Ramona ShelburneMay 21, 2025, 05:00 PM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Editor’s note: This story originally posted on April 8, 2024. WITH 6:56 LEFT in the third quarter of what should have been a fairly routine game in early March, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander knocked down an … Read more
Clemente Almanza: Jaden McDaniels: “We just gotta stop fouling. We’re being a little bit too physical. We gotta switch our gameplan of how the refs are calling the game… Just expect things to happen. He’s gonna get calls and the refs aren’t always gonna be on our side.”Source: x.com What’s the buzz on Twitter? Dave … Read more
The 2025 NBA Eastern Conference finals get underway on Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET when the New York Knicks host the Indiana Pacers at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks advanced by beating the Boston Celtics in the second round, while the Pacers defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in their second round series. The Knicks are favored … Read more
The NBA trade rumor mill is starting to heat up even as the conference finals are taking center stage for the league. For the other 26 teams, the focus is already on the offseason and what they can do to improve their roster, so it’s not surprising that we’re getting little nuggets about what teams … Read more
Tim Reynolds @ByTimReynolds Michael Malone in March on Nikola Jokic, based on his stats this year: “He wins the MVP 10 times out of 10. And if you don’t think so, you guys are all full of (bleep).” Michael Malone tonight on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: “Showed why he’s the MVP.” I wonder what changed. – 11:35 … Read more
Former Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone, who the franchise fired days before the 2025 NBA playoffs opened, raised eyebrows when he stumped for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander over Nikola Jokić for the NBA MVP award. It was under Malone’s tutelage that Jokić won each of his three MVP honors in 2021, 2022 and 2024, but the coach … Read more
DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images Who finished ahead of him: Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan In 2000-01, Shaquille O’Neal averaged 28.7 points, 12.7 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 2.8 blocks on a league-leading 57.2 percent shooting mark. And didn’t win MVP. The reigning NBA champion Lakers that season sort of sleptwalked through the regular season, going just … Read more
Imagn Images Former NBA star and coach Jacque Vaughn is taking his talents to college basketball. Kansas is set to hire the two-time NBA head coach as an assistant basketball coach, according to ESPN. Kansas head coach Bill Self had a role to fill with the retirement of assistant Norm Roberts. Vaughn attended Kansas from … Read more
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been voted the 2024-25 NBA MVP, according to ESPN, and obviously, that means Nikola Jokić was not. Whether Jokić or Gilgeous-Alexander was the proper choice was a matter of intense debate throughout the season, but what largely wasn’t up for debate was where Jokić’s season compared to his own prior performances. Despite … Read more
The NBA finally announced Shai Gilgeous-Alexander as the 2025 MVP. It was really a two-man race between him and Nikola Jokic, who many can argue has a legitimate case to win his fourth MVP. This comes on the heels of SGA’s 14 free throws in Game 1 of the Conference Finals where fans (especially Minnesota … Read more
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the NBA’s 2024-25 MVP award, according to ESPN. Gilgeous-Alexander is now the seventh-straight MVP winner to be born outside of the United States, joining Nikola Jokić (2024, 2022, 2021), Joel Embiid (2023) and Giannis Antetokounmpo (2020, 2019). He is the first Thunder player to win the award since Russell Westbrook did … Read more
Tim Reynolds @ByTimReynolds Michael Malone in March on Nikola Jokic, based on his stats this year: “He wins the MVP 10 times out of 10. And if you don’t think so, you guys are all full of (bleep).” Michael Malone tonight on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: “Showed why he’s the MVP.” I wonder what changed. – 11:35 … Read more