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After missing Wednesday’s game due to back tightness, Lakers star Luka Doncic isn’t on the injury report for Friday’s matchup with Golden State and will be available, as ESPN’s Dave McMenamin relays (via Twitter). Starting forward Ziaire Williams, who also sat out on Wednesday, was originally considered questionable to play, with a designation of left […]
3:25 pm: The Wolves have formally exercised their options on Shannon and Beringer, the team confirmed (via Twitter). 2:33 pm: The Timberwolves are exercising their rookie scale team options for the 2027/28 season on wing Terrence Shannon Jr. and big man Joan Beringer but will turn down their option on forward Cody Williams, reports Jon Krawczynski […]
The Rockets have picked up their fourth-year team option on Reed Sheppard’s rookie scale contract, the team announced today (Twitter link via Will Guillory of The Athletic). The move guarantees Sheppard’s salary for the 2027/28 season. He’ll earn $11.11MM this season and $14.04MM next season before becoming eligible for restricted free agency in 2028. Houston […]
Amid front office and coaching changes in Dallas, Mavericks center Daniel Gafford was the subject of some trade speculation this offseason as his new three-year, $54.4MM contract extension took effect. But with Dereck Lively II still making his way back from right foot surgery, Gafford has opened the year as the team’s starting center, and […]
Ja Morant’s hot start in Portland has been derailed by a left hamstring injury, according to the Trail Blazers (Twitter link), who announced today that the star guard has been diagnosed with a Grade 2 strain after undergoing imaging. According to the team, Morant – who suffered the injury on Thursday in his first game […]
The Celtics have exercised their rookie scale team options on wings Baylor Scheierman and Hugo Gonzalez for the 2027/28 season, per RealGM’s log of official NBA transactions. Scheierman, the 30th overall pick in the 2024 draft, was a regular part of Boston’s rotation as a second-year player last season, averaging 5.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, and […]
Ben Simmons hasn’t played in an NBA game since April 2025 and is expected to miss the entire 2026/27 season while he recovers from an Achilles tear. But on the heels of a strong preseason in Sacramento this month, the 30-year-old remains determined to return to the league following his latest injury setback, he tells […]
The Thunder, having been hit hard by injuries in recent weeks, intend to sign free agent swingman Ochai Agbaji, reports Michael Scotto of HoopsHype (Twitter link). Agbaji was the 14th overall pick in the 2022 draft but bounced around the league in his first four NBA seasons, spending time in Utah, Toronto, and Brooklyn. The […]
11:56 am: Fenerbahce has formally announced a rest-of-season deal with Powell (Twitter link). 7:04 am: After being waived by the Mavericks ahead of the start of the regular season, Dwight Powell appears set to continue his career overseas. The veteran NBA big man is in the process of finalizing a one-year contract agreement with the […]
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Veteran NBA swingman Brandon Boston Jr. has officially signed with Trabzonspor, the Turkish team announced on Friday (via Twitter). Reporting earlier this week indicated that Trabzonspor was Boston’s probable landing spot after he was waived by the Bulls at the end of the NBA preseason. Donatas Urbonas of BasketNews.com reported at the time that Boston […]
Rookie guard Darryn Peterson scored 18 points in 26 minutes during the Jazz’s 117-111 loss to San Antonio on Wednesday, but he didn’t play at all during the last seven minutes of the game, including the entire overtime period. Reserve wing Brice Sensabaugh checked in with 2:06 left in the fourth quarter and hit a […]
The Kings, projected by oddsmakers to be the NBA’s worst team ahead of the season, have lived up to that billing in the early going. After losing to the Pelicans on Thursday, Sacramento is the league’s only 0-5 club and is one of just two squads that remain winless (the 0-4 Nets are the other). […]
Hornets head coach Charles Lee decided to bench starting power forward Naz Reid for the entire second half of Wednesday’s loss in Detroit, per Roderick Boone (Substack link). “Unfortunately, Naz didn’t meet our standards in the first half,” Lee said, “and at halftime we made the decision that he wasn’t going to play in the […]
While it’s obviously a small sample size, the Rockets have done everything they can early in the season to show they deserve to be considered among the top teams in the Western Conference, writes Varun Shankar of The Houston Chronicle. The Rockets improved to 5-0 on Wednesday with a 32-point drubbing of the Bucks in […]
