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• Dikembe Mutombo, NBA and humanitarian legend, dies of brain cancer at 58

Photo by Takashi Aoyama/Getty Images RIP Dikembe Mutombo, 1966-2024 NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo passed away from a battle with brain cancer on Monday afternoon. He was 58 years old. Mutombo is one of the best defensive players in NBA history. Known for his iconic finger wave after rejecting opponents, Mutombo is second all-time in blocked shots with 3,289. He was a 4x Defensive Player of th...2024
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• Jayson Tatum working on improving mechanics of jump shot

While it's incorrect to suggest that Tatum's jump shot is flawed, the star forward did struggle with his three-point percentage in the 2024 NBA playoffs and the Paris Olympics....2024
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• Trick Williams Is Backing Tyrese Haliburton Against Jalen Brunson
Tyrese Haliburton came to NXT on September 17th, presenting Ethan Page and Trick Williams with the contract for the NXT Championship match on October 1st. The Indiana Pacers star previously appeared on WWE television in June when he confronted New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson. Speaking on Ringer Wrestling Worldwide, Trick was asked about Haliburton's appearance. "It's really cool that these gu...2024
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• Grizzlies To Retire Tony Allen's No. 9 On March 15th

The Memphis Grizzlies announced the organization will retire Tony Allen's No. 9 on Saturday, March 15. After signing as a free agent in 2010, Allen helped guide the Grizzlies to the NBA Playoffs in all seven of his seasons in Memphis (2010-17) and factored into the club's first postseason victory in 2011 and the team's trip to the 2013 Western Conference Finals. The Chicago native ranks second in ...2024
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• Top Five Teams In Western Conference

The Western Conference, man. If you think things will be close in the East … well, it should only be more intense here. No less than five teams could emerge as the No. 1 seed going into the NBA playoffs, and with any one of the five, you would not be surprised. The Thunder landed […] The post Top Five Teams In Western Conference appeared first on Hoops Wire....2024
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• Josh Kroenke: I Know Jamal Murray Wasn't 100 Percent In Playoffs, Olympics

Josh Kroenke cited Jamal Murray's injury issues as a factor for his struggles during the playoffs with the Denver Nuggets and for Canada in the Olympics. Kroenke identified an ankle injury "among others" that Murray has been dealing with. Murray also had a left calf strain. "When you're going against the best in the world, whether it's in the NBA playoffs or in the Olympics, you're gonna get (oppo...2024
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• Josh Kroenke: I Know Jamal Murray Wasn't 100 Percent In Playoffs, Olympics
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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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• Kristaps Porzingis Is 'Progressing Well, But Will Be A While'

Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens touched on Kristaps Porzingis' recovery in a recent interview with the Boston Globe. Stevens gave a positive update on Porzingis, but cautioned that patience will be needed. "He's in Latvia. He's starting to do more and more and more," Stevens said. "He was in a boot for a while there, but every indication is he's progressing well and ...2024
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• Andrew Nembhard, Pacers Agree To Three-Year, $59M Extension

The Indiana Pacers and guard Andrew Nembhard have agreed to a three-year, $59 million contract extension. Nembhard has become an integral member of the Pacers rotation in his first two NBA seasons. In two seasons since being the 31st pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, Nembhard has appeared in 143 games with 110 starts. He's averaged 9.3 points, 4.3 assists and shot 46.7% from the field. In the 2024 NBA P...2024
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• Olympics’ 50 best men’s basketball players for 2024 Paris games, ranked

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images Let’s rank the best men’s basketball players competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The most talented men’s basketball tournament in the history of the Summer Olympics is going down at the 2024 Paris Games. The best athletes in the sport are on display representing their home countries, and all of them want the glory that comes with leading their team to a...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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• Jalen Brunson: I Was Going To Smack Tyrese Haliburton With A Chair, Indiana Pacers Probably Would've Sued Me
Jalen Brunson reflects on WWE SmackDown appearance. New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson was in the building for WWE SmackDown on June 28th at Madison Square Garden. He got involved in the action, preventing Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton from helping Logan Paul in a triple threat match against LA Knight and Santos Escobar. Speaking on his Roomates podcast, Brunson looked back on the experi...2024
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• Nets and Knicks kick off 2024 NBA Draft with massive, complicated Mikal Bridges trade

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images The 2024 NBA Draft transaction cycle started with a bang, as the Nets sent Mikal Bridges across the city to the Knicks and regained their own pick from the Rockets in two blockbuster deals. The Nets have regained control of their future heading into the 2024 NBA Draft by making two massive deals on the eve of the big day. In the first, Br...2024
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• Community Convo: Best active Cleveland players

Photo by Nick Cammett/Getty Images Browns, Guardians and Cavaliers have had or are having playoff seasons Cleveland sports are having what looks like a great year in 2024. The Cleveland Browns made the playoffs, played in 2024, to end the 2023 NFL season. The Cleveland Cavaliers made the NBA playoffs, won a round and gave the eventual NBA Champions a tougher-than-expected series despite in...2024
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• What it takes to be a race car driver, according to the drivers themselves

Race car drivers explain in their own words why their sport isn’t a Sunday drive “They are not athletes.” “I drive a car too, how hard can it be?” “Fake sport.” Writing about motorsports elicits a number of different responses. Inevitably, however, responses like the above pop up. Readers questioning the coverage, questioning the athletes, questioning the sport itself. Over the past year I have be...2024
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• Caitlin Clark Fever has already overtaken Indiana, and it’s only the preseason

Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports In the unofficial home debut of Caitlin Clark with the Fever on Thursday, Indiana showed it’s ready for one of the game’s top stars. INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana has long been a basketball-crazed state. From preps to pros, there has never been such a thing as too much basketball. Search the largest high school gymnasiums in America, and 10 of the top 12 are located ...2024
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• Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat Keep Evolving Together in Order to Breed Success
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• DeAndre Jordan to Mavericks: Latest Contract Details, Comments and Reaction
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• The Organizational Failures Behind the Chicago Bears' 3-5 Start
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"Down 1-0 in their first round series in the 2024 NBA Playoffs, the Lakers walloped Denver in the first half, opening up a 20-point lead early in the third quarter."

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"The Los Angeles Lakers’ season came to an end as they were eliminated by the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the NBA Playoffs."

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• Trick Williams Is Backing Tyrese Haliburton Against Jalen Brunson
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• Grizzlies To Retire Tony Allen's No. 9 On March 15th
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• Josh Kroenke: I Know Jamal Murray Wasn't 100 Percent In Playoffs, Olympics
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• 8 NBA teams that can win the 2025 championship
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• NBA’s easiest and hardest schedules, key dates, and more for 2024-2025 season

Photo by Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images Here are our biggest takeaways from the 2024-2025 NBA schedule release. The dog days of the NBA offseason are officially here, but there’s a light shining at the end of the proverbial tunnel. The 2024-2025 NBA schedule was released on Thursday afternoon for all 30 teams. The NBA will be back before you know it, and the WNBA has basketball ...2024
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• Kevin Durant, Anthony Edwards Bonding On Team USA

The purpose for Team USA is to win Olympic Gold. A secondary outcome from whenever players get together to play for the United States is planting the seeds for future partnerships. Countless NBA duos and trios have been formed out of players having fun as teammates for Team USA and seeking to carry that back to their day jobs. This summer, an inseparable duo has been Kevin Durant of the Phoenix Su...2024
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• How math and video games can fix NBA positions

Photo by Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images It’s time for the NBA to get rid of positions — or at least overhaul them. Let’s discuss why (and how). In basketball, there are five positions: Point Guard, Shooting Guard, Small Forward, Power Forward, and Center. And it’s time for them to go. Science, logic and enlightened ideas have been challenging outdated concepts since someone came up with th...2024
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• Andrew Nembhard, Pacers Agree To Three-Year, $59M Extension
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• Olympics’ 50 best men’s basketball players for 2024 Paris games, ranked
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts
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• Grizzlies To Retire Tony Allen's No. 9 On March 15th
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• Andrew Nembhard, Pacers Agree To Three-Year, $59M Extension
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• Olympics’ 50 best men’s basketball players for 2024 Paris games, ranked
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts
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• Community Convo: Best active Cleveland players
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• Collision viewership up again for Anniversary show

Ricky Havlik for All Elite Wrestling The numbers are in for the June 15 episode of AEW Collision on TNT. According to Wrestlenomics, Collision drew 431,000 viewers and scored a .13 rating among 18-49 year olds. That’s an increase in the overall audience for the second straight week, and the show’s best of the past month. The demo number was unchanged, but per Programming Insider was still ...2024
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• 2024 NBA playoffs bracket, schedule, scores: Mavericks extend NBA Finals as series moves to Boston for Game 5

The Celtics are just one win away from their 18th NBA title...2024
• The Derrick White trade changed the course of Celtics history

Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images On and off the court, Derrick White’s presence has lifted Boston to where they are today. When the Boston Celtics got eliminated by the Brooklyn Nets in the 2021 NBA playoffs, the screen faded to black, and the credits began to run. The Brad Stevens years had come to a disappointing close, yet simultaneously, the true Stevens era hadn’t even begun....2024
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• 2024 NBA playoffs bracket, schedule, scores: Celtics on the verge of NBA Finals sweep over Mavericks

Dallas is in a must-win situation at home for Game 4 on Friday...2024

• Dikembe Mutombo, NBA and humanitarian legend, dies of brain cancer at 58
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• The NBA’s 5-hour Stephen Curry clutch YouTube video is peak offseason content

Please enjoy this nearly five-hour YouTube video of Stephen Curry’s greatest clutch moments. It’s hard to come up with NBA content ideas in August — trust me. Free agency has completely dried up, the trade market is inactive, and there are still six more weeks until training camp. The Paris Olympics gave us some amazing basketball in the darkest part of the offseason, but after another gold medal...2024
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• 12 NBA players on the trade block before next season starts
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• NBA’s 11 best free agents still available on 2024 market, ranked

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Here are the best NBA free agents still unsigned The 2024 NBA free agency class was never particularly strong or deep to begin with. Within 24 hours of the market opening on Sunday evening, most of the top players available were already off the board. Paul George signed with the 76ers, Isaiah Hartenstein joined the Thunder, and Kentavious Caldwell-Po...2024
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• Klay Thompson, Warriors appear headed for divorce in NBA free agency

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images It appears Klay Thompson is closer than ever to leaving Warriors in NBA free agency, based on recent reports. Klay Thompson spent this past season fighting against father time as he played out the final year of his contract with the Golden State Warriors. Thompson still shot the ball well from three-point range (38.7 percent), but it was clear he lost a step...2024
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• The Big Three era is dead and the Knicks are back: 20 things we learned from the NBA playoffs

The NBA postseason remains an eight-week psychodrama of moments, memes and memories unlike anything in sport. Our writer looks back at the 20 biggest takeaways...2024
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• The Derrick White trade changed the course of Celtics history
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• Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat Keep Evolving Together in Order to Breed Success
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• Golden State Warriors Are Primed to Reach Historic Echelon Next Season
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• LeBron James Reportedly Expected to Influence Cavaliers' Free-Agency Spending
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• LeBron James Shutting Himself off from Social Media for Duration of Playoffs
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• LeBron James Says He's 'Probably the Best I've Been' Heading to 2015 NBA Finals
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• Derrick Rose Discusses Injury Concerns, Life After Basketball
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• Kevin Durant's Return Is Just What The NBA Needs In 2015-16
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• Kevin Love Opts Out of Cavaliers Contract: Latest Details, Comments and Reaction
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• From Deep: These 3 players dropped their 2024-25 fantasy basketball draft stock in the NBA Playoffs

After highlighting some players who boosted their fantasy basketball stock for next season, it's time to see who's on the opposite end of the spectrum after the NBA Playoffs....2024
• From Deep: These 3 players boosted their 2024-25 fantasy basketball draft stock in the NBA Playoffs

With the 2023-24 NBA Finals set to begin, fantasy basketball analyst Dan Titus looks back at a trio of players who increased their draft standing for next season....2024
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• The NBA Loser Lineup: Expect to pay an early 2nd-round fantasy pick for Anthony Edwards next season

Basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down what the teams and stars who were booted from the NBA Playoffs must do to remain in good fantasy standing next season....2024
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• The NBA Loser Lineup: Nuggets' chase for repeat fails — should Nikola Jokić repeat as No. 1 fantasy pick?

Basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down what the teams and stars who were booted from the NBA Playoffs must do to remain in good fantasy standing next season....2024
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• The NBA Loser Lineup: Donovan Mitchell, Cavs did great fantasy work this season — but things will change in 2024-25

Basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down what the teams and stars who were booted from the NBA Playoffs must do to remain in good fantasy standing next season....2024
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• The NBA Loser Lineup: Paolo Banchero, Magic on the rise in fantasy and reality despite playoff exit

Basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down what the teams and stars who were booted from the NBA Playoffs must do to remain in good fantasy standing next season....2024
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• The NBA Loser Lineup: Clippers face big questions after playoff exit, answers could have major fantasy implications

Basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down what the teams and stars who were booted from the NBA Playoffs must do to remain in good fantasy standing next season....2024
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• The NBA Loser Lineup: Joel Embiid, 76ers fall short yet again — will his fantasy outlook change next season?

Basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down what the teams and stars who were booted from the NBA Playoffs must do to remain in good fantasy standing next season....2024
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• The NBA Loser Lineup: LeBron James, Lakers get the boot — where should fantasy managers draft him next season?

Fantasy basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down what the teams and stars who were booted from the NBA Playoffs must do to remain in good fantasy standing next season....2024
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• The NBA Loser Lineup: Phoenix Suns get swept — is their Big 3 in fantasy basketball trouble for next season?

With the first team getting the boot out of the 2023-24 NBA Playoffs (sorry, Suns fans), fantasy basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down what they must do to remain in good fantasy standing next season....2024
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• Dikembe Mutombo, NBA and humanitarian legend, dies of brain cancer at 58
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• Jayson Tatum working on improving mechanics of jump shot
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• Top Five Teams In Western Conference
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• Josh Kroenke: I Know Jamal Murray Wasn't 100 Percent In Playoffs, Olympics
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• Nuggets Notes: Murray, Kroenke, Roster, Caldwell-Pope
Injuries were a significant factor in Jamal Murray‘s struggles in the 2024 postseason and during the Olympics in Paris this summer, Nuggets president Josh Kroenke said on Wednesday, according to Bennett Durando of The Denver Post. “When you’re going against the best in the world, whether it’s in the NBA playoffs or in the Olympics, […]...2024
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• 8 NBA teams that can win the 2025 championship
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• The NBA’s 5-hour Stephen Curry clutch YouTube video is peak offseason content
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• 10 Warriors games to watch that are pivotal to 2024-25 playoff push

As the Golden State Warriors attempt to vault back into the NBA playoffs, here are 10 games from the 2024-25 schedule release that have particular significance....2024
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• Bucks leaving no stone unturned in pursuit of a deep playoff run

The Bucks have been a first-round exit in the last two NBA playoffs....2024

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• How math and video games can fix NBA positions
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• NBA’s 11 best free agents still available on 2024 market, ranked
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• Klay Thompson, Warriors appear headed for divorce in NBA free agency
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• The Derrick White trade changed the course of Celtics history
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• Biggest surprises of 2024 NBA playoffs: Kyrie Irving's defense, Celtics' surprising home losses, more

Let's take a look back at the most shocking postseason developments leading up to the NBA Finals...2024
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• Arrowheadlines: Tom Brady ‘cautiously optimistic’ about Chiefs’ three-peat chances

Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Chiefs headlines for Tuesday, May 28 The latest Tom Brady cautiously optimistic on Chiefs’ 3-peat chance: ‘It’s a big challenge’ | Fox News If Tom Brady can’t even do it, he’s skeptical whether anyone can. “To put three of those together, in back-to-back-to-back seasons, with drafting last, a very hard schedule, all of the turnover in free agency and guy...2024
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• Reload or Rebuild: What’s next for Nuggets, Thunder, Cavs and Knicks after losing in the NBA playoffs?

Graphic by Anton Tabuena, original photo via Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images Trade rumors are expected to grow louder after the Nuggets, Cavaliers, Thunder and Knicks were all eliminated in the second round of the NBA Playoffs. The 2024 NBA Playoffs has already been very eventful to say the least. Several superstar-heavy teams were sent packing way earlier than they hoped, and now t...2024
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• Cavaliers superfan LeBron James drank wine and left early as Cleveland lost to Boston

Image via TNT broadcast/@sportingnews LeBron James showed up to cheer on his hometown Cavaliers as they went down 3-1 in their series against the Celtics. As the NBA playoffs roll along, games are often rife with more and more celebrity courtside cameos in each round. And while Cleveland is not New York in that respect (and many others) it still drew a few famous faces as the Cavaliers too...2024
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