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Nuggets, Jamal Murray agree to 4-year max contract extension, source says
DENVER — Jamal Murray has agreed to a four-year, $208.5 million max contract extension with the Nuggets, a league source confirmed to The Denver Post.
Murray, 27, has one season remaining on his current deal before the extension takes effect. The two sides paused contract talks earlier this offseason, with the expectation that Denver would ...Read more
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Lynx beat Fever, 99-88, with strong, steady second half
A quick scan of the box score would suggest: Napheesa Collier did it again.
Of course she did. Friday at Indiana she scored 26 with 10 rebounds, two blocks and two steals.
But look again.
A huge key to Minnesota’s 99-88 victory over the Fever in a nationally-televised game between the two hottest teams in the WNBA was Bridget Carleton.
She...Read more
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Liberty's regular-season sweep of Storm may foreshadow result of potential postseason matchup
NEW YORK — This potential second-round WNBA playoff matchup may not be much of a battle after all.
Thursday’s Liberty win over the No. 5 seed Seattle Storm could be a foreshadowing into this fall’s postseason: Noelle Quinn’s new-look squad isn’t a team equipped to stop the Liberty from getting back to the WNBA Finals.
Thursday’s ...Read more
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Jim Souhan: Showdown between Napheesa Collier and Caitlin Clark about more than hoops
MINNEAPOLIS — Friday night, the Lynx will play the Fever in Indianapolis.
Meaning that two of the hottest teams in the WNBA will face off. So will the two WNBA players of the month — Minnesota’s Napheesa Collier in the Western Conference and Indiana’s Caitlin Clark in the Eastern Conference.
At the peak of a fine career, Collier is for...Read more
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Kentucky native Jasper Johnson commits to UK basketball. What are the Wildcats getting?
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky men’s basketball coach Mark Pope is making sure the commonwealth’s best young talent stays home for college.
After already getting class of 2024 standouts Travis Perry (Lyon County) and Trent Noah (Harlan County) on his first UK roster for the 2024-25 season, Pope has now added two star players from the ...Read more
The Shot, 25 years later, Sky coach Teresa Weatherspoon reflects on the joy and pain surrounding her career-defining play
CHICAGO — For 25 years, one image has defined Teresa Weatherspoon’s WNBA legacy.
It was, perhaps, the closest thing to a miracle that Weatherspoon summoned over the course of her career.
Sept. 4, 1999. Game 2 of the WNBA Finals. The New York Liberty trailed the Houston Comets by two points with 2.4 seconds left. The ball was inbounded to ...Read more
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Former UConn star Nika Muhl loving basketball 'more than ever' in first WNBA season with Seattle Storm
UNCASVILLE, Conn. — After spending months on the West Coast, Nika Muhl’s first professional basketball game back in Connecticut was a family affair.
The former UConn women’s basketball point guard was selected No. 14 overall in the 2024 WNBA draft by the Seattle Storm, and her new team returned to Muhl’s old stomping grounds for the ...Read more
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Matt Calkins: Jewell Loyd has been huge for the Storm, but her shooting woes are tough to ignore
SEATTLE — Let's be clear about three things regarding Seattle Storm guard Jewell Loyd before we get to the "but."
Actually, it's more like a BUT. In the meantime, though ...
1) There's a good chance the Storm don't have championships in 2018 and 2020 if Jewell isn't on those teams. The 15.5 points she averaged in each of those seasons — ...Read more
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Ira Winderman: It is time for Heat to accept 'reasonable expectations'
MIAMI — Heading into a season, the term “reasonable expectations” almost comes off as an oxymoron. The mere point of expectation is of hope.
But then there is the South Florida sports landscape, where years and decades at least have led to tempered expectations.
For the Miami Dolphins, on the eve of the NFL, it’s to win a playoff game ...Read more
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Sun rout Mystics as DeWanna Bonner becomes WNBA's No. 4 all-time scorer
The Connecticut Sun bounced back from Wednesday’s brutal road loss to the Indiana Fever with a 96-85 rout of the Washington Mystics in D.C. on Saturday.
Veteran superstar DeWanna Bonner scored 16 points in the victory to reach 7,381 career points, surpassing Hall of Famer Tamika Catchings (7,380) for No. 4 on the WNBA all-time scoring list. ...Read more
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Luke DeCock: David West, still fighting for athletes, objects to landmark House settlement with NCAA
RALEIGH, N.C. — As more people take a deeper look at the full proposed version of the groundbreaking House settlement with the NCAA, more people are finding problems with it.
Not the idea of it: Making sure athletes get a share of the revenue they’ve generated is only right and fair. But the devil is in the details, and some of the details ...Read more
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What's wrong with the Aces? Here are 3 reasons the team is struggling.
LAS VEGAS — A’ja Wilson missed a potential game-winning shot in the final second against the Dallas Wings on Tuesday, but it was clear she wasn’t the reason the Aces lost.
Wilson scored 42 points — the most in the WNBA this season — as the back-to-back defending champions lost to a team with the league’s second-worst record.
Even ...Read more
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Mark Cuban admits he didn't see Jalen Brunson as 'captain material' on Mavericks
NEW YORK — Mark Cuban never envisioned Jalen Brunson as captain material, and it turns out, neither did Brunson himself — until the Knicks gave him the title this summer.
During an appearance on the “Roommates Show” podcast with Knicks stars Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart, Cuban, the former majority owner of the Dallas Mavericks, reflected...Read more
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'Finish what we started': Atlanta to host 2031 men's Final Four
ATLANTA — It will be 11 years later than planned, but Atlanta will have its day at the center of the college basketball universe.
Atlanta was selected to host the 2031 NCAA men’s Final Four, it was announced Thursday. The city was to host the marquee event in 2020 only to have it canceled by the COVID-19 pandemic. The final games of the ...Read more
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Stephen Curry joins LeBron James, Kevin Durant in $500 million NBA club. Who's next?
LOS ANGELES — Stephen Curry signed a one-year, $62.6 million extension Thursday, keeping him with the Golden State Warriors through the 2026-2027 season and elevating his career salaries to more than $500 million.
Curry, 36, would accompany LeBron James and Kevin Durant as the only NBA players to have been paid a half a billion dollars in ...Read more
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New details on 'Starting 5' Netflix series featuring Kings' Domantas Sabonis
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Netflix has formally announced an upcoming series that will feature five of the NBA’s biggest stars, including Sacramento Kings center Domantas Sabonis.
“Starting 5” will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the 2023-24 NBA season through the eyes of the Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James, Miami Heat’s Jimmy Butler...Read more
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Steph Curry agrees to Warriors extension worth more than $60 million for a single season: report
Stephen Curry is set to play with the Warriors at least until age 40 after reportedly agreeing to a one-year, $62.6 million extension on his contract with the team.
Curry’s deal will now run through the 2026-27 season, according to a report from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
The Warriors retooled their roster earlier this offseason mostly via...Read more
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Caitlin Clark didn't make Paris Olympics, but Simone Biles, Gabby Thomas see star break record
Simone Biles picked a good night to attend her first WNBA game.
Weeks after winning three gold medals and a silver at the Paris Olympics, the U.S. gymnastics great was on hand Wednesday to see Caitlin Clark break the league rookie record for 3-pointers in a season as the Indiana Fever defeated the Connecticut Sun, 84-80, at Gainbridge ...Read more
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Sun upset by Fever, 84-80, as Caitlin Clark, Kelsey Mitchell shine
The Connecticut Sun couldn’t continue the momentum of their last win over the No. 1 New York Liberty, suffering an 84-80 upset to the seventh-place Indiana Fever on Wednesday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
The Sun (22-8) won their three previous meetings against Indiana in 2024, but the Fever (15-16) are 4-1 since the WNBA returned...Read more
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Dana Evans uncertain about her future with Sky after frustrating move from starting role
CHICAGO — It’s no secret that Dana Evans isn’t satisfied with her role on the Chicago Sky.
In a matter of months, the Gary, Ind., native has fallen from the team’s starting point guard to a deep rotational player, barely getting off the bench for more than six minutes in the team’s last two losses.
Evans kept her feelings close to ...Read more
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