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Getty Pictures Spooky season is in full swing, and Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo actually bought into the spirit along with his postgame outfit. Following the Bucks’ 133-122 loss to the Chicago Bulls, Antetokounmpo confirmed up in a Mr. Potato Head costume. Antetokounmpo sat on the podium with a second, comically massive face watching reporters…
First-year head coach JJ Redick discovered a silver lining after his Los Angeles Lakers misplaced an Oct. 15 preseason sport to the Golden State Warriors. “When you take a look at it, for us and our group to take 40 3s in a sport, that is promising,” Redick mentioned after the defeat, earlier than making a…
Russell Westbrook did not essentially change Kentavious Caldwell-Pope on the Denver Nuggets. They do not even technically play the identical place. One in every of them is making virtually $23 million this season. The opposite is incomes the minimal. However because the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder throttled the Nuggets 102-87 on their dwelling courtroom Thursday, it…
If we’re being completely technical, NBA opening evening was on Tuesday. The champion Celtics bought their rings. LeBron James and his son made historical past. The Knicks and Timberwolves bought the (disappointing) early returns on their blockbuster commerce. However in the long run, solely 4 groups truly performed. The primary Tuesday of the season is…
LOS ANGELES — 4 minutes left within the second quarter, it was time. LeBron James and his son, Bronny, rose from the Lakers bench and walked towards the scorer’s desk. The gang observed slowly, the noise constructing incrementally. First as a rustle. Then cheering. Lastly there got here a rush of pleasure that LeBron and…
Getty Photographs Aaron Gordon has agreed to a four-year, $133 million extension with the Denver Nuggets, in line with ESPN’s Shams Charania. The deal represents a worthwhile compromise on either side. It had beforehand been reported that Gordon wished his most doable extension, which might have come out to round $150 million over 4 years….
SAN FRANCISCO — The NBA preseason does not at all times present the perfect basketball, however it by no means fails to provide heartwarming tales. Whereas stars and established gamers are tuning up and shaking off the rust, dozens of different hopefuls are preventing and battling each minute in an effort to meet their NBA…
What’s fallacious with Mikal Bridges? That is the query many within the NBA world are asking after one of many New York Knicks’ main offseason acquisitions went 0 of 10 from behind the arc within the staff’s preseason finale towards the Washington Wizards on Friday night time. Bridges is a profession 37.5% shooter from downtown,…
Bronny James began his first preseason sport on Friday evening and made the a lot of the alternative, scoring 17 factors whereas including 4 rebounds, three steals, an help and a block towards the Golden State Warriors. It was by far the very best he has appeared in his transient NBA profession. The effectivity will…
Estimates fluctuate as to what number of precise Clippers followers exist on the planet. Nevertheless many there are, it is not a very good time to be one. Paul George is gone. Even worse, James Harden is not. And worst and most predictably of all, Kawhi Leonard is harm once more. It is the knee….
