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4 months, 1 week ago

Conor Daly to take over No. 78 car for Juncos Hollinger Racing for rest of IndyCar season

IndyCar veteran Conor Daly will drive the No. 78 car for Juncos Hollinger Racing for the remainder of the season, beginning with this weekend’s race at World Wide Technology Raceway near St. Louis, the team announced Wednesday. There are a lot of people on this team that I’ve worked with before and that gives me a lot of confidence.” Canapino …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Driver Agustin Canapino and Juncos Hollinger Racing split, 2 months after dispute over online abuse

Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Agustin Canapino and Juncos Hollinger Racing have mutually decided to part ways, ending a relationship between the IndyCar Series team and Argentine driver that turned controversial when he took a brief leave of absence in June following a third social media firestorm in a year. The team announced the decision Wednesday with a social media post on X …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Hollinger: NBA trade deadline is near. Keep an eye on these potential moves

New York Times

The Athletic has live coverage of the 2024 NBA trade deadline. Markelle Fultz, Orlando: If Orlando is going to do anything at the trade deadline, Fultz’s expiring $17 million deal would seem to factor in prominently. We’ve already seen one trade like this, when the Pelicans dropped Kira Lewis Jr. into the Pascal Siakam deal to get themselves out of …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Hollinger: My 2024 NBA All-Star reserves, featuring Derrick White (and no Stephen Curry)

New York Times

Here’s the thing about the NBA All-Star Game: We want to have the best players in basketball playing in it, but the effort ends up somewhat sabotaged by the fact that we split the team into conferences. GO DEEPER NBA All-Star Game 2024: Our voters' picks for East and West starters • It’s not a first-half MVP ballot: If you’re …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Biggest need for all 30 NBA teams at the trade deadline, from bench scoring to a firm direction

New York Times

What does your favorite NBA team need ahead of the Feb. 8 trade deadline? — Jay King Power wing: Well, when the GM of the team says it’s their need, it’s probably their need. — Josh Robbins Draft picks, high-upside young players: For the Wizards, this trade deadline won’t be about improving their on-court product in the short term. But …

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1 year ago

Hollinger: Is In-Season Tournament one of LeBron’s last shots at glory? Plus, Vegas predictions

New York Times

The Athletic has live coverage of Lakers vs Suns in the quarterfinal of the NBA In-Season Tournament. Beyond that, however, there’s a second question with James that we might ask even more urgently: How many more times will we get to see him in a big game, one with real consequences? Here’s what I’m getting at: If we’re being honest …

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1 year ago

Hollinger: Heat, Suns have survived NBA’s early grind; scouting Miami’s Jaime Jaquez Jr.

New York Times

NEW YORK – Well, this wasn’t quite what I signed up for when I booked this trip. The Suns don’t have a single player in the league’s top 15 in blocks, but lead the league as a team because all 11 players with at least 100 minutes played have blocked at least four shots — even Booker, who had two …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Hollinger: Raptors, Grizzlies and 3 more NBA teams that will exceed expectations

New York Times

It’s NBA prediction time! Second, I think there are some very good so-called intangible reasons to expect this team to be better than it was a year ago, as a result of the coaching change and Porter’s likely exit. A more likely endgame is that the Rockets valiantly fight the good fight for 78 games, much like last year’s Jazz, …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Hollinger: James Harden, Damian Lillard could define limits of NBA player empowerment

New York Times

Damian Lillard was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks on Sept. 27th in a three-team trade. That’s what I’m wondering as the Damian Lillard and James Harden situations drag on into extended standoffs between player and team, with no sign of resolutions anytime soon. Lillard signed a two-year, $122 million extension with Portland in July 2022; he could be an unrestricted …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Hollinger: Why Porziņģis-Smart trade is a win for Grizzlies, Celtics and Wizards

New York Times

For those of you who missed the drama late on Wednesday, Boston and Washington had a three-way deal set up with the Clippers that would have sent Kristaps Porziņģis to the Celtics. The final deal will send Marcus Smart to Memphis; Tyus Jones, Danilo Gallinari, Mike Muscala and Boston’s pick in Thursday’s draft at No. Celtics From Boston’s perspective, it’s …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Hollinger: NBA Finals are better than you think, and why I’m picking the Nuggets to win

New York Times

Welcome to an unexpected and possibly underwhelming NBA Finals. GO DEEPER From Nikola Jokić to Spoelstra vs. Malone, how the Heat and Nuggets size up Overall, Miami and Denver combined for 97 wins this regular season; for comparison, even in the pandemic-shortened seasons of 2019-20 and 2020-21, the two finalists each postseason still combined for 97 and 96, respectively. Additionally, …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Hollinger: Warriors-Kings highlights possession battle’s impact in NBA playoffs

New York Times

Show me a team with a lot of offensive rebounds, and I’ll show you a bad team. The two teams that dominated the possession game in 2021-22, Memphis and Toronto, combined to win eight playoff games; the two teams that had the biggest differential in effective field goal percentage went to the NBA Finals.. There’s a reason the phrase “make-or-miss …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Hollinger: As Grizzlies rebuild faces adversity with Ja Morant and other bad news, it’s time for Memphis to grow up

New York Times

You’ll rarely see a crescendo of bad news hit so quickly: Within minutes on Saturday, we learned that the Memphis Grizzlies had removed All-Star guard Ja Morant from the team for at least two games, lost small forward Dillon Brooks due to a suspension for technical foul accumulation and lost backup center Brandon Clarke for the season due to a …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Hollinger: Russell Westbrook trade might be too late but sets up Lakers for future

New York Times

Four of the top seven players in minutes for the 2022 Minnesota Timberwolves will soon play for the Los Angeles Lakers. Joke aside, the glass-half-full perspective in the wake of Wednesday night’s reported three-team trade between the Lakers, Jazz and Timberwolves is that the Lakers have the surrounding pieces from Minnesota’s 46-win team last season …. Mike Conley, Nickeil Alexander-Walker …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Hollinger: At NBA trade deadline, follow the money on tax-team deals; Indy road trip notes

New York Times

If you’re looking for a guiding principle as you try to decipher what teams might do at the upcoming NBA trade deadline, let me offer you this one: Follow the money. If they’re looking to dump money, our 13 teams that are either in this year’s tax or next year’s will only have a few likely trade partners. San Antonio, …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Hollinger: Nikola Jokić’s MVP three-peat is alive; what’s up with G League Ignite?

New York Times

The thing about the NBA MVP award is that only one person can win it, which makes things a bit problematic when multiple players appear to be having MVP-caliber seasons. Tatum legitimately has a case for being the best player this time around, as a two-way menace averaging 30.9 points per game for the league’s best offense. Jokić’s PER of …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Hollinger: Adam Silver botched Robert Sarver’s punishment and news conference. He has a year to fix it

New York Times

Adam Silver, you’re on the clock. “Remember, while there were these terrible things,” Silver said, “there were also many, many people who had very positive things to say about through this process.” After this brief detour through Stalin-could-actually-be-quite-charming territory, Silver launched into increasingly tortured efforts to differentiate Sarver’s behavior from the previous actions of Sterling that resulted in his banishment …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Hollinger: Jaylen Brown, RJ Barrett and the NBA’s coming salary-cap rise

New York Times

A new word is about to enter the NBA lexicon: “Extendability.” Extendability is the ability to extend a player’s contract at the max level, despite the fact that the salary cap is likely to rise by 10 percent a year or more for the next half-decade or so as the NBA bakes in a new TV deal and the league …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Hollinger: NBA buyout market tiers, led by John Wall, Gary Harris, Eric Bledsoe and Goran Dragić

New York Times

Editor’s note: This story will be updated as the players listed agree to buyouts with their respective teams or sign with new ones. With trade deadline drama behind us, there is still one act left in the NBA’s transaction season before we settle in for a charge to the playoffs: the buyout market. Sure, sometimes a team is better off …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Hollinger: With NBA free agency party ending quickly, the trading game begins

New York Times

And now, we wait. Amazingly, every one of my top 20 free agents is already accounted for next season; while the Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard technically hasn’t announced what he’s doing yet, his return seems a foregone conclusion. Beyond that crew, we’ll see some other players get minimum deals and biannual exception money, but the free-agent spending frenzy essentially ended once …

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4 years ago

2020 NBA trade and free-agency tracker: Latest news and rumors

New York Times

In this compressed NBA offseason, the moves and the news are coming fast and furious. It’s not a sequel.” Alex Len to the Raptors Shams Charania: Free agent center Alex Len has agreed to a deal with the Toronto Raptors, sources tell The Athletic. Grizzlies add De’Antony Melton and John Konchar Shams Charania: Restricted free agent De’Antony Melton agreed to …

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4 years ago

Hollinger: Trading James Harden is next. The Rockets just don’t know it yet.

New York Times

Of course this happened. John Wall and Russell Westbrook were either going to get traded for each other or not at all, because there just wasn’t any other player salary match that made sense for either team. And since both of them wanted out, the “not at all” option wasn’t looking particularly palatable for either side.. All that was left …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Hollinger: Gordon Hayward’s contract and the Bird rights trap

New York Times

It only takes one. It’s what I call the Bird rights trap, and it’s what the Celtics fell into when Gordon Hayward left for Charlotte as a result of an absurd four-year, $120 million deal from the Hornets. Let’s say, for instance, your team was going to be right at the salary cap this season, and you learned a player …

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4 years, 1 month ago

2020 NBA Draft: Round 1 and 2 picks, grades, analysis, fits, trades

New York Times

The 2020 NBA Draft is done. I would have picked… Vecenie: Wiseman | Hollinger: Onyeka Okongwu or trade down Related Reading: Ethan Strauss: 2020 NBA Draft: A word of warning on James Wiseman | Seth Davis: James Wiseman goes to the Warriors: Here’s what they’re getting Pick: 3 Team: Hornets | Player: LaMelo Ball | 6-6 guard | 175 | …

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Conor Daly to take over No. 78 car for Juncos Hollinger Racing for rest of IndyCar season

Driver Agustin Canapino and Juncos Hollinger Racing split, 2 months after dispute over online abuse

Hollinger: NBA trade deadline is near. Keep an eye on these potential moves

Hollinger: My 2024 NBA All-Star reserves, featuring Derrick White (and no Stephen Curry)

Biggest need for all 30 NBA teams at the trade deadline, from bench scoring to a firm direction

Hollinger: Is In-Season Tournament one of LeBron’s last shots at glory? Plus, Vegas predictions

Hollinger: Heat, Suns have survived NBA’s early grind; scouting Miami’s Jaime Jaquez Jr.

Hollinger: Raptors, Grizzlies and 3 more NBA teams that will exceed expectations

Hollinger: James Harden, Damian Lillard could define limits of NBA player empowerment

Hollinger: Why Porziņģis-Smart trade is a win for Grizzlies, Celtics and Wizards

Hollinger: NBA Finals are better than you think, and why I’m picking the Nuggets to win

Hollinger: Warriors-Kings highlights possession battle’s impact in NBA playoffs

Hollinger: As Grizzlies rebuild faces adversity with Ja Morant and other bad news, it’s time for Memphis to grow up

Hollinger: Russell Westbrook trade might be too late but sets up Lakers for future

Hollinger: At NBA trade deadline, follow the money on tax-team deals; Indy road trip notes

Hollinger: Nikola Jokić’s MVP three-peat is alive; what’s up with G League Ignite?

Hollinger: Adam Silver botched Robert Sarver’s punishment and news conference. He has a year to fix it

Hollinger: Jaylen Brown, RJ Barrett and the NBA’s coming salary-cap rise

Hollinger: NBA buyout market tiers, led by John Wall, Gary Harris, Eric Bledsoe and Goran Dragić

Hollinger: With NBA free agency party ending quickly, the trading game begins

2020 NBA trade and free-agency tracker: Latest news and rumors

Hollinger: Trading James Harden is next. The Rockets just don’t know it yet.

Hollinger: Gordon Hayward’s contract and the Bird rights trap

2020 NBA Draft: Round 1 and 2 picks, grades, analysis, fits, trades