LeBron James is practicing with the Los Angeles Lakers' G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers, as he ramps up for a return from sciatica on his right side, coach JJ Redick announced Monday. The Lakers are in Charlotte for a game against the Hornets, the first in a four-game road trip. The team doesn't return home until Tuesday, Nov. 18 when they host the Utah Jazz.
I played over 10 years in the NBA and made tens of millions of dollars. I had everything I ever dreamed of. But after a series of legal issues and personal problems, my life has become something I could never have imagined. I'm right back to where it all began - back in Coney Island, back in the projects, back in the fire.
The NBA season is moving fast, and we are moving right along with it to keep you up to date on the players that are playing themselves onto the fantasy radar. Young players, in particular, find that switch and all of a sudden go from rotation guy to impact performer at any given moment. Let's delve deeper to identify a group of lightly-rostered players that deserve more attention and can help your fantasy squads.
The 2025-26 season is just three weeks old, and there are more than six months until the start of free agency. But the small body of work on the court should not dissuade us from identifying 12 potential free agents who have stood out and what their future could hold with their respective teams. There are criteria to how we selected our lineup of contract-year All-Stars:
They gave up Kyle Anderson and Kevin Love, two non-rotation players, for Powell, who is off to quite the start in Miami. Powell is averaging 23.3 points (he averaged a career-high 21.8 points in 60 games last season), 4.6 rebounds, 2.4 assists, and 1.4 steals per game, shooting 46.7% from the field and 46.2% from three. He's started in all seven games played, missing three contests with a groin injury.
Khris Middleton's future with the Washington Wizards doesn't have an expiration date, but since the beginning of the season it's become abundantly clear that his departure is closer than it may seem. The veteran forward entered the season looking to prove that not only could he be a difference maker in the development of the young core on the roster, but that he still has plenty left in the tank.
Phoenix Suns guard Jalen Green appeared to aggravate a right hamstring injury during the first quarter of Saturday's game against the LA Clippers and had to be helped off the court. Green suffered the injury on a drive with just over 40 seconds left in the first quarter. He pulled up short and was left limping for the remainder of the possession. He was later ruled out.
Things started to look ugly in the second quarter, though, as the Hawks went on a 13-2 run, the Raptors were 1-12 (1-12!) to start the second frame and their 3-point shooting went cold. To add salt to the wound, Scottie Barnes & RJ Barrett really struggled to put points on the board.They only had 18 points in the second frame, but their spirited effort set the tone of what would be a much different second half.
They've been buddies forever, but this was the first time Jokić paid attention to how his friend makes a living. Pavkov was in constant motion, going from his phone to his customers in the front of his shop to the back, where he oversaw a paint job for one of Jokić's sulkies, the two-wheeled, chariot-like vehicles that attach to Jokić's horses as they race around his track down the street.
From time to time in this column, I like to look at something I wrote in the past and see if it holds up to retrospective scrutiny. Early last year, after the baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara were ensnared in a major gambling scandal that ended with Mizuhara in jail, I wrote a column titled "Online Gambling Is Changing Sports for the Worse," in which I expressed concern for the "integrity of the game," and worried that betting by athletes and others around them—Ohtani himself denied any involvement and was never charged with anything—might begin occurring with such frequency that it would cause the public, including children, to lose faith in what they were watching.
