There is a hope, admittedly underfed, that the NBA's new insistence on obsessing over every spent penny will result in a rising valuation of the league's middle-class. Maybe, with so many franchises scowling at adding multiple maximum contracts to the ledger, the remaining salary cap
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Jaylen Brown was traded to Philadelphia for 36-year old Paul George, Philadelphia's unconditional 2031 first-round draft pick, a 2028 first-round pick swap, and two future second-round selections. A little sad, isn't it? The NBA's offseason, all four days of it,
So, we'll all find out in dutifully-sourced time from Pablo Torre how this Kawhi Leonard "basketball" feint was dropped to dissuade us from paying attention to Washington D.C.'s empty lawns at the America 250 celebration. To stop us from reflecting on the
According to ESPN, LeBron James is in Ohio right now and I don't blame James for announcing his Laker departure from home: Ohio is beautiful all times of year but in summer especially. It is a full twenty degrees (Fahrenheit) warmer in northern Ohio than it is in
Strange, super-intriguing, summer so far. The NBA possibly created more tanking than ever for the three years of this lottery reform, the worst kind, teams diving out of playoff contention and into the greedy arms of the eighth-worst record in the NBA. Then there was this second-round
When I was 19 I turned down the an evening with a pretty girl (with a car) in order to stay up overnight, on the internet and by myself, through the July 31-to-August 1 crossover in 1999, writing about all the NBA contract agreements piling up on Yahoo&
Get in on trade season for half-off! First-round pick swaps, eh? Are swaps the way to go, after the NBA messed up its draft? Or are swaps what we have left, after every good NBA team traded away every one of its future first-round picks? Or, are
The 2026 NBA draft was on Tuesday, and though they'll insist it is also on Wednesday, it was mostly on Tuesday. Here, on Wednesday, the draft: 1. Washington Wizards – AJ Dybantsa (BYU) A standup star for a silly, little franchise. The forward need not dominate this league in
Giannis Antetokounmpo will be 32 midway through the 2026-27 NBA season, he will be owed a four-year and $275 million contract extension after 2026-27 and he's nearly worked as many career minutes (playoff and regular season, combined) as Chris Webber. But, like, look at the
This was supposed to be the trip where I slowed down, where I took photos, found something I wanted to say about what was around me and said it. Well, it's kind of tough to pull over and turn off a car loudly playing "Lido Shuffle."
We offer half-off yearly subscriptions until our debts from the road are covered, click here for a cheap year! The last time the Bulls hired a coach during the Finals, like the rest of you, I found out through Woj. In my case, Woj walked right up and told
Karl-Anthony Towns yelled "back-to-back" on his way off the floor and into the Knicks' championship party on Saturday night, and, yeah, you're allowed to scream these sorts of things while carrying what KAT was carrying, the Lawrence O'Brien Trophy. The