The most interesting potential free agent target in the NBA might be a 61-year-old who retired nearly 25 years ago.
TNT Sports analyst Charles Barkley told The Athletic on Friday that he would listen to NBA partners ESPN, NBC and Amazon if the remainder of his current 10-year contract with the cable network is not honored. TNT Sports lost out on the NBA in the league’s recently announced 11-year, $76 billion rights agreement.
“My deal is 10 years, $210 million,” Barkley told The Athletic. “[TNT Sports] has to come to me ASAP and they have to guarantee my whole thing or they can offer me a pay cut, which there is no chance of that happening and I’ll be [a] free agent.
“My thing was, ‘Wait, y’all f—ed up, I didn’t f— up, why do I have to take a pay cut?'”
exhibition game against South Sudan. In a game in which the Americans were favored by 41.5 points, they narrowly escaped, 101-100.
LeBron led the team with 25 points, six rebounds and seven assists.
The close call helped South Sudan’s gold medal odds climb up the board to +25000 from +40000.
Team USA’s odds stayed put at -500, despite the near miss.
Would the 1992 Dream Team or 2024 US Team win a game against each other?
One debate that has prevailed among bettors and basketball junkies leading up to Paris is whether the current team could have defeated the 1992 Dream Team.
“The easy answer is to make it a pick ‘em,” longtime Vegas bookmaker turned media personality Dave Sharapan told Sammy P. “Ain’t no way in hell we’re making Michael Jordan a ‘dog. So you go out to Dream Team -3.”
On a recent episode of “The Carton Show,” FOX Sports basketball reporter John Fanta said that “there is cause for concern” for Team USA.
“It just feels like they’re disjointed watching them. It’s not team basketball all the time. The rest of the world — these teams play at a very high, fundamental way.”
So are you backing Team USA to win the gold medal in Paris?
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Skip Bayless, Paul Pierce and Keyshawn Johnson react to the report of Bronny James’ Los Angeles Lakers debut leaving teammates “frustrated” with “tensions visible” during NBA Summer League.
After signing Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving as free agents in the summer of 2019, and acquiring James Harden midway through the 2019-2020 season, the Brooklyn Nets‘ future looked bright at one point.
However, the three superstars played just 16 games together and the “Big 3” was blown up shortly after it began.
Even after they all left, the Nets — led by Mikal Bridges — made the playoffs in the 2022-23 season, but got swept in the first round by the 76ers.
However, the wheels fell off the bus last season for Brooklyn, as it finished 32-50 and missed the postseason.
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Fast-forwarding to this offseason, the Nets traded Mikal Bridges for five first-round picks, and after the Bridges trade, the Nets now have the lowest projected win total in the entire NBA at 19.5.
This marks their lowest win total in the last 30 years.
Still, Nets general manager Sean Marks does not think it will be a lengthy rebuild.
“This build, do I think it’s going to take time? I mean, I think we’ll be strategic in it,” Marks said this week.
“I think you have to look at yourself in the mirror as an organization and sort of say what’s the best path for us moving forward here, and how do we do this and how do we have that sustainable success that we want,” he added. “So when you’re able to (add) that amount of draft assets over the course of the last year, I think that’s going to help us in our trajectory long term.”
The Nets will have the Knicks’ first-round picks in 2025, 2027, 2029 and 2031, the right to swap first-round picks in 2028, a first-round pick from Milwaukee next year, and a second-round pick in 2025.
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Bronny James was a spectator on Saturday after the Los Angeles Lakers determined that they had seen all they need out of the NBA’s most talked-about rookie.
He finished Summer League on an upward trajectory after a dismal start, scoring 25 points on 10-of-21 shooting over his final two games. That included making 3 of 8 baskets from 3-point range after going 0 for 15 in his first four games.
“He had two pretty good games last two,” Lakers Summer League coach Dane Johnson said. “I think it’s just going to help him going into the summer so we can work on different things with him. Just that confidence and knowing he can play at this level. It’s still going to take a lot of time and a lot of reps.”
Some fans were disappointed that the Lakers kept James on the bench, briefly breaking out a chant of “We want Bronny” in the first quarter of Saturday’s 107-81 victory over the Chicago Bulls.
Seattle Mariners. In the 1970s and ’80s, hockey legend Gordie Howe played with sons Marty and Mark with the WHA’s Houston Aeros and the NHL’s Hartford Whalers.
The fact the James family will join that list is something it won’t take for granted after Bronny’s health scare last summer. He went into cardiac arrest during a workout at the University of Southern California. James underwent surgery to fix what was diagnosed as a congenital heart defect, causing him to miss the beginning of the Trojans’ season.
He averaged 4.8 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists in his one college season, opting to declare for the 2024 NBA Draft rather than return to USC.
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