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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

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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• Suns, Magic Inquired With Cavaliers On Darius Garland Trade

As the Phoenix Suns canvassed the league in search for a Kevin Durant trade, they inquired with the Cleveland Cavaliers on a trade for Darius Garland. The Cavaliers wanted other assets along with Durant from the Suns in exchange for Garland. Phoenix eventually moved forward with a trade sending Durant to the Houston Rockets for Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, the No. 10 pick and five second round pick...2025
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• Southeast Notes: Bane, Hornets, Brogdon, Magic
Priority number one for freshly-acquired Magic shooting guard Desmond Bane is getting to work building chemistry with his new teammates, writes Jason Beede of the Orlando Sentinel. Orlando managed to stay afloat through a barrage of injuries last season, thanks in large part to the chemistry they built, which Beede says starts with coach Jamahl […]...2025
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• Grizzlies Previously Had Trade Interest In Franz Wagner

The Memphis Grizzlies traded away Desmond Bane to the Orlando Magic for a pick heavy package in a surprising deal on Sunday after they had been attempting to acquire a star wing for multiple years. The Grizzlies had pursued trades for Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby and even Franz Wagner of the Magic, sources tell Jake Fischer. The Grizzles eventually acquired Marcus Smart from the Boston Celtics during...2025
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• Grizzlies trade Desmond Bane to Eastern Conference playoff team

Bane has battled some injuries since the Grizzlies drafted him in the first round out of TCU in 2020, but he has been an offensive asset when healthy....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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• 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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• 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
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• Ty Jerome, Grizzlies Agree To Three-Year, $28M Deal

Ty Jerome and the Memphis Grizzlies have agreed to a three-year, $28 million contract with a player option for Year 3. The Grizzlies will use their room midlevel exception to sign Jerome. Jerome leaves the Cleveland Cavaliers after a breakout season. Jerome will give the Grizzlies depth in the backcourt after trading away Desmond Bane....2025
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• NBA free agent live tracker: Every deal and trade of 2025 summer in one spot

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images Let’s keep track of every move of 2025 NBA free agency. It feels like only yesterday that the Oklahoma City Thunder were crowned 2025 NBA champions, but the offseason flurry already has the basketball world moving on to next year. The 2025 NBA Draft has come and gone with instant grades, winners and losers, and a way-too-early 2026 mock draft. Now it’s...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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• Grizzlies Looking To Trade Cole Anthony
The Memphis Grizzlies are looking to trade Cole Anthony, sources told Marc Stein of The Stein Line and Jake Fischer of The People's Insider. The Grizzlies acquired Anthony from the Magic in a trade involving Desmond Bane. The Grizzlies are looking to shed Anthony's contract in order to sign Ty Jerome, according to sources. Jerome is looking for a deal starting around the Non-Taxpayer Mid-Level Ex...2025
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• Magic Decline Team Options On Moe Wagner, Caleb Houstan
The Magic are declining the team options for Moritz Wagner and Caleb Houstan, reports ESPN’s Shams Charania (via Twitter), making the two players unrestricted free agents. Wagner’s team option was for $11MM while Houstan’s was for $2.1MM. Turning down both will allow the Magic to retain some financial flexibility after they traded for Desmond Bane. […]...2025
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• Grizzlies Working On Cole Anthony Exit To Create Cap Space
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• 5 best NBA Draft team hauls and 2 teams who didn’t do enough
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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
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• Ja Morant Avoids Major Hip Injury, Misses Grizzlies' Season-Ending Game 4 Loss

Ja Morant missed the Memphis Grizzlies' season-ending 117-115 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 4 with a hip injury. Morant, who was injured in Game 3, avoided a major injury. "Fortunately, he's avoided a major injury, which is a big positive," said Tuomas Iisalo. Scotty Pippen Jr. lead the Grizzlies with 30 points, with Santi Aldama and Desmond Bane adding 23 points each. Shai Gilgeous-Al...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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• 6 NBA teams who can win the 2025 Finals, ranked by their championship chances

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Only a handful of teams can realistically win the 2025 NBA championship. Let’s rank ‘em. The NBA is in its parity era, and it’s made the race of the championship more wide open than it’s been at any point in the league’s existence. NBA history is littered with dynasties, but those days might be over: no team has won back-to-back championships since Kevin ...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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• NBA Scores: Clippers take control of No. 5 in the West... for now
Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images Plus: Milwaukee, Denver, Boston, and Philly are all locked into their playoff seeding With 80 games in the books for most teams across the NBA, the playoff picture is starting to take shape. Here’s everything that the Wednesday games set in stone: Bucks: #1 in the East and best record overall among both conferences Celtics: #2 and Atlanti...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

The 2023 FIBA World Cup will be played in the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan over the summer...2023
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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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• ESPN Analyst Makes Bold Prediction for Orlando Magic in the East After Blockbuster Desmond Bane Trade
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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
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• NBA free agent live tracker: Every deal and trade of 2025 summer in one spot
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• 5 best NBA Draft team hauls and 2 teams who didn’t do enough
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• Grizzlies Looking To Trade Cole Anthony
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• NBA Draft’s 5 biggest winners and 3 losers in 2025 class
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• 10 best NBA Draft picks in 2025 that get an A-grade from us
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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?

Then came this weekend’s shocking deal sending Desmond Bane to Orlando....2025
• 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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• Giannis Antetokounmpo trade rumors will never stop until he actually leaves the Bucks
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• NBA mock draft 2024: Perfect picks for every team
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• NBA Scores: LeBron James, Anthony Davis made timely plays as Lakers take 3-1 lead
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