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• Jordan Poole broke Payton Pritchard’s ankles but spent so long celebrating he couldn’t score

Image via NBC Washington If the Wizards are going to try and pull off a Jordan Poole trade at the deadline this year, they may have to purge this clip from the internet. Jordan Poole may end up as one of the few players to be a significant contributor to an NBA championship that will be remembered far more for his highlights than lowlights. As a reminder, this is a man who, solely in the l...2024
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• Wizards, Jazz, Nets Considered Clear-Cut Sellers

The Washington Wizards, Utah Jazz and Brooklyn Nets have emerged as the primary clear-cut sellers in the NBA ahead of the February trade deadline, sources tell The Stein Line. "When you call them, they're willing to make a deal right now," said one rival executive. The Toronto Raptors, Portland Trail Blazers and Chicago Bulls could join them at some point. The Wizards have the NBA's worst record a...2024
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• NBA Rumors: Pacers, Suns, Blazers, Kyle Kuzma, Wizards

The NBA trade rumor mill is heating up, with teams across the league starting to position themselves for moves as the season progresses. Shams Charania of ESPN has the latest updates on teams looking to bolster their rosters or potentially shake things up. Let’s break it down: INDIANA PACERS After a tough blow losing centers […] The post NBA Rumors: Pacers, Suns, Blazers, Kyle Kuzma, Wizards...2024
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• Kyle Kuzma has earned his shot to play on a contending roster

He's long been viewed as Washington's best trade piece, and given its youth movement, it would make sense for the Wizards to cash in....2024
• Kyle Kuzma Expected To Draw Trade Interest From Contenders

Washington Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma is expected to draw interest from contenders ahead of the trade deadline. Teams see Kuzma as a versatile combo forward who has championship experience from his time with the Los Angeles Lakers. Kuzma makes $23.5 million this season, in the second year of his four-year, $90 million deal. The veteran forward's contract declines each season to $21.5 million in 20...2024
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• Wizards Rumors: Kyle Kuzma, Jonas Valanciunas, Malcolm Brogdon

The Washington Wizards are still smack in the middle of their “deconstruction phase” — GM Will Dawkins’ words, not ours — and that means their roster is shaping up to be a treasure trove for contenders ahead of the NBA trade deadline. If you’re looking for veterans who can move the needle, the Wizards might […] The post Wizards Rumors: Kyle Kuzma, Jonas Valanciunas, Malcolm Brogd...2024
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• Handicapping NBA’s tank race for Cooper Flagg by most likely team to land No. 1 draft pick

Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images These nine NBA teams are still in the mix for winning the 2025 NBA Draft lottery and the rights to Cooper Flagg. It only took about 20 games for the 2024-2025 NBA season to completely reshape what we thought we knew coming into the year. The Boston Celtics and Oklahoma City Thunder emerging as the championship favorites in each conference was to be exp...2024
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• LeBron James has proven he’s definitively better than Michael Jordan in one specific way

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Michael Jordan may be 6-0 in the Finals, but LeBron has a far better record than MJ against another opponent: Father Time. Folks, it’s easy to get distracted, here at the end of time. The world is warming at an unsustainable clip, American politics writ large are totally fine and very normal, Timothee Chalamet is trying his hand at playing...2024
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• 8 NBA teams that need to make a trade (and 1 move they could make)

Photo by Tyler Kaufman/Getty Images We ranked eight NBA teams that need to make a move, and took our best shot at coming up with one trade each of them could pull off. It’s fake trade season in the NBA. It’s not actual trade season for a while. Teams don’t buy or sell when they either theoretically liked their roster going into the season or hated it but need teams to get more desperate b...2024
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• Kyle Kuzma Out With Groin Strain
Washington Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma will miss at least Wednesday's game due to a groin strain. The Wizards haven't announced a timeline for Kuzma's return, but it's expected he could miss additional time beyond the Hawks game Wednesday. In his fourth season with the Wizards, Kuzma has gotten off to a bit of a slow start. He's averaging 17 points, but shooting 33% from the field. The veteran forw...2024
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• Every NBA team ranked by its 2025 championship chances to start season

Photo by Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images Let’s rank every team in the NBA by their 2025 championship chances to start the season. The start of a new NBA season is the ultimate time for optimism. Every team is undefeated, and each organization’s season-long goals are still within reach. The NBA is fully entrenched in its parity era. The league has had a different champion each of the last six ...2024
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• Kyle Kuzma Praises Robert F. Kennedy Jr. After He Endorses Donald Trump For President
Washington Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma praised Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was running as an independent candidate for the We The People Party, after he suspended his campaign and announced his endorsement for Republican nominee Donald Trump in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. Kyle Kuzma listened to the perspective of […] The post Kyle Kuzma Prais...2024
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• 9 NBA teams in the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes for 2025 draft, ranked by tiers

Photo by Juan Ocampo/NBAE via Getty Images The 2024 NBA Draft lacked excitement from the very start of the cycle due to the absence of a consensus No. 1 overall player. The 2024 class wasn’t terrible, but it always felt more like a role player draft than one with future franchise cornerstones. The fact that this was the draft that immediately followed Victor Wembanyama’s class made it seem...2024
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts

Photo by Alex Goodlett/Getty Images Here are the NBA players who could be traded before the new season begins. Player movement typically comes in waves during the NBA offseason, and it feels like the first wave is officially over for the summer of 2024. The draft has come and gone with some big surprises (Zach Edey to the Grizzlies!), major trades have gone down (Mikal Bridges to the Knick...2024
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• 2024 NBA Mock Draft: SB Nation writers project the first round

Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust The 2024 NBA Draft is widely viewed as one of the weaker classes ever, but that doesn’t mean that some teams won’t find real contributors in the first round. Our network of draft experts tried to project who they’d be. The 2024 NBA Draft isn’t seen as the strongest class in the league’s history, but between Alex Sarr, Zacchari...2024
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• Power forward continues to be most misunderstood position in NBA

The NBA’s modern evolution can be most easily seen in power forwards. We often talk about sports or fields or mediums as being in a transition. In football, it’s the popularity of two high shells to prevent explosive plays that took over the NFL in 2020. In baseball, it’s the slow extension of dugouts, from a rotation of five or six pitchers to a laundry list of specialists getting saved to be in ...2024
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• 2024 NBA Mock Draft: SB Nation writers project the first round
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"Kyle Kuzma is getting flamed for a tweet that’s aged terribly in the span of a few weeks: At this point its like “dont be that team” 🤣 https://t."

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"The beef between former Wizards teammates Kyle Kuzma and Spencer Dinwiddie has erupted, with both players pouring fuel on the fire."

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"Kyle Kuzma came into his showdown against his former team a better player than when he left."

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"The Lakers are nearing a deal with the Wizards to acquire Russell Westbrook in exchange for Kyle Kuzma, Montrezl Harrell, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and a 2021 first-round pick, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski."

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"The Lakers aren't letting go of Kyle Kuzma without getting a major difference-maker back"

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"The Lakers' bench combined for a season-high 72 points, led by Kyle Kuzma, Dwight Howard and co."

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"Lakers' Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma were selected to participate in the Mtn Dew Kickstart Rising Stars game."

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"Brook Lopez, Brandon Ingram and Kyle Kuzma continued to put up big numbers, as the Lakers took down Memphis."

• Jordan Poole broke Payton Pritchard’s ankles but spent so long celebrating he couldn’t score
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• Wizards, Jazz, Nets Considered Clear-Cut Sellers
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• Kyle Kuzma Expected To Draw Trade Interest From Contenders
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• Wizards Rumors: Kyle Kuzma, Jonas Valanciunas, Malcolm Brogdon
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• Handicapping NBA’s tank race for Cooper Flagg by most likely team to land No. 1 draft pick
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• 8 NBA teams that need to make a trade (and 1 move they could make)
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• Wizards Won't Exercise 25-26 Options For Johnny Davis, Patrick Baldwin Jr

The Washington Wizards will not exercise the 2025-26 rookie scale team options for Patrick Baldwin Jr. and Johnny Davis. These are the fourth-year options for both Baldwin and Davis. Baldwin and Davis will now be unrestricted free agents in the summer of 2025. The Wizards will be capped at paying them now more than the amount of their declined option in first-year salary, should the team re-sign t...2024
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• Every NBA team ranked by its 2025 championship chances to start season
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• Wizards Notes: Kuzma, Brogdon, Poole, George
Kyle Kuzma had an opportunity to be traded to Dallas at last season’s deadline, but he opted to remain with the Wizards, even though they were at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings and are probably several years away from contending. Although the Mavericks reached the NBA Finals, Kuzma said in an interview with […]...2024
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• 9 NBA teams in the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes for 2025 draft, ranked by tiers
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• Handicapping NBA’s tank race for Cooper Flagg by most likely team to land No. 1 draft pick
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• Report: Bucks, Warriors, Lakers, Heat, Cavaliers Interested In Kyle Kuzma
According to NBA insider Michael Scotto of HoopsHype, the Milwaukee Bucks, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat and Cleveland Cavaliers are interested in Washington Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma. Kuzma is making $23.5 million this season. The swingman is averaging 15.8 points, 5.6 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 0.4 steals and 0.3 blocks for the Wizards […] The post Report: Bucks,...2024
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• LeBron James has proven he’s definitively better than Michael Jordan in one specific way
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• Kyle Kuzma Out With Groin Strain
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• Every NBA team ranked by its 2025 championship chances to start season
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• Kyle Kuzma broke Ben Simmons’ ankles then airballed his shot

A workd of art. Everything in the world is topsy-turvy, but it’s nice to know we always have the Washington Wizards to fall back on for some hilarity. On Monday night the Wizards and Nets met in NBA preseason, giving up the battle we never knew we needed: Kyle Kuzma vs. Ben Simmons. KYLE KUZMA DROPPED BEN SIMMONS WITH A HESITATION… THEN AIRBALLED pic.twitter.com/itoYXpAemy— Courtside Buzz (@C...2024
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• Wizards Notes: Kuzma, Brogdon, Poole, George
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• Trade Proposal Sends Kyle Kuzma, Grant Williams, Corey Kispert, Nick Richards To Cavaliers

An NBA trade proposal sending Kyle Kuzma, Grant Williams, Corey Kispert and Nick Richards to the Cleveland Cavaliers has been created. Here’s the mock NBA trade idea between the Cavaliers, Washington Wizards and Charlotte Hornets: Kuzma averaged 22.2 points, 6.6 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 0.5 steals and 0.7 blocks for the Wizards in 2023-24 while shooting […] The post Trade Proposal ...2024
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts
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• Brandon Ingram Trade Talks Have 'Intensified'

With Brandon Ingram and the New Orleans Pelicans unable to find common ground on a contract extension, sources tell Marc Stein that attempts to trade have intensified. Ingram has one season remaining on his contract with the Pelicans. The Pelicans are expected to trade Ingram, sign Trey Murphy III to a contract extension and also improve their options at center this offseason after previously trad...2024
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• Handicapping NBA’s tank race for Cooper Flagg by most likely team to land No. 1 draft pick
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• LeBron James has proven he’s definitively better than Michael Jordan in one specific way
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• Kyle Kuzma broke Ben Simmons’ ankles then airballed his shot
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• 9 NBA teams in the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes for 2025 draft, ranked by tiers
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts
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• LeBron James’ NBA free agency circus is back this time with Bronny

Photo by Bart Young/NBAE via Getty Images LeBron James is reportedly about to be an NBA free agent again with several factors at play The NBA world stops when LeBron James becomes a free agent. For the fourth and likely final time in his legendary career, James is poised to enter the open market this summer for one more round of non-stop speculation about his basketball future. James is st...2024
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• Jordan Poole’s alley-oop pass off backboard down 20 was shameless even for him

Jordan Poole on the Wizards is pure chaos. The Jordan Poole: Washington Wizard experience is going to be must-see TV. Poole was traded from the Golden State Warriors to the Wizards over the offseason as Washington started a massive rebuild by tearing down the roster. For Golden State, trading Poole brought back Chris Paul, and also hoped to serve as addition by subtraction. After helping the War...2023
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• WATCH: Kyle Kuzma and Jordan Poole provide another 'So Wizards' moment of NBA season

Why are the Wizards throwing alley-oops off the backboard down 20?...2023
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• Kyle Kuzma To Kings Has 'Momentum'
With the Sacramento Kings creating cap space on draft night, there has been "momentum" about a pursuit of Kyle Kuzma in free agency. Even with a new renegotiate-and-extend deal for Domantas Sabonis, the Kings could have $25 million in cap space. The Kings nearly acquired Kuzma in 2021 before the Los Angeles Lakers pivoted to a Russell Westbrook trade. Kuzma has also been linked with the Utah Jazz,...2023
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• Corey Kispert is becoming exactly what the Wizards drafted him to be
Photo by Jess Rapfogel/Getty Images The sharpshooting wing is ending the year superbly to cap off an impressive second season. Corey Kispert began the 2022-23 NBA season glued to the bench. As the Washington Wizards meandered out to a 4-4 start, Kispert didn’t record a single minute. He finally saw the court in a 42-point loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Nov. 4 and missed all 6 of his shots. T...2023
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• Lakers moving toward deal for Russ, sources say

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• Trio Stays Hot in Lakers’ Third Straight Home Win

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• Kuzma Erupts for 38 Points as Lakers Stop Rockets' Streak

Just 28 games into his NBA career, Kyle Kuzma dropped 38 points to lead the Lakers past the NBA's hottest team....2017
• Lonzo Ball Named Summer League MVP
Lonzo Ball was named Most Valuable Player of the Las Vegas Summer League, while Kyle Kuzma was awarded Second Team All-Summer League honors....2017
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• Kyle Kuzma Chosen As Summer League Championship MVP
Kyle Kuzma found his aggressiveness in Las Vegas, and it served him well as the top player in the Summer League title game....2017
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• Kuzma, Ball at Center Stage in Preseason Opener

Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma had their moments in a highly-anticipated preseason opener....2017
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• Lakers Top Blazers Behind LeBron's Dimes, Bench's Big Night
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• Lakers Fall Shy of Comeback as Kuzma, Ball Heat Up at Golden State

The Lakers trailed by as many as 23 points before Kyle Kuzma and Lonzo Ball led a rally against Golden State....2017
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• NBA Rumors: Pacers, Suns, Blazers, Kyle Kuzma, Wizards
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• Handicapping NBA’s tank race for Cooper Flagg by most likely team to land No. 1 draft pick
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• LeBron James has proven he’s definitively better than Michael Jordan in one specific way
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• 8 NBA teams that need to make a trade (and 1 move they could make)
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• Every NBA team ranked by its 2025 championship chances to start season
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts
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• 2024 NBA Mock Draft: SB Nation writers project the first round
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• Power forward continues to be most misunderstood position in NBA
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• LeBron James’ NBA free agency circus is back this time with Bronny
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• Kyle Kuzma seemingly trolls Lakers following Game 3 loss

The Lakers are just one loss away from being eliminated from the 2024 NBA playoffs....2024

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• NBA Trade Rumors: Latest on Zach LaVine, Kyle Kuzma, Jalen Green and more

Photo by Stephen Gosling/NBAE via Getty Images We’ve got the latest rumors about what NBA teams are thinking about with less than a week to go until the trade deadline. The Feb. 8 NBA trade deadline is officially less than a week away. With that in mind, let’s bounce around the latest smoke from the hot stove that a couple of the NBA’s biggest insiders cooked up on Friday. Zach LaVine to t...2024
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• Jordan Poole’s 1-on-5, double spin cycle bucket is another Wizards gem

Jordan Poole has never met a 1-on-5 opportunity he didn’t like. Jordan Poole has an NBA championship ring. He has a $140 million contract, fully guaranteed. Poole now also has a new team, going from the Golden State Warriors to the Washington Wizards over the offseason in a trade that sent Chris Paul to the Bay Area. Poole lost the chance to compete for a championship-caliber team in the trade, bu...2023
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• Jordan Poole’s alley-oop pass off backboard down 20 was shameless even for him
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• NBA mock draft 2023: Latest projection with perfect picks for every selection
Photo by Christian Bonin/NBAE via Getty Images Here’s our latest NBA mock draft. There are a few things we know for sure about the 2023 NBA Draft. Victor Wembanyama is going No. 1 overall to the San Antonio Spurs. The New Orleans Pelicans want G League Ignite point guard Scoot Henderson, but they would have to trade into the top-three to get him. Damian Lillard would probably like the Port...2023
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• Grading Bradley Beal trade to Suns for Chris Paul in NBA’s first blockbuster deal of summer
Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Let’s grade the trade sending Bradley Beal to the Suns from both sides. Bradley Beal is leaving the Washington Wizards for the first time in his career. Beal has been traded to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, second round picks, and pick swaps, according to insiders Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania. Beal joins a loa...2023
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• Kyle Kuzma vs. Spencer Dinwiddie is the most random beef of the NBA playoffs
Mike Watters-USA TODAY Sports The NBA cannot go a single day without drama Y’all know that tweet that says the NBA has gone zero days without drama? Well, yeah the NBA cannot go a single day without drama, with today’s main characters being Brooklyn’s Spencer Dinwiddie and Washington’s Kyle Kuzma. Let’s back up: Dinwiddie and Kuzma used to be teammates, with Dinwiddie and Kuzma being teamm...2023
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• NBA Scores: Jokic-less Nuggets top Warriors to close in on top seed in West
Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images Plus everything else you may have missed from a busy Sunday in the NBA. Nuggets fend off Warriors without Jokic, 112-110 I’ve felt this way for some time, but wins like this one on Sunday reassert things for me: Denver is the best team in the Western Conference. Playing without their perennial MVP candidate, Nikola Jokic (calf tightness, with which he’...2023
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• Bulls star DeMar DeRozan drills epic buzzer-beater to stun Wizards
DeMar DeRozan is having a fairy-tale season for the Chicago Bulls. On Saturday night against the Washington Wizards, he added to his legend. After Kyle Kuzma hit a three to put the Wizards up by two, DeMar hit his second game-winning three in two days to seal the win for the Bulls. (via Rob Perez) […] The post Bulls star DeMar DeRozan drills epic buzzer-beater to stun Wizards appeared first ...2022
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