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The Milwaukee Bucks sent shockwaves through the NBA world on Wednesday when they pulled off a massive three-team trade with the Portland Trail Blazers and Phoenix Suns for superstar Damian Lillard. It was widely known that Lillard’s preferred destination was the Miami Heat while other teams such as the Toronto Raptors were mentioned in recent […]

The Memphis Grizzlies will head into the 2023-24 season with some high hopes. They’ve now won over 50 games in two consecutive seasons and have one of the more talented young rosters in the league, but while they’ll be looking to replicate elements of their past couple of seasons, there are still some clear areas […]

The Miami Heat have made some roster moves on the heels of the blockbuster three-team Damian Lillard trade. First off, the Heat, via a post on X (formerly Twitter) announced that they have released the pair of Jamaree Bouyea and Caleb Daniels before signing Jon Elmore and Cheick Diallo. However, the Heat immediately cut Elmore. […]

With the 2023-24 NBA season rapidly approaching, teams are in the process of filling out their training camp roster. With the biggest domino left falling into place this week, the rest of the league can breathe and finish any roster questions they still have left. The Los Angeles Clippers were involved in trade discussions this […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder may ultimately heed increasingly frequent calls to make a consolidation trade. With training camp set to tipoff next week, though, Sam Presti seems much more interested in letting his team’s incredibly promising young core develop and evolve together than breaking it up to chase more wins in 2023-24. “You can’t buy […]

The Damian Lillard trade saga is finally over. The seven-time All-Star is headed to the Milwaukee Bucks to form a superstar pairing with Giannis Antetokounmpo. Milwaukee agreed to land Lillard in a three-team deal with the Portland Trail Blazers and the Phoenix Suns. Portland will receive Jrue Holiday, Deandre Ayton, Toumani Camara, the Bucks’ 2029 […]

Blockbuster deals are the best type of trades, especially when they come out of left field. That’s what happed Wednesday afternoon when the Milwaukee Bucks swooped in out of nowhere to swing a massive trade with the Portland Trail Blazers for seven-time All-Star and All-NBA player Damian Lillard. Shams Charania of The Athletic laid out […]

Damian Lillard’s public trade request didn’t result in his preferred destination. Just because he failed to end up with the Miami Heat, though, hardly means the seven-time All-Star was unprepared to leave the Portland Trail Blazers before training camps tips off ahead of the 2023-24 season next week. Case in point? Lillard, who raps as […]

The Miami Heat may have missed out on trading for Damian Lillard, but there’s an easy response to the Milwaukee Bucks becoming the new favorite in the Eastern Conference. It’s time for Pat Riley and the Heat to pick the phone back up and trade with the Portland Trail Blazers for Jrue Holiday. Jrue Holiday […]

The NBA world received a major shake-up on Wednesday when the Portland Trail Blazers pulled off the long-anticipated Damian Lillard trade. Except it wasn’t to his desired destination of the Miami Heat, it was to the Milwaukee Bucks to form an exciting duo with Giannis Antetokounmpo. In recent weeks, the Toronto Raptors were rumored to […]

Repeating as NBA champions is going to be a tall task for the Denver Nuggets. The Nikola Jokic-led squad will need more rebounding and more shooting from their role players. All of that will start ahead of the Nuggets training camp. But, Mike Malone might see some departures and it may come in either Zeke […]

Damian Lillard is joining Giannis Antetokounmpo on the Milwaukee Bucks after a three-team trade involving the Phoenix Suns and the Portland Trail Blazers. Stephen A. Smith had a powerful response to Lillard teaming up with Antetokounmpo. Malika Andrews asked Smith to describe the Lillard-Antetokounmpo pairing in one word, via NBA on ESPN. Smith replied, “Lethal.” […]

The Phoenix Suns have officially moved on from Deandre Ayton after months of speculation, adding Jusuf Nurkic from the Trail Blazers as well as a few depth pieces, most notably Grayson Allen and Nassir Little. It’s a significant move and one which moves the needle, at least a little, for almost certainly the most talented […]

The NBA world exploded when Damian Lillard was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks. It is one of the biggest trades in the history of the sport and automatically gives the Bucks one of the best one-two punches in the NBA. Lillard was traded in a three-team deal that saw Jrue Holiday and Deandre Ayton go […]

Phoenix Suns legend and “NBA on TNT” analyst Charles Barkley weighed in on the team’s decision to trade former starting center Deandre Ayton to the Portland Trail Blazers for Jusuf Nurkic. "With the Suns, something was going on with Deandre Ayton. It goes back to there was an issue with Monty Williams and Deandre Ayton. […]

South Beach ultimately did not turn out to be the landing spot for Damian Lillard, with the Portland Trail Blazers sending the point guard to the Milwaukee Bucks in a monster three-team deal that also involved the Phoenix Suns. That means that Lillard isn’t going north of the border either, as the Toronto Raptors were […]

Damian Lillard’s stunning trade to the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday had almost nothing to do with the Los Angeles Lakers. Still, team legend and proud purple-and-gold partisan Magic Johnson found a way to use the shocking ending of Lillard’s trade saga as justification to reveal his Western Conference power rankings in 2023-24. Surprise! Johnson has […]

The Phoenix Suns traded center Deandre Ayton to the Portland Trail Blazers Wednesday as part of a three-team deal that also sent guard Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks. Just hours after the trade, Ayton was seen in NBA2K24 with a Blazers jersey on his character. Via ZackTheSunsFan on X: https://twitter.com/zackthesunsfan/status/1707132422138339696 Ayton is a fan […]

Holy crap. That actually happened. The Milwaukee Bucks struck the move of the NBA offseason just days before the start of training camp by swinging a three-team deal with the Portland Trail Blazers and Phoenix Suns to acquire Damian Lillard. Here are the full trade details according to Shams Charania of The Athletic. Full trade, […]

The Phoenix Suns traded for former Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic Wednesday. The Suns gave up their former starting center, Deandre Ayton, who was sent to Portland. After the trade was reported, Nurkic posted messages on X that read goodbye to the Trail Blazers, who he played for in his last seven NBA seasons, […]

Damian Lillard has finally been traded. After an offseason full of speculation and the Miami Heat emerging as Dame’s preferred landing spot, the seven-time All-Star now finds himself heading east to join Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks. As soon as he had requested a trade from the Blazers right at the start of free […]

Damian Lillard has been traded to an Eastern Conference championship contender. Still, the seven-time All-Star didn’t get his wish from the Portland Trail Blazers, sent to the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday in a three-team blockbuster despite his very public preference to end up with the Miami Heat. As the dust settled on the NBA’s latest […]

Grayson Allen was part of the blockbuster Damian Lillard trade between the Milwaukee Bucks, Phoenix Suns, and Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday, and after the five-year NBA vet found out he was on the move, he realized the promise he made to fans to not change his jersey number again went out the window. Allen […]

Damian Lillard is teaming up with Giannis Antetokounmpo after a three-team trade sent Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks. After all the bluster about the Miami Heat, Lillard is going to the team that lost to the Heat in last season’s playoffs. Making this all the more interesting is a 2022 tweet that showed Dame’s interest […]

The Dallas Mavericks are looking to bounce back following a forgettable 2023-24 season. When Dallas acquired Kyrie Irving from the Brooklyn Nets prior to the trade deadline, they had aspirations of making a deep playoff run. Instead, the Mavs failed to even reach the playoffs. Luka Doncic believes his chemistry with Irving will improve this […]

This year’s MyTEAM received great improvements this year, so there’s no wonder why so many players are into this game mode in NBA 2K23. So, to help out all NBA 2K23 MyTEAM players, we’re collating all of the active NBA 2K23 MyTEAM Locker Codes here for everyone’s benefit. Check out all of the MyTEAM Locker […]

The Portland Trail Blazers may have just pulled off arguably the biggest trade in franchise history by dealing Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks in a massive three-team deal, but the work in Portland isn’t done quite yet. While Jrue Holiday was the main acquisition for the Blazers in the deal, the next move for […]

It was only a month ago that Giannis Antetokounmpo said he wouldn’t sign a contract extension with the Milwaukee Bucks, wanting to see if the organization was committed to trying to win a championship. It’d be hard to find stronger proof that the Bucks will do it all takes in search of another title than […]

The Milwaukee Bucks swooped in and traded for Damian Lillard on Wednesday despite the Miami Heat being linked to the superstar for most of the offseason. Jimmy Butler immediately questioned the Bucks for potential “tampering” after the deal was announced. Tyler Herro, who may have been traded away if the Heat acquired Lillard, doubled down […]

The Brooklyn Nets want more from Mikal Bridges this season. If you watched Bridges following his trade to the Nets in 2022-23, that’s saying a lot. The former Sun quickly cemented himself within the inner circle of the NBA’s rising stars, averaging 27.7 points per game on 47/38/89 shooting splits in 30 games with Brooklyn. […]

Damian Lillard was the longtime face of the Portland Trail Blazers before the Blazers traded Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks in a blockbuster deal before the 2023-24 season. Lillard is a seven-time All-Star over 11 seasons, and he’s still considered one of the best guards in the NBA today, especially since he’s coming off a […]

Did Tom Brady keep Kevin Durant from joining the Boston Celtics? When KD became a free agent in 2016, he was torn deciding which team he would play for next after spending the first nine seasons of his career with the Seattle Supersonics and Oklahoma City Thunder. He met up with several teams and players […]

Point guard Jrue Holiday was part of the return sent from the Milwaukee Bucks to the Portland Trail Blazers in the Damian Lillard trade that was announced on Wednesday. So, for now, Holiday is a Blazer. But for how long? It sure seems that Portland only acquired Holiday for his trade value. The odds are […]

The Portland Trail Blazers have finally traded away longtime franchise staple Damian Lillard. He is now going to the Milwaukee Bucks after a wild turn of events, and Jimmy Butler has since called out Milwaukee for tampering. Nonetheless, Lillard’s time with the Blazers is over with the franchise that drafted him, and all eyes will […]

The Milwaukee Bucks have completed a blockbuster trade for Damian Lillard to pair with Giannis Antetokounmpo, and right away there is a ton of anticipation for the season as training camp and preseason rapidly approaches, leaving many fans asking when he will make his debut with the team. We now know that Damian Lillard will […]

The Phoenix Suns traded starting center Deandre Ayton to the Portland Trail Blazers and received Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic, guards Nassir Little and Keon Johnson and Milwaukee Bucks guard Grayson Allen. The Suns helped facilitate a three-team deal that sent superstar guard Damian Lillard to the Bucks. Ayton has been mentioned in trade rumors for […]

Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie isn’t tolerating any more Ben Simmons slander. The nine-year veteran stood up for his teammate during an appearance on The Pat Bev Podcast Wednesday, calling Simmons “a far more athletic” version of Golden State’s Draymond Green: “Ben at his best form is a far more athletic Draymond Green with less […]

With their blockbuster trade for Damian Lillard, the Milwaukee Bucks have completely shaken up the NBA. With a top flight pairing of Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Bucks have seen the NBA Finals odds skyrocket. Milwaukee is now the favorite to win the 2024 NBA Finals after seeing their odds go from +480 to +360, […]

NBA fans and media members weren’t the only ones taken aback by the news that the Portland Trail Blazers agreed to trade Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks Wednesday. Several NBA players were also shocked by the Blazers-Bucks trade, and they couldn’t help but comment on the new pairing of Damian Lillard and Giannis Antetokounmpo. […]