Focusing on the NBA (National Basketball Association), college basketball (including NCAA tournaments), and other basketball leagues in the USA. Includes coverage of games, player highlights, trade rumors, and team performance analysis.
There’s one thing innately futile about rating coaches in basketball as a result of it is a sport so outlined by improvisation. You by no means fairly know if you see an excellent play, whether or not it was a superb set piece designed by a coach on a white board or the results of…
Getty Pictures The New York Knicks have signed veteran ahead Marcus Morris to an Exhibit 9 contract, the crew introduced Sunday. That is the second notable Exhibit 9 contract that the Knicks have handed out in as many days, as New York additionally signed veteran sharpshooter Landry Shamet to such a deal on Saturday. Exhibit…
Former Toronto Raptors huge man Christian Koloko is eyeing an NBA comeback, and has agreed to a take care of the Los Angeles Lakers, in accordance with Shams Charania. Koloko, who nonetheless must be cleared by the league’s Health-to-Play Panel, will signal a two-way contract, per Dan Woike. A second-round choose in 2022, Koloko solely…
Getty Photographs Mitchell Wiggins, a former NBA participant who performed for the Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets and Philadelphia 76ers throughout six seasons and the daddy of Golden State Warriors ahead Andrew Wiggins, has died on the age of 64. Wiggins’ daughter, Angey, confirmed Mitchell’s passing on her Instagram account. The Nationwide Basketball Retired Gamers Affiliation put…
Getty Pictures A.J. Griffin, the No. 16 general decide within the 2022 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks is contemplating stepping away from basketball, in accordance with The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Griffin was traded to the Houston Rockets this offseason in a deal that despatched No. 43 general decide Nikola Durisic to the Hawks. In…
A former worker of the Phoenix Suns, Andrea Trischan, has filed a grievance with the U.S. Equal Employment Alternative Fee and the Arizona lawyer common’s workplace’s civil rights division, alleging that she skilled racial discrimination and harassment when she labored for the staff between Sep. 2022 and July 2023, per ESPN’s Baxter Holmes. She is…
Following an NBA Board of Governors assembly on Tuesday in New York, commissioner Adam Silver instructed reporters that there was “not quite a lot of dialogue” with the board relating to growth, however not as a result of it does not stay a powerful chance that the league is shifting towards including one other franchise…
New York Knicks proprietor James Dolan continues to take subject with the NBA’s income sharing insurance policies and transfer to streaming, which, in his thoughts, punish big-market groups by redistributing the cash they earn, largely by native media rights and sponsorships, to less-successful franchises at a disproportionate price whereas crippling regional sports activities networks’ viability…
Jamal Murray and the Denver Nuggets have agreed to a four-year, $208 million contract extension, his brokers, Jeff Schwartz and Mike George, informed ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Saturday. That is the richest extension the Nuggets may supply Murray. It’s going to kick in through the 2025-26 season and preserve him underneath contract by way of…
Getty Pictures NBA All-Star Kevin Durant let his distaste for the Dallas Cowboys present throughout a TV look this week. Whereas on “Up & Adams,” Durant mentioned that he would eliminate the Cowboys in a hypothetical state of affairs the place the NFL practiced promotion/relegation like worldwide soccer. Durant, a local of Washington, D.C., is…
