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Indiana Pacers v Cleveland Cavaliers Tristan Thompson is set to reprise his role as the Cavaliers’ third center. Thompson and the Cavaliers have agreed to a one-year contract at the veteran minimum, a story broken by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. This gives the Cavaliers 14 players on the roster, plus three two-way players, and that’s likely what they will take into …

New Orleans Pelicans v Brooklyn Nets The entire New Orleans Pelicans roster recently got together in California for a voluntary minicamp and series of workouts. Everyone was there — Zion Williamson, just-acquired Dejonte Murray, CJ McCollum — except for two players. One was new center Daniel Theis, who just finished playing for Germany in the Paris Olympics and took some …

Chicago Bulls v Minnesota Timberwolves The Rudy Gobert hate has gotten out of control. Shaquille O’Neal is a proud member of the “get off my lawn” generation of older players who don’t like the way the NBA game has evolved, and he has been quick to hate on the game’s current best big men (he’s already started the stupid “Victor …

A year after returning to Cleveland, Tristan Thompson is staying for at least one more season. The 33-year-old center has finalized a one-year deal to stay with the Cleveland Cavaliers, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. After bouncing between five teams in less than four years, Thompson signed a one-year deal to return to Cleveland in 2023. He now signs another short-term …

Following in the footsteps of College Football 25 and Madden, we’re simulating an entire NBA season in the recently released NBA 2K25. The NBA 2K series has been the cream of the crop when it comes to basketball simulation video games for nearly two decades now and has cemented itself in both gaming and hoops culture. Since this is our …

SNY’s Ian Begley will be responding to Knicks questions from readers. Here’s the latest… Ian, any news on the backup center situation? – @BeanniiBrunson The only new information I have here is that, as of late last month, the Knicks were at the very least exploring the market for a veteran center. Earlier in the offseason, the Knicks had some …

Ramp to Camp: Predicting the Celtics’ 2024-25 win total originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The 2023-24 Boston Celtics posted the fourth-highest win total in team history. So what does this group have planned for an encore? For the fifth installment of our Ramp to Camp 2024 series, we gave our panel an end-of-the-week layup: Give us a win total …

Utah Jazz v Golden State Warriors Seeing Chris Paul in a jersey other than No. 3 — he is CP3, after all — would have been weird. It turns out that’s not happening in San Antonio. Keldon Johnson has worn No. 3 during his five years with the franchise, but he posted a picture of himself on Instagram wearing Spurs …

Memphis Grizzlies v Detroit Pistons After being buried on Tom Thibodeau’s bench for most of the last two seasons, then getting a major role and averaging 9.8 points a game for the silver medal winning French team in the Paris Olympics, Evan Fournier didn’t want to go back to sitting on an NBA bench. So he rejected a two-year offer …

Ex-Warrior JTA always will prioritize giving fans ‘fun’ experience originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SANTA CRUZ – The scoreboard showed the G League United was well on their way to a decisive victory Wednesday night at Kaiser Permanente Arena over Serbia’s BC Mega MIS in the first of two games in the G League Fall Invitational. For Juan …

This embedded content is not available in your region. Subscribe to Ball Don’t Lie On this episode of No Cap Room, Yahoo Sports senior NBA writer Dan Devine is joined by James Herbert from CBS Sports to talk about the 6 teams that they are most curious about heading into the 2024-25 NBA season. The guys start by discussing the …

‘Japanese Steph Curry’ impresses in NBA debut for G League United originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SANTA CRUZ – There never has been, and never will be, another Steph Curry. But the instant Keisei Tominaga entered Wednesday night’s G League Fall Invitational at Kaiser Permanente Arena, it was clear why the 6-foot-2 sharpshooter has been given the nickname …

CNBC’s Michael Ozanian expects Celtics to break record for NBA franchise sale price originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The Boston Celtics are for sale, and CNBC senior sports reporter Michael Ozanian expects the defending NBA champions to go for a record price. Boston Basketball Partners LLC, led by Wyc Grousbeck, announced the intent to sell a majority stake of the …

Talen Horton-Tucker Talen Horton-Tucker is headed back home to Chicago, although probably to the Windy City Bulls and not the big club. Horton-Tucker agreed to an Exhibit 10 contract with Chicago, a story broken by Shams Charania of The Athletic and confirmed by K.C. Johnson of NBC Sports Chicago. An Exibit 10 contract means the player is invited to training …

2024 NBA All-Star – State Farm All-Star Saturday Night Two-time NBA Dunk Contest champion MacMcClung is headed back to the Orlando Magic’s training camp this fall and is likely headed to their G-League team — the Osceola Magic — for a second straight year. McClung agreed to an Exhibit 10 contract with the Magic, a story broken by Shams Charania …

Ramp to Camp: What’s the biggest Celtics storyline ahead of Day 1? originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston When the Boston Celtics convened for the start of training camp a year ago, there were no shortage of storylines: The offseason was bookended by the additions of Kristaps Porzingis and Jrue Holiday, along with the departure of core members in Marcus …

Mazzulla sums up C’s mindset as reigning champs with incredible quote originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston As the reigning NBA champions, the Boston Celtics can expect their opponents to give their best effort against them throughout the 2024-25 season. Joe Mazzulla is looking forward to the challenge. On Wednesday’s Locked On Celtics podcast, Mazzulla shared his thoughts on Boston being a …

Utah Jazz v Golden State Warriors The injuries that cost the Warriors the 2019 NBA Finals — to Kevin Durant (who was traded to Brooklyn the next offseason at his request) and Klay Thompson, most notably — combined with a Stephen Curry hand injury, crashed the Warriors into a 15-win team for the funky COVID/bubble 2019-20 season. The next season, …

Bulls sign local product Talen Horton-Tucker to camp deal originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Presented by Nationwide Insurance Agent Jeff Vukovich The new-look Chicago Bulls training camp already promised to be competitive. With significant changes by the departures of DeMar DeRozan and Alex Caruso, players are due to battle for minutes and new roles. And now the battle for …

Kings’ Ellis reveals which NBA player is toughest to defend originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Keon Ellis is known and cherished for his defensive prowess, but even the young Kings guard has had his challenges on that end of the floor. After emerging into Sacramento’s rotation and eventually the starting lineup during the back end of the 2023-24 …

Sixers hiring Ariana Andonian as VP of player personnel originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Ariana Andonian will join the Sixers as a vice president of player personnel, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported. Sixers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey retweeted that news. As Howard Beck detailed in a 2017 Bleacher Report story, Morey first hired Andonian as a Rockets scouting …

Ex-Warrior JTA, fueled by fatherhood, continues basketball journey originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SANTA CRUZ – Juan Toscano-Anderson, sitting on the sidelines at Kaiser Permanente Arena, looks down at the inside of his left forearm gleaming with pride. The Oakland native and Warriors champion isn’t new to the court that kickstarted his road to Golden State. What is …

Why Steph is motivated by doubt of Warriors’ title chances this season originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The famous saying, “Haters are my motivators,” might be overused by high school teenagers or overworn on a T-shirt by that one guy at the gym. But to Steph Curry, it’s his reality. The Warriors superstar, entering his 16th NBA season …

2024 NBA Summer League – Dallas Mavericks v Memphis Grizzlies Grizzlies breakout rookie GG Jackson II will be re-evaluated in three months — around the start of December — following surgery to repair a fracture in his foot, the team announced on Wednesday. That timeline matches up with the standard recovery for a Jones fracture — a break of the …

GG Jackson will be sidelined through December at the earliest. (Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images) Memphis Grizzlies forward GG Jackson has a broken bone in his right foot that required surgery. The Grizzlies announced the injury on Wednesday. He suffered a fracture to the fifth metatarsal in his right foot and underwent surgery on Wednesday. He’ll be re-evaluated “in approximately …