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NBA trade tracker: Updates for every deal of the 2026 offseason
We have the updates, including players and draft picks, for every NBA trade made this summer.
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2026 NBA buzz: Latest free agency and trade updates
We're tracking deals, trades, rumors and buzz across the NBA, including the latest on Norman Powell, Marcus Smart and LeBron James.
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Windy: Lakers paid a very big price to get Walker Kessler
Windy: Lakers paid a very big price to get Walker Kessler
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Windy: Mitchell Robinson a 'quality signing' for the Celtics
Windy: Mitchell Robinson a 'quality signing' for the Celtics
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2026 NBA free agency: Grades for offseason signings, extensions
We're grading the biggest free agent signings and extensions, including Marcus Smart's deal with Houston.
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Lakers trade for Jazz C Walker Kessler, sign trio, sources say
The Lakers are acquiring Walker Kessler from the Jazz for unprotected first-round picks in 2031 and 2033 and first-round swaps in 2028 and 2030 and signing Sandro Mamukelashvili, Quentin Grimes and Collin Sexton, sources told ESPN.
