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So this is what being the hunted looks like, eh? The New York Knicks won the NBA title less than three weeks ago, and the Eastern Conference has gone mad, wild, extraordinary. The run-up to free agency has led to several Eastern Conference teams making blockbuster moves. Giannis Antetokounmpo is with the Miami Heat. Kawhi…

Travis Kelce is a three-time Super Bowl champion and the soon-to-be husband of the planet’s preeminent pop star, Taylor Swift. He’s a record-setting NFL tight end and a podcast host regularly hounded by paparazzi. Last month, however, Kelce was back home in Northeast Ohio to celebrate his latest title: minority stakeholder in the Cleveland Guardians.…

Places, everyone. Places. It’s time to reprise our roles in the “Summer of LeBron.” The blockbuster sequel that offers plenty of conflict, but after all these decades, no resolution. Does our hero want to win more rings than Jordan, so that the end credits will list him as the undisputed G.O.A.T.? Or does he just…

Tim Hardaway Jr. is heading back to Miami — the city where his father cemented his NBA legacy — after reportedly agreeing to a one-year, $6.5 million deal with the Heat. The move brings the younger Hardaway to the franchise where Tim Hardaway Sr. became one of its most iconic players. But while Hardaway Jr.…

The craziness does not stop. On Tuesday, we found out LeBron James was leaving the Los Angeles Lakers and Kawhi Leonard was going back to the future with the Toronto Raptors. On Wednesday, the first full day of NBA free agency, we got something that might have been even more shocking: The Boston Celtics are…

The Philadelphia 76ers have expressed interest in acquiring free agent forward LeBron James, a league source who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe ongoing deliberations told The Athletic. On the heels of Wednesday night’s blockbuster trade for Jaylen Brown — which sent Paul George and multiple draft picks to the Boston Celtics — the…

The Philadelphia 76ers became a better basketball team today. They became a more durable team. They put a guardrail against Joel Embiid’s body steadily breaking down. And, in the process, they put themselves into the Eastern Conference arms race, one that seemed to be getting away from them as recently as lunchtime on Wednesday. Advertisement…

The NBA laid off dozens of employees Wednesday as the league continues to overhaul its workforce to address new priorities, a source with knowledge of the decision, who was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive topic, told The Athletic. The NBA has reorganized itself over the last year as the league turns its focus to…

The Dallas Mavericks are acquiring a stretch big man to put next to Cooper Flagg. The Mavericks are trading for Santi Aldama, a 7-foot Spaniard who spent the first five years of his NBA career with the Memphis Grizzlies, in exchange for A.J. Johnson, a top-20 protected 2030 first-round pick that originally belonged to the…

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. After the Boston Celtics tried to deal Jaylen Brown in an attempt to acquire Giannis Antetokounmpo earlier this offseason, there was a lot of conjecture about whether or not they needed to trade the 2024 NBA Finals MVP. He was visibly upset in his Twitch streams, but the Celtics are…