SAN ANTONIO — With the NBA season down to its final 20-plus games, Thursday night’s meeting at Frost Bank Center between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder looked as if it would have a greater impact on this season’s NBA Rookie of the Year race than anything related to the upper reaches of … 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
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
StitchCrew is a local nonprofit, turning minority women into business owners. “StitchCrew is an organization started back in 2017 with the sole goal of building a more equitable economy through entrepreneurship,” said Erika Lucas, founder of StitchCrew. Initially, the idea of helping local entrepreneurs wasn’t embraced. “When we first started stitch crew people thought we … Read more
The NBA says it is investigating an accusation that Oklahoma City Thunder guard Josh Giddey had an improper relationship with an underage girl. In a since-deleted post, an anonymous social media user said a girl who is seen with Giddey in videos and photographs was a high school junior at the time. The social media … Read more
If the World Cup was an indicator, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder have much to look forward to this season.He made the All-Tournament team at this summer’s event and generated the kind of buzz that had eluded him for much of his career. He averaged 24.5 points, 6.4 rebounds and 6.4 assists in … 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