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• Suns can shockingly win Kevin Durant trade all over again next season

The Suns getting Khaman Maluach in the Kevin Durant trade is going to feel like a win all over again next season....2026
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• Khaman Maluach will take on surprising role with Suns next season

Khaman Maluach is going to end next season a starter for the Phoenix Suns....2026
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• Suns should not be surprised by NBA All-Rookie snub

Neither Khaman Maluach or Rasheer Fleming failing to make an All-Rookie roster should come as no surprise to the Suns....2026
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• Suns have perfect backup to Khaman Maluach already in The Valley

Oso Ighodaro has emerged as the perfect long-term backup behind Khaman Maluach for the Suns....2026
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• Suns stole their own Aday Mara to battle Wemby one year early

The Suns won't land Aday Mara to combat Victor Wembanyama, but they have Khaman Maluach so they don't need him....2026
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• Season in Review: Khaman Maluach is the Rudy Gobert evolution Phoenix has always wanted

Raw but impactful: Maluach shows why Phoenix is betting big on his defensive upside....2026
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• 9 best NBA rookies at Las Vegas Summer League 2025, ranked

Photo by Logan Riely/NBAE via Getty Images Let’s rank the best rookies at NBA summer league. NBA Summer League doesn’t really matter, but still one of the most fun events on the league calendar. Team personnel and diehard fans converge in Las Vegas every year to get a first-look at rookies, check-in on second-year players, and gossip about the state of the league. Along the way, journeymen...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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• NBA Notes: Raptors, Brandon Ingram, Pistons, Suns, Khaman Maluach

Small forward Brandon Ingram has taken a big step in his recovery from the ankle injury that kept him sidelined after the Raptors acquired him at last season’s trade deadline. According to Josh Lewenberg of TSN, Ingram has been cleared for contact and is expected to start scrimmaging soon after months of individual workouts this […] The post NBA Notes: Raptors, Brandon Ingram, Pistons, Suns,...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 Draft rankings 2025: Top 60 big board of prospects

Bob Donnan-Imagn Images Let’s rank the best players in the 2025 NBA Draft. The 2025 NBA Draft was always going to look good in comparison to its predecessor. The 2024 draft lack a consensus top dog and largely consisted of prospects believed to top out as role players. The 2025 draft class has the opposite problem: after you get past Cooper Flagg, there are a bunch of high-upside oddballs ...2025
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Perfect picks for each team in the first round

Photo by David Buono/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Here’s an updated 2025 NBA mock draft projection. Evaluating the 2025 NBA Draft class has been the ultimate rollercoaster. This group entered the year looking like it could potentially be one of the strongest classes in recent memory, but much of that optimism faded by the midway point in the season. We are left with a draft class that ...2025
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• Sixers’ 8 best NBA Draft choices for No. 3 overall pick, ranked

Zachary Taft-Imagn Images The 2025 NBA Draft really begins with the Sixers at No. 3. Let’s rank the best prospects for Philly. The Philadelphia 76ers had more at stake than any team entering the 2025 NBA Draft lottery. Philly originally traded its 2025 first-round pick away to the Oklahoma City Thunder to clear Al Horford’s salary way back in 2020. Fortunately for them, the Sixers made the...2025
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• NBA Draft combine 2025 winners and losers, starring Ace Bailey, Duke recruit, and more

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Here are our winners and losers from the 2025 NBA Draft Combine. CHICAGO — The NBA Draft Combine might never have quite as much star-making power as its NFL counterpart, but make no mistake: a good week of measurements, athletic testing, and interviews can change a young basketball player’s life forever. It was only a few years ago when Santa Clara sen...2025
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Instant projection after Mavs win Cooper Flagg sweepstakes

Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images The 2025 NBA draft lottery is settled. Here’s our instant mock draft. The 2025 NBA Draft lottery was always going to be one of the most meaningful of the 21st century. Teams at the bottom of the standings wrestled for position all season to increase their odds at landing the No. 1 overall pick and the rights to Duke super freshman Cooper Flagg. We now ...2025
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• Cooper Flagg’s 5 worst landing spots in the NBA Draft lottery, ranked

Photo by Lance King/Getty Images Cooper Flagg would be great anywhere, but these aren’t our favorite fits. Identifying the best or worst Cooper Flagg landing spot in the 2025 NBA Draft lottery is mostly a matter of taste. The Duke freshmen phenom would be a great fit anywhere as a player capable of blending in on more competitive teams or taking on a starring role right away on a basement-...2025
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Instant projection after Mavs win Cooper Flagg sweepstakes
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"Coach Ott is going to turn to rookie big man Khaman Maluach more in the wake of Nick Richards being traded away."

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"Cooper Flagg has lived up to the hype as Duke’s latest Number 1 overall draft pick, but fellow freshman Kon Knueppel, Khaman Maluach, and Isaiah Evans have also given the team important minutes."

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"Khaman Maluach, a 7’2 center from South Sudan developing in NBA Academy Africa, committed to the Duke on Wednesday to fortify its historic recruiting haul."

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"South Sudan's Khaman Maluach, an elite 2025 NBA draft prospect who is just 16 years old, will be the third-youngest player in FIBA World Cup history."

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"While football, the soccer kind, is the most popular sport in Africa, the NBA and the Basketball Africa League are providing a different path for teens like Emmanuel Okorafor and Khaman Maluach."

• The Suns should prioritize Khaman Maluach minutes over Oso Ighodaro

While Oso Ighodaro offers versatility, the Suns desperately need the raw size and shot deterrence Maluach provides....2026
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• Khaman Maluach's game-changing skill is vindicating Suns' draft faith

As Khaman Maluach gets more minutes with Mark Williams injured, he's showing off a key skill that Phoenix Suns fans have been starved for....2026
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• Khaman Maluach and Rasheer Fleming assigned to the G-League

The 2025 draftees head back to the Valley Suns for more playing time....2026
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• 9 best NBA rookies at Las Vegas Summer League 2025, ranked
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• 6 NBA teams stuck in purgatory
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• NBA Notes: Raptors, Brandon Ingram, Pistons, Suns, Khaman Maluach
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• NBA Draft 2025: Best remaining players after the first round

Aaron Doster-Imagn Images 30 picks are in the books, but here are the best remaining players for the 2025 NBA Draft The first round of the 2025 NBA Draft is in the books. On Wednesday night 30 players realized a dream, as their names were called and they learned their professional destination. But there are 29 picks remaining in the 2025 NBA Draft, which means 29 more prospects are going t...2025
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• With Duke's three top-10 NBA draftees, Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel, Khaman Maluach, '25 class joins rare list

The Blue Devils' 2025 draft class matches the feats of Duke's program in 2019 and Florida's in 2007...2025
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• Nets take Egor Demin in first shocking move of 2025 NBA Draft

With their first lottery pick in 15 years, the Nets turned in the first legitimate shock of the draft, picking BYU Egor Demin with the eighth selection on Wednesday. Brooklyn passed over Duke center Khaman Maluach, instead selecting the jumbo-sized Russian point guard. Egor Demin stands with NBA commissioner Adam Silver after being selected as......2025
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• Green scores 31 points and Suns open up big lead early en route to a 134-109 rout of Jazz
Jalen Green scored 31 points, Devin Booker had 26 and the Phoenix Suns routed the Utah Jazz 134-109 on Saturday night. Grayson Allen added 19 points, Oso Ighodaro scored 13 and Khaman Maluach had 12 and nine rebounds for the Suns, who had lost six of their previous seven games. The win moved Phoenix within 3 1/2 games of sixth-place Houston, the last position to stay out of the Western Conferenc...2026
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• 9 best NBA rookies at Las Vegas Summer League 2025, ranked
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• NBA Draft rankings 2025: Top 60 big board of prospects
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with NBA Finals now over

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Here’s our latest 2025 NBA mock draft with the season now over. The 2025 NBA Draft class has spent the last year under the microscope. Cooper Flagg going No. 1 overall has been a forgone conclusion from the moment he reclassified to accelerate his pro timeline, and Rutgers’ Dylan Harper quickly emerged as the consensus No. 2 pick. After that, the rest o...2025
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• NBA Draft combine 2025 winners and losers, starring Ace Bailey, Duke recruit, and more
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Instant projection after Mavs win Cooper Flagg sweepstakes
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• Duke faces its biggest challenge yet under Jon Scheyer

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The sting of Duke’s stunning collapse against Houston still lingers. To get rid of it, the Blue Devils head coach will have to succeed under circumstances he hasn’t faced before. Given the current state of college basketball, phrases like “roster retention” and “culture continuity” being omnipresent for years to come seems to be about as safe a bet as th...2025
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Pre-lottery update with changes inside top-10

Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images Here’s our latest 2025 NBA mock draft. The NBA Playoffs are in full swing, and it’s putting a spotlight on the types of players teams need to win in the postseason. There’s a marked change in the way the game is played and officiated from the regular season to the playoffs, and it can help inform which prospects should be valued as the 2025 NBA Draft...2025
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with college basketball season now over

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images Here’s our latest NBA mock draft now that March Madness is over. March Madness is over, and the Florida Gators are national champions. The college basketball offseason is already in full swing, and a flood of early entrants into the 2025 NBA Draft is the next step. The draft order won’t be set until the lottery on Monday, May 12, but a consensus board is al...2025
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• NBA Draft rankings 2025: Top 60 big board of prospects
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with NBA Finals now over
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Perfect picks for each team in the first round
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• NBA Draft combine 2025 winners and losers, starring Ace Bailey, Duke recruit, and more
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Instant projection after Mavs win Cooper Flagg sweepstakes
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• How Duke collapsed vs. Houston in Final Four in all-time March Madness comeback

Photo by Alex Slitz/Getty Images Kelvin Sampson painted his masterpiece in Duke’s Final Four collapse. Duke’s coronation was all but written late in the second half against Houston in the 2025 men’s Final Four. The Blue Devils led by 14 points with just over eight minutes left, putting the program on the doorstep of the national championship game. Duke’s talent advantage was overwhelming: ...2025
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• A case for why each Final Four team could win the 2025 men’s basketball national championship

Rob Kinnan-Imagn Images A blockbuster Final Four featuring all No. 1 seeds is coming to San Antonio next weekend. There has been no college basketball season in recent memory where it felt like the gap between the sport’s four or five best teams and the rest of the country was as wide as the one we’ve seen over the past five months. With that being the case, it seems beyond fitting that ...2025
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with 2 March Madness prospects rising, 1 falling

Photo by C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images March Madness has impacted our latest 2025 NBA mock draft. March Madness is the first time a big section of NBA fans check in on the top prospects in college basketball. This is a good year to do it: 19 of the 30 first-round picks in our last mock draft made the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament, and a bunch of them are still playing as the fi...2025
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• Duke is actually likable this year, and it feels so wrong

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images Help, I think I actually like Duke. The Blue Devils did something unthinkable on Sunday afternoon — they actually made me like them. Conditioned on three decades of familial loathing, I walked into the Lenovo Center in Raleigh prepared to be wrapped in Duke’s weighted blanket of disgust, lulling me into a comfortable state of hatred. Instead I found my...2025
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• NBA mock draft 2025: These prospects can rise in March Madness

Photo by Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images Here’s our latest 2025 NBA mock draft ahead of March Madness. There is a lot of money to be in March, and the biggest bags aren’t coming from the NIL. The NCAA tournament is the greatest star-making event there is for a young basketball player. This year’s March Madness bracket is filled with NBA prospects dreaming of making a name for themselves on th...2025
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• Duke player saved teammate from turnover by literally yanking his leg

Kon Knueppel pulled his teammate’s leg to prevent turnover for Duke. March Madness is just around the corner, and the Duke Blue Devils are again a threat to win the national championship because of a standout freshman class. Cooper Flagg has lived up to the hype as Duke’s latest No. 1 overall draft pick, but fellow freshman Kon Knueppel, Khaman Maluach, and Isaiah Evans have also given the team im...2025
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• Duke is actually likable this year, and it feels so wrong
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• Sources: Flagg leads NBA's 13 green room invites
Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper, Ace Bailey, VJ Edgecombe, Tre Johnson, Khaman Maluach, Jeremiah Fears and Kon Knueppel lead the first group of 13 prospects invited to the NBA draft's green room....2025
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• Sixers draft profile: Khaman Maluach is a bona fide big man
Duke center Khaman Maluach is a true big man draft prospect....2025
• NBA prospect Maluach, 16, to play in World Cup

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• With Duke's three top-10 NBA draftees, Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel, Khaman Maluach, '25 class joins rare list
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• How Duke collapsed vs. Houston in Final Four in all-time March Madness comeback
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with 2 March Madness prospects rising, 1 falling
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• Khaman Maluach and 2 other Suns who should be happy with playoff performance

Khaman Maluach and two other Suns can be happy with their postseason experience and saw their stock rise....2026
• 9 best NBA rookies at Las Vegas Summer League 2025, ranked
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• 6 NBA teams stuck in purgatory
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• 10 best NBA Draft picks in 2025 that get an A-grade from us
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with NBA Finals now over
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• How Duke's Khaman Maluach went from playing soccer in South Sudan to a 2025 NBA Draft Lottery prospect

Maluach's journey from refugee to basketball stardom will culminate this month at the NBA Draft in Brooklyn...2025
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• Sixers’ 8 best NBA Draft choices for No. 3 overall pick, ranked
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• NBA Draft combine 2025 winners and losers, starring Ace Bailey, Duke recruit, and more
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Instant projection after Mavs win Cooper Flagg sweepstakes
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• Suns can shockingly win Kevin Durant trade all over again next season
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• 9 best NBA rookies at Las Vegas Summer League 2025, ranked
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• Nets take Egor Demin in first shocking move of 2025 NBA Draft
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• Draft Rumors: Pelicans, Queen, Essengue, Raptors, Nets, Wolves
While Jonathan Givony and Jeremy Woo of ESPN have the Pelicans selecting Duke center Khaman Maluach with the seventh overall pick in their latest mock draft ahead of Wednesday night’s event, there has been some 11th-hour buzz linking New Orleans to Derik Queen, Givony notes. As Givony explains, new Pelicans executive Troy Weaver has “long-standing […]...2025
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• Duke faces its biggest challenge yet under Jon Scheyer
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