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After the NBA Draft ended, trade rumors about LaMelo Ball potentially being on the move surfaced. By the morning, a deal was done. Despite having their most successful season in a decade, the Charlotte Hornets are parting ways with Ball, sending him and Josh Green to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Naz Reid, a 2033 first-round…

SAN FRANCISCO — Al Horford is coming back to the Golden State Warriors on a two-year deal, a league source confirmed to The Athletic. Horford, who turned 40 years old earlier this month, declined a player option worth about $6 million to sign the new deal. According to a team source, the new contract includes…

CHICAGO — You could hear it in Bryson Graham’s nasally impression. He expected, if his first draft as lead executive of the Chicago Bulls went as he hoped it might, that the external criticism would call for more shooting. “A lot of people might (say), ‘Where’s the shooting at?’” Graham said after Tuesday’s first round…

Cameron Boozer doesn’t understand why he was an afterthought in the discussion of who would be the first pick in the NBA draft. “I think many years down the line, people are going to look back and say I should have been,” Boozer, who went No. 3 to the Memphis Grizzlies, told ESPN on Tuesday…

In a surprising move, the Charlotte Hornets have a deal in place to trade LaMelo Ball, the franchise’s star point guard. The Hornets are set to deal Ball and Josh Green to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Naz Reid, a 2033 first-round pick, three second-round picks and a series of first-round pick swaps, a league source…

Two big things are true about the 2026 NBA Draft: There hasn’t been as much excitement leading up to a draft in several years There hasn’t been as little excitement during the draft itself in several years. Holy chalk-amoley. At times, it seemed everyone was working off the same draft board; the first eight picks…

The 1986 NBA Draft was held on June 17, but it’s what happened two days later that defined one of the league’s deepest draft classes. Maryland forward Len Bias, taken with the No. 2 pick by the Boston Celtics, died as a result of a cocaine overdose. Bias was supposed to be the Boston Celtics’…

In the wake of Micah Nori’s hiring by the Portland Trail Blazers this week, his coaching contemporaries are experiencing two very different, equally intense emotions. For starters, as three coaches shared with The Athletic on Wednesday, they’re feeling joy for the man himself, as the 52-year-old Nori is a widely respected and beloved coach who…

This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk covering the mental side of sports. Sign up for Peak’s newsletter here. One day before the NBA Draft, I sat down to take an exam. It was supposed to take 35 minutes. According to Jim Bowman, one of the test’s creators, I would need only an…

The Minnesota Timberwolves had the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, ultimately choosing Anthony Edwards over James Wiseman and LaMelo Ball, a decision that was hotly debated at the time. Six years later, the Wolves are exploring the idea of uniting the No. 1 and No. 3 picks in the same backcourt. After…