T-Mac heads into the Hall of Fame as a star wing ahead of his time.
Tracy McGrady loved to sleep. As an 18-year-old rookie on the Toronto Raptors, McGrady would reportedly sleep for up to 20 hours a day. That doesn’t sound like an inherently intimidating quality, but McGrady had a way of making it one. At his peak, T-Mac was the type of player who looked like he could roll out of bed and average 30 points per game.
The 76ers said their star big man is absent because of medical reasons.
Joel Embiid's agent, Leon Rose, reportedly wants the Philadelphia 76ers to ink the 23-year-old big man to a long-term deal before he’ll play 5-on-5 action, according to 94WIP’s Howard Eskin. It was first reported in early August that Embiid had not yet been medically cleared to play full-court basketball.
Thomas published a letter on The Players’ Tribune detailing the mixed emotions he had following his trade from Boston to Cleveland.
Isaiah Thomas was driving home after celebrating his one-year wedding anniversary when Danny Ainge called him. By now, you know the deal: Thomas was sent as part of a package to Cleveland that landed Boston its point guard for the future, Kyrie Irving.
Silver’s plan, if passed as legislation, would lessen bad teams’ odds at top picks.
In an effort to de-incentivize tanking, NBA commissioner Adam Silver is aggressively pursuing draft lottery reform that could be instituted before the beginning of the 2017-18 season, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Silver, according to Woj, is a proponent of lowering the odds of the NBA’s worst teams to land the top picks in the draft.
Prices have jumped from $5 million to $2.2 billion in the span of almost 40 years.
The Houston Rockets are changing ownership hands for the record setting price of $2.2 billion. Historically, this is an unprecedented price to pay for an NBA franchise, but over the coming years, it looks more and more like it will be the norm. The league is exploding monetarily due to its rising popularity and a record-setting $24 billion television deal that kicked in last season.
Incremental progress on NBA tanking is still progress
Back in 2014, as Sam Hinkie deftly built a franchise based upon the power of losing, the NBA considered reforming its draft lottery in a major way. Every non-playoff team would have a shot at the No. 1 pick, and a good shot at a top-5 pick. There would have been less incentive to be truly bad as the odds evened out among the lottery teams.
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Playoff basketball is back on Wednesday as the WNBA's postseason gets underway.
The first two rounds of the eight-team tournament are single elimination. (The top two seeds have byes to the semifinals.) The Lynx, behind Maya Moore, are the No. 1 seed for the fifth time in seven years. But Tina Charles and the New York Liberty are the hottest team on the planet. It should be a fun, fun bracket.
These free agents show how tough the NBA free agency market has been in 2017.
NBA free agency typically burns hot and fast. Normally, most key free agents ink deals between the stroke of midnight on July 1 and the end of that month. Some players in trickier contract situations wait it out until early August. An occasional free agent — often one under restricted status — will wait until September.
After signing a contract extension this summer, Harden’s employed through at least 2022.
James Harden tweeted that he’ll stay in Houston forever. As far as Twitter promises go, this one actually has some merit.
