The DePaul Blue Demons trimmed into the Villanova Wildcats’ lead after Umoja Gibson buried a deep 3-pointer.
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Here are our instant grades for the three-team blockbuster that beefs up the Lakers’ playoff chances.
The Los Angeles Lakers finally pulled off the trade they have been waiting to make all year. The Lakers joined forces with the Utah Jazz and Minnesota Timberwolves for a three-team trade that sends LA three useful players for the playoff push, the Jazz a valuable future Lakers draft pick, and the Wolves a new point guard and some second round picks.
With the 2023 NBA trade deadline looming on Thursday on 3 p.m.
Los Angeles was able to address its need for shooting, but is it enough for a playoff push?
Reinforcements are coming for the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. In the wake of striking out on Kyrie Irving and disappointing LeBron James, the Lakers acquired D’Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley and Jarred Vanderbilt in a three-team deal Wednesday, per multiple reports. The Timberwolves will net guards Mike Conley Jr. and Nickeil Alexander-Walker in the move. The Jazz will receive Russell Westbrook and a 2027 first-round pick from Los Angeles, which is protected from picks 1–4.
It was an audience fit for a king.
A watershed moment in NBA history Tuesday night received an appropriately large television audience.
The Thunder’s 133-130 win over the Lakers—during which Los Angeles star LeBron James became the all-time leading scorer in NBA history—drew 3 million viewers to TNT, the network’s largest non-Opening Night regular-season audience in five years.
The broadcast peaked with 3.7 million viewers from 11:45 p.m.
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Yor Anei helped the DePaul Blue Demons start off in the right fashion as he threw down an aggressive one-handed jam against the Villanova Wildcats.
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The Lakers, Jazz and Timberwolves are swapping former All-Star guards.
With the NBA’s stretch run looming, three teams jockeying for Western Conference playoff positioning have shaken up their rosters with a massive trade.
The Lakers, Timberwolves and Jazz are finalizing a three-team deal that will send guard Russell Westbrook to Utah, guard Mike Conley Jr. to Minnesota, and guard D’Angelo Russell to Los Angeles, according to Wednesday evening reports from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
The Lakers have agreed to a deal to land point guard D’Angelo Russell in a three-team trade involving the Timberwolves and Jazz, sources said.