the 12 players who averaged the most minutes per game on the team from the 2023-24 championship season. The only player in that group not under contract for the 2024-25 campaign is Oshae Brissett, but the door …

New Orleans Pelicans v Brooklyn Nets With Paul George and Klay Thompson having found new homes, options for teams trying to find more shot creation and shooting are drying up. This is why Utah is getting more calls about Lauri Markkanen and why interest in DeMar DeRozan appears to be picking up. That also applies to the Pelicans’ Brandon Ingram, …

Former Atlanta Hawks head coach Nate McMillan is one of two former head coaches the Lakers have hired to be top assistants on JJ Redick’s staff. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) JJ Redick will be leading the Los Angeles Lakers as a first-time head coach this year, but he won’t be muddling through alone. The Lakers are hiring two former …

Los Angeles Lakers 2024 Draft Portraits Bronny James is getting a real chance. The No. 55 pick in the NBA draft has agreed to a four-year, $7.9 million contract with the Lakers, the final year of which is a team option, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic. This is a minimum rookie contract. Bronny James has signed his rookie contract …

Atlanta Hawks v New Orleans Pelicans The plan from the start was to ensure that rookie coach J.J. Redick — who poked fun at his own lack of experience at his introductory press conference — was surrounded by experience. Mission accomplished. Two former NBA players turned head coaches — Scott Brooks and Nate McMillan — have been hired as part …

To some, it might appear as if the Los Angeles Lakers should hang a banner that reads “Mission Accomplished” for their 2024 summer. After all, they hired JJ Redick as their new head coach and drafted Bronny James, the son of a certain LeBron, which was what most Lakers fans seemed to be the most interested in. (They should be …

NBA: San Antonio Spurs at Utah Jazz “I think it’s clear that Lauri Markkanen is a pretty good player. We love him. We’d like to have him around.” “I think that our objective is to find a player or two and we’re ready to roll. We’re ready to go big game hunting, and that hasn’t happened in the last two …

The Knicks are sending Shake Milton and Mamadi Diakite to the Nets to finalize the Mikal Bridges trade, a move that will allow them to avoid a $178 million hard cap of their team salary, sources say. New York will send Milton to Brooklyn in a sign and trade. Milton will sign a three-year deal worth $3 million in the …

2024 SoFi Play-In Tournament – Golden State Warriors v Sacramento Kings LeBron James called, pitched him personally, and was willing to take a $16 million (or maybe larger) discount to bring him home to Southern California. Then Lakers GM Rob Pelinka called with the ultimate sign of NBA respect: Money. Los Angeles would offer four years, $80 million to the …

Agent Rich Paul pushes back on Zach LaVine slander originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Presented by Nationwide Insurance Agent Jeff Vukovich The entire NBA knows that the Chicago Bulls are shopping two-time All-Star guard Zach LaVine. It’s been a storyline for months, if not years. And the longer it drags on, the potential for messiness increases. Fingers can get …

NBA: Memphis Grizzlies at Philadelphia 76ers Golden State watched 17.9 points a game and a 38.7% 3-point shooter — one especially dangerous on catch-and-shoot 3s — head to Dallas in the form of Klay Thompson. Enter Buddy Hield, who shot 38.6% from 3 last season (scoring 12.1 points a game), and is known for being particularly dangerous on catch-and-shoot attempts. …

The Knicks signed first-round draft pick Pacome Dadiet to 80 percent of a standard first-round contract on Thursday after paying $850,000 to Ratiopharm Ulm, Dadiet’s German club, as part of a buyout, per SNY’s Ian Begley. The deal saves New York roughly $900,000 under the 2024-25 hard cap because the buyout paid overseas doesn’t count towards the team’s salary. Dadiet …

Sixers send Hield to Warriors in sign-and-trade, acquire 2nd-round pick originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Buddy Hield is off to the Warriors and the Sixers are receiving a second-round pick as part of the deal. The team acquired the Mavericks’ 2031 second-rounder in a sign-and-trade sending Hield to Golden State, a source confirmed Thursday to NBC Sports Philadelphia. The …