Just in: The NBA and NBPA have ruled in favor of Lakers' Luka Doncic and Pistons' Cade Cunningham on their Extraordinary Circumstances Challenge for the 65-game award rule, making both eligible for all 2025-26 season honors such as MVP and All-NBA teams, sources tell ESPN.
@68_wbTJ@powsreturnHome@wizardsfangirl These are all questions that come as a result of the proposed scenario, which is why you do re-drafts as strictly hypothetical scenarios that do not weigh how things played out in reality.
@68_wbTJ@powsreturnHome@wizardsfangirl Weโre talking about a world in which the Pacers have no young wing. Do they end up drafting Kawhi in 2011; do they end up keeping him? Do the Spurs beat the Heat without Kawhi? Does LeBron stay in Miami longer with a regressing core bc of the potential to win >3?
BREAKING NEWS: The Connecticut Sun will be relocated to Houston, sources confirm to @MikeVorkunov.
The Mohegan Tribe is selling the team to the Fertitta family, owners of the Houston Rockets, for a WNBA record $300 million, according to one of the sources.
Adam Silver on tanking in the NBA:
โWe are going to make substantial changes for next year. On one hand you can completely divorce the draft from teams' records... That would be a major shock to the system. Not to completely forecast where we're going but I am an incrementalist.โ
(via @MikeVorkunov)
BREAKING: Boston Celtics All-NBA star Jayson Tatum will play this season and could make his debut on Friday against the Dallas Mavericks โ less than 10 months after surgery for a ruptured Achilles tendon.