2026 NBA Draft Results
[Charania] BREAKING: The Charlotte Hornets are trading star guard LaMelo Ball and Josh Green to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Naz Reid, a 2033 unprotected first-round pick, three first-round pick swaps (2028, 2029, 2030) and three second-round picks (2029, 2032, 2033), sources tell ESPN.
[Charania] Golden State’s Al Horford is declining his player option and intends to sign a new two-year, $14 million deal to stay with the Warriors, sources tell me and @anthonyVslater . Horford, 40, becomes only the 13th player in NBA history to reach 20 seasons.
[Windhorst] The Boston Celtics have decided that Jaylen Brown probably needs to be traded for them to be competitive.
Two of the three pick swaps in the LaMelo-deal are basically worthless
The Timberwolves now have the No. 1 and No. 3 draft picks from the 2020 NBA draft
John Turturro reunites with illegitimate son Landry Shamet
AJ Dybantsa posts on LinkedIn on being drafted No. 1
Small compilation of 6’4 Dwyane Wade being an elite rim protector
[Charania] Just in: The Detroit Pistons are trading C/F Isaiah Stewart to the Memphis Grizzlies for three future second-round picks, sources tell ESPN. Pistons clear Stewart’s salary and pick up assets while Grizzlies acquire a 25-year-old as a rugged frontcourt piece.
[Stein] The Timberwolves and Raptors have emerged as two of the teams with trade interest in Charlotte’s LaMelo Ball, league sources tell @JakeLFischer and me.
Wolves GM Tim Connelly on Ant’s feedback in potential roster moves: “There’s been countless things we could have done. When you go to your leaders like Ant and you say, ‘It takes get this to get that’, the conviction he has in our guys is evident when he says, ‘No, we’re not trading this guy’.”
Looking back on it a couple years later, how is it looking that the Wolves traded KAT so they could hold on to Naz Reid and Nickeil Alexander-Walker?
[O’Connor] Sources: The Timberwolves explored Jaylen Brown trades with Boston before the LaMelo Ball deal was completed with Charlotte. LaMelo was the preferred target though.
[Haynes] The Minnesota Timberwolves have expressed a strong desire to acquire Charlotte Hornets star LaMelo Ball, league sources tell me. The Hornets are only listening to offers at the moment.
[Youngmisuk] Talks surrounding Ball have picked up steam with the Hornets fielding aggressive offers, sources said. If Charlotte’s terms are met, a potential trade could develop in the next 24 to 48 hours, sources said Wednesday night.
[Charania] Multiple teams are strongly pursuing LaMelo Ball and the Hornets are engaged in talks
The Oregonian: Trail Blazers owner says taxpayers must cover entire Moda Center makeover
Since the start of 2026, Charlotte Hornets were 33–16 with +11.2 net rating (#2 in the NBA)
Obama discusses OG and Brunson’s prowess
29 of 30 second round picks tonight were traded. Jaden Bradley was the only one not traded.
The Charlotte Hornets are the only NBA team that hasn’t made the playoffs during the 2020s
Lamelo and Ant both fit incredibly well together and both can also independently carry the team in one’s absence
Valanciunas on Jokic: “He’s at the facility early in the morning, getting shots up, putting in extra work. After every game, we’d hit the weight room. Every single game. He plays 40 minutes, I play my eight, and we’d still do exactly the same workout afterward. His work ethic is something else.”
After Being Selected at #11 By the Warriors, Yaxel Lendeborg Broke Down in Tears Hugging His Mom, Who Is Battling Stage 4 Appendix Cancer. “This moment is for her.”
Jaylen Brown: “ESPN is unethical, and Stephen A. Smith is the head face of that. The organization, the players, they were all in agreeaance. They all knew what I meant by that. Our team was basically salary dumped. We lost a lot of players. For us to emerge and still be in the same position…”
[Highlight] Lamelo Ball runs out the tunnel with the Raptors players
[Charania] Los Angeles Lakers star Austin Reaves intends to sign a four-year, \(185 million maximum contract to return to the franchise, with a player option for the final season in 2029-30, sources tell ESPN. Reaves declined his \)14.9M player option for the new max deal.
[Fischer] Memphis is trading these same three second-round picks that the Grizzlies received from the Pistons last night, sources say, back to Detroit, in order to land Isaiah Stewart.
[Charania] “I’m told over the last 24-48 hours, the Lakers came to the understanding that Austin Reaves had multiple max contracts available to him in free agency. The Detroit Pistons were coming aggressively for him. So that’s why today the Lakers stepped up to give him this deal.”
[MacMahon] NBA coaches association president J.B. Bickerstaff on Micah Nori’s year-to-year contract with Portland: “From our perspective, it’s like someone’s taking advantage of your dream and devaluing what we feel like coaches have earned over the years.”
[Charania] Sources: The Los Angeles Lakers are acquiring No. 56 from the Chicago Bulls in the second round of the NBA draft tonight at 8 pm ET on ESPN. Lakers sent cash to the Bulls to get a pick tonight.
[Stein/Fischer] The Wolves, sources say, would prefer not to part with Naz Reid, but it is difficult to see how they could construct a credible trade offer for Ball without including Reid or Rudy Gobert. It is conceivable that the Randle trade could be expanded to help facilitate other transactions.
Two days ago, a reporter asked Timberwolves GM Tim Connelly how the team could improve its ballhandling and playmaking without a point guard and if the team would have to do it collectively. Connelly responded, “Well, you can acquire a point guard, certainly” and laughed
Found out I’m part of the Madison Square Garden breach today…
[Windhorst & Marks] Kawhi Leonard’s potential trade availability is reportedly being monitored by the Detroit Pistons and, perhaps more notably, by some of his “former teams.” Leonard previously played for the Toronto Raptors and San Antonio Spurs.
FYI: Cameron Boozer was the youngest player chosen in 26 draft.
If FIFA can start games on time, so can the NBA
One of the top remaining players after the first round was Henri Veesaar. He remains undrafted. With reports of the Lakers trying to move up 37 to draft him, it seems that he is pulling the Austin Reaves/Bronny James move of telling prospective teams not to draft him.
[Charania] Sources: Chicago is trading Braden Smith to the Indiana Pacers for Kam Jones, future swaps and cash.
[Windhorst] 2 days ago, the Lakers and Austin Reaves’ camp were pretty far apart in their discussions about where his contract would land. Then the Lakers yesterday pivoted, increasing their offer somewhere in the neighbourhood of 50% per season.
AJ Dybantsa on which NBA player he is most like but no one compares him to.
[Finlay] AJ Dybantsa on taking Trae Young’s #3 jersey number: “I was trolling about but… if he wants to give me the number I’ll take the number”
Drafted two years before LaMelo Ball’s selection, Miles Bridges outlasts the LaMelo Ball era in Charlotte
The Lakers reportedly serenaded Austin Reaves with his favorite country songs and customized “AR” initialed pillows in their meeting to discuss a new deal, per u/ShamsCharania.
[Owczarski] These deals bothered Rivers… “Giannis said so many things,” a former coach said, “It stems from your actions, which is, ‘My brothers have to be on this team.’ Well then, are you about a championship? ‘Cause they’re not only not helping us win a championship, it’s creating dissension.”
[Stein & Fischer] The Timberwolves and Raptors are the first two confirmed suitors, but league sources say that the Milwaukee Bucks have also registered interest.
[Horney] Jay Williams: Awkward Draft Moment Was ‘Extremely Uncomfortable’
[Charania] The Lakers and Mavericks have made a trade – L.A. sends No. 56 Vsevolod Ishchenko to Dallas. The Mavericks sent cash to the Lakers for Vsevolod Ishchenko at 56, sources said.
[Highlights] All the 115 threes made by 38-year-old Brook Lopez, AKA “Splash Mountain”, during the 2025-26 season.
Including one 3-pointer he had in the play-in (1⁄6 - 16.7%).
He overall went 115⁄323 from 3 this season (35.6%)
He went 114⁄317 (36.0%) during the regular-season.