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Michael Jordan Logoman card fetches $2.928 million at auction​


A 2003-04 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection autographed Michael Jordan Logoman card -- numbered 1-of-1 -- sold for $2.928 million, including buyer's premium, with collectibles marketplace Goldin late Saturday night. It was the most ever paid for a Jordan card. Logoman cards are typically limited to one copy and feature the NBA logo patch cut from, often, a game-used jersey. The lot description notes this is the first Jordan Logoman to feature a Chicago Bulls jersey. The card received an "Authentic" grade from card grader PSA and a perfect 10 on-card autograph.

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Ex-NBA player Chase Budinger makes Olympics in beach volleyball​


Former college basketball standout and seven-year NBA veteran Chase Budinger will head to Paris next month to compete for the United States' beach volleyball team in the 2024 Summer Olympics. Budinger and partner Miles Evans qualified Wednesday for the U.S. men's team. They are tied for 13th in the most recent world rankings and are the No. 2 U.S. team behind Miles Partain and Andy Benesh, ranked No. 5. Budinger, 36, grew up playing basketball and volleyball, starring in both at La Costa Canyon High School in Encinitas, California. A 2006 McDonald's All American in basketball, he also was named Volleyball Magazine's National High School Player of the Year in 2005. The 6-foot-7 athlete played college basketball at Arizona, where he averaged 17.0 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists in 100 games (all starts) over three seasons (2006-09).

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Sources: Lakers preparing massive offer to UConn's Dan Hurley​


The Los Angeles Lakers are targeting UConn men's basketball coach Dan Hurley as the franchise's next coach and are preparing a massive, long-term contract offer to bring the back-to-back NCAA national champion to the NBA, sources told ESPN. The Lakers have had preliminary contact with Hurley and the sides are planning to escalate discussions in the coming days, sources told ESPN. Hurley has been at the forefront of the Lakers' search from the beginning of the process, even while the organization has done its due diligence interviewing several other candidates, sources said.

The pursuit of Hurley comes on the 20th anniversary of the Lakers trying to hire then-Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski to a record-breaking contract in 2004. Krzyzewski elected to remain with the Blue Devils, but the climate has dramatically changed in college athletics. The demands of NIL fundraising for non-power-football schools such as UConn are an especially relentless grind -- and are expected to become even more difficult. Part of the allure of Hurley traces back to the changing landscape of NBA roster building under the collective bargaining agreement. After historically dominant back-to-back national title seasons, Hurley has emerged as the most coveted coach in the sport

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Sources: Lakers preparing massive offer to UConn's Dan Hurley​


The Los Angeles Lakers are targeting UConn men's basketball coach Dan Hurley as the franchise's next coach and are preparing a massive, long-term contract offer to bring the back-to-back NCAA national champion to the NBA, sources told ESPN. The Lakers have had preliminary contact with Hurley and the sides are planning to escalate discussions in the coming days, sources told ESPN. Hurley has been at the forefront of the Lakers' search from the beginning of the process, even while the organization has done its due diligence interviewing several other candidates, sources said.

The pursuit of Hurley comes on the 20th anniversary of the Lakers trying to hire then-Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski to a record-breaking contract in 2004. Krzyzewski elected to remain with the Blue Devils, but the climate has dramatically changed in college athletics. The demands of NIL fundraising for non-power-football schools such as UConn are an especially relentless grind -- and are expected to become even more difficult. Part of the allure of Hurley traces back to the changing landscape of NBA roster building under the collective bargaining agreement. After historically dominant back-to-back national title seasons, Hurley has emerged as the most coveted coach in the sport

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Dan hurley rejects lakers' offer, stays at uconn
The Lakers would have made Hurley one of the NBA's six highest-paid coaches. But before opening talks with the Lakers, Hurley already had an offer from UConn to become one of the highest paid NCAA coaches, and those talks will continue, sources told Wojnarowski.

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Hurley signed a six-year, $32.1 million deal with UConn after the 2022-23 season. He had the option of taking over one of the most famed franchises in pro sports and a potential chance to coach NBA all-time scoring leader LeBron James.
 
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Billionaire Julia Koch buys stake in NBA's Nets, WNBA's Liberty​


New York billionaire Julia Koch and her children are purchasing a minority stake in BSE Global, which owns the Brooklyn Nets of the NBA, the New York Liberty of the WNBA and Barclays Center in Brooklyn. BSE Global announced the pending transaction but did not disclose financial terms. The NBA board of governors must approve the deal. Sportico reported the Kochs will buy 15% of BSE Global, adding that the value assigned to the company's sports holdings was $6 billion. Under that scenario, the Kochs would pay $900 million for their share. Forbes ranks Julia Koch as the 23rd-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $65.7 billion. She and her children inherited 42% of Koch Industries -- one of the largest privately held companies in the nation -- upon the death of her husband, David, in 2019.

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Sources: Lakers hiring JJ Redick to four-year deal to coach team​


The Los Angeles Lakers have agreed to a four-year contract with JJ Redick to make him the franchise's next coach, sources told ESPN on Thursday. Redick, an ESPN NBA analyst who played 15 years in the league, met with Lakers vice president and general manager Rob Pelinka and owner Jeanie Buss over the weekend, and conversations on the vacancy continued throughout the week, sources said. Pelinka offered Redick the job Thursday morning, sources said. Redick has a strong relationship with Lakers star LeBron James, with whom he co-hosts a basketball podcast.

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pistons fire coach monty williams, owe him $65 million
The Pistons tied an NBA record with a 28-game regular-season losing streak and finished with a league-worst 14-68 record. The Pistons are 94-290 (.245) over the past five seasons, easily the worst in the league. Detroit was the third-youngest team in the league.

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Williams reached the NBA Finals as coach of the Suns in 2021-22, completing a massive turnaround with a 64-18 regular-season record. Williams was 194-115 (.628) in four seasons with the Suns and was 173-221 (.439) in five seasons with the Pelicans that culminated with a playoff appearance.

sources: pacers' pascal siakam to sign $189.5 max contract
Siakam averaged 21.3 points on 55% shooting and 39% 3-point shooting in 41 regular-season games upon arriving in Indiana. He became the third player to average 35 points and 10 rebounds in each of his first two playoff games, joining Elgin Baylor (1961) and Wilt Chamberlain (1967).

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Siakam, the 26th overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft, was voted the NBA's Most Improved Player in 2019, when he was an integral part of Toronto's first championship season.
 
sources: cavaliers hiring kenny atkinson as coach
Atkinson was 118-190 in three-plus years with the Nets, inheriting a full rebuild and showing improvement each season until he resigned after an injury-plagued 2019-20 season. He spent the 2020-21 season with the LA Clippers as an assistant before joining Steve Kerr's staff as the top assistant in 2021.

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Atkinson spent nine seasons as an NBA assistant -- four with the New York Knicks, three with the Atlanta Hawks before returning to the assistant-coaching ranks with the Clippers and Warriors.

sources: raptors' scottie barnes signs max rookie extension
Barnes, who turns 23 in August, made his first All-Star appearance this past season and averaged 19.9 points, 8.2 rebounds, 6.1 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.5 blocks.

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Barnes became the first Raptors player with 1,000 points, 75 steals and 75 blocks in a season since Chris Bosh in 2004-05. He also led Toronto in total points, rebounds, assists and blocks this season -- despite missing the final 22 games with a broken hand.
 
sources: timberwolves, chris finch agree to 4-year extension
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warriors prep for 'emotion' of klay negotiations
The Warriors will be faced with a number of roster decisions this summer, finding ways to get into championship contention -- or at least into the playoffs. But Thompson's deal presents a different level of emotional challenge.
 

Sources: Knicks trade for Mikal Bridges as Nets load up on picks​


The Brooklyn Nets completed a massive overhaul of the franchise's roster, trading their best player, Mike Bridges, to the New York Knicks, sources told ESPN on Tuesday, and landing a deal with the Houston Rockets to return the franchise's first-round picks lost in the James Harden trade. After teetering in the post-Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving windows between pursuing the playoffs and the draft lottery, the Nets declared a direction and suddenly have 16 first-round picks available through 2031, including four selections in the starry 2025 NBA draft. Nets general manager Sean Marks and Knicks president Leon Rose escalated discussions quickly Tuesday afternoon and evening, and New York ultimately overwhelmed the marketplace with four unprotected first-rounders (2025, 2027, 2029 and 2031), a protected 2025 first-round pick via the Milwaukee Bucks, the Knicks' unprotected 2028 pick swap and a 2025 Brooklyn second-round selection, sources said.

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Spurces; Mavs deal Hardaway to Pistons for Quentin Grimes
Hardaway averaged 14.4 points this past season, primarily serving as the Mavs' sixth man. However, his role was reduced down the stretch of the regular season and throughout the playoffs. - Grimes started all 38 games he played for the Raptors and averaged 18.6 points, 4.8 rebounds and 6.8 assists, which would all be career-best averages for Quickley over a full season.

Sources: Warriors, Chris Paul push deadline, eye trade
Paul, who turned 39 in May, averaged 9.2 points, 6.8 assists and 3.9 rebounds in 26.4 minutes per game in 58 games for the Warriors last season, primarily in a bench role.
 
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