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The NBA has fined the Cleveland Cavaliers $100,000 for violating the league’s Player Participation Policy after the team rested Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley during their November 12 game against the Miami Heat. Both players were listed out for load management, a decision the league ruled inconsistent with the policy, which requires star players to be available for regular-season games whenever possible.The practice of resting key players has become increasingly common as teams look to preserve them for the playoffs, but the NBA classified both Mitchell and Mobley as 'star players', making their absence a breach of the updated guidelines. According to Yahoo, Mitchell has sat out two of Cleveland’s first 13 games this season, including the matchup against Miami. His only other absence ca...

In the first year of the NBA’s new media deal, NBC’s streaming service Peacock is hosting quite a few big matchups throughout the season.Games will exclusively take place on Peacock on Mondays throughout the season, while NBC will broadcast games on Tuesdays and Sundays, which are also streamed on Peacock.In almost every week of the season, Peacock will broadcast a few games on its app for fans to tune in to apart from NBC’s games. Here’s a full schedule of what games will be shown on Peacock solely this season, along with all NBC games available this season.NBA games exclusively on Peacock in 2025–26 seasonLike mentioned, Peacock will showcase NBA games solely on its streaming service on Mondays throughout the NBA season.DateMatchupTime (ET)Monday, Nov. 24Cavaliers at Raptors7 p.m.Monday,...

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After missing the last two games, the Knicks will get Jalen Brunson back on the court on Wednesday night vs. the Mavericks, insider Chris Haynes reported before tip-off. Brunson’s missed the past week with a Grade 1 ankle sprain.The Knicks–Mavericks matchup will be broadcasted nationally on ESPN on Wednesday night. Dallas is already pretty banged up, as Anthony Davis has been out with a calf injury and rookie Cooper Flagg is set to miss his first NBA game with an illness, so it’s good the Knicks got their star player back on the court.Last Wednesday night, Brunson left the contest vs. the Magic early after he landed on the floor awkwardly following a layup attempt. He left Madison Square Garden on crutches and was later given his ankle sprain diagnosis. Brunson’s status has been up in the ...

John Hollinger is a longtime NBA observer who was one of the leaders of the analytics movement and then spent seven years as a front office executive with the Memphis Grizzlies.Now a writer for The Athletic, Hollinger earlier this week wrote a story about the dysfunction within the New Orleans Pelicans organization, and as part of that story he highlighted BYU freshman AJ Dybantsa and wrote a scouting report on him as the “Prospect of the week” based on Dybantsa’s performance last week against an elite UConn team.Hollinger’s report included video clips from the game to help him illustrate his points.Describing how Dybantsa and BYU struggled early and then rallied before losing by two, Hollinger wrote, “For Dybantsa, the game showed some of the elite tools that have evaluators excited about...

Topps is officially bringing the NBA to digital collectors everywhere. The company today launched NBA Collect by Topps, the official digital trading card app of the NBA and NBPA, reimagining how fans collect, trade, and play.Available now on iOS and Android, the app lets users rip digital packs, trade globally, and compete in real-time challenges for digital and physical prizes, marking a major leap in how basketball fans experience collecting in the modern era.RELATED: 5 Reasons Every Collector Should Try Topps BuntNBA Collect by Topps for iiPhone and Android, available now. | FanaticsDigital collectors and fans of Topps’s other mobile offerings, including Bunt (MLB) and Slam (WWE), will immediately recognize many of the features they love in Collect—but with even a deeper connection  to ...

MIAMI — For the first time since Erik Spoelstra was named coach of Team USA’s men’s basketball program, the longtime Miami Heat coach faced the man he’ll be replacing on Team USA’s bench: Steve Kerr.Kerr was in town Wednesday night as his Golden State Warriors played Spoelstra’s Heat. Kerr reiterated how happy he was to see Spoelstra, who served on his Team USA staff during the last Olympic cycle, get his chance to lead the team.“He was a great choice,” Kerr said before Wednesday’s game. “He’s one of the great coaches of all time. Great awareness of what FIBA is about. The difference between coaching a team for seven weeks and coaching one for nine months. All of that stuff, he’s got his finger on the pulse of it all, and he’s going to be great.”Spoelstra noted the pair hasn’t yet had a ch...

The NBA has a load management problem, and Stephen A. Smith thinks he might have a way of keeping the league’s stars on the court. Earlier this week, Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr expressed concern about the NBA’s increased pace of play amid an already taxing 82-game schedule, which has led to more player injuries. While Kerr isn’t about to slow the pace, Smith noted that the Warriors’ head coach is essentially calling for fewer games. But the NBA isn’t about to cut games from its schedule, especially after entering new media rights agreements with ESPN, Amazon, and NBC through the 2035-2036 season. To combat that, Kerr and other head coaches rest their stars for full games throughout the season. And as much as Adam Silver has pushed back on load management, it might only be...

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What was intended as a small gathering of family, then teammates, became the picture seen around the NBA after a snap of the occasion spread on social media.Knueppel's four younger brothers — who are in eighth, ninth, 10th and 11th grade and also play basketball at a high level — "did a good job of ... not freaking out," he said, while conceding that one of his brothers had tried to dunk on star guard LaMelo Ball on a miniature hoop inside the home.Road trips are handled differently throughout the NBA. Some teams prefer to reserve back rooms in fine-dining restaurants for any players and staff members who want to attend; others leave the logistics to the players, who scatter throughout cities in small groups for meals. But going over to a player's childhood home for a shared meal was somet...