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Five most important potential trade chips in 2026-27 NBA season (opens the original)
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There has never been a better time to be a contender with picks to spend â or a worse time to be a max-salary veteran on a losing team. Oklahoma City and San Antonio are sitting on the two deepest asset piles in the sport. Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit and Atlanta all have the picks and matching salary to make real February additions as well. A normal season features two or three teams with the ammunition to strike at the deadline. This year, there are at least half a dozen. Meanwhile, under t
The NBA's 'put up or shut up' starting five (opens the original)
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The NBA graveyard is full of franchise players whose stars shone bright one minute and burned out the next. Whether it's an injury, off-court problems or a failure to come through when it counts, star players, due to the size of their contracts, can go from having a team built around their skill set to being viewed as toxic assets really quickly. Bradley Beal was averaging 31.3 PPG one year and then had the worst contract in the NBA two seasons later. Ben Simmons was a Defensive Player of th
The 76ers have muscled their way into the Contenders Tier (opens the original)
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The Sixers last won a championship in 1983. They haven't reached a conference finals since 2001. That's about to change in 2027. Philadelphia is a legitimate contender, and might have the most talented roster in the NBA. The consensus top tier going into next season includes the reigning champion Knicks, the runner-up Spurs, and the 2025 champion Thunder. Well, make room for one more because the 76ers are about to be a problem for the rest of the league. GM Mike Gansey took over a 45-37 seven-se
Adam Silver has lost the plot by chasing NBA parity (opens the original)
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On June 13, Jalen Brunson dropped 45 points in San Antonio, and the New York Knicks ended a 53-year championship drought. It was a beautiful night for basketball â and the Knicks became the NBA's eighth consecutive different champion, the longest such streak in league history. Adam Silver finally has the parity he so dearly desires. Unfortunately for Silver, the parity party didn't last very long. Within weeks, all eyes shifted toward the increasing issues with the league. The Celtics traded
The red flag nobody is talking about in the Jaylen Brown trade: Jayson Tatum's Achilles (opens the original)
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Everyone has spent the last week destroying the Boston Celtics for the return in the Jaylen Brown trade â and rightfully so! Paul George's toxic contract, two first-round picks and two seconds for a 29-year-old Finals MVP coming off a career year is the kind of haul that gets people fired. But the return isn't even the scariest part of this deal. The scariest part is the right Achilles tendon of the superstar they kept. When Brad Stevens shipped Brown to Philadelphia, he put every egg the fran
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