[Collier] Bulls VP Arturas Karnisovas: "There's different structures that you can try to get to a championship. There's 2-3 star players and then a lot of role players or you can build it as 9-10 very good players."

Danny Green's picks for the 2025 Conference Finals: "Cleveland-Boston [...] OKC-Dallas"

[Begley] The Dallas Mavericks were very aggressive in trying to assemble a deal for Kevin Durant at the deadline, but weren't able to get it over the line

Steve Kerr on the trade deadline: "I think the league should consider making the trade deadline at the all-star break just so you don't have to face these games where guys are getting are traded half an hour before the game"

[Slater] Stephen Curry had a conversation with Kevin Durant that convinced him a reunion was extremely unlikely, no matter how much the Golden State Warriors ownership group and front office collectively “underestimated” Durant’s coldness toward a return, as one team source put it.

Steve Kerr: Wiggs is one of my favorite players I've ever coached. Just, just a beautiful soul. Just a wonderful human being...we don't hang that banner in 22 without him. Everything he brings every single day, the laughter, the smile, the joy. Just a wonderful human being and so I'm gonna miss him

Has any team gone further from one end of the likability scale to the other than the Warriors?

[Highlight] Walker Kessler blocks Draymond Green and Keyonte George sinks the transition 3, as the Jazz rally late to seal the win over the Warriors.

[Charania] "Even if you engaged in some level of conversation, the Phoenix Suns have always wanted to position this team around Kevin Durant and Devin Booker. And all signs indicate that Kevin Durant will remain a Phoenix Sun."

If Embiid is a fraud, Bryce Harper is also one

[Post Game Thread] The Washington Wizards (9-41) defeat the Brooklyn Nets (17-34), 119-102.

[Charania] Miami is keeping Kyle Anderson for now, sources said. So Wiggins, Tucker and Anderson are in Miami along with the Warriors‘ protected first-rounder.

[Todd] Looks like the Jazz's part of the Jimmy Butler deal is once again as facilitator. They will send P.J. Tucker to Miami, take on Dennis Schroeder and get a 2031 second-rounder for their trouble. What does the future hold for Dennis and Jalen Hood-Schifino? Tomorrow's deadline will decide.

[Serious] 2025 NBA Trade Deadline Megathread

Wolves Analyst Jim Peterson: “I’m down on Jimmy Butler right now. I’m not a fan of Jimmy Butler. I don’t know what team would want him in their org. He’s a great player. He’s a winning player but there’s too much drama involved.”

[Charania] Miami is working through a resolution with Kyle Anderson -- Toronto portion fell through, sources said. He could stay or be moved. A massive deal with many moving parts

[Charania] Dennis Schroder is headed to Utah and Kyle Anderson to Toronto as part of this multi-team trade, sources said.

[Charania] New Golden State Warriors star Jimmy Butler has agreed to a new two-year, $121 million extension with the franchise through 2026-27, sources tell me and @WindhorstESPN. Butler is declining his 2025-26 player option for this new $121M deal.

[Charania] BREAKING: The Miami Heat are finalizing a deal to send Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors for Andrew Wiggins, Dennis Schroder, Kyle Anderson and a protected first-round pick, sources tell ESPN.

[Charania] The Miami Heat are finalizing a deal to send Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors for Andrew Wiggins, Dennis Schroder, Kyle Anderson and a protected first-round pick, sources tell ESPN.

[Youngmisuk] The Golden State locker room has been closed just now during open media time. Steve Kerr is addressing the team. Players that were on the floor were brought back into the locker room.

[Engelmann] The Luka Doncic Trade — My Perspective as an Ex-Mavericks Analytics Staffed Who Spent Two Years Pushing to Trade Him

[Charania] The Washington Wizards are trading Jonas Valanciunas to the Sacramento Kings for Sidy Cissoko and two second-round picks, sources tell ESPN.

[Windhorst] Kevin Durant's Likely Deadline Options are Heat Trade or Staying with Suns

[Stein] The Warriors have now shifted their trade focus to acquiring Jimmy Butler, The Stein Line has learned, after abandoning the pursuit of Kevin Durant. Durant's strong reservations about a Warriors return sent them in a new direction.