‘Wait a minute, are you serious?’: How Las Vegas became the center of the NBA offseason

LAS VEGAS — Twenty years ago, the shape of the NBA offseason changed forever. Once players…

Grading Paul George’s Sixers move and other Day 1 NBA free-agency deals

Follow live free-agency news and analysis from our entire NBA staff, and sign up for The Bounce to get basketball…

Of course the Lakers were going to draft Bronny James and other NBA Draft takeaways

It was a historic moment, setting up the first father-son combination in NBA history. But I…

NBA Player Tiers: Kevin Durant, Steph Curry hang on in Tier 1, but how much longer?

This is the fifth annual NBA Player Tiers project, in which Seth Partnow names the top 125 players…

Could a $100 million annual NBA player salary be coming? Plus, the new CBA goes into effect

As the NBA closes in on a new media rights deal, much of the attention has…

Anonymous NBA player poll 2024: LeBron or Jordan as the GOAT? Most overrated? Finals favorite?

Sample size matters, people. So when The Athletic launched its first NBA player poll in 2019,…