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• Anthony Edwards Holds the Key To Unlocking His Fit With Julius Randle

When the Minnesota Timberwolves traded for Rudy Gobert in 2022, there was concern that he would not be able to fit alongside Anthony Edwards. The nerves were reasonable; Edwards functioned best attacking the rim, and Gobert couldn’t shoot. There was a chance that Gobert would clog that paint, and the fit between him and Edwards would falter....2024
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• Dunc'd On: 2024-25 Season Outlooks: Philadelphia 76ers with Derek Bodner + Minnesota Timberwolves with Jon Krawczynski

Derek Bodner of PHLY is our guest to discuss one of the most anticipated seasons in Sixers history. Can Joel Embiid be the same player after knee surgery? Is there even more in the tank from Tyrese Maxey this year? What exactly are the Sixers getting with Paul George at this stage of his career? How will Nick Nurse build out the rotation behind the big 3? Can any of their less-heralded players em...2024
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• Nuggets Notes: Towns, Saric, Gordon, Westbrook
With Karl-Anthony Towns now a member of the Knicks, the Timberwolves no longer present major matchup problems for the Nuggets, according to Bennett Durando of the Denver Post. Denver was eliminated by Minnesota in last season’s playoffs in part because of the Timberwolves’ big man duo of Towns and Rudy Gobert. The Nuggets’ starting lineup […]...2024
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• Wolves Notes: Gobert, Randle, Edwards, Minott, Finch
After spending the past two seasons trying to adapt his game to fit with Karl-Anthony Towns, Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert suddenly has a new frontcourt partner after this week’s trade with the Knicks. In an interview with Mark Medina of Sportskeeda, Gobert said he should be just as effective playing alongside Julius Randle. “He’s a […]...2024
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• Julius Randle On Wolves: I Feel Wanted Here

Julius Randle addressed the media on Thursday for the first time since he was traded by the New York Knicks to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Randle joined the Knicks ahead of the 19-20 season and helped turn around the franchise. "You want to be somewhere where you feel wanted. I feel wanted here," Randle said Thursday. "At this point in my career, I've accomplished a lot of great things on an indiv...2024
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• Karl-Anthony Towns made incredible gesture to Timberwolves writer after Knicks trade

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Karl-Anthony Towns made a wonderful gesture to a young fan on his way out of Minnesota. Karl-Anthony Towns practically lived his entire adult life in Minnesota. Since being selected by the Timberwolves with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft, Towns was a franchise pillar with the Wolves through thick and thin. Towns entered the o...2024
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• Dunc'd On: 2024-25 Season Outlooks: Philadelphia 76ers with Derek Bodner + Minnesota Timberwolves with Jon Krawczynski
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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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• Tim Connelly Wants Wolves To Keep Rudy Gobert 'For A Long Time'

Minnesota Timberwolves president of basketball operations Tim Connelly joined Darren Wolfson for an interview from the Minnesota State Fair. Connelly touched on a wide range of topics, including Wolves center Rudy Gobert. Gobert is eligible to sign a contract extension with Minnesota. Without getting into specifics, the Wolves front office leader said he hopes Gobert is with the team for years to ...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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• France benched Rudy Gobert to save its Olympics basketball run

Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images France benched Rudy Gobert to pull off two huge upsets in the Olympics. Rudy Gobert has been the star player during the best years in the history of France men’s basketball. With Gobert as its starting center, France won a silver medal in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Eurobasket, and took home bronze in the 2019 FIBA World Cup. Even as ...2024
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• Rudy Gobert injures his left ring finger but should be available for semifinal vs. Germany
Last match against Canada, it was quite the surprise not to see Rudy Gobert in France’s starting lineup. Apparently, the Minnesota star is currently dealing with an undisclosed injury on his left ring finger, and was only able to compete during three minutes of his nation’s quarterfinal victory in the Paris Olympics. French coach Vincent […] The post Rudy Gobert injures his left...2024
• Rudy Gobert Has MRI On Left Finger Injury

Rudy Gobert is dealing with an undisclosed left ring finger injury, he revealed following France's win over Canada on Tuesday. Gobert played just three minutes in the game for "several reasons." "There were several reasons why I didn't play, between the matchups but also what can happen in training, with the injuries," said Gobert. France coach Vincent Collet confirmed that Gobert had an MRI on th...2024
• Gobert (finger) benched; coach points to matchup

Rudy Gobert is dealing with an undisclosed injury to his left ring finger, but French coach Vincent Collet said that wasn't the reason the center played only three minutes vs. Canada....2024
• Dereck Lively II’s hard-won gravity

Photo by Tim Heitman/Getty Images We caught up with Dereck Lively II to discuss his breakout rookie season in the NBA and a whole lot more in the NBPA’s Brotherhood Deli at Las Vegas Summer League. LAS VEGAS — Not many people come to Las Vegas for self-reflection. To lose themselves, yes, but to veer into the meditative is a direction at odds with the city itself. Distractions abound, the ...2024
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• The NBA Draft’s 60 best prospects in 2024, ranked

Photo by Emrah Yorulmaz/Anadolu via Getty Images Here’s our final top-60 big board for the 2024 NBA Draft. The 2024 NBA Draft feels like the weakest class to enter the league in a decade. You have to go back to 2013 for the last time a draft had such a distinct lack of starpower at the top, but that class also offers some valuable lessons for this one. Anthony Bennett was a shocking No. 1 ...2024
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• The Rudy Gobert trade is on the verge of being an all-time NBA disaster
The conversation around Rudy Gobert is only getting louder. The Lakers triumphed over Timberwolves to begin the 2023 NBA play-in tournament on Tuesday night, with what should have been Dennis Schröder’s dagger corner three against the Minnesota, capping a brilliant second half. The Wolves would eventually lose in overtime, handing in an unmemorable bummer performance, sending them to a life or dea...2023
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• NBA Friday Roundup: Damian Lillard's 51 Points Trip History-Hunting Warriors
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"Rudy Gobert implies NBA referees are influenced by gambling after making money sign at officials"

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"Rudy Gobert says NBA is conspiring against Wolves as part of big-market playoff agenda: 'It's just so obvious'"

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"Jazz center Rudy Gobert fined $25,000 for using profanity in interview after Game 4 win over Mavericks"

2021
"After these announcements, Frenchman Rudy Gobert […] The post Pau Gasol gets heartfelt message from Rudy Gobert after retiring from Spanish national team appeared first on ClutchPoints."

2020
"Donovan Mitchell is the second Jazz player to test positive for contracting the coronavirus, sources told ESPN, joining Rudy Gobert, whose diagnosis led to the postponement of Wednesday's game against the Thunder."

2019
"Heat's Derrick Jones Jr. puts Rudy Gobert on a poster with one of the nastiest dunks you'll ever see"

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"Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert returns from knee injury"

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"The post Rudy Gobert Injures Knee on First Playoff Possession appeared first on SLAMonline."

2016
"To his credit, the 19-year-old guard took the prank in stride:Booker is probably just happy he didn't get the same treatment Dion Waiters or Rudy Gobert did back in their rookie years."

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"Lillard finished that play with a tomahawk jam over Utah center Rudy Gobert."

2014
"Memphis Grizzlies backup forward Vince Carter stepped into a time machine Monday night, raining down a ferocious dunk over 7-foot-2 Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz."

• Julius Randle On Wolves: I Feel Wanted Here
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• 10 Knicks-Timberwolves trade winners and losers from stunning Karl-Anthony Towns deal
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• Grading Knicks-Wolves blockbuster trade sending Karl-Anthony Towns to New York
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• Knicks trade Julius Randle to Timberwolves for Karl-Anthony Towns in rare player swap between contenders

Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images This is about as out-of-nowhere as trades come. In one of the more shocking offseason Friday news dumps in recent NBA memory, the Minnesota Timberwolves are reportedly sending Karl-Anthony Towns to the New York Knicks for Julius Randle, Donte DiVincenzo and a protected first-round pick. Shams Charania and Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic br...2024
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• Charles Barkley saying the WNBA is ‘petty’ and ‘jealous’ of Caitlin Clark is a wild lack of self-awareness

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images On “The Bill Simmons Podcast,” Charles Barkley had a hilariously hypocritical critique of how the WNBA has welcomed Caitlin Clark. Charles Barkley has become one of the most popular and well-liked sports media personalities across the NBA and sports in general in recent years. Most of that is due to him being a direct contrast to the modern cliche talk...2024
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• Timberwolves President: Rookies Will Have To Play Role For Cash-Strapped Club

The Minnesota Timberwolves are coming off a run to the Western Conference finals and have plenty of reasons to think they can advance even further this season. For starters, those reasons go by the names of Anthony Edwards, Karl-Anthony Towns, Rudy Gobert, Mike Conley, and others. But Minnesota is also up against the salary cap […] The post Timberwolves President: Rookies Will Have To Play R...2024
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• Wolves Will Look To Develop Young Players As Team Gets More Expensive

The Minnesota Timberwolves will be one of the most expensive teams in the NBA this season. With Karl-Anthony Towns and Anthony Edwards on maximum contracts, Rudy Gobert on a near-max deal and Jaden McDaniels starting a five-year extension, Minnesota is in uncharted territory with team salary and the luxury tax. Wolves president of basketball operations Tim Connelly said that makes developing the t...2024
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• Tim Connelly Wants Wolves To Keep Rudy Gobert 'For A Long Time'
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• 8 NBA teams that can win the 2025 championship
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• France benched Rudy Gobert to save its Olympics basketball run
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• Dunc'd On: 2024-25 Season Outlooks: Philadelphia 76ers with Derek Bodner + Minnesota Timberwolves with Jon Krawczynski
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• Knicks trade Julius Randle to Timberwolves for Karl-Anthony Towns in rare player swap between contenders
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• People Continue To Criticize Rudy Gobert For the Wrong Reasons
At this stage of his career, Rudy Gobert has become accustomed to consistent criticism. His four Defensive Player of the Year awards have garnered plenty of talking points, with many often misunderstanding him as a player. People’s arguments have always been too heavily weighed on the aesthetics of his game rather than his true impact....2024
• France benched Rudy Gobert to save its Olympics basketball run
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• Olympics’ final 4 men’s basketball teams, ranked by gold medal chances in Paris

Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Let’s rank the final four teams in the men’s basketball tournament at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Twelve teams entered the men’s basketball tournament at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Now only four remain. The United States, Germany, France, and Serbia advanced to the semifinals on Tuesday in a thrilling day of action that included big upsets and historic ...2024
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• Gobert (finger) benched; coach points to matchup
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• Olympics’ 8 men’s basketball teams still standing, ranked by gold medal chances

Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Let’s rank the eight teams left in the Olympics’ men’s basketball tournament by their gold medal chances. The men’s basketball tournament at the 2024 Paris Olympics is on its way to crowning a champion. A 12-team field has been trimmed to just eight teams after the group stage, and now it’s time for a single-elimination knockout tournament until one tea...2024
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• Dereck Lively II’s hard-won gravity
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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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• Dunc'd On: 2024-25 Season Outlooks: Philadelphia 76ers with Derek Bodner + Minnesota Timberwolves with Jon Krawczynski
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• Karl-Anthony Towns made incredible gesture to Timberwolves writer after Knicks trade
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• 10 Knicks-Timberwolves trade winners and losers from stunning Karl-Anthony Towns deal
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• Grading Knicks-Wolves blockbuster trade sending Karl-Anthony Towns to New York
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• Charles Barkley saying the WNBA is ‘petty’ and ‘jealous’ of Caitlin Clark is a wild lack of self-awareness
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• 8 NBA teams that can win the 2025 championship
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• Olympics’ final 4 men’s basketball teams, ranked by gold medal chances in Paris
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• Dereck Lively II’s hard-won gravity
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• Rudy Gobert was brutally posterized with dunk in 2024 Paris Olympics

Rudy Gobert was dunked on so hard by Brazil in the Olympics. Expectations are always high for France in men’s basketball at the Olympics, and that’s particularly the case this year with the country hosting the 2024 Paris Games. Victor Wembanyama’s Olympic debut is the major storyline for the French, but this team is so talented even beyond the 20-year-old wunderkind. France took silver in men’s ba...2024
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• Olympics’ 50 best men’s basketball players for 2024 Paris games, ranked
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• Sources: Mitchell now second Jazz player with virus
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• Donovan Mitchell Tests Positive For Coronavirus
A second Utah Jazz player has tested positive for coronavirus, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reports, as Donovan Mitchell officially joins Rudy Gobert with the illness. While Gobert had been on the team’s injury report prior to the Wednesday night game that was ultimately postponed, Mitchell was not and had been playing consistently for the Jazz […] The post Donovan Mitchell Tests Positiv...2020
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• Damian Lillard Blows by Defender to Dunk on 7'1" Rudy Gobert, Does Stank Face
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• DeMar DeRozan Throws Down Vicious Dunk on Rudy Gobert (VIDEO)
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• 'NBA Live 16' Demo Features Player Avatars That Look Nothing Like Them
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• Utah Jazz C Rudy Gobert Owns Twitter Troll with 'Dragon Ball Z' Reference
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• Sources: Jazz center Gobert has coronavirus
The NBA didn't say which Jazz player tested positive for COVID-19, but sources told ESPN that it is center Rudy Gobert....2020
• Jimmy Butler Reportedly Wins Most Improved Player Award for 2014-15 NBA Season
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• Dr. A's weekly risers and fallers: Jaden Ivey, Rudy Gobert make the list

Who are the fantasy basketball players on the rise? Whose fantasy value is falling? Steve Alexander lays it all out for you in his weekly look around the NBA....2024
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• 2015 NBA Rising Stars Challenge Features USA vs. World Format
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• Dunc'd On: 2024-25 Season Outlooks: Philadelphia 76ers with Derek Bodner + Minnesota Timberwolves with Jon Krawczynski
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• Nuggets Notes: Towns, Saric, Gordon, Westbrook
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• Karl-Anthony Towns made incredible gesture to Timberwolves writer after Knicks trade
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• 10 Knicks-Timberwolves trade winners and losers from stunning Karl-Anthony Towns deal
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• Grading Knicks-Wolves blockbuster trade sending Karl-Anthony Towns to New York
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• Knicks trade Julius Randle to Timberwolves for Karl-Anthony Towns in rare player swap between contenders
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• The Rudy Gobert Slander Is Getting Weird
We are hitting the scary hours of the NBA offseason, and the takes are starting to get out of hand. First, Anthony Edwards opened Pandora’s box by saying Michael Jordan was the only old-timer with any skill. While it was an uneducated take to fire off in front of a reporter, the backlash from some of the NBA’s all-time greats was further over the line than the original take from Edwards....2024
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• Wolves Will Look To Develop Young Players As Team Gets More Expensive
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• Tim Connelly Wants Wolves To Keep Rudy Gobert 'For A Long Time'
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• 8 NBA teams that can win the 2025 championship
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• Karl-Anthony Towns made incredible gesture to Timberwolves writer after Knicks trade
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• 10 Knicks-Timberwolves trade winners and losers from stunning Karl-Anthony Towns deal
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• Knicks trade Julius Randle to Timberwolves for Karl-Anthony Towns in rare player swap between contenders
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• 8 NBA teams that can win the 2025 championship
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• NBA Draft winners and losers: 4 teams who crushed it, 1 perfect fit, and 3 bad moments

Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images Here’s our 2024 NBA Draft winners and losers so far. For a class that didn’t have much excitement around it, the 2024 NBA Draft sure did produce a lot of interesting moments. There was Isaiah Collier falling to the bottom of the first round to the Utah Jazz, the Timberwolves making a bold trade into the top-10, Pistons going with a best player available st...2024
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• Wolves Hope To Avoid Trading Karl-Anthony Towns Despite Tax Implications

The Minnesota Timberwolves plan on retaining Karl-Anthony Towns despite the tax implications for the franchise, sources tell ESPN's Zach Lowe. Towns has long been connected to the New York Knicks if the Wolves ever decided to trade him, but their ability to make another major trade has effectively been eliminated following their acquisition of Mikal Bridges. Towns is a CAA client, represented by ...2024
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• The NBA Draft’s 60 best prospects in 2024, ranked
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• Rudy Gobert missed NBA Playoffs game for child birth 9 months after joking he lost virginity

Photo by David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images Congrats on the sex, Rudy. Rudy Gobert missed Game 2 of the Wolves series against the Nuggets to be there for the birth of his child, but it’s the interesting timing of the birth that has people a little curious on Tuesday morning. That’s because nine months ago, almost to the day, he hit his first three pointer and had a curious quote about it....2024
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• New York Jets Flight Connections 4/24/24

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images Bringing your daily links to the NFL’s New York Jets Good morning, Gang Green Nation. I hope you’re all having a great start to the day. Tomorrow is the official start of the NFL draft, and I don’t know about you, but I’m incredibly excited. The New York Jets find themselves in a good position, sitting at tenth in the draft. They have the potential to ...2024
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• NBA mock draft 2024: Updated 1st round projection after March Madness

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Here’s our latest projection of the 2024 NBA Draft now that March Madness is over. The 2024 NBA Draft cycle opened this summer with massive uncertainty over would who emerge as the No. 1 player in the class. With college basketball season now over, and UConn again reigning supreme, it feels like we’re no closer to a consensus answer. The lack of an obvio...2024
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