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• Nikola Jokic and Magic Johnson’s highlight reel has stunning similarities

Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images Nikola Jokic and Magic Johnson are linked by more than just triple-doubles Nikola Jokic had already firmly established himself as the best basketball player in the world heading into the 2024-25 season with three NBA MVP trophies, one championship, and one NBA Finals MVP already under his belt before he turned 30 years old. Jokic faced one of ...2024
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• NBA legend Charles Barkley tells the Nuggets don’t waste Nikola Jokic’s prime
Charles Barkley has urged the Denver Nuggets not to waste Nikola Jokic’s prime as the Serbian master delivered another impeccable performance on Tuesday. Chuck tells the Nuggets they need to make a trade to support Jokic after 11-8 start Jokic, a three-time MVP and Finals MVP winner with six All-NBA honors at the age of […] The post NBA legend Charles Barkley tells the Nuggets don̵...2024
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• Paige Bueckers’ (likely) WNBA debut, Caitlin Clark comes to Boston, and three other must-watch games in the 2025 WNBA season

Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images Paige Bueckers (likely) makes her WNBA debut in May, Caitlin Clark comes to Boston in July, the Liberty and Lynx square off in a finals rematch — and much more. The 2025 WNBA schedule has officially been released, with regular season games slated to take place between May 16th to September 11th. And for the first time in WNBA history, each team will play...2024
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• Jaylen Brown’s hot shooting caused Timberwolves broadcasters to have a meltdown

The Timberwolves announcers couldn’t believe Jaylen Brown was hitting so many shots after a cold start to the season. The Boston Celtics are rolling again to begin the new NBA season, and it’s happened despite a cold shooting start from the reigning NBA Finals MVP. Jaylen Brown had not been able to buy a bucket from the outside entering Sunday afternoon’s matchup with the Minnesota Timberwolves, s...2024
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• Rockets Emerge as Team to Watch for Giannis Antetokounmpo
Speculation regarding the Houston Rockets trading for a superstar continues to make headlines. With the Milwaukee Bucks’ struggles this season, some NBA peers also predict Giannis Antetokounmpo to want out and find a change of scenery. Considering all of this, the Houston Rockets have emerged as a team to watch if the former Finals MVP […] The post Rockets Emerge as Team to Watch for Giannis...2024
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• Rockets Reportedly Monitoring Giannis Antetokounmpo Situation

It was only a matter of time before the Rockets’ name started circulating in trade rumors surrounding Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo. With the Rockets’ growing treasure trove of young talent and draft picks, rival teams have already begun speculating about the possibility of Houston making a push for the reigning Finals MVP in the near […] The post Rockets Reportedly Monitoring...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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• How a Liberty reserve and a halftime adjustment helped secure the WNBA Finals

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Nyara Sabally was barely in the rotation just a few weeks ago. But in the deciding Game 5 of the WNBA Finals between the Lynx and the Liberty, she was the x-factor. BROOKLYN — Sabrina Ionescu shot an abysmal 1-19 from the field, while Breanna Stewart posted 13 points on just 4-15 FG. On paper, those Liberty shooting splits seemed likely to spell disaster for the...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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• Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics have created a relentless culture of winning

Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images Regardless of who has been on the floor, the defending champions have fittingly been the best team this preseason. BOSTON – Every now and then, confetti still falls from the rafters at TD Garden. In a Saturday night Celtics thrashing, a small piece of paper landed on Derrick White’s head. On Sunday, a few pieces were collected by an excited cou...2024
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• Is a New York Liberty championship as inevitable as a Celtics title was?

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Sabrina Ionescu and Breanna Stewart have powered a historically dominant team all year — do the Minnesota Lynx have a chance? BROOKLYN — To say that the New York Liberty dominated the WNBA season is a massive understatement. They finished the season with a 32-8 record, winning games by an average margin of 9.2 points. They boasted two win streaks of 8 ga...2024
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• Becky Hammon breaks down why Aces lost their edge: “You get distracted”

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images The Aces hoped to become the first WNBA team to three-peat in 20 years. Now, they’re on the brink of elimination. BROOKLYN — There’s a reason why no professional basketball team has completed a three-peat since the Los Angeles Lakers did it in the early 2000s. After Tuesday night’s Game 2 loss against the New York Liberty, Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky...2024
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• Liberty vs Aces Preview: 5 things to watch in Game 1 of the WNBA playoffs

Photo by Candice Ward/Getty Images Breanna Stewart, Sabrina Ionescu, and Jonquel Jones battle A’ja Wilson, Kelsey Plum, Chelsea Gray, and Jackie Young in Game 1 of the WNBA Semi-Finals. In a rematch of last year’s WNBA Finals, the New York Liberty host the Las Vegas Aces for Game 1 of the Semi-Finals, on Sunday at 3pm ET. The Liberty have been the No. 1 seed for most of the year, finishing...2024
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• Jackie Young is the X-factor in USA basketball’s dominant win over Australia

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images On an Olympic team loaded with all-time talent, Jackie Young has emerged as a breakout star. She finished with 14 points, 5 assists, and 2 steals in her third consecutive start. On a team inundated with so much talent, how does one stand out? It’s a tall task, and on this U.S. women’s basketball team, the reality is that several all-time scorers are buried ...2024
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• A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart dominate in USA Basketball women’s 102-76 win over Japan in the Paris Olympics

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images A’ja Wilson finished with 24 points, 13 rebounds, and 4 blocks and Breanna Stewart with 22 points as Team USA blew out Japan in the first official game of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Powered by Breanna Stewart and A’ja Wilson, a historically dominant U.S. women’s basketball program blew out Japan, 102-76, to win their first pool game of the 2024 Paris Oly...2024
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• Team USA women’s basketball will once again be anchored by Breanna Stewart, one of the greatest ever

Photo by Dylan Goodman/NBAE via Getty Images The Liberty’s Breanna Stewart ruptured her achilles, somehow got better, and is in the GOAT conversation. SB Nation is introducing each of the 12 members of the US Olympic Women’s Basketball team this week. Here’s what you need to know about Breanna Stewart, one of the most decorated players in the WNBA. Fast Facts Team: New York Liberty (21-4...2024
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• Meet the women’s U.S. Olympic basketball team that pretty much never loses

Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images Team USA’s most dominant Olympic team is back with opotentially one of its best rosters ever — meet the 12 WNBA players that make up the team. The 2024 U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball team has the potential to be one of the greatest assemblages of talent ever. The women’s program is among the most dominant in all ofsports, with a 70-3 all-time rec...2024
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• The Celtics’ rivals handed them a championship one bad trade at a time

Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images The Celtics’ ripped off their rivals in trades all the way to a championship The West is a pecked-over, apron-strewn, parity-fest. The East has more superstar divas on first and second-round losers than it does 50-win teams. If 2023-24 turns indicative, it will be the Rest of the NBA vs. Boston for the next few years. Not only did the 2023-24 Bosto...2024
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• Nikola Jokic won NBA Finals MVP while looking like he just wanted to go home
Nikola Jokic won an NBA championship and reacted like he was forced to go to a work party. Nikola Jokic was the driving force behind the Denver Nuggets winning their first NBA championship in franchise history. The two-time MVP carried the Nuggets to the No. 1 seed in the regular season and helped them tear through the playoffs on the way to the 2023 NBA Finals. The Miami Heat never had a magic so...2023
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• Erik Spoelstra is the Heat’s biggest cheat code in NBA Finals
Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Erik Spoestra can’t lose. If you forced me to define what I think makes a good coach in this modern league, my answer would be “Rigid flexibility”. It’s a paradox that demands being able to hold two things in your head at the same time, to understand two conflicting ideas can be true. If you’re too dogmatic, you live and die by the same double-edged s...2023
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• WATCH: Steph Curry drops 62 points in pop-a-shot at daughter Riley's 10th birthday party
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• Durant has funny response to getting called a 'snake' by fans
Kevin Durant wants you to know that he is nourished by your hatred.In a recent appearance on Complex’s “Hot Ones” series, the Golden State Warriors forward had a funny remark about being pejoratively nicknamed a “snake” by fans. The term is often used in reference to Durant’s perceived betrayal of Oklahoma City when he signed with the Warriors in free agency.“I get the snake comment so many times,...2017
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• 2016 Basketball Hall of Fame Finalists Announced: Latest Comments and Reaction
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"Melo shared his opinion on the Nuggets giving the reigning Finals MVP the Number 15 jersey."

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"com/XfKe5ect53— NBA (@NBA) May 23, 2023 Jokic was named Western Conference Finals MVP."

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"The reigning NBA Finals MVP is the greatest shooter ever, after all"

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"Giannis Antetokounmpo wins 2021 NBA Finals MVP: Bucks star becomes youngest winner since Kawhi Leonard in 2014"

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"The Dubs were forced to trade the former Finals MVP to Memphis in order to create cap space to sign D’Angelo […] The post 3 players Warriors could acquire using their $17."

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"It will not begin as a signature deal, sources said, but Doncic can earn a signature deal through bonus clauses such as winning MVP or Finals MVP."

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"Basketball Hall of Famer and former NBA Finals MVP JoJo White, who spent the majority of his career with the Boston Celtics, has passed away at the age of 71."

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"As far as achievements go, hitting a last-minute 3-pointer to avoid going scoreless wouldn't figure to rank very high on the list of a player with a championship, a Finals MVP, 10 All-Star appearances and more than 26,000 career points to his name."

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"In addition to the above stats, Bryant is an 18-time All-Star, five-time NBA champion and a two-time NBA Finals MVP."

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"Since taking on the Number 24 with the Lakers, Bryant has won two more NBA titles, two NBA Finals MVP awards and one NBA MVP award."

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"Jordan made 14 All-Star teams, won five NBA Most Valuable Player awards and led the Bulls to six championships, winning the NBA Finals MVP award in all six."

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• Rockets Reportedly Monitoring Giannis Antetokounmpo Situation
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• Thunder Exercise 25-26 Options On Chet Holmgren, Jalen Williams, Ousmane Dieng, Cason Wallace

The Oklahoma City Thunder exercised its fourth-year contract options on forward/center Chet Holmgren, forward Ousmane Dieng and guard/forward Jalen Williams and its third-year contract option on guard Cason Wallace. Holmgren received NBA All-Rookie First Team honors last season and finished second in Rookie of the Year voting after appearing in 82 games (all starts) and averaging 16.5 points on 53...2024
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• Kawhi Leonard out ‘indefinitely’ with knee injury before Clippers season even begins
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• NBA’s most overrated and underrated players, based on ESPN’s top-100 list

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images These are the most overrated and underrated NBA players based on ESPN’s new top-100 list. Men used to build houses. Now they just rank NBA players on the internet. ESPN dropped its list of the top-100 players in the NBA this week with the 2024-2025 season right around the corner. It’s important to note that the list is based off “predicted contributions”...2024
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• A’ja Wilson is so much more more than just the WNBA MVP

Photo by Ian Maule/Getty Images Kelsey Plum said she’ll have conspiracy theories if A’ja Wilson is not the unanimous MVP. Wilson is just focused on being the best teammate she can be. UNCASVILLE, CONNECTICUT — It’s a Friday morning at the Mohegan Sun Arena, and A’ja Wilson and the rest of the Las Vegas Aces have just completed shootaround. They are a few hours away from a match-up against...2024
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• Why the Celtics succeed, and the Clippers failed, with similar team builds

Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images What the NBA can learn from Celtics’ championship and Clippers’ failure. The team is led by two wings. One was just named to the All-NBA First Team, and the other just won Finals MVP. Both are talents the likes of which define the NBA — shooters, defenders, initiators, cutters. They do it all. The team is a championship favorite, of course, coming into t...2024
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• Nikola Jokic and Magic Johnson’s highlight reel has stunning similarities
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• Jaylen Brown’s hot shooting caused Timberwolves broadcasters to have a meltdown
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• Meet the women’s basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2025

Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles, and Cappie Pondexter headline a stacked Hall of Fame class. The Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame announced its illustrious 2025 class, which will be inducted in June 14, 2025 in Knoxville Tennessee. Seven women’s basketball legends make up the illustrious class: Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles, Cappie Pondexter, Alanna Beard, Lucille Kyv...2024
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• Nike and Jaylen Brown are taking shots at each other after Giannis’ historic night

Paul Rutherford-Imagn Images Nike and Jaylen Brown’s ‘childish’ spat ends in more trolling after Giannis’ historic night. It’s no secret that Jaylen Brown hates Nike. The Boston Celtics star blamed shoe company politics as the reason he wasn’t selected for USA Basketball’s roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics coming off an NBA Finals MVP run. Brown has not backed off of his criticism at the ...2024
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• NBA Notes: Nuggets, Nikola Jokic, Thunder, Hornets, Miles Bridges

Nuggets Nikola Jokic just keeps adding to his already legendary resume. In the Nuggets’ 124-122 win over the Thunder on Wednesday, the reigning Finals MVP put up a stat line that left no doubt about his place among the all-time greats. With 23 points, 20 rebounds, and 16 assists, Jokić recorded his third triple-double of […] The post NBA Notes: Nuggets, Nikola Jokic, Thunder, Hornets, ...2024
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• Giannis Antetokounmpo trade rumors will never stop until he actually leaves the Bucks
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• Derrick Rose Calls Kobe Bryant 'Our Generation's Michael Jordan'
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• Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich Praises Kawhi Leonard's 'Bored to Death' Demeanor
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• Kawhi Leonard: Latest News, Rumors and Speculation on Spurs Star's Future
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• LeBron James Says He's 'Probably the Best I've Been' Heading to 2015 NBA Finals
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• Pacific Notes: Leonard, Clippers, DeRozan, Roddy
Law Murray of The Athletic explores some offseason questions related to the Clippers, starting with the health of Kawhi Leonard. The six-time All-Star and two-time Finals MVP was removed from Team USA ahead of the Paris Olympics, leading to speculation about the status of his right knee, which has caused him issues over the years, […]...2024
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• Betting buzz: Underdog Doncic attracting most Finals MVP bets

More bets and more money has been risked on Luka Doncic's MVP odds than any other player at multiple sportsbooks....2024
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• Commanders overtake Raiders to capture Kliff Kingsbury

Scott Sewell-USA TODAY Sports Former Cardinals coach heads to D.C on a three-year deal to be the Commanders’ offensive coordinator Back in 2019 when Kliff Kingsbury emerged as an NFL head coaching candidate, his first interview was in New York with the Jets. Media reports at the time were that the Jets were keenly interested in hiring him, perhpas even on the spot. The Jets had drafted QB ...2024
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• A’ja Wilson is the perfect basketball superstar for the modern era

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images A’ja Wilson is turning into an all-time great, and she’s having fun doing it Basketball is a game, created to have fun inside when the weather limited opportunities for fun outside. Among the thousands of great professional basketball players in the world today, one truly embodies that spirit of fun inherent to basketball. Her name is A’ja Wilson, the cur...2023
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• The Jokic brothers tossing Mike Malone in the air was funniest part of Nuggets’ championship celebration
The Jokic brothers are ready to party. Nikola Jokic’s comically large older brothers are part of the Denver Nuggets’ extended universe. Nemanja and Strahinja Jokic were in the building to support their baby bro on Monday night as the Nuggets clinched their first championship in franchise history with a 94-89 win over the Miami Heat in Game 5 of the 2023 NBA Finals. Nikola Jokic was named NBA Fina...2023
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