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Dave McMenamin, ESPN Staff WriterJun 29, 2024, 12:37 PM ET Close Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. Open Extended Reactions LeBron James intends to opt out of the final year of his contract

Jun 29, 2024, 04:58 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LA Clippers star Paul George is declining his $48.7 million option and will enter free agency, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Saturday. George is planning to meet with teams that have enough salary cap space to potentially sign him and with the Clippers beginning Sunday

Dave McMenamin, ESPN Staff WriterJun 29, 2024, 01:40 AM ET Close Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. Open Extended Reactions Los Angeles Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell plans to opt into the final year

Andre Snellings Eric Moody Close Eric Moody ESPN Former manager at a Fortune 100 financial services company, now living my dream creating fantasy and sports betting content about the NFL, NBA, and WNBA for ESPN. Jun 28, 2024, 10:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The NBA never rests, as on Friday night it was reported

Kendra Andrews, ESPNJun 28, 2024, 01:51 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Golden State Warriors and guard Chris Paul intend to move the date to guarantee the $30 million on his 2024-25 contract to the start of free agency on Sunday, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The deadline to lock in Paul’s contract was originally

NBA Insiders Jun 27, 2024, 06:49 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Bronny James is a Los Angeles Laker. With the 55th pick in Thursday’s second round of the NBA draft, the Lakers selected the former USC freshman and son of all-time leading NBA scorer LeBron James. What is Bronny’s fit in L.A.? What part of

Dave McMenamin, ESPN Staff WriterJun 27, 2024, 06:11 PM ET Close Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. Open Extended Reactions Before Thursday, there had never been a father-son duo playing in the NBA

Tim Bontemps, ESPNJun 27, 2024, 01:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Team USA coach Steve Kerr said Thursday that all 12 players selected for the Olympic team — including LA Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard — will be present and able to participate when training camp begins in Las Vegas next week. “We’ve been in communication

Tim Bontemps, ESPNJun 26, 2024, 08:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — The Atlanta Hawks selected French forward Zaccharie Risacher with the first overall pick in the 2024 NBA draft. Risacher became the second consecutive international prospect — and fourth overall — to be taken with the top overall pick in the draft.

Jun 26, 2024, 06:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Free agent forward OG Anunoby intends to sign a five-year, $212.5 million contract to return to the New York Knicks, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The deal will include a player option and a trade kicker, sources said. The Knicks acquired Anunoby in a trade at

ESPN News Services Jun 26, 2024, 03:05 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MIAMI — Bam Adebayo, one of the NBA’s top defensive players and soon to become a two-time U.S. Olympian, intends to sign a three-year, $166 million extension with the Miami Heat when the league’s offseason moratorium on such moves is lifted next month,

Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPNJun 26, 2024, 02:28 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Brooklyn Nets completed a massive overhaul of the franchise’s roster, trading their best player Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks, sources told ESPN on Tuesday, and landing a deal with the Houston Rockets to return the franchise’s first-round picks lost in the

Jun 25, 2024, 10:12 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The New York Knicks have agreed to a trade that will see them acquire Mikal Bridges from the Brooklyn Nets, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Tuesday. The Knicks will send Bojan Bogdanovic, four unprotected first-round picks (2025, 2027, 2029, 2031), a 2025 protected first-rounder via

Jun 25, 2024, 11:28 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Center Kristaps Porzingis, who played through a rare left leg injury as the Boston Celtics claimed their record-setting 18th NBA championship, will have surgery “in the coming days” and will miss the Olympics, it was announced Tuesday. Porzingis suffered a torn retinaculum and dislocated posterior tibialis

Open Extended Reactions The 2024 NBA draft begins Wednesday in New York with the Atlanta Hawks on the clock holding the No. 1 overall pick. There will be 58 total selections over two rounds, with the draft being held across two days for the first time in its history. The big questions heading into the

Associated Press Jun 24, 2024, 07:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — JJ Redick says his extraordinary hiring as the Los Angeles Lakers‘ head coach means the end of his podcast with LeBron James. Redick hopes they’ll be able to produce much more compelling content next season in a new incarnation of

Chris Harden Jun 24, 2024, 06:55 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Zaccharie Risacher has a 73% chance to go No. 1 overall in this week’s 2024 NBA draft, according to ESPN Analytics’ new NBA Draft Day Predictor tool. The predictor model is driven by expert mock drafts, ESPN’s top 100 prospect rankings and historical draft

Jeremy Woo, ESPNJun 23, 2024, 07:40 AM ET Open Extended Reactions IT’S RARE THAT the viewing interests of fans and scouts ever completely align, but as circumstances would have it, last season’s most-watched jump ball came at the outset of the men’s national title game in Glendale, Arizona. UConn’s 7-foot-3 Donovan Clingan, anchoring a defense