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Parsing through the NBA’s over/under win totals is a meaningful way to establish expectations for every team entering the new season even if you have no interest in gambling. At this point, it would be easy to look back on the San Antonio Spurs and believe their ascent atop the Western Conference was all but preordained last season with Victor …

Jalen Johnson averaged 22.5 points, 10.3 rebounds and 7.9 assists for the Atlanta Hawks last season, a career year that came together as the franchise stopped trying to build around anyone else. The Hawks were 19-21 and ninth in the East when they dealt Trae Young to Washington. They went 27-15 the rest of the way and took the eventual …

The Oklahoma City Thunder appeared poised to become the first team to repeat as NBA champions since 2018 before injuries took their toll. And it was the San Antonio Spurs, Oklahoma City’s newest rival, who were ready to capitalize. Advertisement But now it’s a new season for the Thunder, who have most of their core returning for what should be …

Point guard is the deepest position in the league, and it’s the hardest position to make a career out of as a role player. The talent pool for bench guards is incredibly vast. The gap between the third point guard in the NBA and a good G League guard is thin — much thinner than any other position. Just thinking …

Though the San Antonio Spurs ended the 2026 NBA Finals with a loss to the New York Knicks, the run to get there felt like a beginning for Victor Wembanyama. The NBA’s reigning defensive player of the year enters the 2026-27 NBA season as the early betting favorite to win MVP honors. Wembanyama also agreed to a new contract extension …

NBA legend Bob Pettit died on Wednesday. He was 93. Pettit was a blend of many things. Born in Louisiana during the Great Depression, Pettit attended LSU, and was one of the first great players in the NBA. Drafted by the Milwaukee Hawks in 1954, Pettit averaged 20.4 points and 13.8 rebounds per game that season, and won Rookie of …

It’s been a tale of two summers for the Los Angeles Lakers. After getting swept in the second round of last year’s playoffs and losing LeBron James to free agency, president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka was emboldened by Mark Walter’s heavy investment in building out the front office to overhaul the roster around Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves. Advertisement …

Ongoing Warriors contract negotiations once again will be the focus of media day originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Steph Curry has made his rounds through the media carwash.  The message has been the same, whether it’s to us (NBC Sports Bay Area), ESPN, The Athletic, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Standard, ABC 7, MSNBC and anybody …

After opening media availability with a moment of silence for Lawrence Tanter, the Lakers thanked LeBron James for his eight seasons in Los Angeles. “I thought it would be appropriate, at the front, just to express gratitude for the LeBron era here,” general manager Rob Pelinka said to open Thursday’s news conference. Advertisement “Clearly, new team, new players, and that’s …

The Celtics training camp roster is set, and it includes 21 players — and plenty of familiar faces. The Celtics have 14 players under standard contract The Celtics have 14 players under contract to begin the season. That includes 10 returners: Jayson Tatum, Derrick White, Sam Hauser, Payton Pritchard, Hugo Gonzalez, Luka Garza, Baylor Scheierman, Neemias Queta, Ron Harper Jr., …

An 11-time NBA All-Star and one of the league’s greatest scorers and rebounders in its history has died. Bob Pettit, the first NBA MVP winner, died at the age of 93, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced on Thursday. Advertisement Pettit spent 11 seasons in the NBA, all with the Hawks organization, first in Milwaukee and then in St. …

For the second consecutive preseason media availability, Rob Pelinka was limited with what he could say about a pending Lakers’ ownership change. Last year, it was the $10 billion sale of the Lakers from the Buss family to Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter.  Advertisement This summer, it was the historic $12.5 billion sale from Walter to businessman Josh Kushner and …

The Los Angeles Lakers are about to embark on a new era of basketball, as they are set to endure a full season without LeBron James as a member of the roster for the first time in eight years. During Thursday’s media availability, Lakers head coach JJ Reddick might’ve accidentally taken a shot at James when he told reporters that …

When it comes to the Lakers, only one thing matters. Are they championship contenders? That’s what happens when you’re a 17-time championship organization. That’s what happens when guys named Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant have worn your jersey. It’s title or bust. It’s Larry O’Brien or 911. Advertisement So, when Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka learned that LeBron …

The Lakers enter training camp with coach JJ Redick feeling “pretty confident” in three of the five spots. Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves and Walker Kessler will make up 60% of the first unit as the team’s “Big Three”. Advertisement As for the final two starters? Those are up for grabs. Redick doesn’t know who will fill those slots, but was …

While the Los Angeles Lakers added a bevy of guards and wings this offseason, they’ll certainly be hard-pressed to replace Marcus Smart, whose defense and playmaking on both ends of the floor were integral to their success last year. Smart agreed to a two-year, $12.4 million deal with the Houston Rockets during free agency. Varun Shankar of the Houston Chronicle …

There was a point this summer when keeping track of the Celtics roster started to require an unreasonable amount of concentration. Jaylen Brown is in Philadelphia. Paul George and Mitchell Robinson are in Boston. Mike Conley is somehow beginning Year 20 in a Celtics uniform. Chris Cenac Jr. and Dillon Mitchell joined through the draft, while Brad Stevens spent part …

The 2026-27 NBA season is quickly approaching, and Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick still has questions to answer before training camps begin Monday, Sept. 29. Redick and Rob Pelinka, the team’s President of Basketball Operations, spoke reporters to address where things stand from a roster reconstruction standpoint within the organization. Advertisement Redick was clear that guards Luka Dončić and …

El Segundo, Calif. — Training camp opening is always a time of unbridled optimism around the NBA. The Los Angeles Lakers are no exception. “I think with this group, probably for the first time in my three years here, I feel like the pieces actually fit together,” Lakers head coach JJ Redick said Thursday, speaking to the media. Advertisement The …

NEW ORLEANS — Bob Pettit, an imposing scorer and rebounder for the St. Louis Hawks and winner of the NBA’s first Most Valuable Player award in 1956, has died. He was 93. Pettit’s alma mater, LSU, announced Thursday that he died a day earlier. The university did not provide a cause of death. Advertisement Pettit was an All-American at LSU …

The Spurs got to the Finals last season mostly on the strength of their core players. It’s typically how things go for contenders, since they are not expected to field a deep rotation as the playoff rounds go on. The strange thing is that the reigning Sixth Man of the Year was one of the guys who just couldn’t contribute …

Good news, Knicks fans. Jalen Brunson is good to go for the start of the regular season. The Knicks guard told attendees at a live edition of his and teammate Josh Hart‘s Roommates Show, that he is healthy and ready for the regular season. Advertisement “As you guys know, I had surgery this offseason,” Brunson told the crowd. “And I …

Rob Pelinka, Los Angeles Lakers president of basketball operations and general manager, said Thursday that every season is a little bit like the “Odyssey.” “You launch a season, and there’s things that happen throughout that you can’t predict, but you have to stay together as a group and stay strong,” Pelinka continued. Advertisement Third-year Lakers head coach JJ Redick, sitting …

This is a lie. I don’t intend it to be, but it is—or at least it will be. How can one stay true under the test of time? After all, memory is as fickle as a five-year-old’s latest “favourite.” But I will try my best. That I can promise. Advertisement First, close your eyes. Inhale. Attune yourself with your NBA …

This feeling surrounding this upcoming Sixers’ season is one of great anticipation. Sure, most of that has to do with the monumental additions of LeBron James and Jaylen Brown, but I’d argue that no small part of that excitement should be for the second season of VJ Edgecombe. Here in Philadelphia, expectations are always set high, even for the youngest …