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Always draft the best player, regardless of position, then figure out the rest later. Always. That brings us to Vlade Divac, the Hall of Fame basketball player who spent five years as the Sacramento Kings general manager. As he has done before and will have to until his dying days, Divac defended his 2018 choice of drafting Marvin Bagley III …

How Steph’s Olympics showing ‘inspired’ Kuminga entering vital season originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The upcoming 2024-25 NBA season is a big one for Jonathan Kuminga. It’s his fourth year with the Warriors, who soon will have to make a decision on extending their 2021 first-round draft pick. With training camp less than two weeks away, Kuminga highlighted …

Joel Embiid won the Paris 2024 Olympics with the United States [Getty Images] Centre Joel Embiid has signed a contract extension with the Philadelphia 76ers. The 30-year-old Cameroon-born player’s new contract is for the maximum three years and worth $193m (£145m), according to US reports. The 2023 NBA Most Valuable Player has been at the Sixers since the 2014 NBA …

Bruce Brown, who was slowed by a lingering knee issue at the end of last season, has undergone an arthroscopic surgical procedure on his right knee, the team announced. Brown will be re-evaluated in three weeks, although it likely will be a month at least before we see him on the court again. That timeline would have Brown missing most, …

NBA Fantasy Rookies Who Could Surprise in Year 1 The 2024 draft class has been widely criticized, but it will impact the fantasy landscape. The worst rookie class of the last 20 years, 2013-14, produced three players who finished with a theoretically roster-worthy fantasy rank (there are 156 players rostered in a standard league, so players who ranked at or …

New Jersey Nets’ Vince Carter goes to the net during a game Next month, Vince Carter will be formally inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame — a worthy inclusion. Come Jan. 25, the Brooklyn Nets will retire Carter’s No. 15 jersey, something the club announced back in May but formally set the date for this week. “We are …

Which is your favorite center for the 2024-25 fantasy basketball season. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post) The 2024-25 NBA season is fast approaching, so in conjunction with my latest points and category fantasy basketball rankings dropping, it’s time to dig into my position-by-position tiers. I’ve covered the point guards, shooting guards, small forwards and power forwards earlier this week, …

Philadephia’s championship dreams start with Joel Embiid being an unparalleled dominant force in the paint. Which is why the 76ers have locked him up for the next five years. In a move widely expected, the 76ers agreed to a three-year, $192.9 million max contract extension, locking him in with the 76ers for five years at a total of $299.5 million. …

What has been an unrivaled, wildly popular WNBA season now heads to its brightest spotlight — the playoffs. The New York Liberty have been the best team in the W all season, but the two-time defending champion Las Vegas Aces have put it together lately behind A’Ja Wilson, who is about to win her third MVP award, and are a …

By Raphielle Johnson The 2024-25 NBA season is a little over one month away, making this prime time for fantasy managers to prepare for their drafts. Rotoworld will have articles dropping throughout this time, beginning with fantasy-related thoughts on every team. Next up in our division-by-division previews is the Southwest Division. After a few seasons in which Denver’s Nikola Jokic …

Joel Embiid won the NBA’s MVP award in 2023. (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images) The Philadelphia 76ers have signed center Joel Embiid to a reported three-year, $193 million extension, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Embiid, according to ESPN’s Tim Bontemps, will decline his $59 million player option for the 2026-27 season and sign this new $193 million extension. This …

Joel Embiid signs 3-year, $192.9 million extension with Sixers: Report originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Add a few more years to the Sixers’ longest-tenured contract. Superstar center Joel Embiid has agreed on a three-year, approximately $192.9 million extension with the team that runs through the 2028-29 season, ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne reported Friday morning. The seven-time All-Star is set to …

2024 NBA All-Star – NBA All-Star Game Oscar Robertson was a force of nature in college at Cincinnati — the team lost nine games total in his three seasons. He averaged 33.8 points per game in college and won the national scoring title each of his three years, led Cincy to two Final Fours, and his senior year was named …

Report: Warriors add two players on Exhibit 10 contracts originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The Warriors have filled out their roster ahead of training camp opening on Tuesday, Oct. 1 in Hawaii. Forwards Javan Johnson and Donta Scott agreed to Exhibit 10 contract with the Warriors, Hoops Hype’s Michael Scotto reported Tuesday, citing league sources. The additions of …

How much will Nick Nurse lean on Sixers’ older players in 2024-25? originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The 2024-25 Sixers will begin training camp on Oct. 1 in the Bahamas. As that date approaches, we’ll dive into several significant topics for the team in Nick Nurse’s second season as head coach. We’ve looked so far at what the Sixers will be …

A’ja Wilson, after setting a pair of all-time scoring marks already this season, has now broken the league’s single-season rebounding record. (Ian Maule/Getty Images) Another game, another record for Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson. The WNBA MVP frontrunner, just minutes into the Aces’ 85-72 win over the Seattle Storm on Tuesday night, broke the league’s single-season rebounding record. That …

Few players can tilt a fantasy basketball matchup more than Giannis Antetokounmpo. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images) The 2024-25 NBA season is fast approaching, so in conjunction with my latest points and category fantasy basketball rankings dropping, it’s time to dig into my position-by-position tiers. I’ve covered the point guards, shooting guards and small forwards, so next up are the …

By Noah Rubin The 2024-25 NBA season is a little over one month away, making this prime time for fantasy managers to prepare for their drafts. Rotoworld will have articles dropping throughout this time, beginning with fantasy-related thoughts on every team. Next up in our division-by-division previews is the Pacific Division. While the Lakers couldn’t make any significant moves, that …

A U.S. District Court judge in California has dismissed a federal lawsuit against Knicks owner James Dolan, a suit that accused him of sexual assault and sex trafficking in 2013. The lawsuit had been filed earlier this year, and the judge’s ruling came down on Tuesday, with ESPN’s Baxter Holmes breaking the news. The former plaintiff, Kellye Croft, alleged she …

Warriors have multiple paths to properly celebrating franchise icons originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Sometime in the foreseeable future, perhaps by 2030, the folks calling the shots for the Golden State Warriors will begin the process of retiring jerseys and putting up statues outside Chase Center. It will be fun, a dream come true for the team’s elite …

Sunday seemed like a great day for Mike Conley. The Minnesota Timberwolves guard was a guest of honor at the Vikings game and got to sound the Gjallarhorn pregame as Minnesota went on to upset San Francisco in a key early-season result. Then Conley got home and found his house had been burglarized. From Paul Walsh of the Minnesota Star …

Ramp to Camp: Final(s) predictions for how Celtics’ season will end originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston During his appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last week, Boston Celtics superstar Jayson Tatum offered a prediction for the 2025 NBA Finals, suggesting that Boston and Dallas will meet again on the championship stage. So, for the 14th and final …

Trinity Rodman takes Steph’s ‘night night’ celebration to next level originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Superstar Warriors guard Steph Curry’s signature “night night” celebration has left its native hardwood and reached the pitch. American soccer star Trinity Rodman hit Curry’s celebration Saturday after striking a 46th-minute goal from just outside the box to put her NWSL Washington Spirit …

How Warriors’ summer of discovery shaped franchise’s greatness originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Inasmuch as the Warriors not so long ago were a microscopic dot on the national sports landscape with a loyal but seemingly cursed fan base, their rise to global phenomenon and, the most valuable team in the NBA is the most stunning in recent American …

This embedded content is not available in your region. Subscribe to Ball Don’t Lie On a very special episode of Devine Intervention, Yahoo Sports senior NBA writer Dan Devine is joined by Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter (and co-host of No Cap Room) Jake Fischer. It’s the payoff to what he, and what many of the listeners, have been asking …