The seemingly impossible finally came true in Los Angeles.
After nearly two years of strife, pain, turmoil and every other synonym for “not having a great time,” the Lakers have finally divorced themselves from veteran guard Russell Westbrook.
And like most divorces, it was a messy and expensive battle.
On Wednesday, The Athletic and Stadium’s Sham Charania announced the three-team trade that shipped Westbrook out of Westwood (an LA staple, for the uninitiated).
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The Seminoles went 10-3 in 2023, finishing No. 11 in the country.
Florida State made significant progress in its third season under coach Mike Norvell, and the Seminoles are rewarding him accordingly.
Norvell has agreed to a contract extension that will keep him in Tallahassee through the 2029 season and take his average annual salary over $8 million, the school announced Wednesday.
In 2022, Florida State—a program without a winning season since 2017—won 10 games, including its final six and the Cheez-It Bowl against Oklahoma. The Seminoles finished the season ranked No.
San Francisco’s star rookie quarterback suffered an injury to his right elbow in the NFC championship game against the Eagles.
The 49ers and quarterback Brock Purdy have explored multiple options for how to treat the torn ulnar collateral ligament in the rookie’s right elbow. On Wednesday, the team and Purdy finally decided on a path forward.
Purdy will undergo surgery to repair the ligament on Feb. 22, ESPN’s Nick Wagoner reports. The expected recovery time is six months, which would put Purdy back on the field sometime during training camp in August.
Tyrin Lawrence hits a game-winning buzzer-beater to give the Vanderbilt Commodores the upset win against the No. 6 Tennessee Volunteers.
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The DePaul Blue Demons trimmed into the Villanova Wildcats’ lead after Umoja Gibson buried a deep 3-pointer.
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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.
Penn State Nittany Lions’ Camren Wynter showed his skills with this seamless switch-of-the-hands layup against the Wisconsin Badgers.