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• Tyrese Haliburton is the gleeful villain the NBA Finals needs

Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton used constant disrespect to fuel an anti-hero run that can’t be overrated. The ball touched his hands about 10 feet behind the half-court line with 6.4 seconds left to play in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. Cason Wallace picked him up at the logo with Alex Caruso cautiously watching to offer help if needed while staying with his assig...2025
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• Alex Caruso is Quietly Shaping the 2025 NBA Finals
When you think of the OKC Thunder’s rise this season, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren probably come to mind first. But quietly, and lately, not-so-quietly, it’s been Alex Caruso doing a little bit of everything. Defense, playmaking, timely buckets, floor spacing, vocal leadership, and now… more minutes. Caruso logged just two games over 30 minutes […] The post Alex Caruso is ...2025
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• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Gets Candid About Alex Caruso’s Special On-Court Impact As Thunder Veteran Shines in NBA Finals vs. Pacers
As Thunder veteran Alex Caruso elevates his play in the 2025 NBA Finals, his superstar teammate Shai Gilgeous-Alexander raved about his impact....2025
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• Pacers vs. Thunder NBA Finals: Alex Caruso has been giving OKC a little bit of everything — including a lot more minutes

The Thunder's do-it-all energizer and defensive menace has been a bigger part of the offense, and his playing time has increased accordingly in the most important games of the season....2025
• Thunder Rally To Win Game 4 Behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Historic Finish

Oklahoma City Thunder MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 15 points in the final 4:38 to lead a dramatic comeback victory over the Indiana Pacers in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. The Thunder won 111-104 to even the series at 2-2 after trailing by 10 points late in the third quarter. Gilgeous-Alexander finished with 35 points on 12-of-24 shooting while recording no assists. His 15 fourth-quarter points ...2025
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• Thunder's Alex Caruso has been X factor of NBA Finals

The Thunder's sixth man has had his hands all over this series and is the main reason why the Thunder are looking at an even series and not down 3-1....2025

• Tyrese Haliburton is the gleeful villain the NBA Finals needs
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• Isaiah Hartenstein is the special type of good you only notice when it’s gone

For Knicks fans, watching Isaiah Hartenstein get his flowers during the Thunder’s NBA Finals run has been bittersweet, and it would never have happened if it weren’t for a former Celtics owner. Something any longtime Knicks supporter can tell you is that it’s important to maintain perspective, to not get too high off the highs or ruined by the lows, both in life and in sports, because we’ve seen i...2025
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• NBA Finals’ 17 best players ranked for Thunder vs. Pacers series

Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Let’s rank the best players in the 2025 NBA Finals. The 2025 NBA Finals is a classic matchup of an elite offense vs. a historic defense. The Indiana Pacers vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder might not be the series anyone would have expected at the start of the season, but it should provide a thrilling NBA Finals showdown anyway. The Thunder were a popular preseason...2025
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• College basketball’s 6 biggest winners and losers from NBA Draft withdrawal deadline

Here the biggest winners and losers from the 2025 NBA Draft college withdrawal deadline. The strength of the 2025 NBA Draft class was always going to be threatened by the NIL money flowing through college basketball. Now that college players have the opportunity to make millions per season and offer themselves up to the highest bidder via the transfer portal at the end of every year, the allure of...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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• 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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• 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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• 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."

• Tyrese Haliburton is the gleeful villain the NBA Finals needs
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• How OKC Thunder GM Sam Presti became the best executive in sports

Photo by Zach Beeker/NBAE via Getty Images Sam Presti is the GM every fan wishes they could have, or even be. Sam Presti has nothing left to prove. But his team might do some proving anyway. General Manager of the Oklahoma City Thunder; the 2025 NBA Executive of the Year; drafter of Tony Parker, Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden; traded for Paul George when the team was flo...2025
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• Thunder vs. Pacers NBA Finals predictions for champion and MVP

Photo by William Purnell/Getty Images Here are our 2025 NBA Finals predictions. The matchup in the 2025 NBA Finals shouldn’t be as surprising as it feels at first blush. Doubting the Oklahoma City Thunder was always a fool’s errand. The Thunder won 68 games this year, tied for the sixth-most ever, while posting the second-best net-rating ever behind the 72-win 1996 Chicago Bulls. It wasn’t...2025
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• Isaiah Hartenstein is the special type of good you only notice when it’s gone
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• NBA Finals’ 17 best players ranked for Thunder vs. Pacers series
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• Alex Caruso Net Worth and NBA Contract: How Much Does the Finals-Bound Thunder Star Earn?
Alex Caruso went from undrafted to NBA champion and elite defender. Now with OKC, he's signed a 4-year, $81M deal and leads both on and off the court....2025
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• College basketball’s 6 biggest winners and losers from NBA Draft withdrawal deadline
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• Josh Giddey Seeking At Least Five-Year, $120M Deal From Bulls

Josh Giddey will be seeking at least $120 million over five years from the Chicago Bulls in restricted free agency. Giddey, who is represented by Daniel Moldovan, was acquired by the Bulls last June from the Oklahoma City Thunder for Alex Caruso. The Bulls also reportedly never made an extension offer to Giddey last offseason. In 70 games with the Bulls last season, Giddey averaged 14.6 points, 8....2025
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• 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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• Tyrese Haliburton is the gleeful villain the NBA Finals needs
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• Thunder Rally To Win Game 4 Behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Historic Finish
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• Alex Caruso Makes NBA History With 20-Point Game As Thunder Powers Through Pacers To Tie NBA Finals Series
Alex Caruso who averaged less than 10 points per game in a season except once, is now scoring 20-point games in the NBA Finals, making history....2025
• How OKC Thunder GM Sam Presti became the best executive in sports
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• Thunder vs. Pacers NBA Finals predictions for champion and MVP
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• Isaiah Hartenstein is the special type of good you only notice when it’s gone
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• College basketball’s 6 biggest winners and losers from NBA Draft withdrawal deadline
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• Josh Giddey Seeking At Least Five-Year, $120M Deal From Bulls
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• The 5 NBA players who took the biggest 2025 playoff leap, ranked
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• Ranking NBA’s final 4 teams in 2025 Playoffs by most likely to win it all
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• Tyrese Haliburton is the gleeful villain the NBA Finals needs
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• Isaiah Hartenstein is the special type of good you only notice when it’s gone
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• NBA Finals’ 17 best players ranked for Thunder vs. Pacers series
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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

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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

DeMar DeRozan scored a career playoff-high 41 points....2022
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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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• Predicting one breakout player for each NBA team in 2024: Eastern Conference Edition
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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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• Tyrese Haliburton is the gleeful villain the NBA Finals needs
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• Thunder Rally To Win Game 4 Behind Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's Historic Finish
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• Why Did Alex Caruso Leave the Lakers? Revisiting Rob Pelinka’s Bold Decision To Offload Current NBA Finalist
Before Alex Caruso caused chaos defensively for the Thunder in this year’s playoffs, he was making a similar impact for the Lakers....2025
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• Thunder Notes: Caruso, Wiggins, Ownership, Depth, Defensive Strategy
Alex Caruso played 19.3 minutes per game during the regular season but is averaging 23 minutes during the postseason. Caruso, who averaged 28.7 minutes last season with Chicago, said the reduced playing time was by design. The Thunder wanted to keep the hard-nosed guard fresh for a deep playoff run. “I just only have one […]...2025
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• Thunder vs. Pacers NBA Finals predictions for champion and MVP
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• Isaiah Hartenstein is the special type of good you only notice when it’s gone
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• ‘Ultimate Swiss Army Knife’ — LeBron James Makes Feelings Clear On Ex-Lakers Teammate Alex Caruso Ahead of NBA Finals
Find out what LeBron James had to say about Alex Caruso and his role on the Thunder ahead of their NBA Finals matchup against the Pacers....2025
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• Thunder Notes: Caruso, Daigneault, Alexander-Walker, Finals Odds
Alex Caruso is the only Thunder player who has been to the NBA Finals, but he didn’t get the full experience, writes Tim Reynolds of The Associated Press. Although Caruso was a member of the title-winning Lakers team in 2020, the end of that season and the entire playoffs took place in a closed setting […]...2025
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• Tyrese Haliburton is the gleeful villain the NBA Finals needs
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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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• 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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