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Originally posted on Hoops Rumors  |  By Alex Kirschenbaum  |  Last updated 8/2/21 The Heat will re-sign third-year free agent swingman Max Strus on a two-year contract worth $3.5 million, his agent Mark Bartelstein informs Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (via Twitter). This sum is in line with the amount of a veteran’s minimum deal for Strus. After going undrafted in 2019 out of DePaul, the Hickory Hills, Illinois native joined his home state Bulls on a tw...

From Phoenix's James Jones to Brooklyn's Sean Marks, none of the eight remaining general managers have won a title in their current capacity.

Phoenix general manager James Jones was the guy who would routinely hold court at his locker a half-hour before games and engage in all sorts of conversations in his playing days. Books he was reading, what the financial markets were doing, current events, political matters, the nuances of the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement. The eight general managers left in the NBA playoffs all had success stories to tell long before their postseason runs of 2021 started.

When Joe Harris left for Virginia after high school in Chelan, Washington, his mother like all mothers cleaned out his room. As she recalled to Mike Mazzeo, she uncovered a list, written by a...

Joe Harris mother, Alice, underwent two surgeries in 2020 after being diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer in November 2019. Her scans are currently coming back clean.

Journalists $80 million vote Todays best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter Imagine if corporate America entrusted business reporters with choosing which CEOs get the fattest bonuses. Or if Hollywood assigned film critics to pick the actors who can receive top pay. Or if the NBA tasked media members with voting on which basketball players can obtain the most lucrative contracts. Giving journalists such unfathomable power over the earnings of people they cover would consti...

Originally posted on RealGM  |  By Christopher Reina  |  Last updated 4/8/21 Jrue Holiday and the Milwaukee Bucks made a major contractual commitment to each other this past weekend, but some aspects merit additional examination as the deal is perhaps less flattering than it was widely communicated.  For full context on how Holiday and the Bucks ended up with this deal, it bears returning to the first major contract in his career and a repeating history of...

Scott Wachter-USA TODAY Sports Another week, another trade rumour involving the Toronto Raptors and Kyle Lowry. This time it comes in the form of a comment made by The Ringer’s Ryen Russillo. Russillo recently joined ‘The Bill Simmons Podcast,’ where he said that Lowry is telling people that he’s leaving Toronto this season. “Lowry has been telling everybody for a month that he’s getting traded, which is interesting that he’s already like ‘yeah, I’m out of here,” Russillo s...

Can the Wizards Keep Winning? The Answer Could Shape the NBA’s Second Half Washington is riding a hot streak heading into trade season. If it’s sustainable, it may be enough to keep Bradley Beal happy and hold star-thirsty contenders at bay. Share this story Getty Images/Ringer illustration It was a Friday night in February, and there was no place colder than Washington, D.C. To that point, just about the only way the Wizards had won a game in their injury-stricken, COVID-strained start was...

Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports With trade rumours swirling around Kyle Lowry, the Toronto Raptors star has responded. The 34-year-old took to social media, putting out a message on his Instagram story to pour cold water on the speculation. @kyle_lowry7/Instagram “The lies people tell in the media are amazing,” Lowry wrote. “Don’t put [things] out when they ain’t come from me!!” This response stems from comments made by The Ringer’s Ryen Russillo on The Bill Simmons Podcast, with Ru...