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• East Notes: Heat, Bam Adebayo, Knicks, Magic, Desmond Bane

Entering last year, Heat power forward Bam Adebayo looked ready to add a new wrinkle to his game with an actual three-point shot. He hit 79 triples after making just nine in his career before March 2024. But as relayed by ESPN’s Zach Kram, the rest of Adebayo’s offense fell off. His true shooting percentage […] The post East Notes: Heat, Bam Adebayo, Knicks, Magic, Desmond Bane a...2025
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• Eastern Notes: Bane, Heat Asset Management, Magic-Heat Rivalry, Bulls Promotions
The Magic made one of the biggest moves of the offseason, trading multiple assets and veteran players to acquire Desmond Bane from the Grizzlies. John Schuhmann, the senior stats analyst for NBA.com, breaks down how Bane can impact Orlando’s offense. Using a film study approach, Schuhmann displays Bane’s strength and how he can blend with […]...2025
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• Jaren Jackson Jr. Reveals Special Reason He’s Changing to No. 8 Jersey
After a turbulent year in Memphis, Jaren Jackson Jr. is ready to turn the page. In case you’ve forgotten, the team fired head coach Taylor Jenkins with nine games left, lost Ja Morant to injury, got swept in the first round by the Thunder and traded away Desmond Bane. The two-time All-Star signed a five-year, $240 […] The post Jaren Jackson Jr. Reveals Special Reason He’s Changing to N...2025
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• Jaren Jackson Jr. Reveals How He Felt After Grizzlies Shockingly Traded Desmond Bane to Magic
The Memphis Grizzlies’ playoff dreams were cut short, but the real shock came after the season ended in the form of a blockbuster trade....2025
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• Dunc'd On: West Offseason Grades 2025

Nate and Danny hand out offseason grades for all 15 Western Conference teams, analyzing each front office's approach in free agency, trades, and the draft. They highlight Dallas' aggressive moves to build around Cooper Flagg, Denver's big move for Cam Johnson, and Golden State's crossroads as they navigate their aging core. The Rockets' eventful offseason, the Clippers' reshuffling around James Ha...2025
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• West Offseason Grades 2025

Nate and Danny hand out offseason grades for all 15 Western Conference teams, analyzing each front office's approach in free agency, trades, and the draft. They highlight Dallas' aggressive moves to build around Cooper Flagg, Denver's quiet summer and internal development strategy, and Golden State's crossroads as they navigate their aging core. The Rockets' eventful offseason, the Clippers' reshu...2025
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• Jaren Jackson Jr. Reveals Special Reason He’s Changing to No. 8 Jersey
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• NBA’s 6 best moves of the offseason, ranked

Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post Ranking the 6 best NBA moves of the offseason so far. Is there one more big move left in the NBA offseason? A year ago, the New York Knicks and Minnesota Timberwolves completed a buzzer-beater blockbuster that exchanged Karl-Anthony Towns for Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo on the eve of media day. The year before that, Damian Lillard was traded to th...2025
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• 6 NBA teams stuck in purgatory

Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images These six NBA teams are going nowhere fast. What does it mean to be stuck in NBA purgatory? The easiest definition is a team that isn’t good enough to win a playoff series, but also won’t be bad enough to get a crack at a franchise-changing prospect at the top of the NBA Draft. In fairness, the flattened odds in the draft lottery have consistently failed to rewa...2025
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• 7 NBA players who are too good for Las Vegas Summer League 2025

Photo by Ryan Stetz/NBAE via Getty Images These second-year players have proven they’re too good for Las Vegas Summer League. By now, NBA fans should know to be wary of drawing too many definitive conclusions from Las Vegas Summer League. The sample sizes are small, the practice time is limited, and roster are often missing key pieces (like pass-first point guards) that help lineup constru...2025
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• 7 NBA teams that got better this offseason, ranked by how much they improved

These teams are ready to make a leap next season. There’s still about three months left in the NBA offseason before teams report to training camp for the start of the 2025-26 season, but the championship picture is already starting to take shape. The Oklahoma City Thunder will enter the season as the favorites to repeat, and the Denver Nuggets and Houston Rockets look like their two biggest chall...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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• Damian Lillard’s 7 best NBA free agency landing spots, ranked by fit

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Let’s rank the best free agency destinations for Damian Lillard. Damian Lillard never expected to be a free agent this summer. The Milwaukee Bucks had other plans, pulling off a bold scheme to waive-and-stretch Lillard to open up the cap space to sign Myles Turner away from the Indiana Pacers. Lillard will be out for all of the 2025-26 season as he recove...2025
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• The Sixers might have accidentally stumbled back into championship contention

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Don’t look now, but the Sixers may have a clear path to Joel Embiid’s first conference finals. The NBA is a serious business. The Philadelphia 76ers are a serious franchise. I am a serious person. So trust me when I say that I am being completely serious in declaring totally, 100% seriously that the 76ers are maybe-sorta-kinda the favorite...2025
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• NBA Draft’s 5 biggest winners and 3 losers in 2025 class

Photo by Steve Freeman/NBAE via Getty Images Here are our biggest winners and losers from the 2025 NBA Draft. The biggest intrigue in the 2025 NBA Draft was settled with the lottery drawing. Cooper Flagg was the wire-to-wire No. 1 overall player in this class, and the only question was who would land him. The Dallas Mavericks were the lucky winners of the lottery, and on Wednesday night th...2025
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• 10 best NBA Draft picks in 2025 that get an A-grade from us

Brad Penner-Imagn Images The 10 best picks from the 2025 NBA Draft The first round of the 2025 NBA Draft has come and gone, with some foregone conclusions (Cooper Flagg first) to some unexpected surprises (Yang Hansen, anyone?). Through all of these, however, some picks were made that passed the sniff test with flying colors. In my colleague Ricky O’Donnell’s instant NBA Draft Round 1 grad...2025
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• NBA mock draft 2024: Perfect picks for every team

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images Here’s our latest 2024 NBA mock draft. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder in the 2024 NBA Draft. An entire draft cycle has come and gone without the emergence of a clear No. 1 overall prospect. This is the type of draft bound to cause massive disagree on individual boards for executives even within the same team. A few storylines have emerged. Three young...2024
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• The NBA’s 11 best young cores, ranked by their future championship potential
Let’s rank the best young cores in the NBA. The future always seems so far away in the NBA until it’s not. It wasn’t long ago that Boston Celtics duo Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown, Denver Nuggets tandem Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray, and Phoenix Suns trio Devin Booker, Mikal Bridges, and Deandre Ayton made up the league’s best young cores. Only a few years later, all three teams have appeared in t...2023
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"The Grizzlies are trading Desmond Bane to the Magic for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, four unprotected first-round picks and one first-round pick swap, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania."

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"Draymond Green and Desmond Bane Dap It Out After Heated Moment in Warriors-Grizzlies"

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"The Grizzlies staved off elimination in this first-round series by handling James and the Los Angeles Lakers, 116-99, in Game 5 on Wednesday behind 33 points from Desmond Bane."

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"Two of the four wins the Lakers scored over 130 points with an average margin of […] The post LeBron James, Desmond Bane caught jawing in heated moment in Lakers vs Grizzlies game appeared first on ClutchPoints."

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"LeBron avoided a serious injury after the Grizzlies' Desmond Bane fell to the ground and crashed into his leg"

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"The Grizz promptly drafted Desmond Bane with the selection."

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"(AP) Desmond Bane had 16 points, hitting three free throws with 2."

• Dunc'd On: West Offseason Grades 2025
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• NBA’s 6 best moves of the offseason, ranked
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• Bucks Officially Sign Cole Anthony

The Milwaukee Bucks have officially signed guard Cole Anthony, the team announced in a press release. Anthony, 25, was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies as part of the Orlando Magic’s deal for Desmond Bane. He agreed to a contract buyout with Memphis and was subsequently waived. It is believed he will receive a one-year deal, […] The post Bucks Officially Sign Cole Anthony appeared first...2025
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• 6 NBA teams stuck in purgatory
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• 7 NBA players who are too good for Las Vegas Summer League 2025
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• Cole Anthony Agrees To Buyout With Grizzlies, Will Sign One-Year Deal With Bucks

Cole Anthony has agreed to a contract buyout with the Memphis Grizzlies, sources told Shams Charania of ESPN. Anthony is set to sign a one-year deal with the Bucks after he clears waivers. Anthony was sent to the Grizzlies as part of the Desmond Bane trade with the Magic. Anthony averaged 12.5 points, 4.3 assists and 3.8 rebounds in his five seasons with the Magic. The buyout gives the Grizzlies...2025
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• Magic, Paolo Banchero agree to five-year max contract, locking up promising core in Orlando
The Magic now have Banchero, Franz Wagner and Jalen Suggs locked up, and they just added Desmond Bane....2025
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• 7 NBA teams that got better this offseason, ranked by how much they improved
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• 4 NBA free agency winners and 3 losers after wave of 2025 player movement
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• Eastern Notes: Bane, Heat Asset Management, Magic-Heat Rivalry, Bulls Promotions
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• 7 NBA players who are too good for Las Vegas Summer League 2025
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• Cole Anthony Agrees To Buyout With Grizzlies, Will Sign One-Year Deal With Bucks
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• Grizzlies Working On Cole Anthony Exit To Create Cap Space
The Memphis Grizzlies are working with Cole Anthony on his exit that creates cap space for the team to finalize their renegotiate-and-extend deal with Jaren Jackson Jr. The Grizzlies acquired Anthony as part of their Desmond Bane deal with the Orlando Magic. Anthony is on a $13.1 million deal this season while his $13.1 million for 2026-27 is a team option. Anthony signed a three-year, $39.1 milli...2025
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• 5 best NBA Draft team hauls and 2 teams who didn’t do enough

Photos by Michael Gonzales/NBAE via Getty Images Here’s who helped themselves and who didn’t in the 2025 NBA Draft. The 2025 NBA Draft has been dissected from every angle by now. At this point, all that’s left is to watch how this incoming rookie class performs at Las Vegas Summer League before heading to training camp to start their NBA careers. Teams need to think about the future, not ...2025
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• Central Notes: Pistons Approach, Pistons Draft, Portis, Buzelis
The Magic traded major assets to acquire Desmond Bane. Should the Pistons make a similar move at this stage? According to Omari Sankofa of the Detroit Free Press, Detroit may be more patient because of its financial situation. As Sankofa points out, Orlando has already signed multiple players to big extensions, which will lead to […]...2025
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• Grizzlies View Jaylen Wells As Wing Starter After Trading Desmond Bane

The Memphis Grizzlies view second-round rookie Jaylen Wells as a long-term starter on the wing following their trade of Desmond Bane to the Orlando Magic, sources told ESPN. Wells, who finished third in Rookie of the Year voting, averaged 10.4 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.7 assists across 79 games. The rookie shot 35.2 percent from three-point range during his debut season. Memphis traded Bane to th...2025
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• Magic Acquire Desmond Bane From Grizzlies For Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, Four First Round Picks

The Orlando Magic have agreed to acquire Desmond Bane from the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Cole Anthony, four first-round picks and a first-round pick swap. This deal will likely be completed prior to the league year changing over on July 1, due to tax apron issues for Orlando. The picks the Magic are sending the Grizzlies are the 16th overall pick in the 2025 NBA D...2025
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• Desmond Bane trade grades for Magic-Grizzlies on NBA’s first big summer deal

Cary Edmondson-Imagn Images The Magic went all-in for Desmond Bane. Let’s grade the trade between Orlando and the Grizzlies for both sides. The 2025 NBA Finals are in full swing, but trade season is already here. The Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic agreed to the first blockbuster of the summer, with a massive deal that aims to push the Magic into the elite tier of the Eastern Conferenc...2025
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• Hollinger & Duncan: Bane Trade, KD Trade, Draft Boards
John and Nate react to the shocking Desmond Bane trade from both Memphis and Orlando's perspectives. They also assess where Kevin Durant might end up, and what kind of return Phoenix could realistically expect. Then it's time for their final draft board discussion before the big day, including Cooper Flagg's long-term upside, the rest of the top-5, and some of John's favorite sleepers. What to mak...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for June 16, 2025

Denny Medley-Imagn Images A winless homestand. Anne Rogers writes about the winless homestand. “It wasn’t good,” shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. said. “It was bad. You got to flush it and have an off-day tomorrow, and that’s all you can do right now. Can’t change what happened in those games. But also, you can just learn from it. And we got to learn from it. “Because we just got beat by teams th...2025
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• Desmond Bane, Santi Aldama Downplay Altercation
Last week, during a win over the Utah Jazz, Memphis Grizzlies guard Desmond Bane was caught on camera yelling at, then shoving teammate Santa Aldama. Bane reportedly called out Aldama's lack of defense. When Aldama yelled back, Bane pushed the forward into the team's bench. Despite the altercation, Bane and Aldama agree that there's no lingering bad feeling between the two. "Two competitors," Bane...2025
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• 1 trade for all 30 NBA teams to fix the whole league for Christmas

Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images Are all these trades legal under the NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement? Yes. Will every team involved hate them? Quite possibly. The holiday season is about rebirth and renewal. It’s a moment of reflection, when we are all afforded a chance to improve ourselves in the new year. Many people vow to go to the gym more, to quit smoking, to b...2024
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• Ja Morant threw an alley-oop from his butt

Only Ja Morant could pull this off. Ja Morant plays with a creative flare that few other players in the NBA can match. The Memphis Grizzlies point guard is back in the lineup this season after missing most of last year due to injury and suspension, and still creating plays that only he could dream up. Morant had his best game of the young season on Thursday night against the lifeless Milwaukee Buc...2024
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• Giannis Antetokounmpo trade rumors will never stop until he actually leaves the Bucks

Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images The Bucks on the brink of crisis. That can only mean one thing: Giannis Antetokounmpo trade rumors. The Milwaukee Bucks feel like they’re on the verge of disaster barely a week into the 2024-25 NBA season, and it only keeps getting worse. On Thursday, Milwaukee lost to a Memphis Grizzlies team without Desmond Bane and playing on the second night of a b...2024
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• NBA mock draft 2024: Perfect picks for every team
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• Ja Morant needs to grow behind closed doors to be the leader the Grizzlies need
Photo by Adam Pantozzi/NBAE via Getty Images Ja Morant is in the endgame. Ja Morant was suspended 25 games by the National Basketball Association on Friday. The league has made it clear that Ja’s behavior is “destructive” and the union for the players has stated that the suspension was “excessive”. Perhaps there will be an appeal. Perhaps there won’t. Maybe Ja has grounds to win such a pro...2023
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• Why the Grizzlies and Warriors should both bounce back in first round of NBA Playoffs
Photo by Loren Elliott/Getty Images A Game 1 loss doesn’t define an NBA Playoff series. It’s going down. The 2023 NBA Playoffs are under way, and some teams are feeling better about their prospects than others. For two squads linked by fairly real bad blood and a possible continuation of their “dispute” in the second round, this is especially true. In Memphis, the Grizzlies are wounded in ...2023
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• Grizzlies stave off elimination against Lakers: How Memphis forced a Game 6 by limiting LeBron James
MEMPHIS — It doesn’t happen often, LeBron James’ team losing a closeout game in the playoffs. To finish off a comeback in this series, the Memphis Grizzlies are going to need a lot more of it. The Grizzlies staved off elimination in this first-round series by handling James and the Los Angeles Lakers, 116-99, in Game 5 on Wednesday behind 33 points from Desmond Bane. Memphis needs two more wins to...2023
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• Grizzlies’ Desmond Bane Makes Bold Promise After Game 5 Win vs. Lakers

He’ll look to back up his comments on Friday in Game 6....2023
• NBA free agency 2023: Desmond Bane agrees to $207M max extension with Grizzlies
Desmond Bane is returning to the Grizzlies on a max deal....2023
• NBA Scores: LeBron James, Anthony Davis made timely plays as Lakers take 3-1 lead
Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images Meanwhile, the Lakers topped the Grizzlies, who now find themselves in a dreaded 3-1 hole over their own. Jimmy Butler’s masterpiece leads Heat over Bucks, 119-114 Before the playoffs began, people were penciling the Milwaukee Bucks into a spot in the Eastern Conference Finals. It didn’t matter that we did not yet know their opponent in t...2023
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• Sources: Grizz send Bane to Magic in blockbuster
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• LeBron James, Desmond Bane caught jawing in heated moment in Lakers vs Grizzlies game
The Los Angeles Lakers hosted the Memphis Grizzlies Sunday night in a battle of two teams moving in the right direction. The Lakers after struggling for much of the year, are in the middle of a four-game winning streak. Two of the four wins the Lakers scored over 130 points with an average margin of […] The post LeBron James, Desmond Bane caught jawing in heated moment in Lakers vs Grizzlies...2022
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• Steve Kerr has talked to Desmond Bane, Jaren Jackson Jr. and Alex Caruso about playing on Team USA, per report

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• Ja Morant’s perfect reaction to Desmond Bane’s viral LeBron James moment
The Los Angeles Lakers and the Memphis Grizzlies played a few weeks ago, and Desmond Bane and LeBron James went at it a few times. They had to be separated many times, and the officials warned them to stop trash-talking. The remarks said by LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers to Memphis Grizzlies second-year […] The post Ja Morant’s perfect reaction to Desmond Bane’s viral LeB...2022
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• Jaren Jackson Jr. Reveals How He Felt After Grizzlies Shockingly Traded Desmond Bane to Magic
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• NBA’s 6 best moves of the offseason, ranked
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• 6 NBA teams stuck in purgatory
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• 7 NBA players who are too good for Las Vegas Summer League 2025
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• ESPN Analyst Makes Bold Prediction for Orlando Magic in the East After Blockbuster Desmond Bane Trade
Orlando’s blockbuster trade for Desmond Bane is called the move that will win the East, as NBA free agency reshapes the league’s playoff race....2025
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• 4 NBA free agency winners and 3 losers after wave of 2025 player movement
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• Damian Lillard’s 7 best NBA free agency landing spots, ranked by fit
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• The Sixers might have accidentally stumbled back into championship contention
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• NBA free agency instant grades for every major 2025 signing and trade

Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Let’s grade the 2025 free agency moves in the NBA. The champagne has barely dried on the Oklahoma City Thunder’s championship parade, but the NBA offseason is already in full swing. Kevin Durant was traded to the Houston Rockets before Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals, and a wild offseason full of trades and surprising draft selections have played out eve...2025
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• Southwest Notes: Spencer, Marshall, Nembhard, Wembanyama
In an exclusive interview with Mark Medina of Sportskeeda, Grizzlies guard Cam Spencer discussed the “shocking” trade that sent Desmond Bane to Orlando, how his competitive fire was stoked by growing up playing against older brother Pat Spencer, and what he has learned from Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr., among other topics. After spending […]...2025
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• 6 NBA teams stuck in purgatory
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• 5 best NBA Draft team hauls and 2 teams who didn’t do enough
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• Hollinger & Duncan: Bane Trade, KD Trade, Draft Boards
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• What’s the Nets domino effect from the first big trade of the NBA offseason?

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• Why every NBA team is watching the Desmond Bane trade fallout
Sunday's shocking deal has ramifications far beyond Orlando and Memphis -- including the Kevin Durant trade saga....2025
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• ‘The Grizzlies Just ROBBED Them’ – Desmond Bane’s Trade to Magic for 4 First-Round Picks Draws Wild Reactions From Fans
Desmond Bane heads to Orlando in a shocking deal that fans are calling one of the league’s biggest heists....2025
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• Ja Morant threw an alley-oop from his butt
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