Wall’s contract with the Wizards now runs through 2023.
John Wall and the Washington Wizards have agreed to a four-year, $170 million contract extension that will keep Wall on the Wizards until 2023, according to NBA.com’s David Aldridge. Wall’s contract also includes a 15-percent trade kicker and a player option on the final year.
Irving’s won a championship with LeBron. Now, he can try his hand at carving his legacy with a team of his own.
Kyrie Irving has requested a trade from the Cavaliers team he helped to three consecutive NBA Finals appearances and its lone championship in 2016.
His reasoning?
Irving wants to play in a situation where he can be the team’s focal point. As a result, the All-Star point guard no longer wants to play alongside LeBron James, according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst.
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The rumors about LeBron leaving the Cavaliers next summer have been rampant. You sense they are affecting even other Cavaliers, as this interview with Kyrie Irving indicates. Kyrie states that the Cavaliers "are in a peculiar place." That's no way to talk about Cleveland!
FORMER NBA head coach Reggie Theus, assisted by Jr. NBA coaches Chris Sumner and Natalia André, conducted a basketball clinic for students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Laboratory High School as part of NBA Cares.
Boys and girls aged 10 to 14 years old learned basketball fundamentals through fun basketball lessons from the NBA coaches who introduced them to skills training.
Cleveland hasn’t improved much and still has no general manager. With LeBron James’ pending free agency, the future looks a bit murky.
The Cavaliers aren’t in the best place heading into the 2017-18 season, and Kyrie Irving knows it.
Dellavedova is in town with wife Ann (a former volleyball player whom he met in religion class at St Mary's in Moraga, California) to promote Peak which has signed up 7 NBA players (including Tony Parker and Dwight Howard) and 15 national basketball teams (including Australia, Serbia, Latvia and New Zealand)
Mutombo wants to organize an ownership group to purchase the Rockets
Dikembe Mutombo holds the Rockets near and dear to his heart, and he wants to make sure the organization remains that way. In an interview with FOX 26 Sports, Mutombo talked about potentially putting together an ownership group to purchase the Rockets from Leslie Alexander, who announced his intention to sell earlier in the week.
DeMarre Carroll hasn’t held his tongue since the Raptors traded him in a salary dump to the Brooklyn Nets on July 9. And in his July 19 introductory presser with local Nets media — after already addressing his role in Toronto’s offense — Carroll acknowledged again that he wasn’t the best fit for the Raptors’ isolation-heavy system that ran primarily through DeMar DeRozan, Kyle Lowry, and, later, Serge Ibaka.
The new two-way contracts are great for teams but worse for most players. Let agents explain why.
LAS VEGAS — This coming season, the NBA will employ 60 more players than ever before. Don’t take my word for it: You’ll likely hear this fun fact oversaturate NBA television broadcasts almost as frequently as you’re reminded that the NBA replay center is based in Secaucus, N.J.
