The Philadelphia 76ers had a dream season: 52 wins, a playoff series victory, an All-NBA nod for Joel Embiid, and a Rookie of the Year Award for Ben Simmons. Then, the Bryan Colangelo Twitter scandal happened. Everything’s been weird ever since.
Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Tom Thibodeau is confident the organization will sign center Karl-Anthony Towns to a contract extension.
According to Jerry Zgoda of the Star Tribune, Thibodeau said he is "very optimistic" that the T-Wolves will ink Towns to a long-term deal.
"We know how important Karl is to the future of the organization," Thibodeau added.
NBA trade news continues to make the headline during the offseason with teams getting ready to return to training camp next month. Here’s all the latest basketball news from around the league.
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Manu Ginobili has retired from the NBA after 16 incredible seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. While Ginobili flirted with retirement for years, it didn’t seem the day would ever actually come. And even as his career reached it’s final stage, he had fleeting moments of success making it still beautiful watching him play.
Why do we love watching Ginobili? Some of it is nostalgia, of course. He’s 40 years old and has amassed a large number of accolades and highlight reels, so half of the joy of watching him now is recollecting those glory days. It’s not that the Ginobili of today lives in the shadow of his former self. He is more of an afterimage that we use to access the emotions that the younger Ginobili made us feel.
LEBRON JAMES could be getting a new team-mate soon as Jimmy Butler looks for an exit from Minnesota.
At least, that is according to reports in the United States tonight.
Butler, 28, will head into free agency at the end of the 2018/19 season unless the Timberwolves can pin him down to a new deal.
It's an end of an era in San Antonio.
On Monday, the 41-year-old Manu Ginobili announced that he is retiring after 16 seasons in the NBA, all with the Spurs:
ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Aug. 22 that the longtime shooting guard was "seriously considering" retirement and would meet with coach Gregg Popovich to discuss his basketball future.
In honor of Kobe Bryant’s 40th birthday, let’s take a look back at the subtle adjustments the Black Mamba made in three of his most notable seasons.
For two decades, Kobe Bean Bryant helped in both shaping and representing Los Angeles Lakersbasketball forever in unprecedented fashion.
Among the multitude of individual accomplishments, and the five championship banners currently hanging in STAPLES Center that Bryant helped shoulder, laid obstacles and uncertain career arcs in which he had to learn how to both assimilate, and adapt to.
Nick Young was arrested in Hollywood during a late-night stop for a routine traffic violation.
Officer Mike Lopez, a department spokesman, told The Associated Press that Young was arrested Friday for delaying an investigation, a misdemeanor.
Amazon is cutting its popular pre-order discount deal, which means NBA 2K fans shouldn’t wait to pick up this year’s edition.
NBA 2K19 standard edition doesn’t officially hit stores until September 11, but if you know you’re going to buy this year’s game, you should stop everything you’re doing and order it right now.
