Steph Curry says he’s underpaid. He’s right.
Jacob Sutton, JSutt Hoops
Eventually, after lots of calculations that I won’t get into here due to their complexity, Li comes to a number that, when you average out playoff and regular season values, is about 0.3%. That means that for every win a team has above expectation — that specific wording is crucial, as you’ll see soon — that year’s revenues increase by 0.3%. While it was from 2011, it’s the only concrete datapoint on the matter that we have. Hence, we’re going to use it as a proxy.
An Interview With The NBA Research & Development Department
Madeline Hill, Impersonal Foul
Why NBA Teams Are Afraid Of The Second Apron
Bryan Toporek. Forbes
NBA offseason grades: How every team fared before 2025-26 season
Kevin Pelton, ESPN
NBA power rankings: Eastern Conference reset after injuries, free agency. Where do Pacers stand?
Dustin Dopirak, Indianaoplis Star
How World Class Athletes Like Luka Dončić Train to Slow Down and Stop
Andrew Heffernan, Men’s Health
Who has the brightest future in the NBA? (part 2)
Nate Silver/Jospeh George/Jeremias Engelmann, Silver Bulletin
NBA Ghost the Switch Concept
Coach Pyper, Half Court Hoops
The Unfortunates: The Teams I’m Skeptical About
Jacob Sutton, JSutt Hoops
BKN: The Brooklyn Nets Still Have a Lot of Cap Space. When Must They Spend It?
Yossi Gozlan, Third Apron
The Nets entered the offseason with 12 players under contract and $64.3 million in cap space. That projection factors in renouncing all free agent cap holds, except for Cam Thomas ($12.1 million). They also kept all their non-guaranteed players, except Maxwell Lewis ($100,000 partial guarantee).
They’ve used $36.1 million of their cap space so far with imbalance trades and extracted strong value with it. They used $15.5 million to acquire Terance Mann and the remaining three years, $47 million on his contract. In exchange, they also acquired the 23rd overall pick in the 2025 Draft, and selected Drake Powell with it.
They used another $17.3 million to acquire Michael Porter Jr. for Cameron Johnson and a 2032 unprotected first-round pick. This was the only first-round pick the Nuggets were able to trade due to Stepien rule restrictions from their other outgoing selections. If Nikola Jokic remains in Denver by then, good chance that also results in a mid-to-late first-round selection.
CHA: Hornets’ Brandon Miller on giving back, his right wrist, ‘big bro’ Muggsy Bogues
Langston Wertz Jr., The Herald
CHA: Hornets summer league grades: Kon Knueppel
Johnathan DeLong, At The Hive
CHI: Can Josh Giddey land a fair, long-term contract after strong finish with Bulls?
Fred Katz/Joel Lorenzi, The Athletic
DAL: Mavericks depth chart: Can a double-big lineup get Dallas back into the playoffs?
Christian Clark, The Athletic
IND: Why Pacers think Jay Huff can help replace Myles Turner: ‘When he got his opportunity, he really shined’
Dustin Dopirak, Indianaoplis Star
LAL: Luka Dončić 2.0 Has Entered the Chat
Andrew Heffernan/Ebenezer Samuel, Men’s Health
You see it in the way his Jordan Brand jersey hangs loose, and in the new hints of definition on his arms. You see it in the complete absence of fatigue he shows when going from heavy Romanian deadlifts to dumbbell bench presses to lateral bounds—one right after the other. And you see it in the way he smiles when he admits that he’s noticed his sleek silhouette in the mirror. He subtly nods to his reshaped delts during our Zoom interview. And as he splays out his long-limbed physique on the bleachers in the gym, he seems relaxed, calmly making eye contact. His arms look longer today than usual, perhaps because he’s just so downright skinny, a fact which now (finally!) he sheepishly acknowledges. “Just visually, I would say my whole body looks better,” he says.
BI: It was inevitable that a scorned Doncic—incubating in the hyper-fixity of the appearance chamber that is Los Angeles—would get into shape. But let’s all remember that this is the summer, and we are exhaustingly assailed with stories and videso of players reshaping their bodies. No knock on this wonderful article or Luka—just want to maintain some semblance of relativity to the entire thing.
