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Where Warriors may pivot after losing Klay Thompson to Mavericks
After a marriage that produced four NBA titles, Klay Thompson and the Warriors are no more.
Knicks' Jalen Brunson finishes third for NBA's Most Improved Player
Jalen Brunson fell short in his bid for a league-wide award when Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen was named the NBA’s Most Improved Player on Monday.
Post Insiders make their NBA awards picks
The NBA regular season is ending on Sunday, and The Post is handing out season-long awards.
Nets star makes case for NBA's Most Improved Player
Mikal Bridges outplayed Utah All-Star Lauri Markkanen, the betting favorite for the NBA Most Improved Player Award.
Midseason NBA award predictions: Will Giannis take home more hardware?
Giannis Antetokounmpo is +3000 to take home an award he has already won. Can he do it again?
Cavs are the NBA feel-good story the Knicks were last season
The Cavaliers are the feel-good story of the NBA season — similar to the Knicks’ renaissance of 2020-21.
Cavaliers get Bulls star in three-way trade
NBA free agency is still going strong with a month to go until training camp. The Cavaliers are acquiring Bulls restricted free agent Lauri Markkanen in a three-team trade with the Trail Blazers, according...
NBA team's disaster somehow gets worse with 'unhappy' star
The Bulls' ongoing dysfunction may soon cost them one of their few bright spots. Lauri Markkanen wants out of Chicago if the Bulls don't pull themselves out of the mud,...
How an 'amazing' unicorn beat the Knicks' version
The Bulls’ unicorn introduced himself to the Garden crowd Wednesday night in a big way. Rookie forward Lauri Markkanen, who has drawn comparisons to Kristaps Porzingis, put on a show...
Porzingis gets his shot against rookie who almost replaced him
Kristaps Porzingis can laugh about it now. The always-baffling prospect that the Knicks would trade him has only grown more absurd. But when Arizona’s Lauri Markkanen was in New York...
The Bulls got this big decision right, hard as it is to believe
Amid one of the most brutal seasons in Bulls history, at least the team’s front office can say something they haven’t said in years: They might have finally hit on...
The unsung rookies who are turning the NBA on its head
https://www.instagram.com/p/BcNfHNthINd/?hl=en&taken-by=houseofhighlights At the free throw line with 20 seconds left, putting the finishing touches on a 41-point masterpiece, Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell could no longer contain the joy brewing beneath...
How a constant afterthought became NBA's biggest surprise
Certain teams, players, and subplots tend to dominate NBA discourse. The Warriors, as it turns out, are pretty good at basketball. LeBron is a robot incapable of aging (why Cleveland...
Where Bulls turned Jimmy Butler trade into a fiasco
Did the Chicago Bulls trigger a rebuild last week, or reshuffle their deck of mediocrity? When a team trades a player like Jimmy Butler – a perennial All-Star and a...
Bulls GM compared to 'drug dealer' after awful trade
The Chicago Bulls' draft night included a universally panned trade and a front office that was (unfavorably!) compared to drug dealers by the trainer of the star player they dealt...
NBA draft's complete: First-round pick-by-pick analysis
Here's a pick-by-pick analysis of all the first-round selections in Thursday's NBA draft: 1. 76ers Markelle Fultz, G, Washington The Process finally has arrived in Philadelphia, and it comes in...
Knicks' long-shot new Porzingis: Phil Jackson meeting was 'great'
Arizona 7-footer Lauri Markkanen has never met Kristaps Porzingis. But the Finnish big man has texted him and spoken on the phone with him on multiple occasions. “We’ve talked about...
NBA mock draft: Knicks splash, Celtics mystery waiting after 1-2
If honesty were indeed the policy employed by most folks who attempt to piece together mock drafts, a lot of picks past the top 10 merely would be listed as...
Knicks willing to trade Kristaps Porzingis
Phil Jackson hasn’t ruled out trading the one positive of his failed term as Knicks president. According to a report Tuesday by The Vertical, Jackson is open to dealing Kristaps...
NBA mock draft 2.0: Lakers grab Lonzo Ball and Knicks pick ...
With an exceptionally deep NBA draft just three weeks away, here is the Post’s projection at how it may play out June 22 at Barclays Center. 1. Celtics (from Nets)...