Eastern Time, including earlier stories still developing that day. How days work
When the Bucks accepted the Heat‘s trade offer for Giannis Antetokounmpo, reporting at the time indicated that adding 2025 first-round pick Kasparas Jakucionis to a package that already included Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kel’el Ware, and draft assets helped push Miami’s bid over the top. Asked this week about whether Jakucionis was a difference-maker […]
Nets lottery pick Mikel Brown Jr. made his Las Vegas Summer League debut on Friday and scored 16 of his 20 points in the second half. Brown added three assists, two steals and a block. “Seeing my teammates, getting them open shots, seeing the ball go through the hoop obviously gets you going as well. […]
Nikola Jokic plans to wait until unrestricted free agency in 2027 to resolve his contract status, leaving the Denver Nuggets to manage that uncertainty over the next year. Nuggets general manager Jon Wallace addressed the situation directly. "We feel confident," said Wallace on ESPN's Summer League broadcast via Bennett Durando of the Denver Post. "We trust him. We've got no choice but to." Jokic can sign a four-year, $278 million contract with Denver this offseason. Waiting until 2027 would ...
According to BasketNews, the NBA franchise is targeting the reigning EuroLeague Best Defensive Player L'articolo Denver Nuggets showing strong interest in Alpha Diallo proviene da Sportando.
The Nuggets have signed Trevon Brazile to a standard contract, per the NBA’s official transaction log. The news doesn’t come as a surprise — vice president of basketball operations Ben Tenzer suggested shortly after June’s draft that Brazile would be on the standard roster. The 23-year-old likely received the rookie minimum ($1.36MM) in 2026/27 as […]
The Trail Blazers have claimed former Pacers big man Micah Potter off the waiver wire, according to the NBA’s official transaction log. Indiana released Potter on Wednesday to make room beneath its first-apron hard cap to sign veteran forward/center Larry Nance Jr. Following stints with Detroit and Utah, Potter appeared in a career-high 47 games […]
The Nets have waived Malachi Smith, tweets Brian Lewis of The New York Post. Brooklyn exercised its minimum-salary team option on Smith at the end of June, but his contract was non-guaranteed, so the Nets won’t incur a cap charge by releasing him. Smith, who went undrafted out of Gonzaga in 2023, has spent most […]
The Hornets pulled off one of the biggest surprises of the summer when they agreed to trade LaMelo Ball to the Timberwolves on June 25. With the expanded four-team deal finally being finalized on Friday, Charlotte president of basketball operations Jeff Peterson was able to explain his rationale for the move, writes Ohm Youngmisuk of […]
LeBron James‘ free agency has been an unusual one so far, according to Joe Vardon of The Athletic, who reiterates that none of the teams pursuing the star forward have had the chance to meet with him and few have a direct line to him at all. The only team executive believed to have had […]
Could the never-ending Giannis trade talks have contributed to the rising tension between former teammates?
Stephen Curry says his top priority this summer is staying healthy ahead of his 18th NBA season, according to Monte Poole of NBC Sports Bay Area. The Warriors star turned 38 years old in March and missed two-plus months in the second half of 2025/26 due to a right knee injury colloquially known as runner’s […]
Nuggets big man DaRon Holmes II, a 2024 first-round pick, tore his Achilles tendon in his Las Vegas Summer League debut two years ago. While he’s not on Denver’s Summer League roster this time around, he did help the team prepare for the event as a practice player, writes Vinny Benedetto of The Denver Gazette. […]
