Las Vegas, NV Fly, Zhaire, Fly: Philly’s Dunk Machine Is Ready for His Rookie Redotheringer.com - Jonathan Tjarks Zhaire Smith’s rookie season with the 76ers began with hope, but soon, he was struggling for his life. He broke his foot last August, which derailed …
Russell Westbrook The NBA’s Supermax Isn’t Doing What It Was Supposed Totheringer.com - Haley O'Shaughnessy Chris Paul’s most remarkable win in Houston came in the form of a paycheck. He got his bag, but not his ring, and after being traded to the carcass of …
Andre Iguodala Who Wants to Trade for Andre Iguodala?theringer.com - Dan Devine At the moment, Andre Iguodala is the highest-paid player on the Memphis Grizzlies. But that might not be the case for long. After weeks of furious …
Russell Westbrook The 30 Facts That Will Make or Break the Harden-Westbrook Rocketstheringer.com - Zach Kram The NBA’s newest Big Two is the most fascinating from a tactical perspective. James Harden and Russell Westbrook played together for three seasons …
University of Memphis The NBA Draft Can Wait: First, James Wiseman Is Going to Memphistheringer.com - Kevin Clark James Wiseman, one of the best high school basketball players in the country, is tailor-made for the modern NBA. The 18-year-old 7-footer is coming …
Paul George The Next Big Questions Facing the NBAtheringer.com - Kevin O'Connor What a ride this offseason has been. We’ve had draft-night trades; megastars conducting secret meetings in an effort to team up; and surprise, …
Oklahoma City Thunder The Thunder Are the New Most Hopeful Team in the NBAtheringer.com - Rodger Sherman The future belongs to the Oklahoma City Thunder, or at least roughly 7 percent of it does. The Thunder now hold up to 15 first-round picks in the …
Russell Westbrook How James Harden and Russell Westbrook Can Make It Work in Houstontheringer.com - Jonathan Tjarks James Harden and Russell Westbrook are getting a second chance to make a first impression. The two former MVPs were reunited on Thursday after the …
Russell Westbrook Russ Is Gone: A Sad Farewell to an Oklahoma Icontheringer.com - Tyler Parker Not really sure how to start, what to say. Russell Westbrook doesn’t play for the Oklahoma City Thunder anymore. He got traded to the Houston Rockets …
Russell Westbrook Can Russell Westbrook Ever Change? He’ll Need to in Houstontheringer.com - Dan Devine Six days after Paul George asked for a trade to go join Kawhi Leonard in Los Angeles, the other shoe has dropped in Oklahoma City: Russell Westbrook …
Russell Westbrook Winners and Losers of the Russell Westbrook and Chris Paul Tradetheringer.com - Danny Chau, Paolo Uggetti The Rockets have agreed on a deal to acquire Russell Westbrook from the Thunder, at the cost of Chris Paul, a first-round pick in 2024 and 2026 (both …
Jerami Grant Why Jerami Grant Was the One of the Best Acquisitions of the NBA Offseasontheringer.com - Kevin O'Connor Last Friday, the Thunder unexpectedly agreed to deal Paul George to the Clippers, and then Thursday night, OKC dealt Russell Westbrook to the Rockets …
Kawhi Leonard Are We Witnessing the Death of Dynasties in the NBA?theringer.com - Dan Devine Save for a Russell Westbrook trade here or a surprise move there, the bulk of this summer’s big NBA business has likely concluded. All that really …
Miles Bridges The Five Most Intriguing Second-Year Players at NBA Summer Leaguetheringer.com - Jonathan Tjarks It’s hard to know what’s real at Las Vegas summer league. The teams are thrown together haphazardly, most of the players with NBA contracts are in …
Kawhi Leonard Kawhi Leonard Is the Most Powerful Player in the NBAtheringer.com - Haley O'Shaughnessy Kawhi Leonard isn’t a villain. To be a heel, one must have flair; to have flair, one must have ego. Some players are made of that showy, garish, …
Coby White Follow the Bouncing Ball of Hairtheringer.com - Paolo Uggetti Coby White doesn’t have to do much to stand out. His hair is a beacon. Curly and voluminous, it gives him an extra few inches of height atop his …
Long-form Journalism The 2019 NBA Free Agency Exit Surveytheringer.com - The Ringer Staff This year’s free agency period operated at a Seven Seconds or Less pace—blink and you may have missed Ed Davis changing teams again. But outside the …
Toronto Raptors He the North: Raptors Fans Reckon With Kawhi’s Exittheringer.com - Adam Nayman The last time I wrote about the Toronto Raptors was 84 days ago, after the team had dropped the first game of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal …
Russell Westbrook Russell Westbrook to the Timberwolves Just Might Worktheringer.com - Haley O'Shaughnessy “Just be yourself” is not universal advice. Being himself might’ve lost Russell Westbrook two superstar teammates in three years, if you subscribe to …
Kawhi Leonard A Roundup of the Media Circus Around Kawhi Leonard’s Free Agencytheringer.com - Rodger Sherman Kawhi Leonard made the biggest NBA news of the summer like only he could: Extremely quietly. The world learned that the reigning Finals MVP would …
Russell Westbrook What’s Next for Russell Westbrook?theringer.com - Dan Devine The second-winningest team of the past decade is changing directions. After sending Paul George to the Clippers for an overflowing treasure chest of …
Los Angeles Clippers Battle of Los Angeles: How the New-Look Clippers Stack Up With the New-Look Lakerstheringer.com - D.J. Foster The Clippers and Lakers are more like roommates than rivals. They share the same roof, they have the same passive-aggressive arguments about things …
Kevin Durant Is the NBA’s Title Race More Wide Open Than Ever?theringer.com - Zach Kram “When everyone’s super,” the villainous Syndrome explains with a diabolical laugh in 2004’s The Incredibles, “no one will be.” He might as well have …
Russell Westbrook The Kawhi Leonard Aftershocks: Boogie Nights in L.A., and Westbrook on the Blocktheringer.com - Danny Chau Basketball never sleeps, they say, and Kawhi Leonard sure put that notion to the test at the break of July 6. As most of the NBA-loving public took …
Kawhi Leonard Kawhi Leonard Made the Clippers Accept All the Risk to Earn Their Superteamtheringer.com - Jonathan Tjarks Kawhi Leonard shocked the NBA when he chose the Clippers over the Lakers and Raptors on Friday night. Instead of defending the NBA championship in …
Kawhi Leonard The Clippers Got Kawhi and Paul George, and Changed the NBAtheringer.com - Kevin O'Connor It’s 1:20 a.m. in Las Vegas as I sit here typing this story. July 5, 2019, is a day I’ll always remember for these two reasons: First, a …
Kawhi Leonard So Much for the Afterglow in Torontotheringer.com - Danny Chau In the wee hours of July 6, Kawhi Leonard set new coordinates for three different franchises in one fell swoop, but sealed the fate of only one of …
Kawhi Leonard The Winners and Losers of the Clippers’ All-in Moves For Kawhi Leonard and Paul Georgetheringer.com - The Ringer Staff We waited and waited for Kawhi Leonard to make his choice in free agency, and after checking out some flight patterns and combing the dark internet …
Paul George Kawhi Leonard AND Paul George Go to the Clipperstheringer.com - Chris Ryan, Kevin O'Connor Emergency pod! The Los Angeles Clippers win the Kawhi Leonard sweepstakes and acquire Paul George from the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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