Where Westbrook goes now — likely to the buyout market, where he’ll try to latch on to another team for the rest of the season — is often the first salvo in a player taking the exit ramp to retirement.
The NBA trade deadline had plenty of league-shifting trades as Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and Russell Westbrook will finish the 2022-23 season with a different team than they began it with.
Sean Marks said the obvious.
In Kyrie Irving's mind, setting ablaze the fabric of the Nets was beyond his control. In reality, Brooklyn's gravest mistake was holding Irving accountable.
Here are the ins and outs of what turned out to be a wild, action-filled NBA trade deadline.
LeBron James will miss the Lakers' first game after he set the NBA's all-time scoring record.
Basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down all the fantasy-relevant deals that came through in a wild trade deadline.
The Los Angeles Lakers are trading guard Patrick Beverley and a second-round pick to the Orlando Magic in exchange for center Mo Bamba, according to Bleacher Report's Chris Haynes.
Wall reached a contract buyout agreement with the Houston Rockets on June 28
The Golden State Warriors are trading recent No. 2 overall pick James Wiseman to the Detroit Pistons in a three-team deal that will net them five second-round picks from the Atlanta Hawks, per multiple reports.
The acquisition of D’Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley and Jarred Vanderbilt is the Lakers’ major attempt to fix the Russell Westbrook trade — and their disappointing season.
Only Boston has better odds than Phoenix after the Suns landed Durant.
Phoenix will be a bit shorthanded as a 7.5-point underdog.
The Suns now have a contender with Durant, Devin Booker and Chris Paul, and the 3 p.m ET trade deadline is looming for those who want to keep up.
With Durant taking center stage once he gets back from his recent MCL injury, it’s not a stretch to see the Suns making the NBA Finals like they did in 2021. It’ll be the expectation.
The Brooklyn Nets are trading Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns in a blockbuster move, league sources confirmed to Yahoo Sports.
Yahoo Sports will track all the trade rumors, news, players and teams to watch leading up to the deadline at 3 p.m. ET Thursday.
Jaylen Brown left the Celtics' win over the 76ers early on Wednesday after taking an elbow to the face from Jayson Tatum.
Josh Hart was pulled off the floor just moments before the Trail Blazers were set to tip on Wednesday night.
The Lakers, Jazz and Timberwolves are all swapping point guards.
About 3 million people watched the Lakers' game against the Thunder on Tuesday night, the most for a TNT regular season game — other than an opening night — in almost five years.
Trading for Irving is a flashpoint moment for the franchise and its fans — the perfect union of the on- and off-court sagas which have surrounded Dallas for over a decade.
The Pelicans star has been out since early January with a hamstring injury.
Conventional wisdom considers, if Abdul-Jabbar's record could be broken, so too can James', but it will require a sustained level of scoring prowess that would be unfathomable if we hadn't seen it twice already.
LeBron James got the scoring record Tuesday, but all was reportedly not well among the Lakers vs. the Thunder.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar never dreaded LeBron James' pursuit of the NBA's all-time scoring record.
"Both LeBron and Bronny are powerful, have strong builds and are big-time athletes. Obviously, Bronny is significantly smaller than dad, but their mannerisms are the same in the way they stand and run and some of the moves Bronny has shown on the court are clearly from dad."
Fantasy basketball analyst Dan Titus breaks down some of LeBron James' most incredible points-driven fantasy performances after the veteran superstar set the new all-time record for points scored in the NBA.
With Kyrie Irving already finding a new home, what roles will Kevin Durant, Danny Ainge and the Raptors play leading up to Thursday’s 3 p.m. ET deadline?
Somewhere along the line, NBA discourse just forgot about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, as debates over the Greatest Of All Time shifted instead to Michael Jordan and LeBron James for no other reason but time.
We’ll get our first glimpse of Kyrie Irving in a Dallas Mavericks uniform on Wednesday night vs. the Los Angeles Clippers.
The King has now become the scoring king. From the time LeBron James graced the cover of Sports Illustrated as a teenager, so much was expected of him. But this never seemed in reach — until now.
It was all for himself, his moment he didn’t have to particularly share or place into a team-first context — the ultimate individual tangible mark for the ultimate team player.
Phil Knight sat calmly with his hands in his lap while every other person tried to record the moment LeBron James became the NBA's all-time scoring leader on Tuesday night.
LeBron James set the record Tuesday as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar watched.
“LeBron has the best memory ever,” Channing Frye, a former Cleveland Cavaliers teammate, told Yahoo Sports.
Congratulations and praise for James swiftly poured in from across the sports and pop culture world.
LeBron James is closing in on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's all-time scoring record, and the Los Angeles Lakers superstar could break the record as soon as Tuesday.
It is impossible to put into perspective the pantheon-level combination of skill and longevity required to break the NBA's career scoring record, but here's a deep dive into the numbers behind the record.
Watch out, LeBron.
Kevin Durant is unlikely to be dealt before Thursday's NBA trade deadline, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported Tuesday.
The Nets' relationship with Kyrie Irving clearly wasn't thriving.
The two-time WNBA champion does it all.
While league personnel continue to downplay the likelihood that Toronto moves All-Star forward Pascal Siakam — despite plenty of interest around the league — O.G Anunoby, Fred VanVleet and Gary Trent Jr. remain buzzy names on the trade market.
As a teenager, LeBron James had the expectations of the world laid on his shoulders … and he managed to surpass every single one of them.
LeBron James needs 36 points to pass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
James kept learning, changing and adapting as a scorer as he approaches Kareem Abul-Jabbar's all-time mark and basketball immortality.
Only James posted back-to-back 40-point games at a younger age.
Kyrie Irving is headed to Dallas, just days after he requested a trade out of Brooklyn.
The new CBA opt-out deadline is now set for March 31.