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Wembanyama’s final numbers from two games: 36 points, 20 rebounds, eight blocks and three assists on 41% shooting from the floor

Lillard’s trade request became publicly known on July 1, the first full day of free agency in the NBA

Spears said she was struck by a security guard as she tried to approach Wembanyama near a restaurant in a Las Vegas casino complex on Wednesday night

Edwards’ new contract will begin in the 2024-25 season. He becomes the fourth player to get the maximum rookie-scale extension so far this summer

Lillard asked the Trail Blazers for a trade, a move that will end the seven-time All-Star’s tenure with that team

The deal comes on the heels of trades in which Washington agreed to send Bradley Beal to Phoenix and Kristaps Porzingis to Boston

Austin Reaves agreed to a four-year deal that could be worth $56 million, and D’Angelo Russell returned to the Lakers as well on a $37 million, two-year deal

The Sabonis extension includes a raise on his salary for this coming season to nearly $31 million, and his salary for the four subsequent years will average about $47 million

The 7.4 ft. French center aims to make his mark on basketball history

The Hornets have the No. 2 pick in the NBA Draft next week. They also have some difficult decisions to make in free agency in early July, including whether to re-sign embattled restricted free-agent Miles Bridges

The Grizzlies player was shown in the video in May flashing a gun while sitting in the passenger seat of a car. The livestream on Instagram came after Morant served another suspension for a similar video

Wembanyama is the French teen who has been labeled a generational talent and is getting the sort of pre-draft attention that nobody has experienced since LeBron James when he was entering the league 20 years ago

Nikola Jokic, who racked up 600 points, 209 rebounds and 190 assists in the playoffs, is named Finals MVP as the Nuggets win title after 47 years

The Denver stars broke records in points, rebounds and assists during a 109-94 win on the road to make it 2-1 in the playoff series

The team’s latest comeback came in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night against Denver, when the Heat won 111-108 to even the title series. Miami rallied from 15 points down

One of the two teams was set to make history on Monday but Jimmy ‘Playoff’ Butler led the Heat to the NBA finals after eliminating Boston at home (84-103)

The franchise is up for its first NBA Finals in 47 years in the league

Thanks to Derrick White, the Boston Celtics are 48 minutes from becoming the first team in NBA playoffs history to overcome a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-seven series

The Boston Celtics are halfway to history, and that alone has gotten them entry into a very small club: of the first 150 teams that trailed a best-of-seven series 3-0 in NBA history, just 14 of them found a way to extend the matchup to Game 6

General manager Rob Pelinka and head coach Darvin Ham say they’ll speak with James soon about his future

Anthony retires as the No. 9 scorer in league history: ‘Now the time has come for me to say goodbye to the game that gave me purpose and pride,’ he said in a video

James had 30 points, nine rebounds and nine assists and Anthony Davis 17 points and 20 rebounds for the Lakers, who never trailed in a commanding closeout victory

Golden State’s point guard became the first to score 50 points in a Game 7 on Sunday

The NBA finals will start in June, but before that, the top teams of each conference will compete in the Playoffs

The NBA finals will start in June, but before that, the top teams of each conference will compete in the Playoffs

The Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics are the favorites in the 2022-23 playoffs, which features four California teams for the first time since the Kings moved to Sacramento in 1985

The basketball star was arrested last year at the airport in Moscow on drug-related charges and detained for nearly 10 months, much of that time in prison