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• $87,000,000 Thunder Star Remains Humble After Career High 24-Point Game Win vs. Bucks
Thunder star Isaiah Hartenstein was humble enough to credit his teammates for easy looks as he registered a career-high 24 points against the Bucks....2025
• NBA Investigating Thunder, Sixers For Potential Player Participation Policy Violations

The Oklahoma City Thunder are being investigated by the NBA for potentially violating the league's player participation policy. The game under review came on March 7th when the Thunder beat the Portland Trail Blazers despite sitting out their entire starting five of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren, Lu Dort and Isaiah Hartenstein. Cason Wallace also sat out the game. The NBA ...2025
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• Sources: NBA looking into OKC sitting 5 starters
The NBA is investigating a March 7 game in which the Thunder rested starters Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren, Luguentz Dort and Isaiah Hartenstein as well as Cason Wallace....2025
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• Crucial non-call helps Thunder take down Nuggets

Oklahoma City's lineup featuring Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein helped slow down Nikola Jokic on Sunday. A huge non-call helped keep the two bigs on the court....2025
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• The NBA Media is about to give the MVP to the wrong guy… again

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/Getty Images The race between Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has a clear winner, it’s just not the one NBA media is acting like it is. The MVP race should be over. In fact, it probably is over… for the wrong person. It’s been known for months that this year’s race is between two stars: Nikola Jokic and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. All available polls, bettin...2025
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• 5 Kevin Durant trade destinations that make sense for NBA’s next summer blockbuster, ranked

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images Kevin Durant is going to be traded this summer. Let’s rank his most likely suitors. The Phoenix Suns are about to miss the 2025 NBA Playoffs with the highest payroll in league history. The team’s bold trade for Kevin Durant hours after Mat Ishbia gained control of the franchise has been an unmitigated disaster, and now the worst kept secret in the NBA is t...2025
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• Nets center suspended by NBA for actions in latest game

It’s bad timing, as the Nets will have a much more difficult time keeping Oklahoma City’s big man duo of Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein under control....2025
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• Thunder's new super-big lineup is terrorizing the NBA

It wasn't long ago when the Thunder were forced to start 6-foot-5 Jalen Williams at center, owing to early season injuries suffered by Chet Holmgren, Isaiah Hartenstein and Jaylin Williams....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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• The NBA’s draft pick market has crashed

Photo by Glenn James/NBAE via Getty Images With fewer available future draft picks to trade but transactions that still need to get done, the value of the speculative capital cratered at the 2025 NBA trade deadline. Let’s take a time machine back one full week and ask ourselves a question. How many first-round draft picks is Luka Doncic worth? Six? Seven? All of them? Surely whoever is tra...2025
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• Thunder's Chet Holmgren off Thunder injury report, expected to return Friday

The Thunder are 40-9 and have yet to play Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein together. That changes Friday....2025
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• Chet Holmgren Cleared To Return After Missing 39 Games With Fractured Pelvis
Chet Holmgren has been cleared to play in Friday night's home game for the Oklahoma City Thunder against the Toronto Raptors after being sidelined since early November with a fractured pelvis. Holmgren missed 39 games for the Thunder. Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein have yet to play in a game together this season to try out their two-big lineup. Oklahoma City is 34-4 when Holmgren or Hartenstein i...2025
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• Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis trade grades for blockbuster of a lifetime from Lakers-Mavs

Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images Let’s grade the Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis blockbuster trade for all sides. The most mind-blowing trade in NBA history caught literally everyone involved off-guard, and still has the wider basketball world picking up the pieces at what just went down. Luka Doncic is now a member of the Los Angeles Lakers. Anthony Davis has joined the Dallas Mavericks next...2025
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• Isaiah Hartenstein is on pace to make franchise history for the Thunder in 2024-25
Despite injuries to their front court in 2024-25, the Oklahoma City Thunder are rolling. At 37-8, the team has the best record in the Western Conference. The Thunder are 7-3 in their last 10 games. This season, Chet Holmgren and Isaiah Hartenstein have missed extended time. Hartenstein missed the first 15 games of the season […] The post Isaiah Hartenstein is on pace to make franchise histo...2025
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• Isaiah Hartenstein To Return Sunday From Calf Injury

Oklahoma City Thunder center Isaiah Hartenstein will return to the lineup on Sunday night. Hartenstein has missed the Thunder's last five games with a strained left calf. The Thunder went 3-2 without Hartenstein. The veteran big man has been starting in place of Chet Holmgren, who is rehabbing from a pelvic injury. In 24 games, Hartenstein has averaged 11.8 points, 12.2 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 1...2025
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• Northwest Notes: Williams, SGA, Gordon, Dillingham
The Thunder continue to deal with major injuries, including playing chunks of the season without Isaiah Hartenstein and all of it without Chet Holmgren. Part of the reason Oklahoma City is staying afloat, far above and beyond in fact, is the play of Jaylin Williams, Rylan Stiles of Thunder on SI writes. “First off, he […]...2025
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"The NBA is investigating a March 7 game in which the Thunder rested starters Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Jalen Williams, Chet Holmgren, Luguentz Dort and Isaiah Hartenstein as well as Cason Wallace."

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"Isaiah Hartenstein is everything Knicks need (and more): How Nikola Jokic's former backup became indispensable"

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"Mitchell Robinson and Isaiah Hartenstein continued to make a huge impact at both ends for the Knicks in Game 4 against the Cavaliers."

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"The LA Clippers have gotten a significant lift from big man Isaiah Hartenstein this season, especially with the slew of injuries they’ve had to deal with."

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"LOS ANGELES – Isaiah Hartenstein‘s left ankle injury is just the latest in a long line of injuries that have piled up for the LA Clippers."

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"During the fourth quarter of the game, CP3 decided to defeat Isaiah Hartenstein by going through him."

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"Rockets center Isaiah Hartenstein may have moved up in the rotation with a strong performance against the Nets Saturday night, writes Kelly Iko of The Athletic."

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"The Houston Rockets have signed rookie forward/center Isaiah Hartenstein."

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"Anunoby (Raptors), Harry Giles (Kings), Isaiah Hartenstein (Rockets) and Ike Anigbogu (Pacers) pay off?"

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"Isaiah Hartenstein (Germany, PF, 1998) Hartenstein is super impressive physically with 6'11" size, a wide 225-pound frame and the hops to throw down ferocious finishes."

• 5 Kevin Durant trade destinations that make sense for NBA’s next summer blockbuster, ranked
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• The Warriors’ trio of centers will decide their fate in the NBA Playoffs

Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images The Warriors centers can’t be placeholders if they’re to make another championship run The year is 2000. Planes haven’t fallen from the air, but people sure seem to be tumbling as the Indiana Pacers are facing the Los Angeles Lakers in the Finals. In Game 2, the Pacers’ starting Center Dale Davis fouls out. Backup center Sam Perkins fouls out. Thi...2025
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• 6 NBA teams who can win the 2025 Finals, ranked by their championship chances
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• The NBA’s draft pick market has crashed
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• Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis trade grades for blockbuster of a lifetime from Lakers-Mavs
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• Thunder Mindful Of Future Salary Obligations When Considering Any Deal

The Oklahoma City Thunder will consider the ramifications of their future payroll obligations on any potential trade, sources tell ESPN. For the 26-27 season, the Thunder will presumably have both Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren on rookie scale max contracts as they come off their first NBA contracts. Oklahoma City projects to have approximately $191 million in payroll for seven players that seas...2025
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• Isaiah Hartenstein To Return Sunday From Calf Injury
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• Thunder Focused On Returning Players, Not Cam Johnson Trade

The Oklahoma City Thunder have been speculated as a team that could trade for any number of available players at the trade deadline. That list is headlined by Cam Johnson of the Brooklyn Nets. The Thunder aren't focused on outside acquisitions. Oklahoma City is instead looking forward to the return of injured players like Chet Holmgren, and now Isaiah Hartenstein. Given their place at the top of t...2025
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• The Thunder snatched the Celtics’ chain in possible NBA Finals preview

Photo by Joshua Gateley/Getty Images The Thunder ate the Celtics’ lunch and proved their ready to win the championship right now. The Oklahoma City Thunder are on a rocket ship to the top of the NBA. It feels like they’re speed-running the tanking-to-championship playbook in a way the league hasn’t really seen before, and the scary thing is they’re still at the very beginning of what shoul...2025
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• Isaiah Hartenstein looks like he's worth every penny of the $87 million the Thunder paid him

Hartenstein has been sensational in his first three games with OKC...2024

• $87,000,000 Thunder Star Remains Humble After Career High 24-Point Game Win vs. Bucks
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• The NBA Media is about to give the MVP to the wrong guy… again
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• 5 Kevin Durant trade destinations that make sense for NBA’s next summer blockbuster, ranked
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• The Warriors’ trio of centers will decide their fate in the NBA Playoffs
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• 6 NBA teams who can win the 2025 Finals, ranked by their championship chances
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• Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis trade grades for blockbuster of a lifetime from Lakers-Mavs
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• Isaiah Hartenstein To Return Sunday From Calf Injury
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• Thunder Focused On Returning Players, Not Cam Johnson Trade
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• The Thunder snatched the Celtics’ chain in possible NBA Finals preview
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• The Hornets have become the NBA’s most pathetic team

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images The Hornets’ rebuild hasn’t gone as planned. The Charlotte Hornets outdid themselves on Thursday night. In the midst of 2-14 run between the regular season and NBA Cup the team headed to Washington on a night where there were no excuses. Charlotte’s core players were all healthy at once after being injures sporadically throughout the season, and the Hornets we...2024
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• The NBA’s draft pick market has crashed
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• The Thunder snatched the Celtics’ chain in possible NBA Finals preview
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• 10 Knicks-Timberwolves trade winners and losers from stunning Karl-Anthony Towns deal

Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Here are 10 winners and losers from the blockbuster trade between the Knicks and the Timberwolves. The NBA was hit with a monster trade between two legitimate championship contenders just days before most of the league’s teams report to training camp for the new season. Karl-Anthony Towns is now a member of the New York Knicks. Julius Randle and Donte ...2024
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• Grading Knicks-Wolves blockbuster trade sending Karl-Anthony Towns to New York

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Let’s grade the Knicks-Timberwolves trade that sends Karl-Anthony Towns to New York. The new NBA season is almost here, but the offseason still had one last flurry of fireworks before close. The New York Knicks are acquiring Karl-Anthony Towns from the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for Julius Randle, Donte DiVincenzo, and a protected ...2024
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• 8 NBA teams that can win the 2025 championship

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images These are the only teams that can win the 2025 NBA championship. Defining success in the NBA always comes back to preseason expectations. Some teams are just trying to get better in the regular season and advance a round further in the playoffs, while others are hoping not to fall too far behind their rivals. There’s already a class of teams whose best c...2024
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• Every NBA team, ranked by their championship chances in 2023-2024 season

Let’s rank every team in the NBA by their championship chances for the 2023-2024 season. The NBA always feels like it’s at its best when there’s an elite tier of contenders. After two blockbuster trades to close the summer, it finally feels like that’s the case as the league enters the 2023-2024 season. The Bucks have added Damian Lillard to fix a struggling halfcourt offense in the playoffs. The ...2023
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• Knicks’ Mitchell Robinson no match for Heat big Bam Adebayo

MIAMI — Mitchell Robinson didn’t have many memorable moments in the Eastern Conference semifinals, aside from the key free throws that electrified the Garden and helped the Knicks win Game 5 over the Heat. On Friday night, Robinson and backup center Isaiah Hartenstein had another quiet game against All-Star center Bam Adebayo, who had 23......2023
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• How the Knicks can adjust without getting Julius Randle back
Photo by Secuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The Heat are packing the lane and daring them to shoot. Now Tom Thibodeau gets to flex his creative muscles During the first quarter of Game 1 between the New York Knicks and Miami Heat, there was a clear discrepancy inside. Even while playing without Julius Randle, the Knicks were smothering their foes on the interior. Miami scored 21 po...2023
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• How Knicks’ Mitchell Robinson and Isaiah Hartenstein smothered the Cavs (and had fun)
“We just have the same energy,” Hartenstein said. “We come into the locker room, and we roast each other most of the time.”...2023
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• Rockets rookies getting chances due to injuries, Chris Paul's suspension
With the Rockets dealing with several injuries and the suspension of Chris Paul, the team’s rookies have received playing time to start the season. As Jonathan Feigen wrote for the Houston Chronicle, Gary Clark and Isaiah Hartenstein have been the two beneficiaries from the injuries to James Harden and James Ennis III. Hartenstein has filled in as a backup center in recent games, as both Nene and ...2018
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• Sources: NBA looking into OKC sitting 5 starters
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• Clippers decide on Isaiah Hartenstein’s future with team
The LA Clippers have gotten a significant lift from big man Isaiah Hartenstein this season, especially with the slew of injuries they’ve had to deal with. Their appreciation showed when the team guaranteed his deal on Friday afternoon, a no-brainer by all accounts. Wanting a bigger role in the NBA, Hartenstein declined to return to […] The post Clippers decide on Isaiah HartensteinR...2022
• Mitchell Robinson, Isaiah Hartenstein making huge impact for Knicks

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• Knicks’ best move of 2022 NBA offseason
The New York Knicks’ offseason has been pretty solid so far. Following a head-spinning draft night and several trades to make cap space, New York went out and got Jalen Brunson and Isaiah Hartenstein in free agency while re-signing Mitchell Robinson and Jericho Sims. All the buzz around New York now is about a move that […] The post Knicks’ best move of 2022 NBA offseason appeare...2022
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• Clippers extend offer to former Luka Doncic teammate to help replace Isaiah Hartenstein
Now that Isaiah Hartenstein has officially left for the New York Knicks in free agency, the LA Clippers have to find someone to back Ivica Zubac up. They are attempting to do so by signing Moses Brown, a former teammate of their playoff archrival, Luka Doncic. According to Kelly Iko of The Athletic, LA has […] The post Clippers extend offer to former Luka Doncic teammate to help replace Isai...2022
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• Isaiah Hartenstein pens heartfelt message to Clippers after signing with Knicks
The Los Angeles Clippers lost a key piece of their bench last week as big man Isaiah Hartenstein secured a two-year, $16 million deal with the New York Knicks. That ended his short spell in Southern California, featuring in 68 games for the Clips in his lone season with the organization. On Monday, Hartenstein took […] The post Isaiah Hartenstein pens heartfelt message to Clippers after sign...2022
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• Grading Isaiah Hartenstein’s 2-year, $16.7 million deal with Knicks to go with Jalen Brunson in 2022 NBA free agency
The Big Apple, and the New York Knicks, are ready to not only welcome Jalen Brunson to the fold, but Isaiah Hartenstein. A truly wild start to the 2022 NBA free agency period for New York’s favorite team. The Knicks have been one of the main NBA storylines this offseason. They jumped through a variety […] The post Grading Isaiah Hartenstein’s 2-year, $16.7 million deal with Knick...2022
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• Knicks add Isaiah Hartenstein on 2-year, $16.7 million deal to go along with Jalen Brunson
After signing Jalen Brunson on a four-year, $110 million deal, the New York Knicks moved quickly to bring in another free agent on Thursday. According to Kelly Iko of The Athletic, the Knicks and Isaiah Hartenstein have agreed to terms on a two-year, $16.7 million deal, marking New York’s second acquisition on the opening day […] The post Knicks add Isaiah Hartenstein on 2-year, $16.7 ...2022
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• The Playlist: Week 8 fantasy basketball waiver wire pickups and lineup advice

Dan Titus breaks down the week's fantasy hoops landscape, including prioritizing Isaiah Hartenstein on the wavier wire....2023
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• NBA Investigating Thunder, Sixers For Potential Player Participation Policy Violations
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• Crucial non-call helps Thunder take down Nuggets
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• The NBA Media is about to give the MVP to the wrong guy… again
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• 5 Kevin Durant trade destinations that make sense for NBA’s next summer blockbuster, ranked
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• The Warriors’ trio of centers will decide their fate in the NBA Playoffs
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• Thunder's new super-big lineup is terrorizing the NBA
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• 6 NBA teams who can win the 2025 Finals, ranked by their championship chances
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• The NBA’s draft pick market has crashed
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• Chet Holmgren Cleared To Return After Missing 39 Games With Fractured Pelvis
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• Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis trade grades for blockbuster of a lifetime from Lakers-Mavs
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• The Warriors’ trio of centers will decide their fate in the NBA Playoffs
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• 10 Knicks-Timberwolves trade winners and losers from stunning Karl-Anthony Towns deal
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• 8 NBA teams that can win the 2025 championship
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• Knicks’ best move of 2022 NBA offseason
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