Dink Pate, G League IgniteEvan Yu/NBAE via Getty Images 11. Dink Pate (G League Ignite, SG, 2006) Pate is taking the Scoot Henderson route, signing up to play two years for Ignite with a goal to blow up during his second season. He’ll likely play a more limited role this year behind the vets and
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Oct 11, 2023, 08:00 AM ET NBArank is back for its 13th season counting down the best players in the league. Which stars made and missed the cut? Which rookies are already making noise in the top 100? Where did MVP contenders such as Nikola Jokic, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic and reigning winner Joel Embiid
2023 WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart. Photo: WNBA. New York Liberty forward Breanna Stewart is the 2023 WNBA Most Valuable Player the league announced today. She is the first MVP in Liberty franchise history. This is Stewart’s second WNBA MVP honor. She is the eighth player in league history to win the award multiple times, joining
2023 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year, A’ja Wilson. Photo: WNBA. Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson is the 2023 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year. A 6-4 sixth-year league veteran, Wilson also earned the honor last season. This season she garnered 32 votes from a national panel of 60 sportswriters and broadcasters. Connecticut Sun
Dallas Wings forward Satou Sabally is the 2023 WNBA Most Improved Player. The four-year league veteran was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft and received 37 of 60 votes from a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. Los Angeles Sparks guard Jordin Canada came in second with 18 votes while Chicago
2023 WNBA Sixth Player of the Year, Alysha Clark. Photo: WNBA. Las Vegas Aces forward Alysha Clark is the 2023 WNBA Sixth Player of the Year in her first year with the franchise. It is the first honor as the league’s top reserve for the 11-year veteran who is also a two-time WNBA All-Defensive Team
Photo: San Antonio Spurs/Twitter screenshot Former NBA player Drew Gooden sees a bright future for Victor Wembanyama, the top pick of this year’s NBA Draft by the San Antonio Spurs. In a recent interview on Scoop B Selects with Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson, Gooden drew parallels between Wembanyama and basketball legend Tim Duncan, suggesting that
Photo: Golden State Warriors/Twitter As it was expected, Draymond Green is declining his player option for the 2023-2024 and will hit free agency, per NBA insider Shams Charania. The four-time NBA champion would have earned $27.5 million next season with the Warriors. He has publicly expressed his desire to remain in Golden State for his
Sam Dekker of the London Lions has won the Molten BBL Player of the Year award, following a vote from BBL head coaches and captains where he was near-unanimously among their top three picks and was first for two-thirds of eligible voters. The 6’9″ Wisconsin native forward has been a talisman for the BBL Championship
The Cleveland Cavaliers have hired Anderson Varejão as a Player Development Consultant and Global Ambassador, Cavaliers President of Basketball Operations Koby Altman announced today from Cleveland Clinic Courts. The longtime Cavaliers center and fan-favorite returns to Cleveland in a full-time capacity after retiring from a 14-year NBA playing career and will help lead the organization’s
Louis Orr, who mostly played for the New York Knicks during his NBA career, has sadly passed away at a fairly young age. Via the New York Times: Louis Orr, a star forward at Syracuse who in the 1980s played for the Knicks alongside Bernard King and Patrick Ewing and who later became a college
AWARD WINNERS: On Friday, the NBA G League announced monthly award winners for November. Maine’s Luka Samanic (21.7 points, 11.4 rebounds) was named NBA G League Player of the Month after leading the Celtics to a conference-best 8-2 record. Ontario Clippers head coach Paul Hewitt was named NBA G League Coach of the Month after
Trevor Booker played eight seasons in the NBA and in 2020 he retired from basketball after making around $34 million dollars. He had bigger dreams. While he was still playing, Booker and his college roommate and “White Hand Man” (as Booker refers to him in his Instagram bio), Jonah Baize, built an impressive empire together.
American forward and former BBL Championship winner William Lee has been a driving force behind a strong start for Manchester Giants, currently joint-second in the table at 5-3, leading to him winning Molten BBL Player of the Month for September and October. Lee joined Giants in the summer after a previous stint with Leicester Riders,
Long before Tony Brown officiated more than 1,000 NBA games – including a pair of NBA All-Star games and a game in the 2020 NBA Finals – he played basketball at Godby High. Legend has it Brown, an athletic guard, never passed up a good shot. In reality, his former teammates lovingly joked Brown never
Photo: franceguyane.fr Steeve Ho You Fat, a 34-year-old French forward for the Metropolitans 92, had the internet buzzing over his moniker. “Ho You Fat with the three,” one of the broadcasters said in the fourth quarter. “Yes, I just said that. That’s that man’s name. Don’t tweet at me.”
NBA scout’s two simple words on why Steph is league’s best player originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea Steph Curry’s talent on the basketball court speaks for itself. And after leading the Warriors to their fourth championship in eight seasons, the reigning NBA Finals MVP received three votes as the league’s best player in ESPN’s
LAS VEGAS, NV – MAY 23: A’ja Wilson #22 of the Las Vegas Aces drives to the basket during the game against the Los Angeles Spark on May 23, 2022, at Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by David Becker/NBAE via Getty Images. Las Vegas Aces forward A’ja Wilson is the 2022 WNBA
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES When NBA Commissioner Adam Silver spoke at the league’s inaugural Launchpad technology event during last month’s Las Vegas Summer League, his primary focus was unmistakable: using the NBA’s burgeoning realm of basketball-related tech to improve player availability. Silver’s comments were pointed, and he took aim at more
Linnae Harper has accomplished quite a bit in the world of basketball. The 27-year old is known around Chicago as one of the city’s most successful local athletes in recent years, having racked up an impressive list of honors and championships in high school while also representing the United States internationally as early as 2011.
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Slava Medvedenko, a Ukrainian native, played six seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers. He was on the same team as Kobe and Shaq — winning …
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Women’s Super League star Ona Batlle and Manchester City-bound duo Leila Ouahabi and Laia Aleixandri have made Spain’s final squad for the 2022 European Championship. Spain coach Jorge Vilda also initially made the surprising decision to include the uncapped Salma Paralluelo, 18, who has shone for Villarreal. Paralluelo is also a sprinter who has starred
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According to NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski, Nic Batum will decline the player option of his contract with the Clippers and become a free agent. Clippers F Nic Batum will decline his $3.3M player option and become a free agent, sources tell ESPN. There’s expected to be mutual interest with Clippers and Batum on reaching a
On Wednesday, the NBA Finals continues; free NBA Finals 2022 NBA player props, Game 3 props, best bets, odds and predictions for the Warriors vs Celtics matchup. The start time for Game 3 is 9 p.m. ET. The NBA Finals airs live on ABC. YouTube TV, fuboTV and DirecTV Stream offer free trials. BetOnline odds,
Lakers forward LeBron James is now the first active NBA player to become a billionaire. According to Forbes, the 18-time All-Star now has a net worth of $1 billion. Michael Jordan became a billionaire as an owner in 2014. Though, as a player, M.J. officially retired from basketball after the 2002-03 season. Based on the