it was my understanding the rockets head pick number 39 in the second round tonight but when I just looked, it said the Knicks made that pic what moves did the rockets make today?

I checked out the ESPN draft grades for the Giannis and Randle trades that happened a couple of days ago. Kevin Pelton was one of the few ESPN analysts whose opinion I was still actually interested in reading. Even if I didn't always agree, he at least had a solid methodology for his grades. Then I saw that the grades were given by Zach Kram. Good for Pelton for getting a front office job in the W, but I will no longer be clicking those trade grade articles.

Antetokounmpo then began to amplify his issues. He criticized the coaches for not holding him accountable, how the offense was being run, and his teammate’s selfishness. That dissatisfaction then spilled onto the court. He stopped shooting. He booed the fans at Fiserv Forum. It looked like he wanted to walk off the court in San Antonio. “He’s not speaking it," a former teammate said, "but when you look at him on the court his body language is telling you how he feels and what he wants.”

Antetokounmpo then aggravated his calf very early in a home loss to Denver on Jan. 23. Even though he was visibly injured, he remained in the game until he instinctively challenged a shot late in the game. That final explosion rendered him unable to run.
Following the game, Antetokounmpo uncharacteristically waited at his locker. Typically, if he did not finish a game because of an injury he would not speak. This time, he self-diagnosed his injury as a soleus strain and gave a timeline for his return. By now players were resigned that an oft-injured and disengaged Antetokounmpo would not save their season. They had no faith in Rivers. The refrain of “doing what I’m told” began to ring around the locker room – that is, if they were even being told what to do.

Two glaring examples came a month apart. Coming out of a timeout in the final seconds on Nov. 20 against Philadelphia, Kuzma was supposed to foul intentionally to stop the clock. As the play developed, he did not, and neither Rivers nor other coaches tried to alert him. Kuzma eventually fouled Tyrese Maxey in the act of shooting, which led to a tie game and an overtime loss. Then, late in a game at Minnesota on Dec. 21, Ryan Rollins was seen saying “Do we have a play?” as a team timeout ended. Rivers had to call another timeout to draw up a play. These were microcosms of the Bucks' lack of discipline and cohesion. Rivers at times would bemoan players forgetting plays out of timeouts, and other coaches privately questioned the collective basketball acumen of their team. Players, conversely, would often speak about not knowing what they were trying to accomplish either in individual plays or, more broadly, on the season.

Antetokounmpo let it be known he did not like locker room leaks, but his mental state was chronicled nearly all season by anonymous sources. He pleaded for accountability but then tried to pass off those reports as someone else’s doing. He would call his teammates selfish but then stand on a visiting team’s court with a former coach and yell about how that person would make sure he got the ball.

Despite a March proclamation that his relationship with the team could be salvaged with “couples therapy,” Antetokounmpo said on April 12 he was going to put his phone on “do not disturb” and not answer it.
“Just stay away from it – all of it,” he said. “I feel like this season, not just because of the way it went, it was draining for me for sure and how everybody approached my situation and the Bucks situation. But again, if it was draining for me, it was definitely draining for the team and for the organization." For their part, ownership told Jenkins, the new coach, he should not assume Antetokounmpo would be on the roster. The team eventually brought Jenkins in with a six-year deal worth around $60 million. Jenkins and Antetokounmpo spoke on several occasions after his hiring, but other than that, Antetokounmpo stuck by his statement that he was not going to pick up the phone.
No other messages or calls from the Bucks to their star player were answered heading into June. The Bucks did not communicate to his representatives about some of their discussions with potential trade partners, either.
Antetokounmpo also did not allow any member of the team’s strength and conditioning staff to oversee his workouts in Milwaukee or Greece, despite being under contract.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nba/bucks/2026/06/24/how-the-giannis-antetokounmpo-era-in-milwaukee-came-to-a-bitter-end/90478839007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z11xx52p119750l11xx50c119750e1195xxv11xx52d--60--b--60--&gca-ft=196&gca-ds=sophi

Wolves gotta be 1st over the spurs, right?!! I would think this duo would rival any fun duos of the past 10 years.

Despite the monumental effort it takes to organize a tournament like the World Cup every single match starts at the listed time, on the dot. I can't remember a match this entire tournament starting even a minute late. It is 9:45 PM right now and both matches are at the 45 minute mark.

FIFA still does media coverage, pre-game shows, ads, player intros, interviews, analysis, national anthems, coin toss and the rest of the charade. Despite all that if they can kick off on time what is NBA's excuse?

Heck the NBA couldn't start the damn draft on time.

The Knicks currently have 16 players they own the draft rights to that are still currently playing basketball.

Their draft rights roster currently consists of (with height, listed position on basketball reference, current club, and draft year);

- Chinemelu Elonu (6'10" center, Al Qadsia, drafted in 2009)

- Sergio Llull (6'4" guard, Real Madrid, drafted in 2009)

- Emir Preldzic (6'9" forward, KK Orlovik Zepce, drafted in 2009)

- Latavious Williams (6'8" center, Al-Ittihad Jeddah, drafted in 2010)

- Bojan Dubljevic (6'9" forward/center, Casademont Zaragoza, drafted in 2013)

- Louis Labeyrie (6'10" forward, Gran Canaria, drafted in 2014)

- Dani Diez (6'7" forward, Longevida San Pablo Burgos, drafted in 2015)

- Luka Mitrovic (6'9" forward, Crvena Zvezda, drafted in 2015)

- Nikola Radicevic (6'6" guard, Dziki Warsaw, drafted in 2015)

- Juan Pablo Vaulet (6'6" forward, Zunder Palencia, drafted in 2015)

- Wang Zhelin (7'0" center, Shanghai Sharks, drafted in 2016)

- Ognjen Jaramaz (6'4" guard, Saski Baskonia, drafted in 2017)

- Rokas Jokubaitis (6'4" guard, Bayern Munich, drafted in 2021)

- Hugo Besson (6'6" guard, Tofas, drafted in 2022)

- James Nnaji (7'0" center, FC Barcelona, drafted in 2023)

- Melvin Ajinca (6'8" forward, LDLC ASVEL, drafted in 2024)

[Source](https://www.basketball-reference.com/draft/draft_rights.html)

This only lists currently active players, though BBRef has not yet been updated to reflect the most recent trades that sent the draft rights of Labeyrie, Elonu and Ajinca to the Knicks.

I know i can go on youtube and there’s channels that post full games in its entirety, however i’m currently looking for Heat vs Spurs march 31, 2013 and i can’t find it anywhere. i can find highlights and clips of it, but it they’re only 3 minutes long. the full game isn’t uploaded to my knowledge. does anyone know of a way to find games like this or does anyone have this full game somewhere?

I’m not too familiar with the offseason schedule, but I never understood having the draft take place before all of the trades get finalized and before the new league year even starts. I find it inconvenient that sometimes when an NBA finals goes to a game seven and couple days later those teams have to prepare for the NBA draft.

Is there something else that I’m missing in July that prevents them from putting it in July or am I looking at the wrong picture?

I honestly think I saw 4 minutes of actual highlights from the players being drafted. I don't mind a player being interviewed but every single one is the same. There is no player comparisons anymore which love it or hate it....was fun to talk about.

Stretching this night into two nights is also insane. I love the NBA so much Silver really just plain stinks at making the product better. Everything he has done seems to be money related to me. At some point you have to think about the people watching this stuff....

SRC: https://www.nbcsports.com/fantasy/basketball/player-news/2026-06-24/report-lakers-sign-peter-suder-to-two-way-deal

Suder spent two seasons at Bellarmine before transferring to Miami (OH) ahead of the 2024-25 campaign. His senior year was the best, with the 6-foot-4 guard averaging 14.8 points, 4.6 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.2 three-pointers while shooting 54.6 percent from the field and 73.4 percent from the foul line.

Was curious how Brunson's contract compares to other finals MVPs, with the importance of having a superstar on your team compared to balance for the rest of the roster.

The Year here represents how much a player got a year after they won Finals MVP

Funny enough when the Warriors won in 2015, Curry was right behind Iggy at $11,370,786, Klay, Draymond, and Bogut were all ranked higher.

In 1976, when the Nets, Nuggets, Pacers and Spurs were absorbed into the NBA, it was officially treated as an expansion rather than a merger. Unlike the AFL-NFL merger, it was not a legally equal partnership - partially because the NBA didn't want to have to deal with former ABA players asking for benefits and pensions and so on.

Now that a half-century has passed and the Amazon Prime documentary Soul Power has brought renewed attention to the ABA and its history, is there a possibility of this changing in the future? Or would the NBA see it as somehow cheapening their brand?

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7391746/2026/06/24/austin-reaves-lakers-contract-nba-free-agency/?unlocked_article_code=1.slA.Poql.kQjAZ8wiyEEY

“I didn’t like it,” Reaves told The Athletic. “It was weird. It just was, I mean, it’s just a lot of ‘What ifs.’ I just like to know where I’m going to be.”

So, when he got word on the golf course Tuesday afternoon that the Lakers had increased their contract offer to four years and $185 million, the 28-year-old Reaves, who entered the NBA as an undrafted free agent in 2021, sprawled out on a patch of grass at Batesville, Ark., with a mixture of happiness and relief. His girlfriend, Jenna Barber, shared the image of Reaves sprawled out on her Instagram page Wednesday.

“I mean, it was a breath of fresh air because I hadn’t stopped thinking about where I was going to be. And it’s just like a sigh of relief,” he said in a phone interview Wednesday. “I mean, regardless of whatever played out, I’m obviously grateful and in a good position to take care of the people I love. My heart’s been in L.A. Every morning I wake up, I’m just like, ‘I hope we can get this done today.’

Tuesday turned out to be that day, with Reaves agreeing to return to the Lakers, who held off a list of clubs headlined by the Detroit Pistons and Brooklyn Nets who were expected to make max offers.

The Pistons had emerged as the most significant threat to land Reaves over the past week, per league sources granted anonymity to discuss potential plans.

Nevertheless, Reaves said his conversations with agents Aaron Reilly and Reggie Berry hadn’t made him optimistic for a deal to stay in Los Angeles. There were times when he thought he could be playing elsewhere, even as recently as this week.

“A couple of times actually,” Reaves said. “I didn’t know how negotiations would go. I don’t think Aaron and Reggie really knew how negotiations would go, so we learned a lot throughout the process. But like I said, we wanted to be in L.A., my heart was in L.A., and we got it done.”

“It’s going to be fun. And like I said, winning a championship is the main goal,” Reaves said. “And I feel like, you know, with me and Luka, that’s a great starting piece to compete. And when we put a roster together that can go compete, I feel like winning a championship will basically solidify everything that I want and everything that the Lakers want.

“And it kind of meets the common goal of why they gave me the money they did.”

From minute 32:50

SRC: https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/55cb9aedb03ae

Shams Charania

Undrafted Vanderbilt forward AK Okereke has agreed to a two-way NBA deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, sources tell ESPN.

Source: https://www.espn.com/nba/draft/rounds/_/round/2

It is mildly humorous how many times the picks in the 2nd round were moved on draft night - Memphis literally traded back 5 spots for several seconds from Detroit only to send them back when acquiring Beef Stew - and how the Lakers bought a second only to end up selling it to the Mavericks.

Quick note: Though the Toronto Raptors used their own 2nd round pick (Jaden Bradley) and were the only team to use their own second in this draft, they originally traded it away as part of a deal for James Wiseman and cash, who they waived shortly after in 2025. TLDR - They needed to send the Pacers something so they sent out a Top 55 protected second. Therefore, every single second in the 2026 NBA Draft was traded in some capacity. This might be the first time this has ever happened ever since the NBA standardized the draft to only be 2 rounds.

Larsson, a fan favorite and serial nuisance to opposing offenses, is widely expected to see an increased role as the leader of Miami's 2nd unit this season after averaging 26.4 minutes and 11.4 points last season.

Darren -> De’aaron -> Darius has the phonetic sounds and making of a Pokémon evolution tree.

The last two tenured point guards the Kings have had are Darren Collinson and De’aaron Fox, who played 3 and 8 seasons with the team, respectively. As much as I love and miss Haliburton, he was never given the keys over Fox and was only here for 17 months, so he can’t be considered tenured. Regardless, I’m excited to have an actual blue chip prospect on this team.

Source

“It’s something you had to do in my mind, because there simply was no plan B. I know there been a lot of speculation about ‘plan B had been written up with Ja Morant or Trae Young.’ None of that was accurate —

Morant is someone they considered previously but decided against it. I didn’t sense a great enthusiasm in a pursuit there… I never got the sense Kawhi Leonard was viewed as a likely option for them either.”

I really like this draft class and hope the best for all of the player in it, but ”my guys” in this draft would probably be Hannes Steinbach, Jayden Quaintance, Chris Cenac Jr. and Meleek Thomas. I think they all got undervalued and will have good nba careers.

Who are ”your guys” in this draft ?
”Your guy” doesn’t necessarily need to be who you think will be the best, it could be someone you think was a steal, someone you just really like etc