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Kyle Anderson’s eyes almost popped out of his head watching Anthony Edwards’ epic dunk over John Collins

Anthony Edwards’ teammates couldn’t believe it either.

Anthony Edwards’ dunk over John Collins Monday is the NBA’s likely dunk of the year. The Ant-Man hit a button to transform into Giant-Man and absolutely destroyed the person in front of him. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’ll definitely want to check out every angle of this gravity-defying dunk.

Now, whatever reaction you had to watching it, just imagine if you had seen it in person — just a few feet away. That was the experience of Kyle Anderson, and his real-time reaction told the whole story of how incredible the dunk was.

You know an athlete is on another level when other athletes on the floor can’t believe what they’re seeing.

10 U.S.-born NBA players (Karl-Anthony Towns!) who are on non-American FIBA World Cup rosters

Jordan Clarkson will represent the Philippines, who will also host the tournament.

The 2023 FIBA World Cup begins next week and 32 teams will compete in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia for a shot at a gold medal.

Although the United States men’s basketball team has a strong roster and enters the tournament as favorites, there are several other national teams (e.g. Canada!) who have a chance to make some noise.

While many of the top international stars are not able to play for one reason or another, there are some familiar faces you may see who you thought were American but are not playing for Team USA.

FIBA allows teams to have one naturalized player on their roster. Let’s run through some of the notable names you’ll see on other rosters:

Hot mics caught a fan making fun of Rudy Gobert by trying to instigate another punch in Denver

This is a perfect playoff heckling moment. No notes.

To say the least: It was not the Minnesota Timberwolves’ night in Denver on Sunday.

From the jump, Denver bashed the Timberwolves around, with six Nuggets scoring in double figures as they completely overwhelmed the Western Conference’s No. 8 seed in a 109-80 victory.

One of Minnesota’s lowlights was, unsurprisingly, Rudy Gobert. The center was now almost two games removed from a play-in-game suspension after punching his own teammate Kyle Anderson. Late in the third quarter, after Denver’s Christian Braun got into a scuffle with Anderson, Braun found himself shooting two free throws following a flagrant foul.

Mind you, the game was already out of reach for Minnesota in chasing a 25-point deficit. This didn’t really mean anything:

But it was here that a fan in Denver wanted to ensure Gobert didn’t forget his overaggressive mistake with Anderson. It was here that they tried to instigate another Gobert punch by telling the big man, “You should probably punch him.”

The best part is it’s unclear whether the fan is referring to Braun or Anderson with the “him”!

What incredible work for this heckling fan. Not only do you have the comedic timing, you’re referencing a very topical infamous NBA moment to close the season. Plus, it’s rubbing salt in the wound for Minnesota in an embarrassing loss to start a series.

It truly has everything.

Jaden McDaniels broke his hand punching a wall right before Rudy Gobert punched a teammate

Timberwolves coach Chris Finch suggested that “immaturity” has plagued his team throughout the entire season. 

Despite actually defeating the Pelicans, the Minnesota Timberwolves had a disastrous final game of the regular season.

Minnesota big man Rudy Gobert was sent home at halftime after an altercation with teammate Kyle Anderson during the second quarter of the game.

But not long before the feud on the bench between Gobert and Anderson, Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels expressed his frustration after he picked up his second foul by punching a wall.

McDaniels missed the remainder of the game with the self-inflicted injury to his hand, and if that sounds bad, it is even more painful when you actually watch the video of him hurting himself.

After the game, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that McDaniels suffered a fractured right hand.

According to InStreetClothes.com’s Jeff Stotts, the average time lost for isolated metacarpal fractures that require surgery is typically 41 days (or approximately 18 games).

During the post-game press conference, Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch suggested that “immaturity” has plagued his team throughout the entire season.

McDaniels’ injury is perhaps the most costly example of that immaturity.

There are only a handful of players who had more possessions defending LeBron James than McDaniels had this season, per NBA.com. Now, the Timberwolves will have to face LeBron’s Lakers without their strongest perimeter defender.

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Draymond Green viciously posted the exact same tweet Rudy Gobert sent after the Jordan Poole punch

This NBA season started and ended with two former Defensive Player of the Year winners both punching one of their teammates.

This NBA season started and ended with two former Defensive Player of the Year winners both punching one of their teammates.

Less than two weeks before their first game of the season, Golden State star Draymond Green punched Warriors guard Jordan Poole in the face during a Warriors practice. Green later blamed himself for Golden State’s slow start to this season.

That was obviously not an ideal way to kick off the campaign for the reigning champions, and NBA players were stunned when they saw the video. For example, at the time of the incident, Rudy Gobert tweeted: “Insecurity is always loud.”

Some people may have forgotten about the tweet, but Green did not.

During the final game of the regular season, Gobert threw a punch at teammate Kyle Anderson while on the bench during a game against the Pelicans. It was an ugly scene.

Green tweeted the same message Gobert shared in October:

Green can famously recite the names of all 34 players who were selected before him in the 2014 NBA Draft. So it shouldn’t surprise us that he has a strong enough memory to recall what people said about him following his fight with Poole.

Green was not suspended for the altercation, though he did spend some time away from the team. The Timberwolves sent Gobert home after he threw his punch at Kyle Anderson and the organization is considering suspending the big man for the play-in game against the Lakers.

Should the Timberwolves still make the playoffs, it would be fascinating to see them potentially match up with Green’s Warriors.

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Projected starting lineup for Timberwolves with Rudy Gobert, all with wingspan between 6-foot-9 and 7-foot-9

The Timberwolves might be the longest team in the league.

The Utah Jazz has reportedly traded big man Rudy Gobert, a three-time All-Star and Defensive Player of the Year, to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Utah’s front office had made some strange moves leading up to this deal. They also surrendered a ton of draft picks to make this transaction happen. While it’s interesting to see new Timberwolves executive Tim Connelly make such an aggressive move, it’s also exciting.

Minnesota will reportedly send Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverley, Jarred Vanderbilt, and Leandro Bolmaro as well as their recent first-round pick (Walker Kessler) to Utah in the deal.

With that in mind, the T-Wolves are going to feel mighty different next season. Here is how we should expect the starting lineup to look for the first game of next season.

Kyle Anderson wore a Guy Fieri-style shirt on the Grizzlies bench and the internet had jokes

Memphis Grizzlies forward Kyle Anderson missed the game against the Miami Heat on Monday but he still had some excellent Florida Fashion.

Memphis Grizzlies forward Kyle Anderson missed the game against the Miami Heat on Monday but he still had some excellent Florida Fashion.

Anderson, who has missed each of the past three games due to a back injury, was on the sidelines in Miami when fans noticed a loud aesthetic choice that the NBA veteran made.

The 28-year-old forward followed the simple philosophy of when in Rome, it’s important to do what the Romans do. So in South Beach, that meant he had to wear a black shirt with flames on it.

Once the broadcast showed what he was wearing, it didn’t take long for people to ask for screenshots so they could either roast him or compliment him for his decisions.

From there, while there was some admiration of his wardrobe, the jokes started rolling in as well.

You can see the shirt for yourself below and then you can scroll down to giggle at the best reactions to Anderson’s attire:

Recent B/R article highlights 3 trade targets for Boston Celtics to add playmaking, scoring

Boston still has work to do on their roster, and we like this trio of suggestions to that end.

The Boston Celtics need to shake up their roster with some consolidatory trades, with too many talented role players to play, and not quite enough star power to prevent their offense from being easy to game plan against. And while adding a star via trade would be the obvious solution to such a situation, it is not so easy to pry them loose from teams given their status as stars in the first place.

But finding players just below that threshold who more strongly complement the team’s two star forwards Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum is less of a tall order, and a topic we will see plenty of ink spilled on in the coming weeks. In fact, we are already seeing such articles percolate up through the wider NBA media sphere, such as that recently published by Bleacher Report’s Zach Buckley.

It’s no secret the team needs more playmaking, shooting, scoring, and size, and Buckley offers up a trio who address some or all of the above — let’s take a look at the trade targets he has in mind.

Grizzlies season preview: How strong is Ja Morant, Jaren Jackson duo?

With Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson, both only recently 22 years old, the Memphis Grizzlies may have the best duo of young players in the NBA.

With Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson, both only recently 22 years old, the Memphis Grizzlies may have the best duo of young players in the NBA.

Memphis is building well around Morant, who is clearly one of the league’s top rising stars. They still have some weaknesses, like an ability for anyone else beyond Morant to crate their own offense off the bounce. But they have enough depth — and enough tenacity on defense — to at least put up a fight on both sides of the ball.

Below, check out our preview for the 2021-22 Grizzlies campaign.

Five players to watch to use the Evan Fournier traded player exception on

Boston has become adept with the use of non-simultaneous trades, and have three of note to work with.

The Boston Celtics have become pioneers in the art of juggling traded player exceptions (TPEs) to maintain cap flexibility and manage their overall luxury tax burden, deftly using second-round draft picks to allow the franchise to add or deal away players

The team possesses three such TPEs of note on top of two smaller ones (for $500,000 from the Moses Brown trade and for $370,564 from the Jeff Teague trade). The smaller ones are unlikely to be used given that such exceptions are the space into which a team completes a non-simultaneous trade. That means any player incoming will need to make no more than $100,000 above the dollar amount in each TPE, which cannot be combined or added to otherwise.

Apart from those, Boston has TPEs for $17.1 million from the Evan Fournier trade, $9.7 million from the Tristan Thompson deal, and just over $5 million left from the Kemba Walker trade. They expire July 18, July 7, and May 17 respectively. Today, we’ll look at some of our favorite options the Celtics could trade for with the Fournier TPE.