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• Shaedon Sharpe’s dunk broke NBA record for highest vertical leap in-game

Shaedon Sharpe’s record-breaking vertical leap on alley-oop dunk will be difficult to break Shaedon Sharpe might be the most explosive leaper in the NBA. The Portland Trail Blazers guard was a top-10 draft pick despite coming straight out of high school, and he’s starting to become a big part of the team’s rotation now in his third pro season. Sharpe’s huge putback slam against the Minnesota Timb...2024
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• NBA Draft: Cooper Flagg Still Top Prospect, But Ace Bailey, Others Have Time To Make Case

Duke freshman forward Cooper Flagg has the No. 1 spot in the 2025 NBA Draft locked up. For now, anyway. If you talk to executives, scouts, or anyone who spent Thanksgiving week in Vegas watching the trio of Flagg, Rutgers guard Dylan Harper, and forward Ace Bailey, the message is loud and clear: Flagg is […] The post NBA Draft: Cooper Flagg Still Top Prospect, But Ace Bailey, Others Have Tim...2024
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• LeBron James is losing to Father Time, and the Lakers are cooked

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images Only trades for more help can save the Lakers from falling off a cliff. The Los Angeles Lakers’ first 14 games provided a fleeting moment of hope that perhaps a new head coach really could fix all their problems. Since then, the Lakers have descended into the cold reality of their long-time mediocrity, slipping down the Western Conference standings as th...2024
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• Handicapping NBA’s tank race for Cooper Flagg by most likely team to land No. 1 draft pick

Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images These nine NBA teams are still in the mix for winning the 2025 NBA Draft lottery and the rights to Cooper Flagg. It only took about 20 games for the 2024-2025 NBA season to completely reshape what we thought we knew coming into the year. The Boston Celtics and Oklahoma City Thunder emerging as the championship favorites in each conference was to be exp...2024
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• The Jazz calling a timeout to wipe away their own potential game-winner is incredible tanking

Photo by Chris Gardner/Getty Images The Jazz are firmly in the middle of a rebuild, but it’s safe to say even they (probably) didn’t mean to tank this blatantly in their Sunday night loss to the Lakers. Under normal circumstances, the Utah Jazz (4-16 overall) losing a game would not be headline news. But it was the way they lost against the Lakers on Saturday night to secure that 16th defe...2024
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• Why Dylan Harper is proving to be one of the best true freshman in college basketball

Stephen R. Sylvanie-Imagn Images Harper scored 35-plus points in back-to-back games at the Players Era Festival. When it comes to college basketball, the hottest name in town is Duke Blue Devils star freshman Cooper Flagg, who has opened the season strong and is the projected No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. But, right next to him is fellow five-star freshman Dylan Harper, who has...2024
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• Can the 76ers tank for Cooper Flagg? Yes, but it won’t be easy

Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images Even tanking for Cooper Flagg would be a struggle for the Sixers because of an old trade. The Philadelphia 76ers are supposed to be in the middle of their championship window. Instead, the Sixers own the worst record in the NBA after one month of play, sitting at 2-12 overall after another disastrous loss to the injury-ravaged Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesda...2024
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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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• 8 NBA teams that need to make a trade (and 1 move they could make)

Photo by Tyler Kaufman/Getty Images We ranked eight NBA teams that need to make a move, and took our best shot at coming up with one trade each of them could pull off. It’s fake trade season in the NBA. It’s not actual trade season for a while. Teams don’t buy or sell when they either theoretically liked their roster going into the season or hated it but need teams to get more desperate b...2024
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• The NBA’s Eastern Conference has again descended into loserdom

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images The NBA Eastern Conference was supposed to be better this season. It’s not. This was supposed to be the season the NBA’s Eastern Conference grew up and joined the big leagues. The East has essentially operated like basketball’s junior varsity from the moment Michael Jordan finished pushing off Bryon Russell, but the moves made this summer indicated ...2024
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• College basketball’s top-25 men’s teams, ranked, to start 2024-2025 season

David Butler II-Imagn Images The top-25 teams in men’s college basketball for 2024-2025 season, previewed by our experts Another chapter in college basketball begins on Monday as the 2024-25 season kicks off. Last April, UConn, led by head coach Dan Hurley, cut down the nets in at the national championship in Arizona, beating Purdue 75-60. With the transfer portal, new incoming freshmen...2024
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• 3 NBA teams close to pushing panic button one week into the season

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images The NBA season just opened, but these three teams should already be worried. The NBA’s 82-game regular season is so long and tedious that few teams are ever really out of it until after the All-Star break. Take the 2021-2022 Boston Celtics as the chief example: Boston was just 25-25 through its first 50 games, then finished the year 26-6 before running all ...2024
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• 6 NBA overreactions after 1 game of the 2024-2025 season

Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images Here are our biggest NBA overreactions after every team has played at least one game this season. Overreacting after the first game of a new season is a right of passage for sports fans. Patience is a virtue, but it’s hard to come by after a long summer without the NBA. Most of the time, fans’ earliest overreactions only serve to confirm their own agend...2024
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• Every NBA team ranked by its 2025 championship chances to start season

Photo by Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images Let’s rank every team in the NBA by their 2025 championship chances to start the season. The start of a new NBA season is the ultimate time for optimism. Every team is undefeated, and each organization’s season-long goals are still within reach. The NBA is fully entrenched in its parity era. The league has had a different champion each of the last six ...2024
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• Kawhi Leonard out ‘indefinitely’ with knee injury before Clippers season even begins

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images The season hasn’t even started, and Kawhi Leonard is already out indefinitely with a knee injury. When the Los Angeles Clippers open the 2024-2025 regular season on Wednesday against the Phoenix Suns, they won’t have their best player on the floor. At the moment, no one knows when Kawhi Leonard will return. Leonard is sidelined ‘indefinitely’ with inflammatio...2024
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• NBA mock draft 2024: Updated projection with latest rumors after NBA Finals

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Here’s how we think the 2024 NBA Draft will actually play out. The 2024 NBA Finals are over with the Boston Celtics emerging as champions. The league is now ready to turn the page to next season, starting with the 2024 NBA Draft. The first round of the draft is happening on Wednesday, June 26 on ESPN starting at 8 p.m. ET, and for the first time, th...2024
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• The 11 best NBA prospects in high school basketball right now, ranked

Let’s rank the 11 best NBA prospects in high school basketball today. With the NBA and college hoops calendars in their August doldrums, there’s no better time to catch up on grassroots and high school basketball and start looking ahead at the best talent coming down the pipeline. This is the third time I’ve ranked the best NBA prospects in high school basketball at this site. When I did this exe...2023
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"Photo by John Jones/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Cooper Flagg commits to Duke to be college basketball’s next one-and-done superstar."

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• LeBron James is losing to Father Time, and the Lakers are cooked
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• Hunter Dickinson ejected for kicking Duke player in head after foul

The Kansas star center was ejected on a flagrant-two foul after kicking a Duke player in the head. The Kansas Jayhawks and Duke Blue Devils played a marquee early season matchup in Las Vegas to begin Feast Week in men’s college basketball. While presumptive No. 1 overall NBA draft pick Cooper Flagg drew most of the attention as he took on the No. 1 team in the polls, it was Kansas’ super senior Hu...2024
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• NBA draft primer: Cooper Flagg, Ace Bailey, UConn, sleeper prospects with Tate Frazier | Kevin O'Connor Show

In this week’s episode of The Kevin O'Connor Show, Kevin is joined by Tate Frazier to dive deep into the biggest storylines in college basketball, with an eye on the 2024 NBA Draft. They break down the top prospects, sleepers, and potential steals in a packed episode....2024
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with Cooper Flagg saving one lucky team

Aryanna Frank-Imagn Images Here’s our latest 2025 NBA mock draft. The 2025 NBA Draft lottery is going to be one of the marquee events of the season. For all the talent in this draft class, there will be no drama over who gets selected with the No. 1 overall pick. Cooper Flagg is living up to every ounce of hype at the start of his freshman season at Duke. He feels like one of the strongest...2024
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• Sean Marks Says Nets Don't Use The Word 'Tanking'

The Brooklyn Nets have been an early-season surprise. Brooklyn's 5-8 record is better than many expected at this point in the season. That's got some asking Nets GM Sean Marks if the team would be better off tanking. "We don't use some of those words [like 'tanking'], so it's go compete, go compete and let the chips fall where they may," Marks told NJ.com. Marks understands that many think the Net...2024
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• 10 NBA takeaways after 10 games of the season, starring Nikola Jokic, Celtics, Knicks, and more
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• LeBron James is losing to Father Time, and the Lakers are cooked
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• Why Dylan Harper is proving to be one of the best true freshman in college basketball
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• Hunter Dickinson ejected for kicking Duke player in head after foul
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• Cooper Flagg’s Kentucky matchup will show just how good he is right now

Zachary Taft-Imagn Images Duke is projected to make a run this coming March and the talent of Flagg is a huge reason why. The 2024-25 college basketball season has officially kicked off, as the first week of games provided insight into what should be an eventful season headlined by one of the stronger freshmen classes in recent memory. At the spotlight of it all is Duke Blue Devils five-st...2024
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• 10 NBA takeaways after 10 games of the season, starring Nikola Jokic, Celtics, Knicks, and more
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• LeBron James is losing to Father Time, and the Lakers are cooked
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• Hunter Dickinson ejected for kicking Duke player in head after foul
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• The NBA’s Eastern Conference has again descended into loserdom
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• College basketball’s top-25 men’s teams, ranked, to start 2024-2025 season
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• College basketball’s 10 best freshman for 2024-25 season, ranked

Peter Ackerman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images There are some new faces this season who could help their team make a tournament run come March. The 2024-25 college basketball season is approaching quickly and there will be a decent handful of new-look teams, as this offseason was one of the most hectic ones in recent memory with the transfer portal. While there was a lot of movement ...2024
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• Cooper Flagg commits to Duke as the Blue Devils’ next superstar freshman

Photo by John Jones/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Cooper Flagg commits to Duke to be college basketball’s next one-and-done superstar. Duke men’s basketball has landed its next superstar on the recruiting trail. Cooper Flagg, the consensus No. 1 overall player in the class of 2024, has committed to Duke for the 2024-2025 season. Flagg picked the Blue Devils over UConn. It’s safe to say...2023
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• NBA Rumors: Prospect Sparked Tensions At Jayson Tatum’s Camp

Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum held his annual basketball camp, and word on the street is that one upcoming NBA prospect triggered a multi-time All-Star during a not-so-friendly game of 1-on-1. As the story goes, Cooper Flagg, a 16-year-old prospect from Maine, was in attendance during Tatum’s camp and called out nonother than Bradley Beal. […]...2023
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• Flagg reclassifies, could be top '25 NBA draft pick

Cooper Flagg, arguably the best prospect in high school basketball, announced Friday he is reclassifying from 2025 into the 2024 class - leaving him as the new favorite to be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA draft....2023
• Cooper Flagg and the small New England town that raised basketball’s brightest young star
The NBA hasn’t drafted a Maine native in 40 years. This high schooler from Newport could be the 2025 No. 1 pick....2024
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• Dylan Harper commits to Rutgers over Duke in stunning college hoops recruiting decision

Michael Karas/NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY NETWORK Rutgers (!) has now landed two top-3 overall men’s basketball recruits in the class of 2024. Dylan Harper is spurning the Duke Blue Devils to stay home and try to build a college basketball winner at the most unlikely of schools. Harper has committed to Rutgers, where his father Ron Harper and brother Ron Harper Jr. also starred during thei...2023
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• Peach Jam: NBA scouts pack the gym for A.J. Dybantsa, Cooper Flagg and other top players
Yahoo Sports runs down players NBA scouts were making a priority and getting early eyes on at Peach Jam....2023
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• No. 1 HS Recruit Cooper Flagg Announces He’s Headed to Duke on the Cover of SLAM 247

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• Hunter Dickinson ejected for kicking Duke player in head after foul
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• Cooper Flagg’s Kentucky matchup will show just how good he is right now
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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 need to make a trade (and 1 move they could make)
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• Cooper Flagg is ready to define the next generation of basketball superstardom

Photo by Jim Poorten/NBAE via Getty Images How Cooper Flagg is growing into the next generation’s version of an NBA superstar. Cooper Flagg walked into USA Basketball practice with nothing to lose and everything to prove. He was just about the youngest person in the building, competing against more mature and more accomplished players with far greater pedigrees. He entered the scrimmages ...2024
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• The SLAM Summer Classic Vol. 6 Returns on August 21 at Rucker Park
After a summer filled with traveling across the country–and in some instances overseas–for AAU tournaments and showcases, the pinnacle of the high school season returns this Wednesday when the SLAM Summer Classic Vol. 6 touches down at the famed Rucker Park on August 21st. After last year’s buzzer-beating thriller courtesy of Cooper Flagg, Vol. 6 […] The post The SLAM Summer Classic Vo...2024
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• And-Ones: Flagg, In-Season Tourney, Escrow Payments, Broadcasting Deals
Cooper Flagg goes No. 1 overall to the Nets. Dylan Harper is selected No. 2 by the Wizards. Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman has released his latest 2025 mock draft in the aftermath of major AAU tournaments, NBA camps, FIBA competition and the Paris Olympics. It will be difficult for any prospect to recreate the buzz […]...2024
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• Ron Holland’s NBA Draft stock shouldn’t be defined by G League losing

Photo by Alex Nahorniak-Svenski/NBAE via Getty Images Don’t let Ron Holland’s one season in the G League fool you. The 2024 NBA Draft prospect has always been a winner. Duncanville High School head coach David Peavy stood outside the locker room after the 2023 McDonald’s All-American Game ready to congratulate his star player on the symbolic close to an incredible high school career. When...2024
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• NBA mock draft 2024: Updated projection with latest rumors after NBA Finals
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• NBA mock draft 2024: Updated 1st round projection after March Madness

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Here’s our latest projection of the 2024 NBA Draft now that March Madness is over. The 2024 NBA Draft cycle opened this summer with massive uncertainty over would who emerge as the No. 1 player in the class. With college basketball season now over, and UConn again reigning supreme, it feels like we’re no closer to a consensus answer. The lack of an obvio...2024
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• 5 NBA trade deadline teams who desperately need to make a deal

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images These the teams who need to make a bold move at the NBA trade deadline. The 2024 NBA trade deadline represents the last chance for teams to reload their rosters ahead of the playoffs, or get an early head start on a rebuild before the offseason. With the deadline quickly approaching on Thursday, Feb. 8, there are a number of teams who should be feeling ...2024
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