The Atlanta Hawks are sending four-time All-Star Trae Young to the Washington Wizards in exchange for veteran guard CJ McCollum and forward Corey Kispert, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania. Young, who averaged 19.3 points and 8.9 assists in 10 games this season despite injuries, reunites with former executive Travis Schlenk and joins a rebuilding Wizards team (10-26) that gains a proven scorer without giving up draft picks.
Imagine this…. travel back in your mind to the bygone, sparkling summer of 2019. Think of the media you consumed in the last glorious months before the world changed forever.
If you’re a fan of basketball, you were most certainly watching something that at one time seemed inconceivable: a team from Toronto, Canada, reveling in an NBA championship. And at the center of it all, cradling the Finals MVP trophy, was the iconic Kawhi Leonard.
The enigmatic superstar had just come off the best gun-for-hire season the league had ever seen, leading the Raptors to their only world championship in his lone year with the franchise. Having secured his first Finals MVP award a few seasons prior with the Spurs, he was regarded by many as the best basketball player in the world.
HIP HOP and PROFESSIONAL basketball seem to go hand in hand, right!? Many professional basketball players have MOONLIGHTED in the RAP arena, from Shaquille O’Neal to the late great Kobe Bryant to Damian Lilliard. And now it appears a new BALLER has thrown his HAT into the MUSIC ARENA!
LiAngelo Ball, the middle brother of Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball and Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball, hasn’t seen a minute of an NBA regular-season game. However, LiAngelo, 26, is taking the music world by storm with his latest single, “Tweaker,” which is bringing the feel of mid-early 2000s rap to modern hip-hop.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and SKIMS today announced a multiyear partnership, making SKIMS the official underwear partner of the NBA, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and USA Basketball.
Let’s TALK ABOUT IT! EVERYBODY is.. so let’s DIVE in. The Boston Celtics’ coach and fiance to Nia Long, Ime Udoka is facing DISCIPLNARY action from the NBA for alleged improper and consensual relationship with a member of the Celtics’ staffer.