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By InsideHoops.comUpdated Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 3:00 a.m. ET
The Atlanta Hawks took forward Zaccharie Risacher with the first pick in the 2024 NBA draft, marking the second straight year that the draft has had a decidedly French flavor. Risacher, the first of four French players taken in the first round, follows in the footsteps of countryman Victor Wembanyama, who went No. 1 to the San Antonio Spurs last year. Risacher is the fourth overall international prospect to be taken with the NBA's top pick, joining Italian big man Andrea Bargnani (2006, Toronto Raptors) and Hall of Fame center Yao Ming (2002, Houston Rockets). - ESPN.com
Fellow Frenchman Alex Sarr, also 19, was taken at No. 2 by the Washington Wizards, while Kentucky guard Reed Sheppard went to the Rockets at No. 3. Another French player -- Tidjane Salaun -- went to the Charlotte Hornets at No. 6. Late in the first round, a fourth French prospect went off the board as the New York Knicks took guard Pacome Dadiet with the 25th selection. - ESPN.com
Free agent center Nic Claxton intends to a sign a four-year, $100 million contract to return to the Brooklyn Nets, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on Wednesday. Claxton returns to Brooklyn as an anchor for what will be a young Nets core after the team swung a deal to send Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks on Tuesday night. - ESPN.com
Free agent forward OG Anunoby intends to sign a five-year, $212.5 million contract to return to the New York Knicks, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. The deal will include a player option and a trade kicker, sources said. The Knicks acquired Anunoby in a trade at the start the 2024 calendar year, sending out RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley as New York was looking to get bigger on the wing. - ESPN.com
Bam Adebayo, one of the NBA's top defensive players and soon to become a two-time U.S. Olympian, intends to sign a three-year, $166 million extension with the Miami Heat when the league's offseason moratorium on such moves is lifted next month, according to multiple reports. Adebayo, who will be 27 in July, can sign the deal on July 6, by league rule. - ESPN.com
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The Brooklyn Nets completed a massive overhaul of the franchise's roster, trading their best player, Mikal Bridges, to the New York Knicks, sources told ESPN on Tuesday, and landing a deal with the Houston Rockets to return the franchise's first-round picks lost in the James Harden trade. After teetering in the post-Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving windows between pursuing the playoffs and the draft lottery, the Nets declared a direction and suddenly have 16 first-round picks available through 2031, including four selections in the starry 2025 NBA draft. - ESPN.com
Sources told Wojnarowski that New York remains focused on attempting to re-sign forward OG Anunoby, whom they acquired midseason from the Toronto Raptors and who is set to become an unrestricted free agent this summer. The Knicks also hope to re-sign center Isaiah Hartenstein but are limited in what they can pay him due to only holding his early Bird rights -- which means, at most, he can sign a four-year, $72.5 million deal with the team. By landing Bridges and Anunoby in consecutive deals, New York is arming itself with as much length, versatility and shooting on the perimeter as possible in order to contend with the champion Boston Celtics for Eastern Conference supremacy. - ESPN.com
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