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INDIANAPOLIS — Mac McClung is as soon as once more the winner of the NBA Dunk Contest. After placing on a present final 12 months in Salt Lake Metropolis, McClung returned to defend his crown and managed to do what he does finest: soar by the air and placed on a present. Regardless of some remarkably harsh judges and a crowd that made booing Jaylen Brown its prime precedence, McClung was…

After a disappointing (and rather shocking) first round exit at the hands of the Miami Heat, the Milwaukee Bucks faced a number of decisions this offseason. The first was to make a coaching change, firing Mike Budenholzer and hiring Adrian Griffin from Toronto to bring a fresh perspective to the Bucks bench. The second was figuring out what would happen with Khris Middleton, who has been a…

Late in the fourth quarter of Tuesday’s game between the Dallas Wings and Atlanta Dream, with Dallas leading by double-digits, star guard Arike Ogunbowale received a double technical and was ejected. As Ogunbowale headed toward the locker room, the crowd gave her a raucous standing ovation and she reveled in it, encouraging fans to get as loud as possible. Just before she disappeared into the…

Bradley Beal is now a member of the Suns, as the Wizards finally traded their longtime star guard to Phoenix for Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, pick swaps, and a handful of second rounders. That deal kickstarts a Draft week that could see some significant movement throughout the league, with just about every team picking after the Spurs seemingly being willing to part with their pick for the right…

A report from Shams Charania indicates that we may be in the final stages of a Bradley Beal trade. Earlier in the day on Saturday, Charania brought word that the Washington Wizards are sitting down and trying to hammer out a deal with one of two teams: the Miami Heat and the Phoenix Suns. The Heat have been listed as a potential suitor ever since the rumors began circulating that Beal’s time with…

It sure seems like LeBron James and the Denver Nuggets really don’t like one another. James and the Lakers got swept by the Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals en route to Denver winning the first championship in franchise history, and in the last day or two of the team celebrating their ring, Los Angeles was on the receiving end of a few jokes. First, there was Nuggets coach Michael Malone…

Flau’jae Johnson recently opened up to Uproxx about winning LSU’s first NCAA Division I basketball championship this April and celebrating that win while her song, “Big 4,” filled the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. “The fact that I’m being recognized for my music as well as my basketball at the highest level, that was a breathtaking moment for me,” Johnson said. “Both of my lives…

Nikola Jokic is an NBA champion for the first time in his career, delivering one of the great playoff runs in NBA history on his way to a Finals MVP and Denver’s first ever NBA championship. However, after the game the celebration from Jokic was fairly muted. He was clearly happy about winning the title, but it seemed as much a relief that the season was over as much as it was jubilation to be a…