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Identifying value is essential to fantasy basketball drafts, but it’s an inexact science. With that in mind, the Rotoworld staff has identified a few of its “studs” and “duds” ahead of the 2024-25 season, predicting high- and low-value options projected to go in the early, middle, and late rounds of drafts. Next up is Zak Hanshew, who’s high on Phoenix’s …

Looney’s latest, greatest evolution as 10th Warriors season nears originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SAN FRANCISCO – Records are meant to be broken, and streaks always have an end point. Some have deeper meaning than a number. Some have a connection to the soul, reminding oneself of everything it took to make it and to never let anything …

Sixers to open their preseason by hosting New Zealand Breakers originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia There’s no more mystery about the Sixers’ preseason opener. The National Basketball League’s New Zealand Breakers announced that they’ll face the Sixers as part of their NBA tour. The game is scheduled for Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. ET in Philadelphia. The Breakers’ roster …

Tatum reflects on when he knew Celtics would win NBA title originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The Boston Celtics were the NBA’s most dominant team by a wide margin last season. They finished 14 games ahead of the No. 2 seed New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference, then steamrolled to a 16-3 postseason record en route to their …

Identifying value is essential to fantasy basketball drafts, but it’s an inexact science. With that in mind, the Rotoworld staff has identified a few of its “studs” and “duds” ahead of the 2024-25 season, predicting high- and low-value options projected to go in the early, middle, and late rounds of drafts. First up is Raphielle Johnson, who believes a young …

It’s a time-honored basketball cliche for good reason: Defense wins championships. The Connecticut Sun had the best defense in the WNBA this season and it showed Sunday when they frustrated a top-three offense — Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever — throughout their playoff opener. Once the Sun found their offensive rhythm this game became a blowout. The Sun won …

As had been expected, the Houston Rockets and A.J. Griffin have agreed to the terms of a buyout the team announced. The buyout is for a reported $250,000 and allows “him to sit out the season while considering whether to continue his career, a person with knowledge of the agreement” told Jonathan Fiegan of the Houston Chronicle. Griffin — the …

Caitlin Clark isn’t planning to quit her day job to become a baseball announcer, but she did have some fun during a foray into an imaginary broadcast booth. The Indiana Fever rookie went viral Friday when teammate Lexie Hull posted a TikTok of her trying her hand at play-by-play in a game between the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies. A …

Could Luka Dončić have played alongside De’Aaron Fox? (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) The Sacramento Kings were faced with a choice in the 2018 NBA Draft: select Duke big man Marvin Bagley or European guard Luka Dončić? As most Kings fans are very aware, the team chose Bagley, then watched Dončić become one of the premier players in the NBA, …

Embiid joins Curry, other NBA stars in $500-million earnings club originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The NBA’s $500-million career earnings club continues to grow. Joel Embiid signed a three-year, $192.9 million maximum contract extension on Friday, keeping the center with the Philadelphia 76ers through the 2028-29 season and elevating his career salaries to $515 million. The 30-year-old center …

“One that I think is just always gonna be monitored around the NBA is if the wheels fall off the Bucks,” Amick told Tim Kawakami. “We know that Joe Lacob has had dreams of Giannis coming the Warriors’ way for a very long time. Again, unlikely, but Khris Middleton is gonna be a free agent next summer… I think Giannis …

Ex-Kings GM Divac states ‘time will tell’ if Luka draft snub was wrong originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area More than six years removed from the 2018 NBA Draft, Vlade Divac is not ready to admit that not drafting Luka Dončić was a mistake. Divac, the Hall of Fame center, who spent five as the Kings general manager, doubled …

The offseason Ben Simmons hype train is going full speed. Again. Simmons played in 15 games last season in Brooklyn before shutting things down for a partial discectomy (the surgeon removes a piece of herniated disc between vertebrates), a surgery hoped to be more of a long-term fix for the back impingement that has bothered him for years (he has …

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 …