Still, 2024 could be transformative in Los Angeles, with LeBron James and Paul George potentially becoming free agents this summer. Looking ahead to 2025, stars such Jayson Tatum, Jalen Brunson and Donovan Mitchell hold player options that teams will be monitoring very closely. Key: restricted = restricted free agent; player = player option; team = […]
Continue readingHundreds of mourners attended the funeral on a rainy day at a Belgrade cemetery, including Warriors coach Steve Kerr, general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr., assistant coaches Chris DeMarco and Ron Adams, basketball operations consultant Zaza Pachulia and trainer Rick Celebrini. A flower-draped casket was carried by Milojević’s former Serbian teammates. Milojević died Jan. 17 in […]
Continue readingWhen Smart and his fiancee Maisa Hallum set September 16 as the date for their wedding at the posh Pelican Hill Resort in Newport Beach, California, the idea was to be surrounded by family, friends and basically everyone from the Celtics organization that had drafted him No. 6 overall in 2014 and helped him grow […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. 76ers head coach Brett Brown does not have a gut feeling about Joel Embiid‘s status for Game 4 and JJ Redick says it’s tough to play without the Sixers’ best player. (1:24) NEW YORK — Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid is listed as doubtful for Saturday’s Game 4 in the Sixers’ […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojevic died Wednesday at age 46 after suffering a heart attack. (0:37) Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojević, a mentor to two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and a former star player in his native Serbia, died Wednesday in Utah after suffering a heart attack, the team […]
Continue readingNew this season, ESPN Analytics will also generate daily NBA fantasy projections. By combining historical player and team data and specific game factors ESPN is able to accurately predict player box score stats. Accounting for injuries, trends in playing time, and other factors impacting future performance the statistical models can be used to help NBA […]
Continue readingLuka Doncic is getting a ring! The Dallas Mavericks star announced his engagement to longtime girlfriend Anamaria Goltes with a picture of the proposal. Doncic, who dons No. 77, captioned the photo with a heart and ring emoji, along with “7.7” as a reference to the date and his jersey number. LeBron James, former teammate […]
Continue readingESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Fred VanVleet agreed to a three-year, $130 million contract with the Houston Rockets. The 29-year-old declined a $22.8 million option to play for the Raptors next season and has the largest contract for any undrafted player in league history. Van Vleet is now the oldest player on the Rockets roster […]
Continue readingVictor Wembanyama has grown a little. Or not, depending on perspective. The official height for the No. 1 pick in this year’s draft, the San Antonio Spurs said Wednesday, is 7 feet, 3½ inches — and that was measured without shoes, per NBA guidelines. That’s a half-inch taller than Wembanyama said he was in October, […]
Continue readingThese are not power rankings! They are derived from a formula Bill Simmons found scrawled on parchment paper inside a glass bottle that washed up on the shores of Malibu. Teams are scored 1-10 in five categories: ZEITGEIST: When you talk about this team at parties, do people slink away? HIGHLIGHT POTENTIAL: Do you linger […]
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