On the morning of July 2nd, 2024, the Cleveland Cavaliers announced the extension of their star player Donovan Mitchell. The extension is for two years with a third-year option and worth up to $150.3 million dollars.  The Cleveland Cavaliers now have Mitchell under contract for the next 3 years.  In the 2022 offseason the Cavaliers… read more

Blake Hinson, the Pitt Panthers’ former small forward, didn’t get picked in the two rounds of the 2024 NBA Draft. Instead, Hinson signed a two-way contract with the Los Angeles Lakers at the draft’s conclusion on Thursday and will probably begin his career with their G League (minor leagues). The Lakers may have been lucky… read more

Unlike the football program that has produced enough NFL talent over the decades to form multiple all-star teams, the list of Pitt men’s basketball players to reach the NBA goes maybe a couple dozen deep. As for any all-star years or anything else impactful? Billy Knight was pretty good. Charles Smith had a decent career…. read more

The Boston Celtics are champions for the first time in 16 years following a 106-88 victory over the Dallas Mavericks at TD Garden in Game 5 of the 2024 NBA Finals on Monday night. It was just the second title for the Celtics in the 21 century, but it was their 18th, all-time, which is… read more

I’m not going to lie, I thought both the NBA Finals and the NHL Stanley Cup Final had promise. On the basketball side, you had the top-seeded Boston Celtics, NBA royalty, going for their 18th title. Opposing them from the Western Conference were the Dallas Mavericks, a team that won 50 regular-season games and its… read more

Somewhere, young kids are probably playing basketball, and a few of them may be sporting Air Jordan sneakers. They likely know the shoes were inspired by the legendary Michael Jordan–the name is a dead giveaway, as is the silhouette of him skying toward the hoop. Those same kids may also be using a basketball stamped… read more

Many fan bases think it’s their birthright to see their favorite team win a title. This is mostly due to a lot of championship winning over the years–both before and after these fans were born. Alabama Crimson Tide fans think it’s their birthright to win a national championship in college football every winter. Duke fans… read more

It hasn’t been easy for the Dallas Mavericks to carve out a niche for themselves in the NBA over the past 20 years, with so many talented teams trying very hard to prevent them from doing so. If it wasn’t Kobe Bryant and the Lakers from the Western Conference in the 2000s, it was Tim… read more

Jimmy Butler could be offered a max contract by the Philadelphia 76ers. Could Butler leave the Miami Heat? Where does Jimmy play in 2024-25?

Can you imagine the reaction today if college basketball’s best player got arrested during an anti-war protest and then had to be bailed out by his head coach? Can you imagine the fury if that same player wrote a letter to the President of the United States and asked him to resign? That was the… read more