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Each week during the 2023-24 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward. [Last week: 2024 NBA All-Star Game snubs] This week’s topic: Did the trade deadline impact the NBA’s championship

There wasn’t quite as much buzz in the run-up to this year’s NBA trade deadline. But in a season featuring such tightly compressed tiers — four teams knotted with 16 losses at the top of the West, 3.5 games separating second from fifth in the East, a handful of teams in each conference trying to

Feb 7, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The long-awaited 2023-24 NBA trade deadline (Thursday, 3 p.m. ET) is nearly here, and teams across the league are continuing to seek out opportunities to shake up their rosters all the way up to the deadline. We’ve already seen how a few midseason blockbuster trades have

If you haven’t been to Warriors games in a minute, let us say it’s quite easy to forget the pregame spectacle that still comes with Stephen Curry’s joyful warmup. His schoolyard routine with longtime Golden State assistant Bruce Fraser draws as many children wielding homemade posters as it does grown men pleading for an autograph

Feb 5, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The NBA trade deadline is Thursday, and contenders are putting finishing touches on their rosters ahead of crowded postseason pushes in each conference. But while this week is significant every year across the league, this season has presented new restrictions for front offices to navigate. This

Yahoo Sports Is Kyle Shanahan the next Andy Reid? with Jessica Smetana | The Exempt List Charles McDonald is on site in Las Vegas at radio row and joined by Le Betard Show contributor Jessica Smetana to discuss the pandemonium around Vegas in preparation for the Super Bowl. The duo start with a little Formula

Get ready for graphics overload. The NBA announced on Monday that it will unveil an all-glass LED court for the upcoming All-Star weekend in Indianapolis. The social media announcement included a video mock-up of the court that promises to display design and color changes, live replay and video content, stats, animations and interactive games for

Joel Embiid is reportedly expected to miss an extended period of time after knee surgery. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images) Philadelphia 76ers All-Star and reigning NBA MVP Joel Embiid will undergo surgery to repair the torn meniscus in his left knee. The team announced pending procedure Sunday evening in a statement. “Joel Embiid will have a corrective

ESPN News Services Feb 3, 2024, 10:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — Stephen Curry scored a season-high 60 points in Golden State’s 141-134 overtime loss to Atlanta on Saturday night, with Trae Young scoring 35 to help the Hawks outlast the Warriors. Curry had eight points in overtime to finish only two shy

Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid has a displaced flap in the meniscus of his left knee and is considering surgery, The Athletic’s Shams Charania and Joe Vardon report. Per the report, Embiid, his doctors and the 76ers are considering options on how best to address the injury, with rest and rehabilitation still on the table.

Yahoo Sports 10 Postseason lessons we can take into 2024 fantasy season The most important month of NFL football is somehow often overlooked when it comes to fantasy conversations for the following season. Not on this pod, not anymore. Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens provide the biggest fantasy lessons we can learn from this postseason

Tim Bontemps, ESPNFeb 1, 2024, 11:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Jalen Brunson goes out of his way to never let anyone in on what he’s thinking or feeling. But for even the most stoic of stars, everything that happened Thursday night — from making his first All-Star team to scoring 40

The last time the NBA used the phrase “unintended consequences,” it applied to the salary cap hike of 2016 that temporarily altered competitive balance by allowing the Warriors to sign Kevin Durant in free agency. Now the phrase is back, albeit in a different way, with a few players coming close to missing out on

Jan 31, 2024, 01:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards has been fined $40,000 by the NBA after he lashed out at the officiating Monday. Edwards was unhappy with what he thought were several no-calls during a 107-101 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder, calling the referees “bad” and “terrible” for

Yahoo Sports Where do the Lions go from here? with Bryce Rossler | The Exempt List Charles McDonald is joined by Sports Info Solutions’ Bryce Rossler to give their thoughts on the fallout from the Conference Championship games this past weekend and react to some of the latest head coach and coordinator news around the

In case you missed it — and, honestly, how could you have? — reigning MVP Joel Embiid scored a career-high, NBA season-high and 76ers franchise-record 70 points last Monday. About an hour after the final buzzer of Philly’s win over the Spurs, Karl-Anthony Towns finished with a career-high and Timberwolves franchise-record 62 points (albeit in

Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPNJan 29, 2024, 11:51 AM ET Open Extended Reactions After missing 10 of Indiana‘s past 11 games with a hamstring injury, there’s optimism that Pacers All-Star guard Tyrese Haliburton will return to the lineup against the Boston Celtics on Tuesday, sources told ESPN. Haliburton suffered a Grade 1 left hamstring strain on Jan.