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Warriors Rally Past Grizzlies 94-90 to Win Summer League Championship; Yaxel Lendeborg Named MVP
Golden State erased a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat Memphis 94-90 in Sunday’s Summer League championship game, with Yaxel Lendeborg scoring 21 and hitting the go-ahead three to earn MVP honors.
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Anthony Davis Predicts 40-Plus Wins for the Wizards and a Full 82 Games for Himself
Speaking at Fanatics Fest in New York, Anthony Davis put a number on Washington’s season — “40, 40-plus wins” — said he’ll play all 82 games, and picked rookie teammate AJ Dybantsa for Rookie of the Year.
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Hawks Trade Zaccharie Risacher to Mavericks, Land Luguentz Dort in Second Deal With Thunder This Offseason
Atlanta closed the book on the 2024 No. 1 pick after two seasons, sending Zaccharie Risacher to Dallas and three second-round picks to Oklahoma City for All-Defensive wing Luguentz Dort and guard Ryan Nembhard.
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Bucks Rookie Brayden Burries Caps Summer League With 27 Points and a Game-Winner Against the 76ers
No. 10 pick Brayden Burries scored 27 and hit a driving game-winner as the Bucks beat the 76ers 96-94 to close Summer League — the first extended look at the guard Milwaukee is building around after the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade.
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Mavericks’ Cissé Match Sends Knicks’ Backup-Center Search Back to the Minimum Market
Dallas matched New York’s two-year, $4.7 million offer sheet for Moussa Cissé, ending the Knicks’ cleanest path to a young third center. What’s left is the veteran-minimum bin — and a stronger case for Tyler Nickel’s roster spot.
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Dion Brown Posts 16-Point, 11-Assist, 10-Rebound Triple-Double in Nets’ Summer League Finale Win
Dion Brown recorded a triple-double as Brooklyn beat Oklahoma City 108-90 in Sunday’s Las Vegas finale, closing Summer League at 3-2.
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Raptors Close Summer League at 3-2 With 96-89 Loss to Nuggets, Five Regulars Held Out
Toronto sat Allen Graves, Chucky Hepburn, Seth Lundy, Alijah Martin and Collin Murray-Boyles and fell 96-89 to Denver in Sunday’s consolation finale, closing Las Vegas Summer League at 3-2.
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Thunder Trade Luguentz Dort to Hawks in Three-Team Deal, Ducking the Second Apron
The reigning champions flipped an All-Defensive wing for three second-round picks to slide under the second apron, with No. 1 pick Zaccharie Risacher landing in Dallas.
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Nuggets Seen as ‘Increasingly Likely’ Landing Spot for Veteran Coach Dave Joerger, per Marc Stein
Marc Stein reports momentum toward Denver hiring the veteran of head coaching stops in Memphis and Sacramento as David Adelman’s lead assistant, with Joerger preferring an NBA bench over Paris Basketball’s head job.
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Anthony Edwards Makes a Public Pitch to LeBron James as Reporting Tilts Toward the East
At Fanatics Fest, Edwards held up a LeBron James trading card and said ‘come to Minnesota’ — on the same day ESPN’s Dave McMenamin reported the decision is near and trending toward an Eastern Conference team.