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Five of six Buss trust members say they're united on selling their Lakers shares, with Jeanie Buss pushing back. That fight decides who signs the checks, and nothing on my board clears until it does.
The Nets have never hung an NBA banner, and the owner who spent big to change that just said the quiet part out loud about the team across the river.
A weekday-by-weekday team rollout runs through Sept. 18, and Brooklyn's entry already has its thesis handed to it by ownership calling the Knicks' title run embarrassing.
Insiders are picking which of this class becomes a star, and the Darryn Peterson question in Utah is the one actually worth arguing about. The almanac says these panels miss the MVPs anyway.
Not one SEC team drew a first-place vote in the preseason top 25, and the league's own network spent the night sorting the gifted from the shorted from the flat-out snubbed.
A Buss family exit in Los Angeles, a 6-5 council vote on $489 million in San Antonio, the league finding no evidence on Ballmer, and two veterans still without a chair.
Two former All-Star scorers are still unsigned in mid-August while the Buss family exits the Lakers entirely and San Antonio's council kills a public vote on a new arena.
A shade under $3 million for a connective forward who went undrafted and has rebuilt his value in three cities. New Orleans just bought real skill at depth-shopping prices.
Clippers Kawhi Leonard Investigation: League Finds No Evidence of Funneled Money
Three people with knowledge of the discussions say nothing turned up tying sponsor dollars to Kawhi Leonard. The Joe Smith precedent is why that sentence carries so much weight.
One team profile every weekday through Sept. 18, and the Blazers went first with the noise off the hardwood, not the roster, leading their preview.
Phoenix took him ninth out of a Florida high school, microfracture surgery took a season, and he still finished with five All-NBA teams and a bronze bust.
Candace Parker and Elena Delle Donne go in together, four MVP trophies and a 50/40/90 season between them, on a night that also honored Doc Rivers, Mike D'Antoni and Amar'e Stoudemire.
The league slotted his first game back into a quiet window months in advance. That is either a tell about the timeline or a gift, and I want a firm return date before I touch Indiana's number.
Haliburton found out with the rest of us when the schedule dropped: the first game back from his torn Achilles landed in a local window. His word for it was "shocked."
In Manila, Edwards named the two teams standing in Minnesota's way and picked his own. One of them ended the Wolves' 2025 run. The other has the game's next problem at center.
Seven seconds or less never won a ring. It won the argument instead, and D'Antoni's Hall of Fame week arrives with two Nash MVPs, a Garden folk hero and one Lakers tenure he still calls doomed.
Cleveland sends cash along with the veteran guard and gets back a former first-rounder who landed in Charlotte in the Gordon Hayward deal. This one is about years, not minutes.
What I'm Eyeing: NBA Betting News Today Is All Roster Churn
Cleveland sent Schroder and cash to Charlotte for Tre Mann, Westbrook and DeRozan are still on the buzz board, and none of it has cleared my number yet. Here's what would.
Minnesota will raise No. 21 with Boston in the building, giving Garnett a number in two sets of rafters and finally closing a standoff that kept that banner folded for years.
Russell Westbrook Headlines the Basketball Hall of Fame Waiting List
Only one NBA player made this year's class. Eleven are queued behind the rope, and the man at the front averaged a triple-double for a full season four separate times.
Nowitzki called him "one of a kind," Carlisle called him an innovator, and the point forward and small ball both trace back to the same restless mind. Nelson was 86.
Bradley Beal is back with the Clippers on a two-year, $13.2 million deal with a player option, and the veteran board is down to two names that still change somebody's rotation.
Bradley Beal's Clippers Contract Buys Him Two More Years in LA
The second season is a player option, which puts Beal, not the front office, in control of the exit. Four years ago he signed a supermax in Washington. The arc from there to here is the whole story.
January reunion nights for Giannis in Milwaukee and Jaylen Brown in Boston go on the radar, along with what a $12.5 billion Lakers sale tells me about who will actually spend. Nothing has cleared.
Giannis walks back into Milwaukee and Jaylen Brown walks back into Boston, both in the same January, both as visitors. Two tribute videos, two buildings that won't know what to do with themselves.
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