While a long shot to join New York, Kidd — who is under contract for two more years and the Mavericks, per league sources, have shown no interest to this point in allowing their coach to leave — still hasn’t agreed to an extension like other currently-employed head coaches who the Knicks showed interest in during the first stage of their search. New York reached out to Houston to speak with Ime Udoka and to Chicago to speak with Billy Donovan. Udoka agreed to an extension with the Rockets last week, league sources told The Athletic. And according to multiple reports, the Bulls and Billy Donovan are in the process of working on a contract extension.

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Knew from the second he made impact. Slapping the floor, again and again; burying his face in his forearm; grimacing, crying, screaming no, no, no. He couldn’t walk. He couldn’t be out there. “I couldn’t imagine playing the biggest game of my life and something like that happening,” Thunder superstar Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said after the game. “It’s not fair. But competition isn’t fair sometimes.”

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“The pain he puts in every day, every night, I don’t think there’s (anybody) else in the world that wanted it more than he did,” said veteran James Johnson, the 38-year-old Pacers protector who helped Haliburton to the locker room. “I’ve been on plenty of teams, and I’ve seen guys sidelined because of that same injury, and he wouldn’t let that stop him from helping us.”

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Awful Announcing: Thunder star Jalen Williams admits he watches YouTube highlights of himself to help his confidence. JW: “You always are questioning if you’re good enough…” SVP: “You had a 40-piece in the Finals!” JW: “Yeah, and then I was negative-40 the next game.” 🏀📺🎙️ #NBA

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Owen Phillips: and with that, SGA now holds the record for having the highest usage rate during the regular season of an NBA champion

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Jorge Sierra: Nikola Topic is the third-youngest NBA player to win a title. He has a championship before playing a game in the NBA.

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Jorge Sierra: Per our research, Nikola Topic would be the first player to win an NBA title before playing an NBA game.

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Rachel Nichols: The Thunder definitely popped bottles after winning the title – but it was quick, and there wasn’t a lot of craziness in the locker room afterward. “They’re not old enough to drink,” Sam Presti just told me 😂

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Marc J. Spears: With lots of law enforcement downtown that enforced a youth curfew, the Thunder championship fan celebration seemed quite tame compared to Boston and Denver recently. Two men riding horses struggled to fire up Thunder fans in Bricktown. But at 1:45 am, an “OKC” chant can be heard

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