There's no official update via the broadcast but ESPN's Tim MacMahon reported this very recently. The Thunder started Cason Wallace in the 2nd half so needless to say...it does not look ideal for J-Dub playing in the rest of Game 2, let alone Game 3.
EDIT: Jalen Williams (left hamstring strain) will not return tonight.
You cannot convince me this Cavaliers team beats us if Ingram and Quickley are healthy.
On...
10/19 FG
4/8 3P
7/8 FT
https://www.espn.com/wnba/boxscore/_/gameId/401856920
Money Mabrey is getting all the love for tonight's win as she was on fire from outside (She hit a huge 3 to put the Tempo up 6 with around a minute left to play) and Kiki Rice continues her rookie season with confidence but Slim was equally sensational in the Tempo's 3rd ever win. She did a little bit of everything you'd want/need for the scrappy expansion team to pull off this upset on the road.
Tonight was the first game of the WNBA season to have two teammates score 30 or more points in the same game.
^(EDIT: 6 turnovers, not 5. Original post is as follows.)
On...
5/16 FG
1/8 3P
4/6 FT
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401873341
The good news for the Cavaliers? Donovan Mitchell had a pretty solid performance in the conference finals opener on really solid efficiency.
The bad news? While James Harden wasn't as bad as the statline suggests, he was still really bad and failed to show up when his team needed him most.
I don't know if this has ever happened before for Game 1 specifically or any two games of a given playoff series but it's definitely a surprise that both Conference bouts have opened with an overtime game.
The Cavs blowing a 20+ point lead prior to OT was also not on my list but I digress.
Per his agent at CAA Basketball. Might be available at 19, might be taken slightly before us.
Edit: Source - https://www.hoopshype.com/story/sports/nba/rumors/2026/05/19/michigan-forward-morez-johnson-jr-who-started-all-40/90163087007/
In their defense, the Suns opening stretch has been a difficult schedule where they've had to face the buzzsaw that is the Aces twice and the Liberty once, and two of their losses were relatively close including tonight's nail-biter against the expansion Fire. That said, the results are what they are and after Aneesah Morrow's game-winning attempt failed, the Suns are off to one of their worst openings to a season in franchise history. For reference, last year's season also opened with 5 straight losses. Coincidentally, last season was also when they achieved their all-time losing streak of 10 games.
A rough stretch for what will unfortunately be the team's final season in Connecticut.
^(EDIT: +/- of -15. The original post is as follows.)
On...
7/23 FG
2/7 3P
8/9 FT
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401873197
Between Castle, Harper and Wemby, the Spurs had far more options to make the reigning MVP's life hell than the Thunder did to make Victor's less anywhere near as painful as the Spurs steal home court advantage in Game 1 while Chet made like the Avatar and disappeared. He was able to get to his offense going in the 4th with 12 4th quarter points and he got to the line enough times to keep the game close late and ultimately tied the game with 3 seconds to go with his 19th shot and force overtime after the Spurs final shot attempt was blocked by Chet but San Antonio had different plans in overtime.
To put tonight into perspective: He had as many points as Wemby did rebounds.
As the title says. There's obviously been OT games in the Conference Finals for both East and West but this is the first time it's ever gone to double overtime.
Incredible basketball being played and for more minutes? This series is going to be an all-time series if Game 1 is any indicator.
>The NBA is gearing up for a wild summer, and the Sacramento Kings have made their intentions crystal clear: they want to move on from Zach LaVine’s contract. The shooting guard arrived with sky-high expectations, but now he’s become a strategic chess piece for the California franchise. With a salary pushing $49 million for the 2026-27 season, LaVine is smack in the middle of trade rumors and front office wheeling and dealing.
...
>During the regular season, the Kings tried to shop LaVine’s contract, but nobody in the league bit. Rival teams wanted first-round picks just to take on that salary, and Sacramento wasn’t about to give those up. The result? Trade talks stalled, and the locker room vibe got a little frosty.
>...
>If a trade doesn’t happen soon, reports out of Sacramento say the team will focus on their young talent in the upcoming NBA Draft. That could mean LaVine gets bumped to a bench role, watching the rookies eat up his minutes.
Source: https://screwball.com/search?q=Julius+Randle+lowest+PER+in+a+playoff+series
We have an answer to the question "Has any star-level player in the 2026 playoffs stunk worse than Jalen Duren ^((Who to his credit, he played well in the Cavs/Pistons Game 6 to force a Game 7 at home))?"
The answer is Julius Randle who very well may have played his last game for the Timberwolves given how much Minnesota's front office is not averse to shaking things up when they're not working. And clearly, things are not working out for Julius Randle, who put up 12.8 points, 7.7 rebounds and 1.5 assists to 3 turnovers per game across the now-concluded 6-game Spurs series.
Via the following press release: https://www.wnba.com/news/wnba-nba-approve-connecticut-sun-sale
>The WNBA and NBA Board of Governors have unanimously approved the sale and relocation of the Connecticut Sun from the Mohegan Tribe to new owner Tilman J. Fertitta, the league announced today.
>Mohegan Sun Arena will remain the home of the Sun for the 2026 WNBA season. During this season, the Sun will host two regular-season games at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford, Connecticut (May 30 and July 2), and return to Boston, Massachusetts for a matchup at TD Garden (August 18). The team will relocate to Houston beginning with the 2027 season.
A sad day for Sun fans as it has been confirmed they will be turned into a revitalized Houston Comets post-Board of Governors approval.
You never love to see a city lose their team, let alone one that i'm pretty sure has no other major sports teams across the entire state of Connecticut. Prior to the sale, they were also one of the few sports teams owned by an indigenous tribe (Mohegan) - and the first ever ownership of a major sports franchise by a tribe.
Mabrey had yet another excellent showing (26 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists on one turnover. Made 6 of her 11 3s) and the game 1 jitters were nowhere to be seen for rookie Kiki Rice who was cooking off the bench with 12 points, 2 rebounds and an assist.
Great win, great game.
Source: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/fortress-co-founder-allegedly-extorted-by-partner-ee9d6666
>Wesley Edens, the co-founder of Fortress Investment Group and co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, answered a LinkedIn message from a China-born entrepreneur in 2022 that blossomed into a correspondence.
>Changli “Sophia” Luo was a divorcée living in New York City who had founded One World Initiative Advocacy, a Manhattan-based nonprofit that said it worked to produce video interviews with economists and environmentalists. Edens, a billionaire who had divorced his longtime wife the previous year, built a reputation for making counterintuitive financial bets. He successfully invested in subprime loans after the 2008-09 financial crisis, spent billions to build a private passenger railway in Florida and, in 2018, bought a majority stake in the then-struggling English soccer club Aston Villa.
>Over messages, he told her how fun it was to own a sports team. And on their third get-together, Edens and Luo had s*x at her apartment in June 2023, according to federal prosecutors.
>The brief relationship spiraled into an alleged extortion plot.
>...
>Months later, Luo’s communications turned from flattering to threatening, according to prosecutors. In November 2023, they said, Luo used a fake name to gain access to the doctor’s office where Edens’s then-girlfriend worked. Luo told the woman, who is now Edens’s wife, that she had had s*x with Edens, whom she described as a terrible person.
>Prosecutors say Luo contacted his ex-wife as well.
>Months later, they said, she wrote to Edens alleging that he had s*x with her while she was mentally incapacitated. She told him that her “home has cameras,” and that everything Edens “did was caught on camera.” She would go to the media, she said, unless he apologized.
>“I am sure your family and business partners will learn about you and your misdeeds from these interviews and will provide exposure that will taint your record forever,” she wrote.
>She gave him information for a mediator.
>While Edens denied Luo’s allegations, he agreed to participate, believing a resolution would prevent harassment of his family and potential public embarrassment, according to prosecutors.
>...
>During a Zoom mediation overseen by a former judge, Luo negotiated with lawyers from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom who were representing Edens. Luo’s lawyers said in a court filing that he agreed to settle the matter for $6.5 million, with $1 million upfront.
>After that settlement, Luo’s lawyers said she found out she had HPV-16, a s*xually transmitted infection that can lead to cancer. She blamed Edens and sought to renegotiate the deal, her lawyers said. Prosecutors said she asked for as much as $1.215 billion.
>Luo, who had been representing herself, then hired a lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn. He conveyed her threats, including that she would release compromising photos and would “destroy” Edens if he didn’t take “responsibility,” prosecutors said.
I know much of the focus on the Bucks has been on Giannis' future but this is a pretty big case of (for legal purposes, alleged) extortion involving one of the main owners of the Milwaukee Bucks which I feel is worthy of discussion. If this was posted already then it can be deleted but I wasn't able to find any posts about it on the sub's front page.
Didn't see them amongst the various measurement posts from earlier today but I figured i'd mention them given they were recently mocked to us by KoC. Very fluid athlete for his size and I believe he's taller/longer than originally anticipated. Whether or not they're available at 19 or we move up/down is TBD.
