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Not sure @kobebryant collectors will get too excited about this one ... but there’s pretty much nothing I’d rather show 10-year-old me if I had a time machine. You are too much, @PaniniAmerica!!!
Marc Stein
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Marc Stein
@TheSteinLine
NBA correspondent: marcstein.Substack.com. Inquiries: [email protected]. Past: @nytimes @espn @dallasnews @ladailynews @sbsun @washingtonpost @ocregister
- Mavericks team owner Mark Cuban announces that no player in Mavericks history will ever wear No. 24 again in tribute to Kobe Bryant
- LeBron James won NBA Finals MVP by a unanimous vote of 11-0
- Informed I'm among ESPN's layoffs. But basketball, as they say, never stops. To readers/viewers/listeners/countless colleagues ... grateful
- Kobe Bryant is officially a Hall of Fame
- Kemba Walker will be a top target in free agency for the Lakers after they reached an agreement in principle to trade for Anthony Davis, according to league sources
- Raptors, man. They had the basketball world's undivided attention for a mere 43 hours ...
- The Rockets are pursuing a trade package from the 76ers that would be headlined by Ben Simmons and Tyrese Maxey, league sources say
- Luka Dončić did NOT request a trade, league sources tell @TheSteinLine. The Mavericks did this on their own accord, getting back Anthony Davis but only one future first-round pick from the Lakers in 2029 for a 25-year-old regarded as a future MVP. More NBA from me;
- We didn't hear Dallas complain about it until the Mavericks were seventh in the West, which was poor form, and the same holds true now with the Lakers: It rings hollow to protest only when your team is suddenly at risk of having to play the play-in round.LeBron James on the play-in tournament: "Whoever came up with that s--- needs to be fired"
- Dončić has been informed of the trade, I'm told, which was agreed upon late Saturday and immediately ranks as one of the most stunning trade thunderbolts in NBA history.The Mavericks are indeed, without warning, trading Luka Dončić to the Lakers in a three-team deal that will bring Anthony Davis to Dallas, two sources close to the talks confirm. More NBA from me: tinyurl.com/yrmzrx83
- Proud and hugely humbled to share that, just in time for my 25th season covering the greatest league in the world, I'm joining the @nytimes
- Charles Barkley on the @NBAonTNT: "KD went from The Splash Brothers to The Dribble Brothers"
- Pretty sure no ever has to ask again if LeBron will be embraced as a Laker ...
