DENVER — The Nuggets are adding another bucket-getter to their offense.

DeMar DeRozan, whose 26,711 career points rank 16th in NBA history, is signing a one-year veteran minimum contract to join the Nuggets for his 18th season in the league, two sources told The Denver Post on Friday, confirming a report by Chris Haynes.

DeRozan will make $3...Read more

The pathway for the Heat’s first major move since the trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo was cleared on Friday as guard Klay Thompson negotiated a buyout from the Dallas Mavericks.

After Thompson clears the 48-hour waiver period, he is expected to join the Heat in free agency, multiple NBA sources have confirmed to the South Florida Sun Sentinel...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Billionaire investor Marc Lore is selling his controlling stake in the Timberwolves and Lynx to a tech investor with the same first name.

Marc Stad, 47, is the founder and managing partner of Dragoneer Investment Group, a San Francisco investment firm that manages more than $35 billion in assets, according to the company’s ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The athlete far more little girls can identify with, and aspire to be, than we want to admit is not Caitlin Clark, but her Indiana Fever teammate who comes off the bench and averages 8.8 points per game.

Sophie Cunningham is irresistible content, and famous. Who cares if she averages a little more than 23 minutes per game?...Read more

DENVER — On a spreadsheet, this looks good. But this is not a good look.

From a financial standpoint, it made sense to let Peyton Watson move on, convinced he is not worth the four-year, $88 million contract Cleveland gave him. The Nuggets remain the only team in the second apron. So they were not going to pay Watson.

The problem is that the...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The march toward the 2026-27 season has been unlike any other in 76ers history. In one offseason, the organization hired Mike Gansey as president of basketball operations, traded for Jaylen Brown, and signed LeBron James.

That series of events has created quite a bit of excitement in Philly. Ticket prices were jacked up at ...Read more

DENVER — Stuck at an impasse in negotiations, the Nuggets have chosen to pass on a Peyton Watson contract extension.

At the very least, they needed to make sure they didn’t lose their top priority of the offseason for nothing in return.

The Nuggets are sending Watson to Cleveland for a 2031 first-round pick and a 2032 second-rounder, a ...Read more

The Dallas Wings announced that Azzi Fudd, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 WNBA draft, will be out for the rest of the season after undergoing an arthroscopic procedure on her right knee.

Before the team’s game against the Golden State Valkyries on Aug. 7, Fudd experienced knee soreness and sat out of an abundance of caution. She will not ...Read more

After playing 15 WNBA seasons and leading the charge for the league’s transformative collective bargaining agreement, Nneka Ogwumike is calling it a career.

On Wednesday, the 11-time WNBA All-Star and longtime WNBPA President announced her intentions to retire at the end of this season.

“I’ve learned there’s power in knowing when to ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — If the Kentucky-Wichita State men’s basketball game at Rupp Arena on Nov. 27 lives up to the two previous meetings between the Wildcats and Shockers, then fans will watch a classic.

Word that WSU (24-12 last season) is the final addition to the 2026-27 UK men’s hoops schedule is welcome news. The Shockers will add some ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — United.

Fewer than 24 hours after Jeanie Buss publicly contested the Buss Family Trust’s vote to sell the remaining 17.8% of the family’s stake in the Lakers, the other five Buss siblings (Jim, Johnny, Janie, Joey and Jesse), who voted to sell to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner, released a statement Tuesday afternoon united in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For more than four decades, the Lakers were a family-run business. The sibling rivalries still remain.

Jeanie Buss is fighting back after her siblings reportedly voted to sell the family’s remaining stake in the Lakers on Monday. The team’s governor, Buss sent a letter through her attorney to her brothers’ attorneys ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The NBA investigation into whether payments from Clippers team sponsors to star player Kawhi Leonard were a prohibited attempt to circumvent the salary cap has moved to a contentious discussion phase between the team and the league, people with knowledge of the case not authorized to discuss it publicly confirmed to The Los ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Buss family has agreed to sell its remaining ownership stake in the Los Angeles Lakers, approximately 18%, to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner, who reached an agreement to buy the franchise at a $12.5 billion valuation last week, according to multiple reports Monday afternoon.

“We have decided as a family to sell the remaining ...Read more

There were no signs of the lucky orange clutch as designer Jordyn Woods and New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns tied the knot in a star-studded Malibu weekend wedding — but it had apparently already done its part.

Just two months after the Knicks clinched their first NBA championship in 53 years, Towns wed his own lucky charm Saturday ...Read more

MIAMI — Norman Powell wasn’t wrong. He was right.

There was a means where the Heat could have brought him back while also bringing in Giannis Antetokounmpo.

The Miami Heat weren’t wrong. They were right.

As the Giannis negotiations continued in June, there was an at-all-costs reality to the process.

So, yes, both truths can be correct....Read more

NEW YORK — The debate over transgender women competing in elite women’s sports has descended into a full-blown political firestorm.

The latest instigator was a now-viral interview by Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, who told ESPN in a July 21 article that she wants to “protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport ...Read more