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By InsideHoops.comUpdated Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. ET
No matter its follow-up moves, Houston would have been an offseason winner on the virtue of the Kevin Durant trade alone. That's how deeply the Rockets won the Durant deal, acquiring a picture-perfect solution to their greatest weakness while not losing any of their best young players or draft picks in return. But the Rockets didn't stop after adding Durant. They also signed Dorian Finney-Smith to a four-year, $53 million contract; signed Clint Capela to a three-year, $21.5 million pact; signed Fred VanVleet to a newly manageable contract; signed Jabari Smith Jr. to a reasonable extension; and re-signed Jae'Sean Tate, Aaron Holiday and Jeff Green to round out the roster. The end result of all this activity is a deep, versatile roster that can beat opponents in all sorts of ways: with defense, rebounding, size, physicality, youth, experience, Durant's shotmaking genius. The Rockets will challenge the Oklahoma City Thunder for the unofficial title of deepest team. - ESPN.com
A month after the New York Knicks elected to move on from coach Tom Thibodeau, who led the team to its first conference finals in a quarter-century, the franchise is expected to hire two-time Coach of the Year Mike Brown, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania. The Knicks and Brown -- who has previously guided the Cleveland Cavaliers (twice), Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings with a long run as the Golden State Warriors' associate head coach -- are expected to reach an agreement in the coming days. Knicks president Leon Rose made his expectations crystal clear in the first sentence of his statement announcing Thibodeau's dismissal, stating: "Our organization is singularly focused on winning a championship for our fans." - ESPN.com
Good news, basketball fans: Red Panda intends to be ready for next season. Red Panda, the popular performer who fell off her unicycle and crashed to the court during halftime of the WNBA Commissioner's Cup final between the Indiana Fever and Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday, has a broken left wrist and will need further consultation with an orthopedic surgeon, the agency that represents her said Wednesday. - AP via ESPN.com
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