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LeBron James has found the next stop in his historic NBA career. The league’s all-time leading scorer has agreed to join the Philadelphia 76ers, he announced Friday on social media, beginning the record 24th season of a career that has already redefined longevity and greatness. The deal is for two years and $8 million, a…

The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. Rafer Alston turns 50 today! You may look at him as an 11-year veteran NBA point guard, who saw most of his action with the Houston Rockets. But for those of us obsessed with And1 Mixtapes…

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The Oklahoma City Thunder have no qualms with the second apron. Their cost-cutting summer was just that — cost-cutting. Trading away three rotation players, including all-defensive wing Lu Dort, for a mishmash of second-round picks was not a basketball strategy. It was, as the team’s general manager Sam Presti said earlier this week, a move…

LAS VEGAS — When it comes to NBA Summer League, how bad is bad? What do we make out of it going forward? Take the Chicago Bulls’ Dailyn Swain, for instance. The 15th pick in the draft out of Texas, he shot 4 of 31 in his four summer-league games. He missed all seven of…

Peak newsletter 🧠 | This is an excerpt from The Athletic’s weekly newsletter covering the mental side of sports. Sign up here to receive the Peak newsletter directly in your inbox. Sometimes the most valuable advice comes from people who have lived through the process: trying, failing, learning and trying again. Advertisement With that in mind,…

Portland Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon is at it again. On Wednesday, The Athletic’s Jason Quick reported that the Trail Blazers fired or allowed many employees involved with the team’s broadcast to leave, including Kevin Calabro and Trevor Demers, the play-by-play callers on television and radio, respectively. Those moves follow several cost-cutting measures that have…

For as long as LeBron James has been making decisions about where he’ll play professional basketball, there have been ways to wager on said decisions. Those opportunities have evolved dramatically in the 16 years since James was first a free agent. What was once limited to offshore sportsbooks is now a nine-figure market on Kalshi,…

It’s now been 24 days since LeBron James told the world that he would not return to the Los Angeles Lakers. What began as a flurry of rumors about his next destination has now congealed into a protracted waiting game, one that has NBA teams, fans and even the league office looking at their proverbial…

If you already miss the routine of turning on your TV for a daily dose of high-stakes soccer, join the club. Millions of us are in the same boat. The World Cup came to a close Sunday, with Spain dethroning defending champion Argentina, 1-0. And our lives are now that much more drab and empty…