Basketball

Photo: NBA/Twitter NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski reports that the Knicks picked up team option on Obi Toppin for the fourth-year of his contract which is the 2023-2024 season. The New York Knicks picked up the fourth-year option on forward Obi Toppin, sources tell ESPN. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) October 26,…

The Philadelphia 76ers maybe 1-3 out of the gate, but James Harden has been doing everything he can to help Philly compete. The 76ers picked up their first win of the season after beating the Pacers 120-106 on Monday due to a herculean effort from Harden. The ten-time All-Star dropped…

The Los Angeles Lakers are 0-3 to start the new season as a byproduct of their struggling shooting performances. Players across the board can’t buy a shot even if they could, as the team has shot 40.7 percent from the field, which is dead last in the League. To push…

The Miami Heat finished last season as the first seed in the Eastern Conference and was one errant Jimmy Butler three-pointer from a trip to the NBA Finals. Most of their roster returned to South Beach for this year’s campaign, and despite their previous success, the Heat have begun this…

This story appears in SLAM 240. Get your copy here. On June 30, the night NBA free agency began, a black SUV with tinted windows rolled up to Udonis Haslem’s vacation home in Orlando, FL.  “That s**t almost got shot up,” Haslem said on teammate Duncan Robinson’s podcast, The Long…

The Dallas Wings’ Allisha Gray and Indiana Fever’s NaLyssa Smith headline the newest additions to the Athletes Unlimited Basketball roster for the 2023 season. Gray, a gold medalist, and Smith, the No. 2 pick in the 2022 WNBA Draft and an All-Rookie selection, join 15 WNBA players on AU’s official…

Before the Memphis Grizzlies and Brooklyn Nets faced off on Monday night, nine-time All-Star Kevin Durant called his opponent Ja Morant “the face of our League going forward.” Morant doesn’t remind Durant of any other player. “He’s a unique player. A lot of athleticism and creativity out there. Body type…

Ben Simmons has had a rough start to his return season with the Brooklyn Nets. Simmons has played in three games and fouled out of two of them. The latter was last night in a 134-124 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.  Simmons was frustrated with the officiating all night, but…

John Wall is back and playing the game he loves so much after a tumultuous three years recovering from a torn Achilles, dealing with the passing of his beloved mother, and getting sent to pasture by the Houston Rockets last season. Instead of staying where he wasn’t wanted, Wall and…

Brittney Griner has reportedly lost her appeal hearing after a Russian court upheld her nine-year prison sentence for drug smuggling, per multiple reports. Griner can be sent to a penal colony unless the U.S. and Russian governments negotiate a deal for her release. Griner appeared via video leak from her…