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While head-to-head leagues may grant fantasy managers some grace if their teams start slowly, that isn’t necessarily the case in roto leagues. Availability, which is critical in any fantasy league regardless of format, is paramount; a star player sitting for an extended period can be crushing to a manager’s chances of winning their league. I […]

The Golden State Warriors didn’t just have a messy summer — they walked into a timeline crisis.

File photo Lakers Luka Doncic isn’t talking about retirement, but he already knows how he’d like his career to end. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay, the Lakers star said he’d “for sure” like to finish with Real Madrid, the club that raised him. Doncic joined Madrid at just 13 years

Imagn The NBA isn’t expected to reach a resolution on the Kawhi Leonard salary-cap circumvention case until after the 2026 All-Star Game — an event, fittingly enough, hosted by the Clippers. As Pablo Torre of Pablo Torre Finds Out has reported, bankrupt financial firm Aspiration allegedly paid Leonard $48 million for what amounted to a

It has been clear for a year or more that the Los Angeles Clippers knew they were fast approaching the end of the Kawhi Leonard/James Harden era. The Clippers have been looking to pivot, and the report this week of the Clippers’ frustration with Leonard fit the existing pattern. It’s not a coincidence that the

File photo The Knicks aren’t just kicking the tires on Malcolm Brogdon and Landry Shamet. According to Stefan Bondy of the New York Post, the front office would actually like to keep both guards on the 15-man roster when the season tips — which means a trade is probably coming. New York is hard-capped at

File photo Veteran forward Jimmy Butler has reached out directly to the Warriors to get answers on where things stand with Jonathan Kuminga, according to Dalton Johnson of NBC Sports Bay Area. Media day is right around the corner and Kuminga remains a restricted free agent. “I can confidently say that Jimmy Butler has also

It’s going to be hard for the Clippers and owner Steve Ballmer to explain their way out of the latest evidence against them in the Kawhi Leonard Aspiration scandal.

File photo Most people seem to believe that the Cavaliers will build on last year’s 64-18 record. As in, get past the second round of the playoffs in 2025-26. And when I say, “most people,” I mean readers who voted in a poll conducted by Marc Stein of The Stein Line. This, of course, was

File photo Lakers LeBron James’ future may be murky, but ESPN suggests that the Lakers are suddenly looking pretty secure. Why? Because they swung big, trading for Luka Doncic in February, then locking him up with an extension in August. That kind of star power — combined with the Los Angeles market and major cap