Lakers, Christian Wood reportedly agree to two-year, veteran-minimum contract that makes sense for both sides

Getty Images Christian Wood’s long summer of waiting has come to an end as the floor-stretching center has agreed to a two-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, according to ESPN’s Adrian... Read more »

ACC adding Stanford, Cal and SMU means the conference’s days of being an elite basketball league are over

So, the unwanted inevitable became official in the early hours of Friday morning when 12 out of 15 Atlantic Coast Conference presidents and chancellors decided to panic-add Cal, SMU and Stanford beginning in... Read more »

Watch Dennis Schroder get into it on sidelines with German coach

BASKET-WC-2023-GER-SLO As fomer coaches and teammates about Dennis Schroder and they will say he’s… challenging at times. If they are being polite that day. It’s no different on the German national team,... Read more »

Stanford, Cal, SMU join ACC: How college basketball conferences are impacted by realignment

Less than one month after one of the most impactful days in the history of college athletics that saw six Pac-12 programs leave the storied conference, more dominoes fell on Friday when... Read more »

Bulls center Andre Drummond says he has ‘great chance’ at Hall of Fame: ‘I’m the best [rebounder] ever’

Perhaps no player epitomizes the shift in the concept of the modern NBA big man more than Chicago Bulls center Andre Drummond. A two-time All-Star and one-time All-NBA selection, Drummond has led... Read more »

Conference realignment winners, losers: Stanford, Cal face travel headaches, SMU gets long-awaited promotion

The 2023 version of conference realignment will go down as one of the most chaotic in college athletics history. The Pac-12 as we know it is all but gone after more than... Read more »

What are Knicks’ plans for Josh Hart and Immanuel Quickley?

Apr 26, 2023; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; New York Knicks guard Josh Hart (3) drives beside Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell (45) in the first quarter during game five of the 2023 NBA... Read more »

College basketball offseason winners and losers: Duke scores continuity, West Virginia plummets from high

Between the transfer market, traditional high school recruiting, summer workouts, foreign tours and all the other commitments required of coaches, there isn’t much of an offseason in modern college basketball. But with... Read more »

2023 NBA offseason grades: Lakers get top marks; Damian Lillard trade request leaves multiple teams incomplete

I’m not really a Tom Petty guy, per se, but he certainly said it best: “The waiting is the hardest part.” Not only are we fidgetingly waiting for the start of 2023-24... Read more »

Candid Coaches: What NIL price is a projected high-major starter in the transfer looking portal looking for?

CBS Sports college basketball insiders Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander spent a month surveying 100-plus Division I men’s basketball coaches for our annual Candid Coaches series. They polled across the sport’s landscape:... Read more »