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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…

PHOENIX — Miles Bridges on Wednesday came across as someone who wanted to prove himself to the Phoenix Suns fanbase. As someone who wanted to make a difference in the community and as someone who wanted to elevate a basketball team to a higher level. It will take some doing to convince everyone, but for…

NBA Summer League is over after 94 games played in San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Sacramento and Las Vegas over 16 days. The Golden State Warriors and Memphis Grizzlies put in extra time, with both teams playing in a pre-Nevada invitational and then meeting in Sunday’s championship at Thomas & Mack Center, where the Warriors…

Jalen Duren is the latest free-agent straggler. Inside a league that is increasingly worried about expensive rosters, NBA teams are squeezing players who hit what purports to be the open market. Duren, a restricted free agent, is this summer’s personification of the trend. Organizations own the right of first refusal on restricted free agents, and…

Days after agreeing to a monster contract extension, Victor Wembanyama reminisced about the last three years of his NBA career. The highlights. The multiple accolades. The latest postseason push that helped make the extension an easy decision. His basketball profile continues to grow. On and off the court. Advertisement On July 10, the San Antonio…

On Sunday, Zaccharie Risacher became the NBA’s first No. 1 pick since 2017 to not make it to his third year with the team that drafted him. The Hawks traded Risacher, the top pick in 2024, to Dallas in a three-team deal that also sent Lu Dort to Atlanta. Markelle Fultz was the last former…