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Yahoo Sports senior NBA writer Jake Fischer explains why he’s excited to see the Grizzlies rookie starting this week in Las Vegas. 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 Zach Edie was not great in Canada’s …

Getty Images LeBron James will be starring for Team USA in the 2024 Paris Olympics later this month. While basketball is his first love, the Los Angeles Lakers star revealed that there’s another Olympic sport that he’d love to participate in if given the chance. During an interview with Craig Melvin of “TODAY,” James stated that he would be interested …

We brought you the NBA’s seven worst contracts of the summer, so what would we be if we did not bring you the seven best? We would be the worst. And we obviously are not the worst. We are the best at this. Listen: It is hard being right about every contract. It makes every general manager around the league …

Stephen A. Smith fires back at Jaylen Brown after Team USA snub originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Jaylen Brown opened the door Wednesday, and Stephen A. Smith happily stepped through. After Team USA tabbed Boston Celtics guard Derrick White as Kawhi Leonard’s replacement for its 2024 Paris Olympics squad, Brown reacted with a pair of social posts suggesting he …

Three Boston Celtics are playing for Team USA at the Paris Olympics. Jaylen Brown, widely considered the team’s second-best player, is not among them. It didn’t seem like much of a slight when the rosters were initially announced. The star-studded group had to make cuts somewhere when LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant all surprisingly agreed to play following …

Steph puts on Team USA show but sees simplicity as best path to gold originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area LAS VEGAS – Steph Curry’s superhero cape became torn, tattered and worn down to its final threads the last few seasons, carrying the Warriors to a fourth NBA championship in 2022 but seeing the franchise’s sovereignty fall by the …

LAS VEGAS — There are precious days between now and the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, and it appears like the United States men’s basketball team couldn’t afford to wait on Kawhi Leonard to ramp it up to get to full strength. USMNT managing director Grant Hill intimated as much in a media session before the team’s exhibition …

Yahoo Sports senior NBA Vincent Goodwill reports from Las Vegas on the men’s national team’s performance in Thursday night’s exhibition – its final stateside game before continuing its preparations for Paris. View more Video Transcript The biggest takeaway from the United States exhibition game against Canada Sloppiness. Very sloppy the turnovers, the five man units, Joel and B getting in …

The last time Team USA stepped on the court in a major tournament, it lost a 127-118 thriller against Canada for the bronze medal at the FIBA World Cup. That loss compelled many of the best players in the world, including LeBron James and Stephen Curry, to suit up for Team USA in the 2024 Olympics. Fittingly, their journey to …

Grant Hill explains why Team USA tabbed Derrick White over Jaylen originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston LAS VEGAS — After Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown appeared to express some frustration with being ignored for an open roster spot on Team USA, managing director Grant Hill did his best to explain Wednesday why Brown’s teammate Derrick White was the ideal …

Mychal Thompson shares only regret from son Klay’s Warriors tenure originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Some NBA fans loved them. Most fans hated them. Regardless of where fans stood on the Kevin Durant-era Warriors, one thing was certain: that team was historically good. Durant only stayed in Golden State for three seasons, but it’s hard not to wonder …

Forsberg: Jaylen will be ‘supremely motivated’ by Team USA snub originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Even after earning Eastern Conference Finals MVP and NBA Finals MVP honors, Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown has a chip on his shoulder. Brown was surprisingly left off Team USA’s roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics despite coming off the best season of his …

Canada’s first Olympic men’s basketball team since 2000 includes 10 NBA players, a record for any nation other than the U.S. The team is headlined by a backcourt tandem: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, an All-NBA First Teamer for the Oklahoma City Thunder, and Jamal Murray, the point guard for the 2023 NBA champion Denver Nuggets. The other NBA players are Nickeil Alexander-Walker …

By Raphielle Johnson As is always the case with the NBA, it doesn’t take much time for the league to transition from the end of one season to the beginning of the next. With the draft completed and many of the significant moves in free agency made, the next stop on the calendar is the NBA 2K25 Summer League in …

Jaylen’s post after Derrick White’s Team USA nod raises eyebrows originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Kawhi Leonard’s withdrawal from Team USA opened the door for a Boston Celtics star to join teammates Jayson Tatum and Jrue Holiday at the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer. But it’s not All-Star and NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown. USA Basketball confirmed at noon …

Jimmy Butler, Roquan Smith bringing new music venue, bar to Chicago originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago A former Bulls player and a former Bears player appear poised to join forces to help bring a new multipurpose music venue, restaurant and bar to Chicago. Both Jimmy Butler and Roquan Smith are listed on a social media post from new business …

How Team USA’s Yin and Yang coaches Kerr, Spoelstra balance each other originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area LAS VEGAS – If opposites truly attract, Team USA Men’s Basketball has the perfect pairing on its coaching staff in head coach Steve Kerr and assistant Erik Spoelstra. Kerr, 58, has won four NBA titles as the Warriors’ head coach behind …

The Los Angeles Clippers have signed guard Kevin Porter Jr., the team announced on Wednesday. As a result, the NBA is resuming its investigation of Porter’s domestic violence case, a league spokesperson confirmed to CBS Sports. This was first reported by The Athletic’s Law Murray. Last September in New York, Porter, then a member of the Houston Rockets, was arrested and charged …

Tatum reveals most satisfying thing about winning NBA championship originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Jayson Tatum silenced a lot of doubters during the 2023-24 NBA season. He helped the Boston Celtics earn the league’s best record at 64-18 and was voted first team All-NBA for the third straight campaign. And then he led the Celtics in points, assists and …

Jaylen Brown is a Finals MVP, but he’s not an Olympian. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) Jaylen Brown is coming off a legacy-defining season. The eight-year NBA veteran made his third All-Star team, then won Eastern Conference finals MVP and Finals MVP while helping lead the Boston Celtics to their first NBA championship since 2008. It’s the kind of effort that …

Why Barnes gave up millions in Kings’ DeRozan deal with Spurs, Bulls originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area When Harrison Barnes signed a three-year, $54 million contract to stay with the Kings last summer, the deal included a 10 percent trade kicker. If the Kings were to trade him, Barnes would receive a 10-percent salary bonus on the remaining …

Great Grant Hill quote helps explain Derrick White making Team USA originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Entering this week, all 12 members of the Team USA squad headed to the 2024 Paris Olympics were multiple-time NBA All-Stars. That changed Wednesday, when future Hall of Famer Kawhi Leonard bowed out due to injury and was replaced by Boston Celtics guard …

LAS VEGAS — A lot of people were surprised to see Kawhi Leonard commit to Team USA for the Summer Olympics following his inability to finish the Los Angeles Clippers’ season, so no one seems truly surprised by his decision to pull out and focus on the upcoming NBA season. The media was only allowed to see but so much …

Brandon Ingram has, for the overwhelming majority of his career, carried significant trade value. Paul George openly said he wanted to join the Lakers in 2017. The Lakers did not offer Ingram coming off of his rookie season. Los Angeles did make him the centerpiece of a mega trade two years later, but it was for a then-26-year-old Anthony Davis, …

Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum, Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson and 2024 NBA Hall of Fame inductee-to-be Vince Carter will be the cover athletes for NBA 2K25 video games, 2K announced Wednesday. Tatum and Wilson will become the first NBA and WNBA athletes to share a global cover and will be featured together on the game’s all-star edition. In …