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• Russell Westbrook, Kings Sign One-Year, $3.6M Deal

Russell Westbrook and the Sacramento Kings have agreed to a one-year, $3.6 million contract. Westbrook spent last season with the Denver Nuggets, but he opted out of his contract as he was not in their plans for the 2025-26 season. Westbrook and the Kings maintained contact throughout the offseason. Westbrook also received some level of interest from the New York Knicks early in the offseason. Wes...2025
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• Russell Westbrook, Kings Have 'Strong Mutual Interest'

In a recent appearance on ESPN's NBA Today, NBA insider Shams Charania was asked about where things stand for veteran guard Russell Westbrook. Charania said that Westbrook and the Sacramento Kings share a mutual interest in potentially teaming up for this season. "Look, I'm told there is strong mutual interest between Russell Westbrook and the Sacramento Kings. And the Kings have a need for a rese...2025
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• Zach LaVine perfectly roasts Malik Monk, Keegan Murray's Kings leadership styles
Zach LaVine joked about Malik Monk’s consistent chatter and Keegan Murray’s rare vocal leadership on the first day of Sacramento Kings training camp....2025
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• Zach LaVine perfectly roasts Malik Monk, Keegan Murray's Kings leadership styles
Zach LaVine joked about Malik Monk’s consistent chatter and Keegan Murray’s rare vocal leadership on the first day of Sacramento Kings training camp....2025
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• Doug Christie, Kings hope to see more aggressive Keegan Murray this NBA season
Sacramento Kings head coach Doug Christie and Zach LaVine told reporters they want to see a more aggressive Keegan Murray in the 2025-26 NBA season....2025
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• Bulls Unlikely to Trade Coby White Before 2025-26 Season
Executive Says Chicago “Loves” White The Chicago Bulls may have already parted ways with one high-scoring guard last season, trading Zach LaVine to the Sacramento Kings, but it appears Coby White will remain in Chicago—at least for now. An NBA executive told Ashish Mathur of Dallas Hoops Journal that the Bulls have resisted multiple trade […] The post Bulls Unlikely to Trade Coby White Befor...2025
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• NBA’s 11 worst long-term team outlooks, ranked by who has the bleakest future

Photo by Tim Heitman/Getty Images Let’s rank the teams that just feel hopeless right now. Fortunes can change quickly in the NBA, and you only need to look at the two teams in the 2025 NBA Finals for proof. The Thunder ended the 2021-2022 season at 24-58 overall. The Indiana Pacers finished that season 25-57. Three years later, the two franchises played a Game 7 for the championship. That’...2025
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• Cap Notes: Bulls, Nuggets, Harden, Minott, MLEs
When the Bulls traded Lonzo Ball for Isaac Okoro earlier this month, they had to use a portion of their existing Zach LaVine traded player exception worth $17MM+ to absorb Okoro’s $11MM salary, tweets Keith Smith of Spotrac. Chicago couldn’t simply use Ball’s $10MM outgoing salary for matching purposes due to an injury protection clause […]...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’s 10 best free agents still available on 2025 market, ranked

Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Let’s rank the best NBA free agents who are still available. The NBA free agency was also destined to be a dud in the summer of 2025. The list of unrestricted free agents was topped by older veteran stars who were never going to leave their incumbent teams, and younger restricted free agents who were going to get squeezed due to the lack of availabl...2025
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• 7 NBA stars who could be traded next

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Who’s available on the NBA trade block? These stars could be the next to go this summer. The NBA didn’t wait for the start of summer to execute blockbuster trades. This year’s Feb. trade deadline was arguably the most explosive in league history, with Luka Doncic, Anthony Davis, Jimmy Butler, De’Aaron Fox, Zach LaVine, Brandon Ingram, and many more being ...2025
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• Cooper Flagg’s 6 best landing spots in NBA Draft lottery, ranked

Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images Let’s rank the best landing spots for Cooper Flagg in the 2025 NBA Draft lottery. Not all NBA Draft lotteries are created equal. A year ago, when the Atlanta Hawks jumped from up from No. 10 to win the lottery, there was no sure-fire No. 1 overall player sitting there as the obvious prize. That’s not the case this year: the teams entering the lottery are...2025
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• The NBA Dunk Contest is just as good as ever. What’s changed is the world around it

Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images The annual discourse around “fixing the Dunk Contest” misses that it’s never needed stars. It used to create them, and maybe in some ways it still can. SAN FRANCISCO — Basketball loves revisionist history. From softening big, heartbreaking losses in hindsight or myth-making a game where someone was sick and rallied to play into an analogous-b...2025
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• The NBA’s draft pick market has crashed

Photo by Glenn James/NBAE via Getty Images With fewer available future draft picks to trade but transactions that still need to get done, the value of the speculative capital cratered at the 2025 NBA trade deadline. Let’s take a time machine back one full week and ask ourselves a question. How many first-round draft picks is Luka Doncic worth? Six? Seven? All of them? Surely whoever is tra...2025
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• 5 NBA teams that got better at trade deadline, and 3 that got worse

Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images Here are the teams who got better at the NBA trade deadline, and the ones who got worse. The 2025 NBA trade deadline will be remembered as one of the wildest in league history. The Luka Doncic-for-Anthony Davis swap between the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks is just starting to set in, while players like De’Aaron Fox and Zach LaVine have ...2025
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• 4 NBA trade deadline winners, and 4 big losers after a wild week of deals

Photo by Scott Cunningham/NBAE via Getty Images Let’s hand out winners and losers from the 2025 NBA trade deadline. The 2025 NBA trade deadline started with a double-bang (word to Mike Breen) when the Dallas Mavericks made the unfathomable decision to trade Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis. The Mavs and Lakers each made surprising moves in the days that followed, le...2025
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• Zach LaVine trade rumors may be back after comments from new Kings GM resurface

Photo by Rocky Widner/NBAE via Getty Images Zach LaVine probably shouldn’t get too comfortable in Sacramento. Zach LaVine feels like he’s been permanently stapled to the trade block during his NBA career. LaVine has already been traded twice in his first 11 seasons in the league: the Minnesota Timberwolves sent him to the Chicago Bulls after his third year as part of the Jimmy Butler deal,...2025
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"The Kings are finalizing a trade to send De'Aaron Fox to the Spurs and acquire Bulls guard Zach LaVine as part of a three-team trade involving multiple draft picks, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania."

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"In addition to LA’s widely reported interest in Zach LaVine and Dejounte Murray, The Athletic’s Jovan Buha has listed numerous other potential trade […] The post Lakers Linked to Four New Names Ahead of Trade Deadline appeared first on Basketball Forever."

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"Miami point guard Herro broke his middle and ring fingers on his shooting hand in the first round during Game 1 against Milwaukee and was expected to miss 4-6 […] The post Proposed Trade Sends Zach LaVine to Miami for Tyler Herro appeared first on Basketball Forever."

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"Zach LaVine Tuesday in the Bulls 133-87 win over the Detroit Pistons scored his fewest points of"

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"Zach LaVine always talks about playing in a meaningful game."

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"With a win, tonight during All-Star Saturday night, Zach LaVine would become the only player in NBA"

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"Zach LaVine is a star."

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"Zach Lavine will return to the court this Saturday"

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"The post Zach LaVine Reportedly Agrees to Four-Year Contract with Adidas appeared first on SLAMonline."

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"Last year, Zach LaVine put the NBA's Slam Dunk Contest back on the map."

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"Zach LaVine, Minnesota's 19-year-old gravity-defying rookie, is probably the most terrified of the legend's return, seeing as he's currently using Garnett's old locker."

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"Having already recorded seven points, Bryant was sent to the line by the Timberwolves' Zach LaVine with 5 minutes, 24 seconds left in the second quarter."

• Russell Westbrook, Kings Sign One-Year, $3.6M Deal
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• NBA’s 11 worst long-term team outlooks, ranked by who has the bleakest future
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• Kings Still Eyeing Russell Westbrook Despite Crowded Roster
While the Sacramento Kings still have a crowded backcourt, the franchise remains interested in free agent veteran guard Russell Westbrook. If Sacramento adds the former MVP, he would join a backcourt with Malik Monk, Zach LaVine, Keon Ellis, and Dennis Schroder, who signed a three-year, $45 million deal earlier this month. Russell Westbrook, Malcolm Brogdon […] The post Kings Still Eyeing Ru...2025
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• Why Cavs-Bulls Trade Of Isaac Okoro And Lonzo Ball Required A Special Exception

When the Chicago Bulls acquired Isaac Okoro from the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for Lonzo Ball earlier this month, they couldn’t simply use Ball’s $10 million salary for matching purposes, as noted by Keith Smith of Spotrac. Instead, Chicago had to tap into the $17 million+ trade exception it previously generated in the Zach LaVine […] The post Why Cavs-Bulls Trade Of Isaac Okoro And Lo...2025
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• Cap Notes: Bulls, Nuggets, Harden, Minott, MLEs
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• 6 NBA teams stuck in purgatory
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• Kings Like Russell Westbrook But Dealing With Backcourt Logjam
In a recent appearance on Sactown Sports in Sacramento, Sam Amick gave some insight into the Sacramento Kings thinking with their backcourt. One player that Kings GM Scott Perry is fond of is Russell Westbrook. However, Sacramento has a logjam in the backcourt and no signing seems imminent. Westbrook is a free agent after declining a player option with the Denver Nuggets for the upcoming season. H...2025
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• NBA free agency predictions for 12 best available players on 2025 market

Let’s predict where the best remaining NBA free agents will land. NBA free agency in the summer of 2025 felt like it was over as soon as it started. The first 48 hours of free agency brought a rash of signings and a few big trades, but things quieted down quickly with almost zero available cap space around the league. Once the Brooklyn Nets used their cap space to take on bad contracts for future ...2025
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• Kings Reportedly Have ‘No Interest’ in Blockbuster Trade Swapping Zach LaVine for $215,159,700 All-Star Despite Viral Rumor
Kings reportedly have no interest in a Zach LaVine-Trae Young trade and aren't planning to offer LaVine a contract extension this offseason....2025
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• NBA’s 10 best free agents still available on 2025 market, ranked
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• Russell Westbrook, Kings Sign One-Year, $3.6M Deal
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• Russell Westbrook, Kings Have 'Strong Mutual Interest'
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• NBA free agency predictions for 12 best available players on 2025 market
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• Tre Jones, Bulls Agree To Three-Year, $24M Deal

Tre Jones and the Chicago Bulls have agreed to a three-year, $24 million deal. The Bulls acquired Jones at the trade deadline from the San Antonio Spurs in their Zach LaVine deal. Jones was the 31st overall pick in the 2020 draft out of Duke by the Spurs. Jones had an increased role with the Bulls, averaging 11.5 points, 3.2 rebounds and 4.9 assists in 25.3 minutes over 18 games....2025
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• Kings Pick Up $2.3M Option On Keon Ellis

The Sacramento Kings have picked up their team option on Keon Ellis for the 2025-26 season worth $2.3 million. The Kings could have declined the option to make Ellis a restricted free agent, but instead he'll become an unrestricted free agent in 2026 unless he signs an extension. Ellis, who is represented by Andy Shiffman and Mark Bartelstein, went undrafted in 2022 out of Alabama. Ellis averaged ...2025
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• Kevin Durant trade grades for Suns-Rockets blockbuster that’s devastating for one side

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Kevin Durant is a Houston Rocket. Let’s grade the deal from both sides. The worst kept secret in the NBA has finally been resolved. Kevin Durant is a Houston Rocket, and the Phoenix Suns are getting back only a fraction of what they originally traded to get him. The Rockets acquired Durant for the No. 10 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, Jalen Green, Dillon Bro...2025
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• 7 NBA stars who could be traded next
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• Kings Looking To Upgrade At Point Guard, Interested In Tyus Jones

The Sacramento Kings are looking to upgrade the point guard position this offseason, according to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype. The Kings are reportedly interested in Tyus Jones, who will be an unrestricted free agent. Jones averaged 10.2 points and 5.3 assists this season for the Suns. Rival teams also expect the Kings to explore the trade market for one of Domantas Sabonis, Zach LaVine, or DeMar ...2025
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• Zach LaVine trade rumors may be back after comments from new Kings GM resurface
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• NBA free agency predictions for 12 best available players on 2025 market
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• NBA’s 10 best free agents still available on 2025 market, ranked
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• The NBA Dunk Contest is just as good as ever. What’s changed is the world around it
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• The NBA’s draft pick market has crashed
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• 4 NBA trade deadline winners, and 4 big losers after a wild week of deals
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• NBA trade deadline 2025 tracker for every deal as it’s announced

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images We’re keeping track of every 2025 NBA trade deadline deal as they are announced in this post. The NBA seemed set for a quiet trade deadline in 2025 as a new Collective Bargaining Agreement tormented teams with multiple luxury tax aprons and more punitive restrictions for increasing payroll. So much for that. The NBA trade deadline started with fireworks w...2025
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• The Kings got more first-round picks for De’Aaron Fox than the Mavericks got for Luka Doncic

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images File this under “funny and technically accurate NBA facts.” The tectonic shift of the Luka Doncic trade was enough to quiet all transaction whispers elsewhere for almost 24 hours, but on Sunday evening, word began to percolate that Doncic would not be the only NBA star moved over the weekend, and that De’Aaron Fox was on the verge of having his trade request...2025
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• Jimmy Butler is back to being the villain

Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images The veteran NBA star finds comfort wearing the black hat. It started, as it almost always does, with a tweet by Adrian “Woj” Wojnarowski, the former ESPN sports reporter. It was in the middle of October, in the afternoon, after Jimmy Butler’s infamous practice session, where he took the bench players on his then-team, the Minnesota Timberwolves, and beat ...2025
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• Cooper Flagg is trending as one of the best NBA Draft prospects in modern history

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images Cooper Flagg has somehow exceeded the stratospheric hype. The NBA had a premonition Cooper Flagg was bound for future superstardom long before he put on a Duke jersey. It was the NBA’s interest that convinced Flagg to reclassify, essentially skipping his senior year of high school to enroll in college at just 17 years old. It was at the NBA’s behest th...2025
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• The Magic should go all-in at the NBA trade deadline, and there is 1 perfect target

Mike Watters-Imagn Images With an awesome team already and nearly all their own assets available to upgrade it, the Orlando Magic are ready to win now. The Orlando Magic should be on the cusp of something special. Before his oblique injury, Paolo Banchero looked like the next thing. And then before his own oblique injury, Franz Wagner looked like the next-next thing. Jalen Suggs might be t...2025
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• Kobe Bryant Gets Standing Ovation After Passing Michael Jordan in Career Points
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• Zach LaVine Is Terrified by Kevin Garnett's Return to Minnesota Timberwolves
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• Zach LaVine Says He Would Beat LeBron James in a Dunk Contest (VIDEO)
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• Karl-Anthony Towns, D'Angelo Russell Sign Contracts with Nike
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• Zach LaVine Says He Would Beat LeBron James in a Dunk Contest
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• Even Splash Brothers Can't Overshadow Greatest NBA Dunk Contest Showdown Ever
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• WATCH: All Of Aaron Gordon’s Dunks From The Dunk Contest
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• Zach LaVine Scores 49 Points, Including Game-Winning 3-Pointer at Seattle Pro Am (VIDEO)
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• Fantasy Basketball Trade Reaction: Winners and losers of De'Aaron Fox to Spurs, Zach LaVine to Kings

Dan Titus breaks down the NBA's latest blockbuster deal, which has major fantasy ramifications....2025
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• Fantasy Basketball: Grab Dorian Finney-Smith and more trade fallout | The Playlist

Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Dan Titus explains why the Los Angeles forward is a great add in the new-look Lakers lineup and discusses the ramifications of the De'Aaron Fox-Zach LaVine trade....2025
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• How the Spurs raised their floor in the De'Aaron Fox-Zach LaVine trade | The Playlist

Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Dan Titus reacts to the three-team trade that sent De'Aaron Fox to San Antonio and Zach LaVine to Sacramento and the ramifications for both teams....2025
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• Fantasy Basketball Trade Reaction: Winners and losers of De'Aaron Fox to Spurs, Zach LaVine to Kings

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• Dallas Mavericks' Backcourt Depth Is a Good Problem to Have
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• Which Minnesota Timberwolves Youngster Has Steepest NBA Learning Curve?
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• Every NBA Team's 'Real Age' Visualized
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• 3 NBA Teams Who Should Pursue Minnesota Timberwolves' Chase Budinger
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• Zach LaVine perfectly roasts Malik Monk, Keegan Murray's Kings leadership styles
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• NBA’s 11 worst long-term team outlooks, ranked by who has the bleakest future
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• 6 NBA teams stuck in purgatory
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• NBA free agency predictions for 12 best available players on 2025 market
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• NBA Rumors: Kings, Domantas Sabonis, Mavericks, Kai Jones, Lakers, Dalton Knecht

Kings While several Kings veterans — among them Malik Monk, DeMar DeRozan, and Zach LaVine — are considered potential trade chips this summer, star center Domantas Sabonis appears to be staying put. According to The Athletic’s Sam Amick, Sabonis has shown no signs of requesting a trade despite some initial speculation following the Kings’ playoff […] The post NBA Rumors: Kings, D...2025
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• NBA’s 10 best free agents still available on 2025 market, ranked
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• Kevin Durant trade grades for Suns-Rockets blockbuster that’s devastating for one side
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• Bulls Rumors: Chicago Urged to Trade Ayo Dosunmu or Coby White
The Chicago Bulls could potentially trade one of their veteran guards this offseason after their disappointing 2023-24 campaign, finishing 39-43 and missing the playoffs for the third consecutive year. Zach LaVine Trade Allows Chicago To Re-Sign Josh Giddey The Bulls traded away Zach LaVine at February’s deadline to focus on their young core. Chicago is […] The post Bulls Rumors: Chica...2025
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• 7 NBA stars who could be traded next
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• 6 NBA teams stuck in purgatory
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• NBA Rumors: Kings, Domantas Sabonis, Mavericks, Kai Jones, Lakers, Dalton Knecht
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• NBA’s 10 best free agents still available on 2025 market, ranked
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• 7 NBA stars who could be traded next
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• NBA All-Star 2025 predictions and preview for dunk contest, 3-point shootout, and more

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Here are our predictions for the 2025 NBA dunk contest, three-point contest, and skill challenge. The 2025 NBA All-Star Game is here with a bizarre new format, a no-name dunk contest, and Damian Lillard going for a three-point shootout three-peat. Before the main event gets underway on Sunday, All-Star Saturday features the Skills Challenge, 3-Point Conte...2025
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• 5 NBA teams that got better at trade deadline, and 3 that got worse
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• NBA trade deadline instant grades for every 2025 major deal made as they happen

Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images Let’s give out instant grades for the big moves at the 2025 NBA trade deadline. The 2025 NBA trade deadline will forever be remembered for a deal that took place a few days before the buzzer. The Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks completed the trade of the century by exchanging Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis over the weekend. The NBA has been on fire...2025
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• NBA trade deadline 2025 tracker for every deal as it’s announced
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• This fake Kevin Durant trade involving 5 NBA teams somehow makes everyone happy

Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images It’s hard to come up with a good fake Kevin Durant trade, but this five-team blockbuster accomplishes that. Kevin Durant is the hottest name on the NBA trade market as the league’s trade deadline approaches on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 3 p.m. ET. The latest rumors are connecting Durant to the Golden State Warriors, the team he helped win two NBA championships f...2025
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• The Kings got more first-round picks for De’Aaron Fox than the Mavericks got for Luka Doncic
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