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Grizzlies Land Center Quinten Post After Warriors Decline to Match $30 Million Offer Sheet
Quinten Post officially joins Memphis after Golden State passed on matching the Grizzlies’ three-year, $30 million offer sheet on July 7 — the first offer sheet of at least $5 million per year to go unmatched since 2020.
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Grizzlies Land D’Angelo Russell and Isaiah Stewart, Send Santi Aldama to Dallas in Six-Team Trade
Memphis came out of the 11-player, six-team trade with Isaiah Stewart, D’Angelo Russell and a stack of second-round picks, shipping Santi Aldama to Dallas in a deal that reads as an asset play rather than a talent upgrade.
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Victor Wembanyama Signs Five-Year, $252 Million Extension to Stay With Spurs
Victor Wembanyama agreed to a five-year, $252 million rookie-scale max extension through 2031-32, choosing the 25% maximum over the supermax and leaving roughly $50 million on the table to preserve the Spurs’ flexibility.
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Trail Blazers Blow 16-Point Lead in 81-79 Summer League Loss to Suns; Yang Hansen Posts 12 and 9
Portland led by 16 and took a 38-24 lead into halftime of its Las Vegas opener, then watched Phoenix score 57 second-half points to steal it 81-79.
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Nuggets Fall to Rockets 97-86 in Summer League Opener Despite Bryce Hopkins’ 24 Points
Denver’s Summer League debut in Las Vegas came apart in the fourth quarter, where a 17-7 Houston run and 22 forced turnovers erased Bryce Hopkins’ 24-point night.
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LaMelo Ball Trade to Timberwolves Is Official as Four-Team Deal Sends Julius Randle to Brooklyn
The blockbuster that remade Minnesota’s backcourt is finally on the books: LaMelo Ball is a Timberwolf, Julius Randle is a Net, and the four-team paperwork revealed one wrinkle nobody had reported.
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Yaxel Lendeborg Posts 21 Points and 10 Rebounds in Warriors’ 101-90 Summer League Win Over Mavericks
The rookie forward went 8-of-13 with 10 rebounds and six assists in Golden State’s Las Vegas opener, days after Quinten Post’s departure opened frontcourt minutes.
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Hawks Resistant to Taking Jarred Vanderbilt Back in Jonathan Kuminga Sign-and-Trade Talks With Lakers, Per Jake Fischer
The reported framework — Kuminga to Los Angeles for Jarred Vanderbilt and a 2032 first-round swap — has hit a snag, with Jake Fischer of The Stein Line reporting Atlanta doesn’t want Vanderbilt’s contract in the deal.
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Labaron Philon Debuts With 18 Points, 7 Assists as 76ers Beat Pistons 101-93 in Summer League Opener
The No. 22 pick ran the show in his first game in a Sixers uniform, Johni Broome added a 19-and-13 double-double, and Philadelphia closed on a 16-8 run in Las Vegas.