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Cooper Flagg was the first overall player taken in the 2025 NBA Draft in June, becoming the 79th player so honored with the top slot. Here is the complete list of first-overall choices since the NBA Draft started in 1947.
Even if Gilgeous-Alexander won't reach that milestone, the NBA's richest players grow even richer. When former MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan became the first professional athlete to sign a contract that would pay him a million dollars per year in 1979, it was the day's top sports story in The New York Times.
Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg described his NBA Summer League debut as "one of the worst games of my life," but drew praise from coaches and opposing guard Bronny James after a win over the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Amanda Anisimova is one win away from Wimbledon glory. The American pulled off an upset of top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 triumph Thursday to punch her ticket to the first Grand Slam final of her career, setting up a showdown with No. 8 Iga Światek in Saturday's championship match at Centre Court.
For months, publicly and privately, the Lakers have been signaling their desire to begin the Luka Doncic era in Los Angeles, even if it meant ending the LeBron James one.
LAS VEGAS — He missed 16 of 21 shots, including all five attempts from deep, and airballed his first and final shots. And those who saw his NBA 2K26 Summer League debut still came away with a consensus gut feeling: Cooper Flagg is right on pace to be a problem.
NBA free agency is officially underway. Players were legally allowed to begin negotiating with teams across the league as of June 30, and there has been a flurry of activity. The most surprising free agency news to date happened Tuesday morning when the Bucks said they were signing big man Myles Turner,
Mike Brown was ousted from the NBA in a surprising firing despite ending one of the longest postseason droughts in the history of North American sports. Natural