The LA Clippers wanted to be the canvas that Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant painted their beautiful works on. Nope. The duo and their tag-along DeAndre Jordan picked the Brooklyn Nets.
Kyrie Irving will meet with the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday when free agency begins to finalize a four-year max deal, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Did you see that block Giannis Antetokounmpo had the other night? You know the one I’m talking about, when he snuffed Joel Embiid at the rim and started a Milwaukee fast break in the other direction. Actually that generic description doesn’t really do that block justice, so let’s rewind.
So many of the communal narratives attached to NBA franchises are tied to subjective but universal specifications on what teams ought to do. Consider the Los Angeles Clippers, who disintegrated a flawed contender and built around hungry players to stay afloat
Two days after the Golden State Warriors lost Game 1 of the NBA Finals, Draymond Green strode into Scotiabank Arena with the aplomb of a powerful dynasty at his back. Wrapped in a grey Warriors zip-up hoodie, at around 1:30 p.m. — 15 minutes after he was scheduled to speak — the three-time champion walked towards a makeshift podium that was propped up on the far right corner of the court. In front of a dozen TV cameras, microphones, and digital recorders, the NBA’s most complex catalyst sat down for an array of questions about basketball, life, and everywhere those two subjects intersect.
If I told you a year ago that the Brooklyn Nets would be legitimately chasing superstars while the New York Knicks would be rebuilding from the ground-up, you would have written me off as a comic.
Still absorbing the magnitude of his team's accomplishment, Raptors President Masai Ujiri is confident Kawhi Leonard and the rest of Toronto's core will reunite next season in a bid for another title.