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The Los Angeles Clippers know that time is running out on their Kawhi Leonard-Paul George core. Leonard and George have been injury-prone over the past few seasons and they’re not getting any younger, making it of utmost importance for the Clippers front office to find the right championship formula sooner than later. The Clippers’ decisions […]

The Golden State Warriors’ roster for the 2023-24 season is beginning to take shape. After much speculation brought forth by the Warriors’ turbulent 2022-23 campaign, they finally traded away Jordan Poole, although it’s fair for fans to wonder whether getting a 38-year old Chris Paul in return was the best return they could have gotten […]

The Boston Celtics are not messing around. On the eve of NBA Draft night, they dealt away longtime point guard Marcus Smart, who’s been with the team since 2014, for Kristaps Porzingis and two first-round picks. The trade signifies that the Celtics are going all-in on their current core, as a hefty luxury tax bill […]

The Atlanta Hawks, despite already boasting the talents of Trae Young and Dejounte Murray, drafted guard Kobe Bufkin with the 15th overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft. And it’s not hard to see why: Bufkin, as the kids say, has that dog in him, which bodes well for his ability to contribute for a […]

There is no clear-cut best team in the mediocre division that is the NL Central, but the Cincinnati Reds are making their case. After all, there is no hotter team in all of MLB than the Reds, winners of 12 games in a row after holding off the hard-charging Atlanta Braves, 11-10, on Friday night. […]

Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani continue to dazzle for the Los Angeles Angels. On Friday night, this dynamic duo showed once more why they’re one of the most feared one-two punches in the MLB — perhaps even in its entire history. At the top of the fifth inning, with the game still tied at 2-2 […]

James Harden’s free agency remains one of, if not the most pressing matter in the Philadelphia 76ers’ offseason. Harden, for all his faults, remains one of the best playmakers in the NBA today. Losing him for nothing — perhaps to the Houston Rockets — would make it difficult for the Sixers to continue building around […]

The Atlanta Hawks have been ever-so-present in trade talks for the past few months or so. John Collins, in particular, has been the subject of trade rumors aplenty for what has seemed like the duration of his career. However, rumor has it that the entire Hawks roster apart from Trae Young may be available in […]

At first glance, it seems like the Washington Wizards pulled a fast one over the Golden State Warriors, squeezing them dry in the trade that sent Chris Paul to the Bay in exchange for Jordan Poole. The Warriors ended up trading away, in addition to Poole, Patrick Baldwin Jr., the team’s first-round pick in 2022, […]

The Golden State Warriors sent shockwaves around the league hours before the 2023 NBA Draft when they sent Jordan Poole and a bunch of assets to the Washington Wizards for Chris Paul. This trade signifies that the Warriors are going all-in on winning a championship next season, as they traded away a player many once […]

On Wednesday night, the Boston Celtics, Washington Wizards, and Los Angeles Clippers were reportedly all in agreement on a three-team trade framework that would have sent Malcolm Brogdon to LA in exchange for Marcus Morris Sr., Amir Coffey, and a few draft picks. However, the Clippers backed out of the trade due to concerns regarding […]

The Chicago Bulls made one of the smartest moves of the 2022 offseason by plucking nascent floor general Lonzo Ball from the New Orleans Pelicans for cheap. Ball was blossoming into one of the best 3 and D point guards in the association, and he quickly emerged as a strong fit alongside the more ball-dominant […]

The Chicago Bulls franchise is in a state of limbo at the moment. Not only does losing yet another lottery pick to the Orlando Magic courtesy of the Nikola Vucevic trade sting, but they have a few decisions to make this offseason on which direction to take, as riding it out with their current Zach […]

Not a single person in the world expected any other outcome, but seeing the San Antonio Spurs officially select Victor Wembanyama as the first overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft was still a sight to behold. Wembanyama is one of the most hyped-up prospects in NBA history, and it’s not hard to see why. […]

There has been plenty of trade talk surrounding the Portland Trail Blazers and the third overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft. But in the end, the Blazers kept the pick and selected Scoot Henderson, whom many believe is the second-best player of the draft after Victor Wembanyama. The fit alongside Damian Lillard and Anfernee […]

The Atlanta Hawks made waves during the 2022 offseason when they traded away three first-round picks and a pick swap (along with Danilo Gallinari) for All-Star point guard Dejounte Murray. Murray was coming off the best season of his professional career, and the Hawks believed that despite playing in the same position as their best […]

In what is shaping up to be yet another crucial offseason, the Miami Heat cannot afford to whiff hard on moves that could upgrade the team on the margins. After all, the likes of Gabe Vincent and Max Strus will soon enter free agency, and they could very well command contracts that could be far […]

For a franchise that has spent most of its years in existence as the NBA’s laughingstock, the Los Angeles Clippers have certainly come so far. Ever since the 2011-12 season, the Clippers have finished with a record above .500, safely placing the team in its golden era. However, their golden era haven’t borne much gold, […]

The Washington Wizards front office, after making the widely-panned Bradley Beal trade, managed to swing a huge win for the franchise on Wednesday night. Instead of losing Kristaps Porzingis for nothing in free agency, the Wizards instead got him to opt into his contract for next year so they could trade him away for some […]

The second domino of the Washington Wizards’ complete teardown has fallen. Late on Wednesday night, the Wizards sent Kristaps Porzingis, who decided to opt into his contract, to the Boston Celtics, engaging with the Memphis Grizzlies on a three-team trade framework that would net them Tyus Jones, Danilo Gallinari, Mike Muscala, and the 35th overall […]

During the 2022-23 season, a few NBA teams decided to face the music and embrace the putridity in hopes of landing themselves in pole position in the Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes. In the end, however, only one team would win the right to select him as the first overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft, and […]

It may be difficult to believe, but Damian Lillard has been a member of the Portland Trail Blazers organization for 11 years now. Time sure does fly; since drafting Lillard sixth overall in the 2012 NBA Draft, the Blazers have had various levels of success, even making it to the Western Conference Finals in 2019. […]

The Washington Wizards, after a spell of playoff contention in the mid-2010s, have endured one mediocre year after another, as the franchise simply have not been able to recover from John Wall’s major injury in 2018. And now, after years of trying to hold onto a bygone era, to meager returns, the Wizards, under new […]

The NBA Draft is always an exciting time. Almost always, a few tantalizing prospects hand in their names every year for entry towards the NBA. For the 2023 NBA Draft class, it’s Victor Wembanyama’s time to shine as its undisputed best player — a 7’4, do-it-all big man with the potential to transform the San […]

The Kawhi Leonard-Paul George era of the Los Angeles Clippers hasn’t borne much fruit yet. In four years, they made the Western Conference Finals just once, flaming out year after year due to injury (and in 2020, an untimely choke job). With Leonard and George only getting older and not getting any healthier, it’s fair […]

The Portland Trail Blazers, despite all the criticisms that have come their way over the past few seasons, cannot be put at fault for not trying to put a contending team around Damian Lillard. Sure, it hasn’t amounted to much more than one Western Conference Finals appearance since 2014, but at the very least, the […]

Is there a fire sale looming for the Memphis Grizzlies? Apart from Ja Morant, Jaren Jackson Jr., and Desmond Bane, it certainly seems like no member of the roster is safe from a trade. This is certainly evident in the case of Tyus Jones. Despite being arguably the best backup point guard in the league […]

The Utah Jazz came out of last year’s offseason as one of the league’s biggest winners, flipping Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell for their own, separate eye-popping hauls, thereby kickstarting the team’s rebuild after years of playoff failures. One of the main assets the Jazz got for Mitchell was combo guard Collin Sexton, the recent […]

The Memphis Grizzlies, after a tumultuous end to the 2022-23 season that saw them deal with the off-court troubles of Ja Morant, will be without their franchise point guard for at least the first 25 games of the 2023-24 regular season. With Morant out, one would think that the Grizzlies would lean on Tyus Jones, […]

The Indiana Pacers are in as good a position as any rebuilding team entering the 2023 NBA Draft. Even though the lottery gods didn’t find favor in them, with the Pacers having to settle for the seventh pick, they have four other picks that they can use either to add to their collection of talented […]

The Los Angeles Clippers are always a team to look out for when it comes to trades that could swing the league’s contending picture. It may not have been the smoothest ride for the Clippers ever since they acquired both Kawhi Leonard and Paul George in July 2019, but their front office almost always makes […]

Mike Dunleavy Jr., the new general manager of the Golden State Warriors, will be have a plethora of pivotal decisions to make with the franchise’s future of contention in mind. And with the 2023 NBA Draft looming, it will be interesting to see what the Warriors do with the 19th pick and whether they continue […]

The Phoenix Suns may have exited the two previous playoffs in the most embarrassing fashion possible, but they are not a franchise that stays down for long. The Suns acquired Kevin Durant in the middle of last season, and now, following a crushing Game 6 defeat at the hands of the Denver Nuggets in the […]

The Bradley Beal trade saga did not take long. Not even a week after Shams Charania of The Athletic reported that the Washington Wizards and Beal’s camp will be working on a suitable course of action regarding both the three-time All-Star and the franchise’s future, the Wizards have dealt away their franchise star to the […]

Are the Phoenix Suns the favorite to win the 2023-24 NBA championship after swinging yet another blockbuster trade, this time for star shooting guard Bradley Beal? Not quite yet. They certainly have a ton of glaring holes on their roster at the moment that they may not have the financial might to fill with the […]

The Phoenix Suns are cooking. Not only did they acquire three-time All-Star Bradley Beal from the Washington Wizards, they did so for the low price of Chris Paul (a player they would have waived anyway), Landry Shamet (is he really worth $11+ million?), and some low-value draft picks and swaps. That is incredible value for […]

James Harden, during last year’s offseason, took a huge pay cut to stay with the Philadelphia 76ers in hopes that the front office could make an addition that would help the Joel Embiid-led core get over the hump. Not even a year later, and here the Sixers are, having exited the playoffs in the second […]

The Houston Rockets are approaching the fourth year of the rebuild they began to embark on when they dealt James Harden in early 2021. However, the Rockets are nowhere near the playoff contention picture yet. Missing out on a top-three pick in the 2023 NBA Draft only rubbed salt on their wounds. But with new […]

Despite making the Round of 16 in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, things didn’t go exactly as well Christian Pulisic and the USMNT as hoped. The Gio Reyna-Gregg Berhalter drama cast a huge shadow over the the team during that time, with Pulisic even saying that circumstances unfolded as if children were involved in the […]