With the 21st overall pick in the NBA Draft, the Washington Wizards added a high-upside piece to their rebuild, selecting former Illinois wing Will Riley – a 6-foot-8 freshman whose raw potential intrigued scouts despite some lingering questions about his readiness for the pro level.
Former Illinois guard Kasparas Jakucionis was the dropper of last Wednesday's NBA Draft, freefalling to the No. 20 overall pick after being slotted as high as a top-five selection at one point during his 2024-25 freshman season.Sometimes, though, good things come to those who wait it out in the green room.
Former UConn Husky Liam McNeeley expects to hear his name in the first round of the NBA Draft this week. Whether that’s as early as the late lottery picks on the high end or falling towards the final picks of the night remains to be seen.
The Phoenix Suns are actively listening to trade offers for their superstar Kevin Durant following an underwhelming 2024-25 season run. Initially, the rumors around Kevin Durant’s departure caught fire around the NBA Trade Deadline, but no move reached a conclusion.
The Brooklyn Nets will be the most important team in this year’s free agency. The Nets are the only team in the NBA with substantial cap space right now.
The season ended early for the Cavaliers, and now comes the most important season of all. That would be none other than the offseason, every team’s path to trying to build a contender.
The Houston Rockets are a team to watch this offseason with all of the trade assets they have to make a big move. The Athletic insider John Hollinger believes they are the likeliest team to make such a trade this offseason.
The Orlando Magic are in danger of being stuck as a franchise after two consecutive first-round eliminations in the playoffs. This is the first time in the Jamahl Mosley era where the team didn't improve its position, so the Magic may be on the docket for some changes.
Former Memphis Grizzlies exec and current writer for The Athletic, John Hollinger, thinks the San Antonio Spurs or Toronto Raptors could trade for Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo this summer. The Bucks lost to the Indiana Pacers in the first round of the 2025 playoffs in five games.
After finishing a very busy 2024-25 season with a 50-32 record under first-year head coach JJ Redick, the Los Angeles Lakers will kick off their playoff journey on Saturday, with a 3-6 matchup against the 49-33 Minnesota Timberwolves.
In the wake of Tony Allen‘s jersey retirement ceremony in Memphis, John Hollinger of The Athletic revisits Allen’s six All-Defensive seasons for the Grizzlies and notes that the veteran guard wouldn’t have made All-Defense in five of those six years if the NBA’s current 65-game rule had been in place.
The New York Knicks have a full roster at this point in time, but they could still make some noise on the buyout market. The Athletic insider John Hollinger listed New Orleans Pelicans forward Bruce Brown as the top player that could be available on the buyout market.
Things just can't seem to steady themselves for the Phoenix Suns. What was once a promising start to the 2024-25 regular season has quickly soiled itself into a disaster in the desert.
Are the Portland Trail Blazers making a massive error this year? That's the overarching thesis of John Hollinger of The Athletic, who posits that the Trail Blazers' reticence to part with several of their extant veteran players — many of whom are at least fairly appetizing trade chips — could prove brutally costly to their long-term success.
The NBA’s “bye week,” courtesy of the NBA Cup schedule, has arrived, as detailed by John Hollinger of The Athletic. Starting Monday, teams received a rare luxury: two games in 10 days.
Heading into the quickly approaching 2024-25 NBA season, the Western Conference expects to be as competitive as we've seen in recent years. Teams are back healthy, loaded with star talent, and effectively makes things a bit tougher for the Utah Jazz across the coming months.
Coming off an offseason where numerous parts of the organization were revamped, improvement will be a top priority for the Detroit Pistons this upcoming season.
Recently, John Hollinger of The Athletic posted five NBA teams that he expects to exceed expectations and five he expects to fall short of expectations.
Boston is a second-apron luxury tax team and is on course to pay the repeater tax, so an extension for Hauser is more complicated than meets the eye.
With clear issues around the roster, The Athletic's John Hollinger broke down what he thinks your Los Angeles Lakers should do this offseason, highlighted
The Los Angeles Lakers' decision to stand pat at the trade deadline this season seemingly will have more of an impact on their options this coming offseason than many realize.
The Athletic's John Hollinger offered up an NBA player comparison for Bronny James that, all things considered, doesn't reflect well for LeBron's son. Hollinger compared Bronny to Orlando Magic guard Gary Harris -- a solid, but unspectacular, journeyman role player.
New Orleans Pelicans general manager Trajan Langdon and Philadelphia 76ers GM Elton Brand are among the candidates for the Charlotte Hornets’ head of basketball operations vacancy, per John Hollinger of The Athletic.
USC Trojans guard Isaiah Collier joined the program as the nation's top recruit this season. As such, he carried lofty expectations. Many scouts had Collier
Nothing is stopping Nathaniel Hackett — or any NFL coach for that matter — from changing the settings in 'Madden' to hard, changing the game time to a realistic 15 minutes, and then making decisions regarding play-calling as well as timeouts as they happen.
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