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To hear Philadelphia 76ers president Mike Gansey tell it, the Boston Celtics paved the way for LeBron James to end up in the City of Brotherly Love.

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With the league back from the All-Star break, but only a couple of weeks away from the FIBA break, it’s crunch time for a lot of teams. While the bottom half of the standings is staying pretty consistent, things could get interesting up top before the regular season comes to a close. A couple of… The post Winsidr‘26 Power Rankings — Volume 6 appeared first on Winsidr.

The Thunder will play five preseason games this fall, the team announced in a press release. Oklahoma City has finished with the best record in the Western Conference each of the past three regular seasons and won the championship in 2025. Here’s the Thunder’s full preseason schedule, with the broadcast plans to be announced at […]

As we outline in greater detail in a Hoops Rumors glossary entry, even though the NBA doesn’t have a hard cap by default, a wide variety of roster moves can impose a hard cap on a team for the remainder of that league year. Some of the most common ways a team can become hard-capped […]

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The Suns’ starting five looks pretty clear-cut. Devin Booker and Jalen Green will comprise the starting backcourt, Dillon Brooks and summer acquisition Miles Bridges will man the forward spots and Mark Williams will get the nod at center. Should that also be the closing lineup for a team that went 13-17 in games decided by […]

The Los Angeles Clippers are prepared to pursue arbitration depending on the severity of any penalties the NBA may impose following its investigation into alleged salary-cap circumvention involving Kawhi Leonard, sources told The Stein Line. The organization has maintained since the investigation began that it did not funnel funds to Leonard through Aspiration or violate the league's collective bargaining agreement in any other way. Steve Ballmer is expected to pursue all available remedies t...

Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns secured a permanent place in New York sports history by helping the Knicks end a 53-year title drought, but how much did that improve their Hall of Fame chances? Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic examines that question in his annual look at players who have a chance to someday be […]

Could Victor Wembanyama match Wilt Chamberlain’s legendary feat of scoring 100 points in a game? The Spurs star has apparently given it some thought, and he expressed confidence that he could in a question-and-answer session with the French content creator Rookicks (Twitter link, hat tip to BasketNews). Wembanyama responded, “I agree, yeah” when asked about […]

The quietest NBA summer so far has belonged to the Pelicans, who desperately needed to make some noise after coming off a disappointing 26-win season. New Orleans hired Jamahl Mosley as its new head coach, but the team’s only personnel moves have been re-signing backup center DeAndre Jordan and giving second-round pick Jaron Pierre Jr. […]

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