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CLEVELAND — This is not vacation for Joakim Noah. For months, he dreaded the prospect of these few January days. But here he sits, amid a Cleveland Cavaliers crowd he long taunted and provoked, just another spectator watching LeBron James, his most famous NBA contemporary, defy mortality yet again. Advertisement He begrudgingly agreed to wade…

Blake Griffin is ready for the next stage of his career, or, as he put it on X, a recreation of the final years of his NBA career: Sitting down, musing on the hottest topics in sports. The retired six-time NBA All-Star is launching a weekly late-night talk show set to debut on the first…

Jonathan Kuminga’s next stop is Minnesota. The 23-year-old forward has agreed to a two-year deal to join the Timberwolves, team sources confirmed to The Athletic on Wednesday. The deal is for $12 million and includes a player option for Year 2, according to those sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal…

The Buss family’s fight over the Lakers is back in court. Jeanie Buss has petitioned a Los Angeles Superior Court asking a judge to block her five siblings from selling the family’s remaining stake in the Los Angeles Lakers, while accusing them of secretly orchestrating a deal to try to remove her as the team’s…

TWG Global, the holding company of embattled Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter, issued a statement Wednesday pushing back on “substantial speculation and misinformation” regarding Walter and the company’s alleged business improprieties and tripling down on the assertion that the Dodgers themselves are not for sale. Advertisement “Over the past several weeks, multipronged attacks against…

Free-agent shooting guard Bennedict Mathurin, who finished last season with the LA Clippers, has agreed to a two-year, $16 million contract with the New Orleans Pelicans, according to a league source who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal has not been finalized. The second year is a player option, according to a…

Buss Sports Capital, the investment group founded by brothers Joey and Jesse Buss in the wake of their family’s sale of the Los Angeles Lakers to Mark Walter last year, has reached a deal to acquire approximately 5 percent of the San Diego Padres, sources familiar with the deal told The Athletic. The sources spoke…

A Ferrari once owned by Michael Jordan, which later disappeared from public view for more than two decades before being rediscovered earlier this year, will sell at auction this September. Purchased in 1997, the Ferrari made its most notable cameo with Jordan behind the wheel following Game 6 of the 1997 NBA Finals, where Jordan…

We’re perennially entertained by the Buss family drama, encapsulated in the show “Winning Time.” The NBA’s version of “Succession” — wealthy siblings at war over their father’s legacy. The dysfunction of the rich satisfies like a guilty pleasure. Five heirs of Jerry Buss, architect of the Los Angeles Lakers, voted to sell their 17.8 percent…

The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. On this date in 1965, Bill Russell completed one of the most competitive and petty deals in NBA history. Wilt Chamberlain had just signed a $100,000 contract, making him the highest- paid player in basketball. The…