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Former first-round pick Blake Wesley is signing a one-year deal with the LA Clippers, sources say.
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The Knicks announced New York has signed Kevin McCullar Jr. and Tyler Nickel both to two-way contracts.
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The Bulls were looking at signing Jonathan Kuminga and Bennedict Mathurin for the same purpose. Have to imagine Chicago hopes Norm Powell can play his way into trade value, too. Such is rebuild life.
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Buddy Hield is gonna have plenty of opportunity to play in Chicago… and get traded again.
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The Clippers’ current plan is to keep this spot open as training camp begins next week. Perhaps that changes based on who becomes available around the league, but I’m told there’s no immediate two-way signing in the works.
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The Clippers are one of several teams, including, perhaps most notably the Grizzlies, that need to trim their roster to 15 standard contracts. The Hawks took that step yesterday through their trade with the Hornets.
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The @TheSteinLine + @JakeLFischer Substack is a must-read for NBA fans. They’re constantly reporting on potential signings, trades, changes in the wind before the news comes to fruition.
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Fischer first broke the news that the Raptors wanted to re-acquire Kawhi Leonard. He also works as an NBA insider for Bleacher Report.
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Glass Break: @JakeLFischer has signed a multiyear deal to continue reporting on NBA with @TheSteinLine’s Substack, @FOS has learned. They first linked up in 2024.
Fischer first broke the news that the Raptors wanted to re-acquire Kawhi Leonard. He also works as an NBA insider for Bleacher Report.
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There’s been renewed talks today between the Hawks and Hornets, sources say.
Among our latest items, Atlanta and Charlotte have held trade talks surrounding Buddy Hield for Dorian Finney-Smith, sources say. It remains unclear whether an agreement will be struck before training camps open: tinyurl.com/439ywxeu
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Veteran forward James Johnson is returning to the Indiana Pacers on a training camp deal, sources say.
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Significant news in the basketball agency space, where the cap-minded John Noonan departs Octagon for one of the premier football representation companies.
David Mulugheta, President of Team Sports and the top-ranked NFL agent on Forbes’ 2025 Most Powerful Sports Agents list, will lead the new division. The agency has appointed longtime basketball industry veterans Brandon James and John Noonan, who will both drive the practice day to day and will report to Mulugheta.
The new division will represent players at the professional level and in the college NIL space, where Athletes First — "widely regarded as the top firm for representing student-athletes," per USA TODAY Sports — already runs the most successful college representation practice in football, led by Vice President Joe Ferrari.
The practice also draws on the agency's existing representation of college basketball coaches, along with internal leadership from Scott Gaffield, an Athletes First executive and college basketball coaching agent, and Carmen Wallace, one of Athletes First’s founding members, a certified NFL and NBA agent, and former Duke University men's basketball player.
"We named this company Athletes First before we had a single client, and for 25 years every decision has been judged against one question: is this putting the athlete first?" said Brian Murphy, Founder and CEO of Athletes First. "That question was never about one sport. David, John, and Brandon will build basketball the way our people built football — do the right things, with the right people, for the right reasons."
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