NBA News
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NBA: Rockets tie Amen Thompson down with $208M extension
Houston has locked up the man who played more minutes than anyone else in the NBA last season. Amen Thompson agreed a five-year, $208 million extension on Thursday morning.
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NBA: Clippers fined $30M and stripped of five first-round picks over Kawhi
Five drafts, gone 2029, 2030, 2031, 2032, 2033. The Clippers will not have a first-round pick in any of them. On top of that, a $30 million fine, the largest the NBA has ever handed a team. The charge is salary-cap circumvention involving Kawhi Leonard. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz ran the investigation for a…
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WNBA: Li Yueru ruled out of World Cup after passport goes missing
One missing letter, one World Cup gone Li Yueru will not play at the FIBA World Cup. The Dallas Wings center cannot get to Berlin because her passport vanished in the mail and still hasn’t turned up. She broke the news herself on Instagram on Wednesday. “Unfortunately, my passport was lost in the mail and…
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NBA: Westbrook joins Project B as co-founder
Russell Westbrook has a new title. The retired NBA MVP joined women’s basketball startup Project B earlier today as co-founder and chief strategy officer, with equity and a board seat attached.
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NBA: Sixers bring back Tacko Fall, 7-foot-5, on a camp deal
Seven-foot-five, and back in the league Philadelphia just signed the tallest man in professional basketball. Tacko Fall, 7-foot-5, is a 76er. The club confirmed the Senegalese center’s arrival Tuesday, along with two others in the same wave: guard Jameer Nelson Jr. and wing Saint Thomas. No terms released on any of them. Nobody signs Tacko…
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WNBA: Sky shut down Skylar Diggins for the rest of the season
A knee ends it at 19 games Chicago made the call on Tuesday. Skylar Diggins will play no further part this season. The Sky confirmed their point guard is being shut down after a knee issue that had already kept her out since the start of July. The franchise says the reasoning is straightforward: protect…
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Basketball: Monaco shut out of Elite, Saint-Quentin handed a reprieve
French champions, and nowhere to play Champions of France in the spring. Locked out of the league in August. That is where AS Monaco now stand after the National Basketball League board met on Monday and confirmed Saint-Quentin’s place in Elite, with Fos Provence slotting into the vacated Elite 2 spot. The vote landed a…
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WNBA: Hayes drops 14 in a quarter as Valkyries roll into the break
28-9 after nine minutes That was the scoreboard in Portland on Sunday before either team had settled. The Golden State Valkyries came out of the tunnel with something to prove and had the game more or less finished by the first media timeout. Tiffany Hayes was in the starting five, which has not been a…
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WNBA: Wings bury Connecticut and set a Dallas-era record
32-18 after ten minutes and it never got closer Dallas beat Connecticut 97-71 in Arlington overnight, and the first quarter told you how it would go. The Wings led 32-18 at the first break, 60-47 at half, then opened the third with a 23-12 run that pushed it to 83-59. Garbage time arrived early. Arike…