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• NBA Middle-Class Players Thrive In 2025 Free Agency Despite CBA Concerns

Draymond Green has criticized the NBA's new collective bargaining agreement's impact on players, even as numerous middle-class free agents secured significant contracts this offseason. Green voiced his concerns on his podcast earlier this week, stating the CBA would ultimately hurt players despite initial praise from the National Basketball Players Association. "Before the deal was even signed, [I...2025
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• Teams Demand High Trade Prices For Centers As Lakers Turn To Deandre Ayton

After teams around the league demanded high trade prices from the Los Angeles Lakers for available centers, Rob Pelinka turned to Deandre Ayton after he cleared waivers from the Portland Trail Blazers. The Lakers held approximately $8 million from their midlevel exception while watching center options like Brook Lopez and Clint Capela sign elsewhere on the opening night of free agency. Teams with ...2025
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• Rockets Waive Jock Landale After Signing Clint Capela
The Houston Rockets are waiving center Jock Landale ahead of his July 7 contract guarantee date, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Thursday. The four-year veteran had a non-guaranteed $8 million salary for the 2025-26 season that would have become fully guaranteed on Monday. Rockets Can Stay Below The First Apron With Jock Landale Off […] The post Rockets Waive Jock Landale After S...2025
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• Rockets Waive Jock Landale Ahead Of Guarantee Date

The Houston Rockets have waived Jock Landale ahead of his July 7th guarantee date. Landale agreed to a four-year, $32 million deal with the Rockets during the 2023 offseason, but only the first season was fully guaranteed. The Rockets had to waive Landale in order to stay below the First Apron, which will be triggered as part of their acquisitions of Dorian Finney-Smith and Clint Capela. Landale a...2025
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• 4 NBA free agency winners and 3 losers after wave of 2025 player movement

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images Let’s hand out the biggest winners and losers in free agency. NBA free agency remains ongoing, but at this point most of the top players have come off the board. Next season’s NBA championship picture is already taking shape, and there are some clear winners and losers from the offseason. The reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder will head into next ...2025
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• Kevin Durant Trade Could Expand To League-Record Seven Teams

The Phoenix Suns and Houston Rockets are working to involve a league-record seven teams in the Kevin Durant trade, sources told Fred Katz of The Athletic. The Atlanta Hawks, Brooklyn Nets, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers and Minnesota Timberwolves would also get involved in the deal. The details of the trade are currently being negotiated, with no deal imminent. The framework involves th...2025
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• 4 NBA free agency winners and 3 losers after wave of 2025 player movement
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• Kristaps Porzingis trade grades for Hawks, Celtics, Nets in 3-team deal

John Jones-Imagn Images Let’s grade the Kristaps Porzingis trade between the Hawks, Celtics, and Nets from every side. The Boston Celtics’ teardown in the wake of Jayson Tatum’s torn Achilles is fully underway. On Monday night, the Celtics traded Jrue Holiday to the Portland Trail Blazers. On Tuesday, the Celtics traded away another key piece from their 2024 championship team by sending Kr...2025
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• Why Knicks fans have rallied around ‘F*** Trae Young’

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Knicks fans celebrating their NBA Playoffs run have found an unlikely unifying figure in the Atlanta Hawks All-Star. I spent the morning of Tuesday, May 13 partaking in an activity I find myself doing often after Knicks wins the last few postseasons: Scrolling through my phone, soaking in the ebullient Twitter chatter — the insightful clips breaking down the game...2025
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• Hawks’ Capela Suffers Hand Injury, Likely Out For Regular Season
Atlanta Hawks center Clint Capela is expected to miss the remainder of the regular season after suffering a hand injury. The team disclosed that Capela has a ligament injury in the fourth metacarpal of his left hand. He will be re-evaluated in three to four weeks before a timetable to return is established. Capela has […] The post Hawks’ Capela Suffers Hand Injury, Likely Out For Regul...2025
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• Clint Capela To Be Re-Evaluated 3-4 Weeks With Ligament Injury In Left Hand

The Atlanta Hawks diagnosed Clint Capela with a ligament injury in the fourth metacarpal of his left hand following an MRI on Friday. Capela will be re-evaluated in 3-4 weeks. Capela is averaging 8.9 points and 8.5 rebounds on the season....2025
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• Hawks’ Clint Capela Out At Least 3-4 Weeks With Hand Injury

Clint Capela has been diagnosed with a ligament injury in the fourth metacarpal of his left hand, according to the Hawks, who announced (via Twitter) that the veteran center will be out at least three-to-four weeks as he rehabilitates. It’s worth noting that Atlanta says Capela will be reevaluated in three-to-four weeks, not that he’s […]...2025
• Hawks' Capela expected out rest of regular season
Atlanta Hawks center Clint Capela is expected to miss the remainder of the regular season with an injury to his left hand....2025
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• 4 winners and 3 losers from Luka Doncic, Anthony Davis trade for Lakers, Mavericks

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images Here are our winners and losers from the big Luka Doncic, Anthony trade between the Lakers and Mavs. It’s still hard to believe the Luka Doncic-for-Anthony Davis trade between the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks is real. Trades like this only happen in fantasy basketball or NBA 2K dynasties; in the real world, 25-year-olds with five First-Team ...2025
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• 30 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images Let’s jump around the league to find the players most likely to get relocated at the 2025 NBA trade deadline. In a now-annual tradition at SB Nation, we are scouring through the internet’s endless supply of NBA trade rumors and asking around our NBA team site network to ask our local experts (alongside some national analysis from yours truly) to see ...2025
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• NBA MVP candidates, ranked for 2025 by who should win the award right now

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/Getty Images Let’s rank the candidates for the 2025 NBA MVP award. What makes an NBA MVP? For some, the award should go to the best player alive regardless of team performance. To others, MVP has a stronger narrative pull for players who elevated their team to new heights (see: Derrick Rose in 2011) or who broke through unthinkable glass ceilings (see: Russell Wes...2025
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• Knicks’ Julius Randle, Derrick Rose’s savage clap back at Clint Capela’s NSFW comments
The Atlanta Hawks are one game away from eliminating the New York Knicks from the NBA Playoffs. Ahead of Game 5, Hawks center Clint Capela gave some interesting comments and said the Hawks were going to send the Knicks “on vacation.” Julius Randle, the Knicks star and NBA’s Most Improved Player of the Year, gave […] The post Knicks’ Julius Randle, Derrick Rose’s savag...2021
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• Houston Rockets Confident That Clint Capela Will Fill Void Left by Dwight Howard
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"Atlanta Hawks center Clint Capela is expected to miss the remainder of the regular season with an injury to his left hand."

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"Antetokounmpo made the best play of the Cup at the end of the East finals, rotating for a weakside block on Clint Capela to seal the win."

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"It was the 2017-18 Houston Rockets, which included James Harden, Clint Capela and P."

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"Hawks big man Clint Capela had to be helped to the locker room after suffering what appears to be a scary knee injury."

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"Hawks' Trae Young, Clint Capela both listed as questionable for Game 5 of Eastern Conference finals"

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"The Rockets, Hawks, Timberwolves and Nuggets have agreed to a multiplayer trade that includes Clint Capela and Robert Covington, among other players, and draft picks, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski."

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"The game plan, Thompson said, was to keep it two-on-two on the ball and force Harden and Clint Capela to score."

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"The post Clint Capela Says Rockets Are Better Than the Warriors appeared first on SLAMonline."

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"Randle threw elbows to the head of both Clint Capela and Ryan Anderson in rapid succession."

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"9 million deal Wednesday, where he should serve as a backup behind Clint Capela and Ryan Anderson."

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"Dan Feldman of NBC Sports' Pro Basketball Talk wrote about Houston's perspective in any potential trade involving Howard: "Howard can opt out this summer, and Houston already has a viable replacement starting center—Clint Capela, who's nine years younger than Howard."

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"HOUSTON – Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey announced that the team assigned center Clint Capela to"

• NBA Middle-Class Players Thrive In 2025 Free Agency Despite CBA Concerns
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• Teams Demand High Trade Prices For Centers As Lakers Turn To Deandre Ayton
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• Rockets Waive Jock Landale After Signing Clint Capela
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• 4 NBA free agency winners and 3 losers after wave of 2025 player movement
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• Kevin Durant Trade Could Expand To League-Record Seven Teams
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• Hollinger & Duncan: Wacky Start to Free Agency
Nate and John dive into NBA free agency, headlined by Denver's bold roster shake-up and what it means for their title aspirations. They unpack Houston's flurry of moves and debate where the Rockets stand in the West. The duo also examines the Lakers' long-term plan with LeBron and Luka, Milwaukee's all-in bet on Myles Turner, and where teams stack up in the suddenly wide-open Eastern Conference. P...2025
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• Lakers Still Considering Deandre Ayton, Other Free Agents, Trade Targets

The Los Angeles Lakers entered the offseason prioritizing the center position, but they have yet to make any moves nearly 24 hours since the official start of free agency. The Lakers are considering signing Deandre Ayton, as well as other options in free agency and on the trade market. The Lakers were linked with Brook Lopez, but he agreed to sign a two-year, $18 million offer with the Los Angele...2025
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• Clint Capela Agrees To Three-Year Contract With Rockets
The Rockets continued to retool their frontcourt by agreeing to a three-year, $21.5MM contract with Hawks free agent Clint Capela, ESPN’s Shams Charania tweets. The contract is fully guaranteed, Charania adds (Twitter link). It’s no surprise that Capela, who lost his starting job in the second half of this past season, was leaving Atlanta. The […]...2025
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• Clint Capela, Rockets Agree To Three-Year, $21.5M Deal
Clint Capela has agreed to a three-year, $21.5 million deal with the Houston Rockets. Capela returns to the Rockets after his trade to the Atlanta Hawks at the trade deadline in 2020. Capela is coming off a two-year, $46 million contract extension signed with the Hawks in 2021. Capela averaged 8.9 points, 8.5 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.0 blocks in 21.4 minutes across 55 games with the Hawks. Cape...2025
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• Deandre Ayton To Lakers Considered 'Strong Possibility'

Deandre Ayton's buyout agreement with the Portland Trail Blazers on the eve of free agency was a surprise across the NBA and he could find a new team in the Los Angeles Lakers. Sources tell Chris Haynes on NBATV that Ayton signing with the Lakers is "a strong possibility." The Lakers also have interest in Brook Lopez, Clint Capela and Al Horford. Last season, Ayton averaged 14.4 points, 10.2 rebou...2025
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• Rockets Waive Jock Landale Ahead Of Guarantee Date
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• Clint Capela, Rockets Agree To Three-Year, $21.5M Deal
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• Deandre Ayton To Lakers Considered 'Strong Possibility'
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• Lakers Not Making Any Calls To Gauge Trade Value Of Austin Reaves

The Los Angeles Lakers are not making any trade calls to gauge the potential value of Austin Reaves, a source told The Athletic. Reaves recently turned down a four-year, $89.2 million extension offer as he can make significantly more money during the 2026 offseason. Reaves has some level of overlap with Luka Doncic and LeBron James despite his emergence as a fringe All-Star candidate last season. ...2025
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• Lakers Inquired With Hawks On Onyeka Okongwu Trade At Deadline

The Los Angeles Lakers are almost certain to pursue an upgrade at center this offseason following their rescinded trade for Mark Williams. The Lakers offered Luka Doncic a list of centers to target and it is believed Onyeka Okongwu was also on it. "Before the Mark Williams trade, and I can't tell you all the names on that list that Rob Pelinka presented to Luka, [but] I do know that the Lakers mad...2025
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• Why Knicks fans have rallied around ‘F*** Trae Young’
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• Could Lakers make a run at Clint Capela in offseason?

With two weeks remaining in the NBA regular season, the Lakers are focused on securing their postseason spot rather than free agency. The Lakers (46-29) remain in fourth place in the Western Conference standings after Monday’s home win over the Rockets. However, general manager Rob Pelinka and advisor JJ Redick will soon need to turn […] The post Could Lakers make a run at Clint Capela...2025
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• Clint Capela To Be Re-Evaluated 3-4 Weeks With Ligament Injury In Left Hand
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• 30 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline
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• NBA MVP candidates, ranked for 2025 by who should win the award right now
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• Hollinger & Duncan: Wacky Start to Free Agency
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• Wolves’ Kevin Durant trade offer would be a huge overpay if true

Photo by Kelsey Grant/Getty Images The Wolves should be careful not to put too much on the table for Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant is going to be traded, and it could happen at any minute. The Phoenix Suns have been parsing through offers for the superstar scorer on the brink of his 37th birthday. Durant reportedly has a preference to go to the San Antonio Spurs, and he’s also interested in j...2025
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• Why Knicks fans have rallied around ‘F*** Trae Young’
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts

Photo by Alex Goodlett/Getty Images Here are the NBA players who could be traded before the new season begins. Player movement typically comes in waves during the NBA offseason, and it feels like the first wave is officially over for the summer of 2024. The draft has come and gone with some big surprises (Zach Edey to the Grizzlies!), major trades have gone down (Mikal Bridges to the Knick...2024
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• The real highlight for Jaylen Brown came right before his poster dunk

Jaylen Brown's massive dunk on Clint Capela will steal headlines, but it was what the Celtics star did moments before that has Chris Forsberg's attention....2023
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• Remembering Manu Ginobili, a completely modern player before his time
Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images A look back at the brilliance of Spurs legend Manu Ginobili. Last off-season, I spent the entirety of my basketball life working on a mini-series called “Blazing the Trail.” In that series, we focused on 10 players with skill sets that made them ahead of their time. Guys like Rashard Lewis, Reggie Miller, and Chauncey Billups were all subj...2023
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• WATCH: Hawks big man Clint Capela helped to locker room after scary knee injury vs. Cavs
The Atlanta Hawks have been given a proper scare in the dying moments of the first half of their do-or-die Play-In matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Hawks big man Clint Capela had to be helped to the locker room after suffering what appears to be a scary knee injury. This was a bit of a […] The post WATCH: Hawks big man Clint Capela helped to locker room after scary knee injury vs. Ca...2022
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• Hawks center Clint Capela bares truth on intense racism before coming to NBA
It has been an intense journey from Switzerland to the Houston Rockets to the Atlanta Hawks for center Clint Capela, and when he looks back on it, he sees that things were a lot different back then to how they are now. Growing up as a black person in Switzerland to parents that immigrated from […] The post Hawks center Clint Capela bares truth on intense racism before coming to NBA appeared ...2022
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• REPORT: ‘Everyone’ but Clint Capela, Trae Young Available in Atlanta
After a season that saw the Atlanta Hawks finish fourth in the Eastern Conference and end up in the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals, this season has been an evident disappointment. Atlanta sits 12th in the Eastern Conference at the moment with a record of 17-23 and three games back of the 10th and final play-in seed. […] The post REPORT: ‘Everyone’ but Clint Capela, Trae Young Ava...2022
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• Watch: Steve Kerr mocks James Harden for complaining about foul
The second quarter of Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets featured a rather amusing moment between Houston star James Harden and Golden State coach Steve Kerr.It started when Warriors’ star Stephen Curry drew a foul on Rockets’ center Clint Capela by leaning into Capela on a three. Houston players, including Harden, objected to the call nea...2018
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• Dwight Howard Reportedly Unhappy Playing Alongside James Harden
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• Kobe Bryant Has ‘No Idea’ Where Poster Dunk Came from
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• Hawks' Trae Young, Clint Capela both listed as questionable for Game 5 of Eastern Conference finals
Young is dealing with a bone bruise while Capela has right eye inflammation...2021
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• Are Houston Rockets Ready for the Even-Better Western Conference?
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• Friday NBA Roundup: Different Season, Same Story for Defending Champion Warriors
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• Rockets' Clint Capela Starts NBA Career with Monster Dunk over Patrick Patterson
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• Clint Capela Posterizes Spencer Hawes (VIDEO)
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• Clint Capela Posterizes Brandon Knight (VIDEO)
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• 4 winners and 3 losers from Luka Doncic, Anthony Davis trade for Lakers, Mavericks
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• NBA DFS: Clint Capela and top picks for March 13 FanDuel, DraftKings daily fantasy basketball lineups
Mike McClure, a DFS pro with almost $2 million in career earnings, gives optimal lineup advice...2019
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• Do the Los Angeles Lakers Have the Best Bench in the NBA?
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• Daily Fantasy Basketball 2015: Best DFS NBA DraftKings Daily Values for Nov. 7
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• Houston Rockets' Supporting Cast Makes Big Statement and Saturday NBA Takeaways
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• How Badly Do Houston Rockets Need an Upgrade at Point Guard?
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• Every NBA Team's 'Real Age' Visualized
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• 4 NBA free agency winners and 3 losers after wave of 2025 player movement
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• Clint Capela Agrees To Three-Year Contract With Rockets
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• Kristaps Porzingis trade grades for Hawks, Celtics, Nets in 3-team deal
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• Wolves’ Kevin Durant trade offer would be a huge overpay if true
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• Report: Lakers Tried To Trade For Hawks’ Onyeka Okongwu Before Failed Mark Williams Deal
According to Dave McMenamin of ESPN, the Los Angeles Lakers tried to acquire Atlanta Hawks center Onyeka Okongwu before the failed Mark Williams deal with the Charlotte Hornets. The Hawks kept Okongwu, who took Clint Capela‘s starting spot. The Lakers acquired Williams from the Hornets, but the deal was rescinded after Williams failed his physical […] The post Report: Lakers Trie...2025
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• Why Knicks fans have rallied around ‘F*** Trae Young’
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• 4 winners and 3 losers from Luka Doncic, Anthony Davis trade for Lakers, Mavericks
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• 30 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline
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• Hawks Move Clint Capela To Bench
Hawks coach Quin Snyder made an eye-opening lineup switch on Monday, Michael Scotto of Hoops Hype notes (Twitter link). Onyeka Okongwu started at center and Clint Capela came off the bench. Capela had started 313 of 316 games since arriving in Atlanta in February 2020. He hadn’t come off the bench since Jan. 2023. Capela […]...2025
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• NBA MVP candidates, ranked for 2025 by who should win the award right now
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• NBA Rumors: Kings, Dennis Schroder, Clippers, Clint Capela, Grizzlies, Ty Jerome, Bucks

With NBA free agency just hours away, buzz continues to circulate around the league, and it’s moving fast. Veteran point guard Dennis Schroder appears poised to sign a two-year deal with the Sacramento Kings using the non-taxpayer mid-level exception, per Marc Stein and Jake Fischer of The Stein Line. Meanwhile, free agent guard D’Angelo Russell […] The post NBA Rumors: Kings, Dennis S...2025
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• 30 players most likely to be moved at the NBA trade deadline
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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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• Breaking Down The Four-Team, Clint Capela Mega-Trade
Despite speculation that the 2020 trade deadline would leave much to be desired, four NBA squads blew away any such notion when they agreed upon a massive deal involving 12 players and multiple first-round picks. The biggest name involved in the deal is Clint Capela but what’s most important about the pact is how four […] The post Breaking Down The Four-Team, Clint Capela Mega-Trade ap...2020
• Wednesday NBA Roundup: Joel Embiid, Kristaps Porzingis in Disparate Situations
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• Monday NBA Roundup: Rockets' Approach Makes Them Both Dangerous and Vulnerable
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• Dwight Howard: Latest News, Rumors, Speculation on Rockets Star's Future
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• 30 Bold Predictions for the Final Month of the 2015-16 NBA Season
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• NBA Rising Stars Challenge: Buy or Sell Each 'Rising Star' as a Future All-Star
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• Houston Rockets Most Likely to Be Traded Before the Deadline
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