james herbert
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NBA writer, CBS Sports. email:
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I wrote about the most exciting rookie in the NBA. Daryl Morey says VJ Edgecombe has “already shown he’s materially better than what we could have hoped.”
www.cbssports.com/nba/news/vj-...
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Sixers rookie VJ Edgecombe has been 'better than we could have hoped'
The 20-year-old guard, picked No. 3 in the draft, is already doing it all in Philly
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/vj-edgecombe-sixers-rookie/
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I wrote about the most exciting rookie in the NBA. Daryl Morey says VJ Edgecombe has “already shown he’s materially better than what we could have hoped.”
www.cbssports.com/nba/news/vj-...
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Sixers rookie VJ Edgecombe has been 'better than we could have hoped'
The 20-year-old guard, picked No. 3 in the draft, is already doing it all in Philly
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/vj-edgecombe-sixers-rookie/
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at long last, egor demin has attempted — and made — a 2-point shot
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Shamit Dua
15 days ago
5 games, 5 different starting lineups for the Pelicans
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one (jamison) battle (3) after another
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Reunited and it feels Zo good: Ex-Lakers Lonzo Ball and Larry Nance Jr. want to take the Cavs to the next level
www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lon...
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How a pair of reunited Lakers teammates are pushing Cavs to take next step
The Cavs are counting on a pair of former teammates to supercharge their second unit
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lonzo-ball-larry-nance-jr-cleveland-cavaliers/
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Reunited and it feels Zo good: Ex-Lakers Lonzo Ball and Larry Nance Jr. want to take the Cavs to the next level
www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lon...
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How a pair of reunited Lakers teammates are pushing Cavs to take next step
The Cavs are counting on a pair of former teammates to supercharge their second unit
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lonzo-ball-larry-nance-jr-cleveland-cavaliers/
17 days ago
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Steve Jones
19 days ago
A pindown for Victor Wembanyama into THIS. ok.
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Steve Jones
24 days ago
Look at VJ Edgecombe
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vj edgecombe is a madman
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love the lakers? get this book. hate the lakers? get this book.
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25 days ago
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Dan Devine
26 days ago
Just think: Toronto gets to experience this *and* Jakob Poeltl-Brandon Ingram pick-and-rolls. What a week!
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Yaron Weitzman
26 days ago
"I hate that fake sh*t," Russell Westbrook said to a teammate about LeBron. From A HOLLYWOOD ENDING and excerpted at
@theringer.com.web.brid.gy
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@ringernba.bsky.social
how a visit from Will Smith broke the LeBron-Westbrook relationship for good.
www.theringer.com/2025/10/20/n...
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How Will Smith Split LeBron and Russell Westbrook for Good
How one bad trade, one fake smile, and one celebrity cameo turned the 2022 Lakers’ season upside down
https://www.theringer.com/2025/10/20/nba/lebron-james-russell-westbrook-will-smith-lakers-practice-photo
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i know the kings’ roster doesn’t make sense but this is all a bit much
28 days ago
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none of my toronto friends seem excited about the raptors being up on the nets heading into the fourth quarter of a preseason game, weird
29 days ago
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watching joel embiid play basketball is so much better than listening to people talk about him
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Yaron Weitzman
29 days ago
New A HOLLYWOOD ENDING excerpt up at
@theathletic.com
on the 2019 AD trade. Highlights: • Pelinka telling David Griffin that Jeanie doesn’t know what pick swaps are. • Linda Rambis' role in negotiations. • Klutch leveraging a Pelinka cap error into a KCP deal. 🔗
www.nytimes.com/athletic/672...
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Inside the Lakers’ Anthony Davis pursuit in 2019 — and the confusion over pick swaps
An excerpt from the upcoming book "A Hollywood Ending" by Yaron Weitzman details potential confusion during the Lakers' superstar trade.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6722803/2025/10/17/lakers-lebron-james-anthony-davis-trade-hollywood-ending/
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Tyler Parker
about 1 month ago
NAME RANK
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Ranking the 117 Best NBA Names of the Quarter Century
What’s in a name? Everything. Featuring Dwayne Bacon, Stromile Swift, and so many more, these are the NBA player handles that stand the test of time.
https://www.theringer.com/2025/10/06/nba/best-nba-player-names-ranked-21st-century
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Mike Vorkunov
about 1 month ago
Damn, Yaron is in Vanity Fair. Shit, you know this book is gonna be big.
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about 2 months ago
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sucks when the pun store has only one item in stock
about 2 months ago
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no basketball team has ever regretted a tree-planting partnership
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Bruce Arthur
2 months ago
In 2019 Kawhi Leonard’s uncle asked the Raptors for a piece of the Leafs and a Paul George trade, but also for two notable extras: no-show sponsorships, and ownership shares in outside companies. Which he seems to have gotten with Aspiration, and the Clippers.
www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...
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Inside Kawhi Leonard’s bizarre list of secret demands from Raptors and how they line up with the alleged Clippers deal
During 2019 contract talks, Leonard’s camp wanted a trade for Paul George, Leafs shares and at least $10 million a year in no-show sponsorship income.
https://www.thestar.com/sports/raptors/inside-kawhi-leonard-s-bizarre-list-of-secret-demands-from-raptors-and-how-they-line/article_9f1b0398-0ebd-4193-bc06-798efda95023.html
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Sean Woodley
3 months ago
New
@lockedonraptors.bsky.social
with
@jamesherbert.bsky.social
talking about the high, low and median outcomes for the Raptors this year. 🏀They could actually be pretty good! 🏀If it goes bad, it's gonna be a grim scene 🏀Mild progress & a clearer path forward most likely?
youtu.be/3D50fJlE2uQ
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The Toronto Raptors have a TOP-4 ceiling, but a DEPRESSING floor | Will it all click in 2025-26?
YouTube video by Locked On Raptors
https://youtu.be/3D50fJlE2uQ
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Emma Baccellieri
4 months ago
Spent a bit of time at the WNBA All-Star Game chatting with a new basketball fan: Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, who has been advising the WNBA players in their labor negotiations, part of a more robust strategy this year from the union
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In Search of Equity, WNBA Players Have a Nobel Laureate on Their Side
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin, who focuses on the role of women in the American economy, has been advising the WNBPA in its CBA negotiations.
https://www.si.com/wnba/wnba-players-association-have-nobel-laureate-claudia-goldin-on-their-side
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“Yao is number one in paradise. Compared to him, I’m cold ash in a pot.”
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egor dëmin is having an interesting summer league
www.cbssports.com/nba/news/net...
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Nets' Egor Dëmin has been more Klay Thompson than Shaun Livingston at summer league
Dëmin has looked like a sharpshooter (and played a different role than expected) in Las Vegas
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nets-egor-demin-has-been-more-klay-thompson-than-shaun-livingston-at-summer-league/
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Dan Devine
4 months ago
"It is funny to imagine Joel explaining Process lore to his therapist the same way I do with my therapist. Just being like, 'Well, Dario wasn't SUPPOSED to come over.'"
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egor dëmin is having an interesting summer league
www.cbssports.com/nba/news/net...
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Nets' Egor Dëmin has been more Klay Thompson than Shaun Livingston at summer league
Dëmin has looked like a sharpshooter (and played a different role than expected) in Las Vegas
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nets-egor-demin-has-been-more-klay-thompson-than-shaun-livingston-at-summer-league/
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Michael Levin
4 months ago
this is the greatest, most all-encompassing, most important piece on Joel Embiid ever written
www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
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Joel Embiid sees you
In what he's calling his "most important" offseason, Joel Embiid responds to his critics.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/45747447/joel-embiid-philadelphia-76ers-star-sees-you
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Dan Devine
5 months ago
A truly wild reconstruction/recounting of New Orleans' draft night decision-making, via
@fearthebrown.bsky.social
:
intheno.substack.com/p/queens-gam...
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let’s see what mike brown (and maybe james borrego?) can do with the knicks
www.cbssports.com/nba/news/how...
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How Mike Brown can make Knicks fans get over Tom Thibodeau firing by revamping New York's approach
Brown is reportedly on the verge of being named New York's next coach
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/how-mike-brown-can-make-knicks-fans-get-over-tom-thibodeau-firing-by-revamping-new-yorks-approach/
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i did explainer journalism
www.cbssports.com/nba/news/exp...
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Explaining the Bucks' bold decision to use the stretch provision on Damian Lillard and sign Myles Turner
Milwaukee got creative on Tuesday, but did it get much better?
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/explaining-the-bucks-bold-decision-to-use-the-stretch-provision-on-damian-lillard-and-sign-myles-turner/
5 months ago
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call him kilometers turner, please. it’s canada day
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Bruce Arthur
5 months ago
Goodbye to Masai Ujiri as president of the Raptors. The dreams stayed big: it was the owners who got small.
www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...
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Bruce Arthur: Everything Masai Ujiri did — his dreams and his success with the Raptors — was big. Maybe too big for the team’s owner
MLSE CEO Keith Pelley said the decision to replace Ujiri was his, without explaining why. We can put the pieces together.
https://www.thestar.com/sports/raptors/everything-masai-ujiri-did-his-dreams-and-his-success-with-the-raptors-was-big-maybe/article_2a6055bf-d65c-4d12-98f2-f29988c68f36.html
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this kennedy burke season is insane. it’s like if david roddy suddenly became the best 3-point shooter in the league
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weird day for the raptors!
www.cbssports.com/nba/news/mas...
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Masai Ujiri knew he was out as Raptors president in early June, led draft process anyway, MLSE CEO says
Ujiri worked through the NBA Draft knowing that he wouldn't be back next season
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/masai-ujiri-knew-he-was-out-as-raptors-president-in-early-june-led-draft-process-anyway-mlse-ceo-says/
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Josh Gondelman
5 months ago
My new standup special Positive Reinforcement premieres TONIGHT at 8pm eastern time on Blonde Medicine’s YouTube channel. I’m really proud of this hour and grateful to all the people who helped make the special happen. Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAvN...
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Mark Deeks
5 months ago
Bogoljub Markovic is an anagram of "good value pick for the middle of the second round". Probably.
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Sean Highkin
5 months ago
Inside "Project Hansen," the Blazers' secret two-year mission to land Yang Hansen in one of the most shocking NBA draft picks in recent memory:
www.rosegardenreport.com/inside-proje...
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Inside 'Project Hansen,' Trail Blazers' Secret Two-Year Mission to Land Yang Hansen
How the Blazers' front office zeroed in on the surprising selection of the 7-foot-2 Chinese prospect.
https://www.rosegardenreport.com/inside-project-hansen-trail-blazers-secret-two-year-mission-to-land-yang-hansen/
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Mike Vorkunov
5 months ago
My draft night observation: Hansen Yang is so big that the hat the NBA gave him didn't fit and he walked around without the clasps connected in the back.
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what the hellicans
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5 months ago
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derik queen has star upside, but the trade the pelicans made to get him has waaaay too much downside
www.cbssports.com/nba/news/der...
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Derik Queen might be a star, but the path Joe Dumars and the Pelicans took to get him was a reckless gamble
New Orleans gave up a valuable 2026 pick in order to acquire the big man out of Maryland
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/derik-queen-might-be-a-star-but-the-path-joe-dumars-and-the-pelicans-took-to-get-him-was-a-reckless-gamble/
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i for one am excited for the danny wolf experience
5 months ago
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great story on cedric coward, perhaps the grizzliest of grizzlies draft picks
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james borrego’s hornets played a lot like the pacers. smart of the knicks to interview him imo
5 months ago
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Michael Pina
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Timothy Burke
5 months ago
"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
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which lottery teams are going to follow the rockets and pistons’ footsteps? it looks like the blazers, raptors and hawks are going to try
www.cbssports.com/nba/news/hou...
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Houston and Detroit knew when to go for it. These 3 NBA teams should be next to make the lottery leap
Houston and Detroit made 30-game leaps look easy. Who's next?
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/houston-and-detroit-knew-when-to-go-for-it-these-3-nba-teams-should-be-next-to-make-the-lottery-leap/
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the thunder can’t be duplicated, but the rest of the nba would be foolish not to emulate them
www.cbssports.com/nba/news/the...
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The Thunder can't be duplicated, but opposing teams would be foolish not to emulate NBA champs
What can the rest of the league learn from Oklahoma City's title run?
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/the-thunder-cant-be-duplicated-but-opposing-teams-would-be-foolish-not-to-emulate-nba-champs/
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