CLEVELAND — The best pass of Evan Mobley’s life, the worst tackle of Caris LeVert’s and only the second-best buzzer beater to win a game in Max Strus’ nearly 28 years on this planet. This is what pandemonium looked like Tuesday night in Cleveland. Strus unleashed a 59-footer just before time expired, drained it and … Read more
This is the digital version of The Bounce.If you want it earlier, start every day with The Bounce delivered to your inbox. Sign up here. Shoutout to Kevin Harlan and his daughter, Olivia Harlan Dekker, for being the first father-daughter duo to call the Super Bowl. MVP Conversation How many players are in it? Let’s discuss … Read more
The NBA trade deadline has passed, but that doesn’t mean the league’s roster-churning is done. Teams are still reworking rosters in the wake of trade deadline deals, cutting some players loose where they’ll have an opportunity to latch on in other places. This takes two forms. The first is when a team must waive a … Read more
The Athletic has live coverage of the 2024 NBA trade deadline. Follow along for updates. It’s finally here: NBA Trade Deadline week. Pencils go down after Thursday. The first dominos fell early this year with the New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors setting aside their ongoing litigation to complete a deal involving OG Anunoby, RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley. The second big one fell in January as the Raptors … Read more
With the NBA trade deadline about 24 hours away, things are heating up for teams looking to elevate their championship aspirations for the final stretch of the 2023-24 season. Change seemed likely and even necessary at one point for the Warriors during a frustratingly unsteady season, but the chatter has quieted down a notch in … Read more
Editor’s Note: Pascal Siakam, originally the No. 1 player on this list, was traded to the Indiana Pacers on Jan. 17. We’ve passed Jan. 15 on the NBA calendar, which opens up a large number of players to be traded who re-signed with their previous team last offseason. It’s a more important group of players … Read more
As the NBA calendar turns to Dec. 15, the start of NBA trade season kicks off in earnest. Why does Dec. 15 matter so much? That’s the date many of the players who agreed to free-agent deals over the summer are eligible to be moved, thus opening up a significantly larger number of possibilities for … Read more
It’s official: Mark Cuban says he’s leaving ABC’s “Shark Tank” after more than a decade on the show. The billionaire entrepreneur and investor plans to move on after Season 16 ends in 2025, he told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. “I just want to have a couple summers with my teens before they go off … Read more
Pity the second-tier playoff hopefuls in the West. Seven of the 15 teams are at least to some degree all-in on this season, eight would be crushingly disappointed with anything fewer than 45-plus wins and playoff games in May and at least four will spend well into the luxury tax. It’s a tough ask to … Read more
An apology is in order. Right about the time I was giving the FIBA World Cup a ‘meh’ review, whining about how the international action wasn’t good enough to satisfy my offseason hoops craving while we wait for the NBA season, things got very interesting — and wildly entertaining — in the quarterfinals. Germany’s 81-79 … Read more