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• Revisiting the trade that landed the Thunder their missing piece

Surely, when Oklahoma City Thunder GM Sam Presti pulled the trigger on the rare ‘one-for-one’ swap of Josh Giddey for Alex Caruso with the Chicago Bulls last summer, this was the sort of playoff impact he was hoping for....2025
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• The 5 NBA players who took the biggest 2025 playoff leap, ranked

There have been lots of standouts in the 2025 NBA playoffs, but these five players have raised their individual reputation most. The NBA playoffs are where basketball legacies are forged. It’s all well and good if a player can be effective during the regular season, but if they become unplayable when the playoffs roll around (Josh Giddey last year, for example), their standing around the league ca...2025
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• NBA Finals 2025 predictions for Knicks-Pacers and Wolves-Thunder series

Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images The conference finals are wide open. Let’s predict the matchup we’ll get for the 2025 NBA Finals. NBA dynasties are dead, parity is king, and if the 2025 playoffs have taught us anything, it’s to expect the unexpected. The NBA will have a different champion for the seventh straight year, something that has never happened in league history. Commissioner ...2025
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• Alex Caruso and Christian Braun Help Sean O’Malley Win Big on His $2,500 Thunder vs. Nuggets Bet
NBA stars from the Denver Nuggets and OKC Thunder helped Sean O'Malley turn $2,500 into a nice chunk of change with his successful bet....2025
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• Ranking NBA’s final 4 teams in 2025 Playoffs by most likely to win it all

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Let’s rank the four teams left standing in the 2025 NBA Playoffs. The Boston Celtics’ dream of repeating as champions is dead, the best player in the world has been eliminated, and the No. 1 seed the East is already on vacation. The second round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs was full of carnage, and no one could have anticipated the last four teams left standing....2025
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• How Alex Caruso flipped the script within six minutes in Game 7

This may sound hyperbolic, but it took Thunder guard Alex Caruso less than six minutes to single-handedly alter NBA history on Sunday....2025

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• NBA Finals 2025 predictions for Knicks-Pacers and Wolves-Thunder series
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• Ranking NBA’s final 4 teams in 2025 Playoffs by most likely to win it all
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• Cooper Flagg’s 6 best landing spots in NBA Draft lottery, ranked

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Let’s rank the best landing spots for Cooper Flagg in the 2025 NBA Draft lottery. Not all NBA Draft lotteries are created equal. A year ago, when the Atlanta Hawks jumped from up from No. 10 to win the lottery, there was no sure-fire No. 1 overall player sitting there as the obvious prize. That’s not the case this year: the teams entering the lottery are...2025
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• Alex Caruso trade was the final piece of the Thunder’s NBA championship puzzle

Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images The Alex Caruso trade might have made the Thunder unstoppable It often feels like Alex Caruso is playing an entirely different sport when he’s really locked in. Basketball players need to be able to dribble, pass, and shoot, and any deficits in that skill set tends to get exposed exponentially under the harsh spotlight of the NBA Playoffs. Caruso has some ...2025
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• Bulls injury update: Josh Giddey (wrist) will be available for Chicago on Wednesday vs. Miami
Ahead of the 2024-25 season, the Bulls made changes to their roster. They traded DeMar DeRozan to the Kings. Additionally, Chicago traded Alex Caruso to the Thunder for Josh Giddey. It took Josh Giddey time to adjust to his new role with the Bulls, but he settled in for the second half of the season. […] The post Bulls injury update: Josh Giddey (wrist) will be available for Chicago on Wedn...2025
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• NBA Playoffs predictions for 2025 bracket in every series, including the Finals

Photo by Zach Beeker/NBAE via Getty Images Let’s predict the 2025 NBA Playoffs The NBA Playoffs used to be boring, at least according to the skeptics. Upsets were few and far between, the best team was determined by who had the best individual player, and the best team almost always won. NBA fans endured four years of the Golden State Warriors vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals....2025
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• Dunc'd On: Jeremias Engelmann of RoyceWebb.com, Former Mavericks and Suns Front Officer

Jerry Engelmann used to work for the Mavs and the Suns, and now writes for former ESPN editor Royce Webb's substack where he has been one of the most interesting writers of late with his controversial but data-driven opinions. You can subscribe at roycewebb.com/naterate and get a special deal for Dunc'd On listeners. We get into a ton of interesting topics, including players Nate thinks might be o...2025
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• The NBA’s draft pick market has crashed

Photo by Glenn James/NBAE via Getty Images With fewer available future draft picks to trade but transactions that still need to get done, the value of the speculative capital cratered at the 2025 NBA trade deadline. Let’s take a time machine back one full week and ask ourselves a question. How many first-round draft picks is Luka Doncic worth? Six? Seven? All of them? Surely whoever is tra...2025
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• 4 NBA trade deadline winners, and 4 big losers after a wild week of deals

Photo by Scott Cunningham/NBAE via Getty Images Let’s hand out winners and losers from the 2025 NBA trade deadline. The 2025 NBA trade deadline started with a double-bang (word to Mike Breen) when the Dallas Mavericks made the unfathomable decision to trade Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis. The Mavs and Lakers each made surprising moves in the days that followed, le...2025
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• Ranking NBA’s final 4 teams in 2025 Playoffs by most likely to win it all
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• Podcast: S03 E20 - The CaruShow!! (Guest Alex Caruso)
AC Fresh joins the guys for a wide-ranging interview spanning topics on and off court, from his favorite in-game dunk to his diet and wei...2020

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"Thunder's Alex Caruso says 'you're probably like a serial killer' if you don't feel anything ahead of Game 7"

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"The Bulls appear ready and willing to keep Alex Caruso if their large asking price isn’t met."

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"Since he’s played in the NBA for 20 seasons, LeBron has one of the best basketball IQ’s ever and his former teammate Alex Caruso has revealed how one of the GOAT’s exploits timeouts."

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"Bucks' Grayson Allen serenaded by boos in first game in Chicago since his flagrant foul injured Alex Caruso"

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"A new era of Bulls basketball: DeMar DeRozan, Lonzo Ball, and Alex Caruso join Chicago"

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"We sat down with Alex Caruso to talk about his path from going undrafted to being a key rotation player for the 19-3 Lakers."

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"Jordan Clarkson and Alex Caruso combined for 18 of the Lakers' 31 assists in a big win over New York."

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"Kyle Kuzma and Alex Caruso had the Lakers' offense humming off the bench."

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"The Thunder today signed guard Alex Caruso, center Kaleb Tarczewski and forward Chris Wright."

• The 5 NBA players who took the biggest 2025 playoff leap, ranked
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• Cooper Flagg’s 6 best landing spots in NBA Draft lottery, ranked
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• Alex Caruso trade was the final piece of the Thunder’s NBA championship puzzle
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• Central Notes: Bulls, Vucevic, Giannis, Rivers, Bickerstaff
After trading DeMar DeRozan and Alex Caruso during the 2024 offseason and Zach LaVine at last month’s trade deadline, the Bulls – who had a 21-29 record at the time of the LaVine deal and had reacquired full control of their 2025 first-round pick – were considered likely to tank the rest of the season. […]...2025
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• Josh Giddey Likely To Sign For Starting Point Guard Market Rate

Josh Giddey has emerged with the Chicago Bulls recently after a slow start to the season. Giddey, who is represented by Daniel Moldovan and is 22, has a PER of 25.3 in nine games since the All-Star break compared to 15.2 in 51 games before. "The going rate for a starting point guard in the NBA is around $30 million," said Brian Windhorst on ESPN Australia. "He is their starter. If you look at a gu...2025
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• 4 NBA trade deadline winners, and 4 big losers after a wild week of deals
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• Billy Donovan: Bulls Aren't Discussing Trying To Keep Top-10 Protected Pick

The Chicago Bulls have a 18-19 record to start a season in which they were widely expected to take a step backward after letting DeMar DeRozan leave in free agency while also trading away Alex Caruso for Josh Giddey. With Chicago owing a top-10 pick to the San Antonio Spurs this year, there had been an expectation they would keep the selection with one of the NBA's worst records. Zach LaVine has ...2025
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• The Thunder snatched the Celtics’ chain in possible NBA Finals preview

Photo by Joshua Gateley/Getty Images The Thunder ate the Celtics’ lunch and proved their ready to win the championship right now. The Oklahoma City Thunder are on a rocket ship to the top of the NBA. It feels like they’re speed-running the tanking-to-championship playbook in a way the league hasn’t really seen before, and the scary thing is they’re still at the very beginning of what shoul...2025
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• Caruso, Thunder agree to 4-year, $81M extension
Guard Alex Caruso has reached a four-year, $81 million contract extension with the Oklahoma City Thunder through the 2028-29 season, his agent told ESPN....2024
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• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Says 'Nervousness Motivated Me' Following Game 7 Win

The Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Denver Nuggets 125-93 in Game 7 to win the series 4-3 on Sunday. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored a game-high 35 points in the win. "I was nervous, to be honest," said Gilgeous-Alexander. "Just knowing what was on the line. ...To know if you don't bring your A-game, it could all be over. But I think that nervousness motivated me." The Thunder were down 21-10 af...2025
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• Thunder Notes: Bench, Dort, Murray, Closing Out, Lottery
The Thunder’s deep bench shined through in Game 4 on Sunday as they tied the series with the Nuggets with a 92-87 victory. Cason Wallace and Aaron Wiggins had 11 points apiece and Alex Caruso supplied 10. The five reserves that coach Mark Daigneault utilized also combined for 16 rebounds, six assists and three steals. […]...2025
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• Thunder’s ‘foul up 3’ strategy backfired in epic fashion vs. Nuggets in NBA Playoffs

Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post The Thunder helped the Nuggets steal Game 1 because of a terrible late game strategy. The Oklahoma City Thunder had the best defense in the NBA this season, but if the game was close late, the Thunder consistently opted not to trust it. Under head coach Mark Daigneault, OKC likes to foul when up three, refusing to yield a game-tying attempt to their...2025
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• Alex Caruso trade was the final piece of the Thunder’s NBA championship puzzle
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• NBA Playoffs predictions for 2025 bracket in every series, including the Finals
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• The NBA Media is about to give the MVP to the wrong guy… again

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/Getty Images The race between Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has a clear winner, it’s just not the one NBA media is acting like it is. The MVP race should be over. In fact, it probably is over… for the wrong person. It’s been known for months that this year’s race is between two stars: Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. All available polls, bettin...2025
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• The Thunder snatched the Celtics’ chain in possible NBA Finals preview
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• 10 NBA takeaways after 10 games of the season, starring Nikola Jokic, Celtics, Knicks, and more

Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images Here are our 10 biggest takeaways from the new NBA season so far. The 2024-25 NBA season is underway, and it’s already proven to be full of surprises. The Philadelphia 76ers and Milwaukee Bucks were supposed to be fringe championship contenders, but so far both are among the worst teams in the league. The Dallas Mavericks and Minnesota Timberwolves were s...2024
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• Mark Daigneault On Fouling Up Three Strategy 'That's On Me'

The Oklahoma City Thunder have a set philosophy when it comes to protecting a three-point lead in the waning moments of the game. The Thunder are going to foul to prevent the opponent from attempting a game-tying three-point shot. Despite their Game 1 second round loss to the Denver Nuggets, Oklahoma City is unlikely to move away from this strategy. Instead, they prefer to think about executing it...2025
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• Dunc'd On: Jeremias Engelmann of RoyceWebb.com, Former Mavericks and Suns Front Officer
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• The NBA’s draft pick market has crashed
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• 4 NBA trade deadline winners, and 4 big losers after a wild week of deals
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• The Thunder snatched the Celtics’ chain in possible NBA Finals preview
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• 10 NBA takeaways after 10 games of the season, starring Nikola Jokic, Celtics, Knicks, and more
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• Predicting one breakout player for each NBA team in 2024: Eastern Conference Edition

Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images The start of the NBA season is here, so let’s predict one breakout player from each Eastern Conference team ahead of the 2024-25 campaign. Editor’s Note: This is the Eastern Conference edition of our series on breakout player candidates for each NBA team in the 2024-25 season. The Western Conference edition can be read here. Every year, each t...2024
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• Predicting one breakout player for each NBA team in 2024: Western Conference Edition

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images The start of the NBA season is here, so let’s predict one breakout player from each Western Conference team ahead of the 2024-25 campaign. Editor’s Note: This is the Western Conference edition of our series on breakout player candidates for each NBA team in the 2024-25 season. The Eastern Conference edition can be read here. Every year, each team op...2024
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• Lonzo Ball’s NBA return from devastating knee injuries is basketball’s coolest story

Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images Lonzo Ball is back, and basketball is better is for it. Lonzo Ball couldn’t walk up a flight of stairs. The Chicago Bulls point guard had already been out eight months for an injury that was originally supposed to keep him out eight weeks. “Left knee soreness” was the first injury diagnosis by the team. A week later, it was announced Ball would have arthrosco...2024
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• NBA media day’s best and worst moments ahead of 2024-25 season

The best and worst moments from NBA media day NBA media day signals the beginning of training camp and the unofficial start of the new season. The Boston Celtics are reigning champions, but there’s no shortage of contenders coming from their crown in 2025 after an offseason loaded with big name players changing teams. Karl-Anthony Towns and Mikal Bridges are now members of the New York Knicks. Pau...2024
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• A new era of Bulls basketball: DeMar DeRozan, Lonzo Ball, and Alex Caruso join Chicago

It's safe to open your eyes and be bullish on the Bulls again....2021
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• Alex Caruso: How He Got Here
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• James, Caruso Guide Lakers To 6th Straight Win
LeBron James and Alex Caruso were instrumental in keeping L.A.’s winning streak alive, as the Lakers held on to defeat the New Orleans Pelicans Tuesday night in STAPLES Center....2020
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• Lakers' Second Unit Steps Up Against Utah

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• Bucks' Grayson Allen serenaded by boos in first game in Chicago since his flagrant foul injured Alex Caruso
Caruso hasn't played since Allen's hard foul in late January...2022
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• Lakers' Alex Caruso skips sister's wedding, stays in NBA bubble: 'We have worked too hard'
Caruso would have had to quarantine for close to 10 days if he left the bubble...2020
• Brilliance of Alex Caruso on full display in Game 2 win vs. Milwaukee

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• Alex Caruso Injury Update

Chicago Bulls guard Alex Caruso sustained a fracture of his right wrist in last night's game versus...2022
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• Dr. A's weekly risers and fallers: Alex Caruso, Pascal Siakam make the list

Who are the fantasy basketball players on the rise? Whose fantasy value is falling? Steve Alexander lays it all out for you in his weekly look around the NBA....2023
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• Revisiting the trade that landed the Thunder their missing piece
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• The 5 NBA players who took the biggest 2025 playoff leap, ranked
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• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Says 'Nervousness Motivated Me' Following Game 7 Win
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• Cooper Flagg’s 6 best landing spots in NBA Draft lottery, ranked
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• Thunder’s ‘foul up 3’ strategy backfired in epic fashion vs. Nuggets in NBA Playoffs
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• Alex Caruso trade was the final piece of the Thunder’s NBA championship puzzle
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• Bulls and Blazers combined for worst NBA sequence of the year, and it somehow kept going

This is performance art from the Bulls and Blazers The cross-conference rivalry between the Chicago Bulls and Portland Trail Blazers was once so good that a video game was made out of it. These days, the franchises are closer to mirror images of each other in terms of being stuck in mediocrity. Chicago and Portland each entered their Friday night matchup with 34 wins, which is good enough for the ...2025
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• 10 NBA takeaways after 10 games of the season, starring Nikola Jokic, Celtics, Knicks, and more
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• 8 NBA teams that can win the 2025 championship

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images These are the only teams that can win the 2025 NBA championship. Defining success in the NBA always comes back to preseason expectations. Some teams are just trying to get better in the regular season and advance a round further in the playoffs, while others are hoping not to fall too far behind their rivals. There’s already a class of teams whose best c...2024
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• The Chicago Bulls aren’t good, but they are clutch as hell

Photo by Alex Goodlett/Getty Images Nobody in the NBA is more clutch than the Chicago Bulls. The Chicago Bulls can’t stop winning clutch games. The Bulls beat the Utah Jazz, 119-117, on Wednesday night in Salt Lake City to keep the team’s incredible clutch alive. The Bulls have been a sub .500 team all year — they’re currently 26-28, ninth in the Eastern Conference — but they have an incr...2024
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• NBA trade deadline: 4 winners and 5 losers from deals, featuring Bulls, Knicks, Warriors, Lakers

Let’s hand out winners and losers from the 2024 NBA trade deadline. The 2024 NBA trade deadline has come and gone without the type of major fireworks sd occasionally sees in the final transaction window before the playoff race. There were tons of deals around the NBA before Thursday’s 3 p.m. buzzer, but the biggest names rumored to be in deals mostly stayed home, and many of the league’s biggest f...2024
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• NBA Trade Rumors: Bobby Portis, Grant Williams, Kelly Olynyk and more featured in latest whispers

Photo by Brian Fluharty/Getty Images The Bucks and Mavericks talking a Bobby Portis for Grant Williams trade is your most surprising update from Monday’s NBA trade rumors. The NBA trade deadline (Thursday, Feb. 8, at 3 p.m. ET) is now less than three days away, so let’s check in on some of the latest NBA trade rumors floating around from various insiders around the association. A Bucks-...2024
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• NBA Trade Rumors: Latest on Zach LaVine, Kyle Kuzma, Jalen Green and more

Photo by Stephen Gosling/NBAE via Getty Images We’ve got the latest rumors about what NBA teams are thinking about with less than a week to go until the trade deadline. The Feb. 8 NBA trade deadline is officially less than a week away. With that in mind, let’s bounce around the latest smoke from the hot stove that a couple of the NBA’s biggest insiders cooked up on Friday. Zach LaVine to t...2024
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• The Warriors need bold trade with locker room dysfunction, season on the brink

Cary Edmondson-USA TODAY Sports Steve Kerr has lost the Warriors’ young veterans The Golden State Warriors are sinking fast, and the franchise’s dynasty suddenly appears to be on its last legs. Golden State lost to the Denver Nuggets on Thursday after blowing an 18-point lead in the final seven minutes, capped by an absolutely incredible Nikola Jokic three-point heave at the buzzer. The lo...2024
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• Alex Caruso’s genius is being wasted on hopeless Chicago Bulls

Photo by Melissa Tamez/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Alex Caruso deserves better than the Bulls. It is almost impossible to successfully defend Kevin Durant. Even at 35 years old, the superstar forward has one of the most advanced scoring arsenals in the league, a near 7-footer with deep range and soft touch on his jumper who can shoot over defenders with a hesi pull-up jimbo whenever h...2023
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• The Five Teams Most Likely to Pursue Trade for Alex Caruso
Plenty of teams are looking to improve their rosters mid-season and with whispers of Chicago potentially blowing it up, Alex Caruso is being heavily pursued. 28-year-old Caruso would be a solid addition to any team and an Eastern Conference Executive has opened the lid on just how many teams are after one of the most […] The post The Five Teams Most Likely to Pursue Trade for Alex Caruso app...2022
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