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On Wednesday evening, the Boston Celtics made the bold and splashy decision to strike a multi-team trade involving the Washington Wizards that sent former All-Star big man Kristaps Porzingis to eastern Massachusetts. Though the process proved quite complex, with some original teams involved backing out, ultimately a deal was made and the Shamrocks have found […]

Arkansas point guard Anthony Black will be a top-10 pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft. The 6-foot-7 point guard could go as high as No. 6 to the Orlando Magic or as low as No. 8 to the Washington Wizards. So, ahead of Black finding out his NBA destiny, let’s take a look at which current […]

It went down to the wire, but the Boston Celtics were able to pull off a three-team trade on Wednesday night to acquire Kristaps Porziņģis. However, the price for the Latvian center was much more costly than it was hours before. Instead of parting ways with 2023 Sixth Man of the Year Malcolm Brogdon, the […]

On Wednesday night, the Boston Celtics completed a blockbuster three-team trade with the Washington Wizards and the Memphis Grizzlies. The Celtics received star big man Kristaps Porzingis along with the 25th pick in the 2023 draft and a 2024 first-round pick via the Golden State Warriors. The Wizards received Tyus Jones, Danilo Gallinari, Mike Muscala, […]

The NBA Draft is Thursday and the Detroit Pistons will be picking fifth. It is now time to continue our NBA Draft odds series with a No. 5 overall selection prediction and pick. Victor Wembanya is expected to be the top pick in the draft on Thursday. He will most likely be followed by Brandon […]

NBA trade season is officially in full effect as the Boston Celtics, Washington Wizards, and Memphis Grizzlies pulled off a major three-team trade on the eve of the 2023 NBA Draft. The deal involved five players and three picks, but the headline is that Kristaps Porzingis is heading to Boston while Marcus Smart is going […]

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, […]

It’s time for the 2023 NBA Draft and we are excited! We are here to share our NBA odds series and make a first three draft picks prediction and pick while calculating the exact order position. Victor Wembanyama is going to the San Antonio Spurs, barring some kind of collapse, with the first overall pick. […]

Over league history, front offices have missed on NBA Draft picks far more often than they’ve hit. And not every year is a class is as deep as the 2023 NBA Draft class is expected to be. Even as scouting has become more advanced, predicting how a young man will navigate the complexities of NBA […]

It’s time for the NBA Draft and there are a lot of eyes on Bilal Coulibaly and where he will go. We are here to share our NBA odds series, and make a Bilal Coulibaly draft position over-under prediction and pick. Coulibaly is someone lots of people are talking about. Now, we get to see […]

Who said the NBA offseason is boring? The Boston Celtics endured quite the roller-coaster of a day on Wednesday, being on the verge of pulling off a three-team deal that would net them Kristaps Porzingis before watching it die, only to rally to get another one to go through before Porzingis’ opt-in decision deadline hit […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder acquired face of the franchise Shai Gilgeous-Alexander via trade. But the rest of their roster around him has been built through the NBA draft. Josh Giddey and Jalen Williams, OKC’s two latest lottery picks, have both flashed All-Star potential in their early campaigns. 2022 second overall pick Chet Holmgren still has […]

It is officially time for the 2023 NBA Draft!  Thursday night, the lives of 58 young basketball players will forever be changed when they hear their names called and receive the hat for which NBA franchise they will be representing to begin their careers.  In what appears to be a very deep and talented draft, […]

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 […]

The three-team deal between the Los Angeles Clippers, Boston Celtics, and Washington Wizards that rattled the NBA Wednesday afternoon is apparently now off the table. NBA headlines earlier read “Kristaps Porzingis is a Celtic” after Boston reportedly acquired the Latvian from the Washington Wizards. In the deal, the Clippers also would have acquired Malcolm Brogdon […]

UPDATE: The Wizards-Celtics-Clippers trade has fallen apart, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The Los Angeles Clippers have reportedly agreed on a three-team trade with the Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards ahead of the 2023 NBA Draft. The deal involves big man Kristaps Porzingis and guard Malcolm Brogdon, two players that are swapping contenders in the agreement. […]

Michael Jordan has sold his majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets, ending his 13 years of ownership with the team. It’s worth noting, however, that Charlotte has missed the playoffs for seven straight seasons and did not make it past the first round of the playoffs during Jordan’s tenure as owner. The Hornets have a […]

UPDATE: The Celtics’ three-team deal for Kristaps Porzingis has reportedly “fallen apart.” The Clippers raised concerns about Malcom Brogdon’s injury status. The Boston Celtics are reportedly on the cusp of acquiring Kristaps Porzingis from the Washington Wizards in a three-team blockbuster trade that also involves the Los Angeles Clippers. In the deal, Boston will send point guard Malcolm […]

UPDATE: The Celtics’ three-team deal for Kristaps Porzingis has reportedly “fallen apart.” The Clippers raised concerns about Malcom Brogdon’s injury status. The Boston Celtics wasted no time getting to work this summer. In a three-team blockbuster trade, the Celtics will acquire Washington Wizards All-Star Kristaps Porzingis. To get the 27-year-old center, Boston will send 2023 Sixth Man of […]

The 70s and early 80s were one of the most bizarre eras in basketball. A player once scored for both teams (not by accident), and all-star players were traded for marketing advice. But none of those can come close to the time two owners traded their franchise. In April 1972, film producer Irv Levin purchased […]

The recent dynasty of the Golden State Warriors has shown us that it is possible to build a contending team through the NBA Draft. A team’s trajectory can completely change on draft day and while picking the right player is obviously important, the bouncing of some ping pong balls or other teams overlooking a collegiate […]

UPDATE: The Celtics’ three-team deal for Kristaps Porzingis has reportedly “fallen apart.” The Clippers raised concerns about Malcom Brogdon’s injury status. The Boston Celtics, Washington Wizards and Los Angeles Clippers are finalizing a three-team trade that would send former All-Star big man Kristaps Porzingis to the Celtics and 2022-23 NBA Sixth Man of the Year […]

UPDATE: The Celtics’ three-team deal for Kristaps Porzingis has reportedly “fallen apart.” The Clippers raised concerns about Malcom Brogdon’s injury status. The Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Clippers and Washington Wizards are reportedly on the verge of a blockbuster trade. The highlights of the proposed trade include Kristaps Porzingis going to the Celtics, Marcus Morris and the No. 30 […]

Before the Golden State Warriors became a modern-day dynasty, the franchise was cursed with a plethora of poor decisions, especially on draft night. Those bad decisions led to decades of underachieving and years of ridicule until drafting the likes of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green ended the long streak of head-scratching decisions of […]

The Denver Nuggets’ 2023 playoff run was flat-out historic. Heading into the 2023 postseason, plenty of folks didn’t take the Nuggets  seriously and didn’t consider them a legitimate threat to win the NBA championship. But fast forward to the current day, and it’s clear that the Nuggets proved every single one of their doubters wrong. […]

By trading Bradley Beal, the Wizards are accepting their fate: it’s time for them to rebuild. In fact, it’s been time for years, even if they’ve been too enraptured with the possibility of chasing the 8th seed to notice. With a legitimate All Star in Bradley Beal leading the charge alongside Kyle Kuzma and Kristaps […]

How will the Denver Nuggets work to round out their roster in the 2023 NBA Draft? The Nuggets traded for the No. 29 and 32 picks in the 2023 NBA Draft in exchange for the least favorable of their 2024 first-round draft picks and the No. 40 pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, according to a Wednesday […]

The NBA Draft is Thursday and the Houston Rockets will be picking fourth. It is now time to continue our NBA Draft odds series with a No. 4 overall selection prediction and pick. Victor Wembanya is expected to be the top pick in the draft on Thursday. He will most likely be followed by Scoot […]

There are few more exciting moments during the season than the annual NBA Draft Lottery, with the 2023 version sure to bring plenty of fireworks because of Victor Wembanyama. The lottery almost always produces a shocking moment or two. There always seems to be a team that somehow beats the odds to significantly improve their […]

A hand injury in a bar fight during the 1985 NBA playoffs wasn’t about to stop Larry Bird from hustling a reporter of $160 in a free throw shooting contest. Bird is one of the most competitive players the NBA ever had, and he never made excuses or shy away from a challenge. Back in […]

The Denver Nuggets 2023 playoff run was nothing short of magical. Heading into the postseason, many folks wrote off the Nuggets and didn’t consider them a legitimate threat to win the NBA championship. But fast forward to the current day, and it’s clear that the Nuggets proved their doubters wrong. The Nuggets defeated the Minnesota […]

The 2023 NBA Draft is here, but the Philadelphia 76ers are coming to the party empty-handed. As one of three teams with no picks in the draft (currently), the Sixers will have to work their way back into the shindig in order to add any young, cost-controlled players to their roster. While the Sixers will […]

It’s hard to argue against the notion that the Miami Heat obtained the best player in franchise history via the NBA Draft. When the Heat drafted a then-22-year-old Dwyane Wade as the fifth overall pick in 2003, they struck gold. The rest, as they say, is history. Unfortunately for Miami, their success in the draft […]

The NBA Draft is Thursday and while many of the players who will be going in the top picks seem to be a foregone conclusion, there are still going to be sleepers in the Top 10. It is now time to continue our NBA Draft odds series with a sleepers to be drafted in the […]

Halfway through the 2022-23 season, the Los Angeles Lakers looked dead in the water. They were on the outside looking in on the Western Conference playoff picture and seemed destined to miss out on the postseason for the second year in a row. But the Lakers rectified their season after making some savvy trades before […]

When fans think of the NBA Draft, one of the first words that come to mind is “superstars.” After all, the draft has produced some of the biggest names in basketball such as Michael Jordan, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Larry Bird, LeBron James, Tim Duncan, Shaquille O’Neal, and more. But it has also produced some of […]

Los Angeles Clippers forward Paul George might have to be added to the list of superstars who could realistically be traded in the 2023 NBA offseason. Teams believe that the Clippers are trying to measure Paul George’s trade value, at the very least, according to NBA insider Marc Stein. It appears that Los Angeles might […]

Washington Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma declined his $13 million player option on Tuesday, according to a tweet from ESPN Senior NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski. “ESPN Sources: As expected, Washington Wizards forward Kyle Kuzma has declined his $13 million player option and become a free agent,” Wojnarowski wrote. “Kuzma will be one of the marketplace’s most prominent players. […]

The 2023 NBA Draft is just one day away and the Portland Trail Blazers will have the third overall pick. The front office is looking to add a legitimate star to pair with Damian Lillard and Co., which could very well be G-League standout Scoot Henderson. With the Charlotte Hornets reportedly locked in on selecting […]