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Reports: Bucks' Pat Connaughton picks up $9.4M player optionMilwaukee Bucks wing Pat Connaughton has picked up his player option for the 2025-26 season worth $9.4 million, according to multiple reports on Saturday.,Connaughton, 32, had until Tuesday to exercise the option for the final season of a three-year, $28.5 million extension he signed in 2022, per th...

NBA Weak Links: Milwaukee‘s 2-guard position could be a sinkhole on their road to a titleA great team is only as strong as its weakest link. At least that’s the consensus among every motivational coach I’ve ever heard. But for the sake of this space, it’s true for NBA contenders as well. I’ll examine the weak spots in some of the most iron-clad lineups in the NBA entering the 2023 seaso...

Phoenix Suns need to get Jae Crowder deal done as NBA trade deadline approachesPhoenix Suns forward Jae Crowder hasn’t participated in an NBA game since last postseason. He’s yet to suit up for the Suns this season and likely won’t, ever again. It was decided early on that it was in the best interest of all parties that he stays away from the team. Trade rumors have floated ar...

God forbid ESPN shows highlights of, y’know, sports

On Tuesday night, Giannis Antetokounmpo scored a career-high 55 points. He was 20-of-33 from the field, 15-16 from the stripe, and threw in 10 rebounds and seven assists for good measure. It was the kind of performance that people want to see, and will search out on social media, SportsCenter, or an...

For the Bucks to win a third game in Boston, it’s going to take one helluva homecoming for Pat Connaughton

The Milwaukee Bucks did not have enough to finish off the Boston Celtics in Game 6 at home on Friday. Just like in the Bucks’ win on Wednesday night in Boston, they were down double digits going into the fourth quarter after a third-quarter Celtics run. The Celtics would extend the lead early in the...

Mark Cuban gets sonned by college student over Seth Curry trade

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been pretty successful during his tenure as shot-caller in Big D, winning an NBA championship in 2011 and appearing in another Finals in 2006. Cuban is also a successful businessman and has even become a bit of a television star on the back of his reality tv sho...

Bucks/Nets is still NBA’s best David vs. Goliath storyline these days… only David has a ring now

It was déjà vu in Milwaukee last night as the Bucks took on the Brooklyn Nets in their season opener — a team they had last faced in a Game 7 overtime thriller in the Eastern Conference Semifinals just a few months earlier. In that one, memorably, the Bucks were saved from a loss by none other than ...

Deadspin waffles: Why the Suns will win Game 6... <i>aaand</i> why they won’t

The balls on Jrue Holiday to throw that alley-oop....