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NBA teams may already be positioning themselves to draft Cooper Flagg
Basketball phenom Cooper Flagg is widely considered to be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, and teams may have already started making moves to get him. National NBA writers and fans are...
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Son of late UMaine women’s basketball player picked 7th in NBA Draft
Joe Arruda Hartford Courant (TNS) NEW YORK — The Bristol Boy is off the board. With the No. 7 overall pick in the NBA draft, former Bristol Central and UConn star Donovan Clingan was selected by the...
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Ownership group of Boston Celtics is putting team up for sale
BOSTON (AP) — The ownership group that controls the reigning NBA champion Boston Celtics says it intends to sell all its shares of the team. In a statement released Monday, Boston Basketball Partners...
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Cooper Flagg’s ‘Maine attributes’ helped him shine against USA Olympians
Newport native Cooper Flagg made waves on social media Monday with videos of him scoring on various United States Olympians being circulated by the New York Times, the Washington Post and USA Today...
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Dikembe Mutombo, Hall of Fame NBA player, dies at 58 from brain cancer
Dikembe Mutombo, a Basketball Hall of Famer who was one of the best defensive players in NBA history and a longtime global ambassador for the game, died Monday from brain cancer, the league announced....
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Celtics hand Cavaliers first loss of season winning 120-117
BOSTON (AP) — The defending NBA champions held off the league’s hottest team on Tuesday night, with Jayson Tatum scoring 33 points and adding 12 rebounds to lead the Boston Celtics to a 120-117...
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Doncic to the Lakers, Davis to the Mavs in trade, source says
Luka Doncic led Dallas to the NBA Finals last season. Anthony Davis won a championship with the Los Angeles Lakers. They’re switching teams now — in an absolute blockbuster. Doncic is being traded by...
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This year’s NBA draft lottery expected to be the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes
They call it a lottery for a reason. The process to determine who gets the first pick in the NBA draft is anything but a sure bet. Just ask the Detroit Pistons. Detroit had the best odds to win the...
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Report: Boston Celtics to be sold to STG co-founder William Chisholm
The Celtics are onto a new era. The Celtics ownership group has agreed to sell the team to William Chisholm, co-founder of Symphony Technology Group, according to the Boston Globe’s Adam...
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Cooper Flagg declares for the NBA draft
A kid from Maine may be chosen first in the NBA draft for the first time ever. Cooper Flagg ended the national speculation over his basketball future on Monday by declaring for the NBA draft. Flagg is...
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Defending champion Celtics close out Magic 120-89 for 4-1 playoff series win
BOSTON — Jayson Tatum had 35 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds, and the Boston Celtics pulled away after Magic star Paolo Banchero went to the bench with five fouls, beating Orlando 120-89 in Game...
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Maine ties would make this NBA team an interesting landing spot for Cooper...
The Charlotte Hornets already have an owner from Maine, an assistant coach from Maine and a scout from Maine. And now they have as good a chance as any team to draft a star player from Maine. The 14...
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The Celtics don’t have a chance of drafting Cooper Flagg. But this Boston...
He was the architect of a dramatic rebuild that helped set the Boston Celtics up for last year’s NBA championship. Now he has a chance to orchestrate another revamp for a different franchise — and he...
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These are some of the best teams that could win the Cooper Flagg lottery
The NBA draft lottery provides an element of unpredictability. Just look at last year, when the Atlanta Hawks only had a 3 percent chance of winning the top pick but still secured it. This year’s...
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Dallas Mavericks win the Cooper Flagg draft sweepstakes
Cooper Flagg is almost surely going to be a Dallas Maverick. The Mavericks won Monday night’s NBA draft lottery and secured the first overall pick for the June 25-26 draft. Flagg, an 18-year-old...
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Cooper Flagg enjoyed testing his shooting skills at the NBA draft combine
The presumptive number one pick was feeling good after a series of drills and tests at the NBA draft combine on Tuesday. Cooper Flagg and other top prospects are in Chicago this week for the combine,...
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Dallas Mavericks CEO sees Cooper Flagg as opportunity to bring ‘fun’ back to...
CHICAGO — Rick Welts was there, 40 years to the date earlier, when the NBA draft lottery got started. He worked for the league then and was in the room when that first one took place. And it seems he...
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Jayson Tatum has ‘successful’ surgery to repair torn Achilles
Celtics star Jayson Tatum had surgery on Tuesday to repair a torn right Achilles tendon suffered the night before, according to a statement from the team. “Jayson Tatum today underwent successful...
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Cooper Flagg is still just a kid from Maine. Now he’s settling into his new...
CHICAGO — The town of Newport, Maine, has a population of about 3,200 people. There’s a bowling alley, a popular local diner that serves breakfast all day, a hunting club and it costs only $6 to...
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How the Mavericks could go from despair to dominance with Cooper Flagg
The fortunes of the Dallas Mavericks franchise turned around in an instant this week, thanks to the NBA draft lottery. The Dallas organization, and their fans in particular, had suffered through a...
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