Jrue Holiday has been traded twice in the last five years to contending teams. Both times, he helped the team that traded for him win a championship. With trade season officially open, let’s talk about some role players, who will be cheaper than Holiday, that can swing the 2026 title race. Five Cheap Role Players Who Could Swing the 2026 NBA Title Last summer, the Oklahoma City … [Read more...] about Five Cheap Role Players Who Could Swing the 2026 NBA Title
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Khaman Maluach Met With Pelicans, Wizards, Hawks; Raptors, Bulls Looking To Draft Center
Khaman Maluach met with the New Orleans Pelicans, Washington Wizards, and Atlanta Hawks, sources told Marc Stein of The Stein Line. Maluach will also visit the Jazz next week. Stein also added that rumors of the Raptors trading their No. 9 pick in the draft is partly due to the belief that Maluach will be drafted before then. The Hawks and Bulls are also looking to draft a … [Read more...] about Khaman Maluach Met With Pelicans, Wizards, Hawks; Raptors, Bulls Looking To Draft Center
The owners of the United Center have purchased another lot near the arena as they prepare to kick off a $7 billion transformation of its surroundings. A venture controlled by the Reinsdorf and Wirtz families, which co-own the Near West Side venue, paid just more than $12 million late last month for a surface parking lot and brick building at the southeast corner of Washington … [Read more...] about
Stephen Jackson: I didn’t admire Michael Jordan. I admired Kobe Bryant because he was the same age as me. And the dedication that he put as a teenager, I didn’t think was real. Like, you know what I’m saying? Like he was just so different. McDonald’s, we all at the McDonald’s game. All there for the same reasons. I should have won MVP that game. We going to McDonald’s after … [Read more...] about
Draft Rumors: Top Eight, Maluach, Raptors, Sixers, Hornets, More
There appears to be a consensus developing among many of the teams and executives around the league about the top eight prospects in the 2025 NBA draft, Jake Fischer writes for The Stein Line (Substack link). According to Fischer, while the order after the top two remains up in the air, Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper, V.J. Edgecombe, Ace Bailey, Tre Johnson, Jeremiah Fears, Kon … [Read more...] about Draft Rumors: Top Eight, Maluach, Raptors, Sixers, Hornets, More