With the college basketball season coming to a close, roster decisions are already taking shape for next year.

Deni Avdija scored 41 points and converted a three-point play with 16.1 seconds remaining to send the Portland Trail Blazers to the NBA playoffs on Tuesday night, becoming the first Israeli player to reach the postseason in league history. Portland secured the seventh seed in the Western Conference and will face San Antonio in the first round. Deni Avdi…

To close out the 2025-2026 NBA season, we’ll be covering the final weeks of the year as we start to head into the playoffs. Given that it was March/April basketball and we had some members here go out of town and working on other projects, we felt it would be best to give you a recap at the very end of the season.

This is an audiobook excerpt from my book, ‘A Pot to Piss In: Intergenerational Wealth Planning for Black People’.

On January 15, NBA players attempted a combined 16 halfcourt shots to tie a single-night heave record. Each shot was fired as time expired. Some flew over the backboard. Some fell a dozen feet short. None went in, or even touched iron. Beautiful bricks, each in their own way.

In an essay entitled That difficulty increases desire, Michel de Montaigne explained that great pleasure comes from great struggle:

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The LeBron James Bob Does Sports Memphis controversy continues to churn. Perhaps it would more accurately be called the LeBron James Nashville controversy. In HoS guest Bomani Jones’ view, the invocation of Nashville as the better alternative is what’s triggered a lot of offense:

Kobe Bryant was one of the greatest players in basketball history. In a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, he won five championships, led the league in scoring twice, scored the second-highest number of points in a single game in NBA history (81), and won two Olympic gold medals.

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The proposed project centres on the creation of a European basketball league backed by the NBA, potentially combining newly established franchises with existing teams and football clubs entering the sport.

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After the Florida Gators won the national championship last year, they had to reload with a new roster. They brought back Thomas Haugh, Alex Condon, Rueben Chinyelu, and Micah Handlogten from their title team. They then brought in Arkansas transfer Boogie Fland and Princeton transfer Xaivian Lee. I will go over Haugh, Chinyelu, Condon, and Lee, and then…

The Indiana Pacers are going international for the second time in three seasons.

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Hours after Providence made their first portal splash in the form of San Diego State transfer Myles Bird, the Friars took the college basketball world by storm on Thursday night. Sasha “Dink” Pate, a 6’8”, 210-pound wing with the Westchester Knicks (G League affiliate of the New York Knicks), is joining the team’s 2026-27 roster, as confirmed by ESPN’s …

Em 1990, 26% dos jogadores da NBA jogavam 80 ou mais jogos por época. Este ano, esse número é 4%. Ben Taylor, de Thinking Basketball, foi perceber porquê e a resposta não é load management.

“Bryson Tiller is now known to me as the betrayer. He has backstabbed Lawrence and crossed the border to join forces with evil. He will not be forgiven for this.” - Caden Clark

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It started with a song. Back in January 2022, when Sandro Mamukelashvili was on the Milwaukee Bucks and putting in big minutes against my Toronto Raptors, I listened to Raps commentator Jack Armstrong trip on a syllable, then stop and abandon any hope in trying to pronounce the emphatically polysyllabic surname of this young player who was born in New York, but has a distinctly Georgian handle.

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The Seattle SuperSonics haven’t played a basketball game since June 20, 2008, when they lost to the Dallas Mavericks in what nobody knew would be their final regular season home game. The team moved to Oklahoma City that summer, became the Thunder, and won 62 games this year.