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Is Anthony Davis still a top-5 fantasy player?

This week’s contributors are ESPN NBA Insider Kevin Pelton, ESPN Fantasy analyst Joe Kaiser and yours truly, Tom Carpenter. Pelton: It’s a concern. The best predictor of players missing games in the future is the games they’ve missed in the past. Whatever the reason, Davis seems to have a tendency to suffer a variety of […]

Biggest fantasy sleepers of 2015-16

We call these players “sleepers” because your opponents are snoozing on them during drafts, thus allowing you to snag them later than they should go. In order for you to be fully prepared to take advantage of your competitors, I have compiled the top sleepers for the 2015-16 campaign, based on the average draft position […]

Kentucky Wildcats land Devin Booker

Booker chose the Wildcats over offers from Michigan State, Michigan and Missouri. John Calipari’s club fought an uphill battle for the No. 18 overall prospect in the Class of 2014. Booker grew up in Michigan, where his mother still lives, and had forged an early bond with both local programs. While a commitment to either […]

Trey Lyles commits to Kentucky

The Indianapolis/Arsenal Technical High School product announced his decision at a news conference carried live on ESPNU. Lyles had been considering only Kentucky and Louisville since September after having previously dropped Florida and Butler from his list. He took an official visit to Louisville the weekend of Aug. 31 and was on hand for Kentucky’s […]

Duke lands Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones

“We just wanted the best opportunity to win,” Okafor said after the decisions were announced live from the players’ respective high schools on ESPNU. Okafor and Jones are the most notable package deal in college basketball since Greg Oden and Mike Conley committed to Ohio State in the 2006 class, but it’s unprecedented in that […]

Craig Victor commits to Arizona

The 6-foot-7, 205-pound New Orleans native — ranked No. 31 nationally in the Class of 2014, No. 1 in Louisiana and No. 5 at his position — picked the Wildcats over LSU, Kansas and Oklahoma State. Victor made the announcement at his travel team’s season-ending banquet. “For me, it was about going to a place […]

Danny Ainge says Utah Jazz players ‘didn’t believe in each other’ last season

At the time, Utah was 19-7 and a season removed from having the best record in the Western Conference. But as the season went on, Ainge saw something he didn’t like. “What I saw during the season was a group of players that really didn’t believe in each other,” Ainge told reporters at a news […]

New Los Angeles Lakers guard Patrick Beverley ‘super excited’ to play alongside Russell Westbrook

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Patrick Beverley still was sweating from a workout at the Los Angeles Lakers’ practice facility when Russell Westbrook delivered an assist. Westbrook interrupted Beverley’s introductory news conference with reporters to toss him a towel, making sure his new backcourt teammate looked good. “Love that brother,” an appreciative Beverley said. “First dime […]

Los Angeles Lakers finalizing deal to acquire Patrick Beverley from Utah Jazz, sources say

The deal, on course to be completed Thursday morning, will send Lakers guard Talen Horton-Tucker and forward Stanley Johnson to the Jazz, sources said. Beverley returns to Los Angeles after spending 2017-21 as a Clipper, bringing with him a well-established ferocity and defensive presence that new coach Darvin Ham is determined to implement into the […]

Sources: LeBron James hopes to return vs. Pelicans, Anthony Davis progressing toward game-time decision

James, who missed his second straight game Thursday against the Utah Jazz, returned to Los Angeles earlier this week to continue his injury rehabilitation. The Lakers also are hoping for the return of star forward Anthony Davis, who is progressing toward being a game-time decision for Friday’s game, sources told Wojnarowski. Davis has not played […]

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