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The Golden State Warriors came close to trading for Los Angeles Clippers superstar Kawhi Leonard at this year's NBA trade deadline, according to Tim Kawakami of the San Francisco Standard. Kawakami reports that the Clippers "decided to pull out" of Leonard trade talks with the Warriors. "To that point, multiple...

Zion Williamson is aware that he could be traded by the New Orleans Pelicans this offseason or next season. During an interview with Yaron Weitzman of Yahoo Sports, Williamson spoke about his future with the Pelicans. “New Orleans is home for me. It’s where I want to be,” Williamson said....

Dallas Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd is tired of talking about the Luka Dončić trade. After Mark Cuban said on the Intersections podcast that Kidd played a role in the Dončić trade last season, Kidd strongly responded while talking to Brad Townsend of the Dallas Morning News. “When are we going...

MILWAUKEE — A shorthanded Dallas Mavericks team was handed another defeat on Tuesday night, falling 123-99 to the Milwaukee Bucks at Fiserv Forum. The loss dropped Dallas to 24-52 on the season and extended a brutal stretch defined as much by the injury report as the scoreboard. The Mavericks arrived...

DALLAS — Cooper Flagg usually has the answers. On Monday night at American Airlines Center, the Minnesota Timberwolves made him work for every one of them. The rookie finished with 12 points on 5-of-19 shooting in a 124-94 loss. It was a grind from the jump. While the box score...

According to Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times, Jaden Ivey asked Chicago Bulls reporters if they "fornicated before marriage." The Bulls, who acquired Ivey from the Detroit Pistons, waived the guard for conduct detrimental to the team. "Before Ivey even stepped foot on Chicago soil there were rumblings from Detroit...

JJ Redick made a powerful case for Luka Dončić as the 2025-26 NBA MVP, calling the Los Angeles Lakers superstar the "engine" behind the team's dominant season. The Lakers are in third place in the rugged Western Conference standings and Dončić leads the NBA in points and points per game....

A blockbuster offseason NBA trade proposal sending Kyrie Irving from the Dallas Mavericks to the Milwaukee Bucks to play with Giannis Antetokounmpo has emerged. In a story called "5 Trades That Would Blow Up Our Latest 2026 NBA Mock Draft," Zach Buckley of Bleacher Report proposed that the Mavericks trade...

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James becomes an unrestricted free agent this offseason for the first time since 2018, and if the future Hall of Famer doesn't retire from the NBA and doesn't re-sign with the Lakers, insiders have linked him to the Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers, New York...

DALLAS — Daniel Gafford had been thinking about physicality before the Dallas Mavericks tipped off against the Minnesota Timberwolves. "Really just physicality and pretty much playing with the pace that we play with all the time," Gafford told Dallas Hoops Journal before tip-off when asked about the keys to facing...