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The Bounce Newsletter  | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox. If you’re wondering when Giannis Antetokounmpo might be traded, I will be on a flight around 8:15 p.m. ET today. It’s a four-hour flight. I would put my money on the trade happening during that window.…

The Dallas Mavericks are plucking Dusty May from the college ranks and will make him their head coach, a league source confirmed to The Athletic. May, who led Florida Atlantic to a Final Four appearance in 2023 and won a national championship with Michigan in April, will take charge of a Mavericks team built around…

Welcome to NBA Draft Week 2026. The draft is earlier in the week than normal, coming on Tuesday this year. But the madness should remain the same, with a loaded crop of talent entering the league. Yet, a significant number of questions remain, including even something as basic as who will be the No. 1…

PHOENIX — The Father’s Day video posted Sunday stretched nearly nine minutes, and it was awesome. Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker walked with his dad in the Flagstaff High School gymnasium toward a rack where seven jerseys hung. All revealed Booker’s new jersey number — 15. Melvin Booker appeared touched. He had worn 15 during…

When Keaton Wagler’s dream freshman season ended in the Final Four, he quickly went from Indianapolis to Champaign, Ill., to Lenexa, Kan., returning to his parents’ house to decompress and to plan his future less than 24 hours after Illinois’ loss to UConn. Back in December, when Wagler’s name started buzzing in NBA Draft circles…

It’s difficult for Mikel Brown Jr. to move. There are about 50 pins running the length of his white jacket and down his baby blue pants, as he stands on a platform in a fitting room. A tailor is making alterations to the suit he will wear at the upcoming NBA Draft on June 23.…

This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk covering the mental side of sports. Sign up for Peak’s newsletter here. Spencer Harrison is a professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD and an expert on culture. He is also an NBA fan who grew up in Salt Lake City during the John Stockton-Karl Malone era…

The NBA offseason now turns to the draft, a two-day event where teams get cost-controlled talent for the short-term future. Every player entering the draft hopes to carve out a long-term future in the league. But in this era of team-building, teams often think in shorter windows. When teams are deciding on their upcoming draft…

The Washington Wizards should take AJ Dybantsa with the first pick Tuesday night in the NBA draft. And I think they will. It’s close, inside Washington’s front office, between Dybantsa and Kansas guard Darryn Peterson — closer than I thought six weeks ago, when the Wizards won the lottery. The Wizards aren’t trading the pick,…