The Miami Heat, San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets are Phoenix Suns star Kevin Durant's preferred trade destinations, sources told ESPN on Saturday night. Those across the NBA have been made aware in recent days that those are the three teams that Durant would commit to long-term.
A record for Oklahoma City: No team in NBA history has scored more points in a season than the Thunder.
The New York Knicks are planning to meet with former Sacramento Kings coach Mike Brown and former Memphis Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins next week for their head coaching job, sources told ESPN on Saturday.
Denver Nuggets guard Russell Westbrook is declining his $3.4 million player option for the 2025-26 season, which will make him a free agent on June 30, a source told ESPN's Shams Charania.
Los Angeles Lakers forward Dorian Finney-Smith underwent surgery on his left ankle and is expected to be able to participate in training camp ahead of the 2025-26 NBA season, sources told ESPN.
Former NBA All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins was suspended for the rest of the season in Puerto Rico’s basketball league and his team terminated his contract after a brawl with fans during a game earlier this week.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander joined an extremely exclusive club Wednesday when he was named NBA Most Valuable Player, becoming only the second Canadian ever to win the award. Victoria, B.C.’s Steve Nash, who won MVP in back-to-back seasons in 2005 and 2006 with the Phoenix Suns, is happy to have company.
Thunder star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander sheds tears while thanking his family as he accepts the MVP award for the 2024-25 NBA season.
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Canadian and former NBA MVP Steve Nash commented on his fellow countryman Shai Gilgeous-Alexander winning the award, while general manager of the Canadian men's national basketball team Rowan Barrett spoke about how SGA's MVP award will be talked about for many years in Canadian history.
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After winning his first scoring title and leading the Oklahoma City Thunder to a league-high 68 wins, Canadian Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has earned his first NBA MVP award. SGA finished as the runner-up in last year's MVP voting, when Nikola Jokic won his third MVP in four seasons.
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After winning his first NBA MVP, TSN NBA analyst Jevohn Shepherd joins SportsCentre to share why Shai Gilgeous-Alexander deserved the honour over Nikola Jokic, what he thinks the award means to him, and if he's already willing to call him the best Canadian to ever play basketball.
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has scaled the mountaintop of individual excellence in basketball. A runner-up to Nikola Jokic for last year's MVP, the Hamilton, Ontario native is now being minted with the NBA's most prestigious regular season award for what was a historically great campaign. Josh Lewenberg has more.
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