The case for Detroit Pistons as the best team in the NBA's Eastern Conference

The case for Detroit Pistons as the best team in the NBA's Eastern Conference originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The Detroit ...
Sports Illustrated

ESPN's Kevin Pelton Predicts Rockets' Amen Thompson to Make All-Star Debut This Season

Heading into the 2025-26 season, Amen Thompson was the assumed point guard fill-in for Fred VanVleet. Sure, the two have very different playing styles and even play different positions altogether, but ...
Athlon Sports

ESPN Identifies Top Threat to Cooper Flagg’s Rookie of the Year Chances

Cooper Flagg enters his rookie season with the Dallas Mavericks as the overwhelming favorite to capture the NBA’s Rookie of the Year award. ESPN BET lists the No. 1 pick at minus-190 odds, and ...
USA Today

Kevin Pelton on ESPN's exclusion of Boston's Derrick White from 2023-24's top 100 player list

Fans of the Boston Celtics are up in arms about the exclusion of their favorite team's starting point guard, Derrick White, from ESPN's 2023-24 top 100 player list -- and it seems ESPN senior writer ...
Heavy.com

Proposed 3-Way James Harden Trade Sends Damian Lillard to Sixers

The Philadelphia 76ers have happened to be dealing with James Harden‘s trade request around the exact time in which the Portland Trail Blazers have dealt with Damian Lillard‘s trade request. ESPN’s ...