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Damian Lillard closing in on 2-year, $122 million extension with Portland Trail Blazers

Damian Lillard closing in on 2-year, $122 million extension with Portland Trail Blazers

Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard is close to an agreement on a two-year, $122 million extension, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Lillard is coming off an injury-riddled season where he played in only 29 games, the fewest of his career. He averaged 24 points and 7.3 assists in 36.4 minutes per game last season. He underwent abdominal surgery for a lingering injury and was shut down as the Trail Blazers fell out of playoff contention. The six-time All-Star is still the Blazers’… Source link

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Filipino champion Mark Magsayo out to blaze his own trail in boxing

Filipino champion Mark Magsayo out to blaze his own trail in boxing

Though the comparisons to Manny Pacquiao are inevitable, Mark Magsayo (L) is out to chart his own course in boxing. (AP Photo/John Locher) Mark Magsayo is the first one to quash the comparisons. He’s Filipino, he boxes, he can punch and he’s strung together a long winning streak. But Magsayo, who defends his WBC featherweight title against Rey Vargas on Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio, doesn’t need a positive comparison with Manny Pacquiao from anyone in order to make himself… Source link

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Guard, Portland Trail Blazers agree to 3-year, $28 million deal

Guard, Portland Trail Blazers agree to 3-year, $28 million deal

Free agent guard Gary Payton II has reached an agreement with the Portland Trail Blazers on a three-year, $28 million deal that contains a player option and extra incentives, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Payton II, part of the Golden State Warriors’ 2022 NBA championship team, had a career season in the Bay in 2021-22. He averaged 7.1 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.4 steals over 17.6 minutes per game. He suffered a broken elbow in the 2022 postseason, but returned during the NBA… Source link

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Pacers fan sues Trail Blazers, Yahoo after Jusuf Nurkic throws phone

Jusuf Nurkic made headlines when he approached a fan, Steven Geske, after a game between Portland and Indiana, and threw the fan’s phone. The aftermath of the incident has caused the fan to sue Nurkic, Trail Blazers and Yahoo’s Chris Haynes. Nurkic was fined $40,000. Two days after the incident, Haynes tweeted that “the fan who Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic confronted in Indiana allegedly shouted “your mom is trash” and said his “grandma’s a (expletive).” Nurkic’s… Source link

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Chauncey Billups patient with Trail Blazers’ ‘retool’

DETROIT — The first game Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups circled on his NBA schedule was March 21, his return to Detroit. He expected to be at the helm of a perennial playoff team led by Damian Lillard, closing in on a playoff spot or even better, jockeying for position at a higher seed. But hours before tipoff, Lillard was ruled out for the season, following abdominal surgery he underwent in January, with 12 games remaining. And Billups probably didn’t expect for Ben… Source link

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Damian Lillard looked at Suns in decision to stay with Trail Blazers

 It was no secret that All-NBA guard Damian Lillard had some soul-searching to do after last season. The same injury-hit Denver Nuggets team that got swept by the Phoenix Suns in the second round of the playoffs got to that series by beating Lillard’s Portland Trail Blazers in six games. So for the Blazers star, losing meant asking the question: Was Portland doing everything to win a title? Should he leave? In an interview with Yahoo! Sports’ Chris Haynes,… Source link

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Trail of Brothers Linked to Missing Bitcoin Stash Is Still Murky

(Bloomberg) — The Cajee brothers, who ran a cryptocurrency investment platform from South Africa that the local regulator suspects of being a Ponzi scheme, are confounding both their family and desperate investors alike. It’s still hard to establish the whereabouts of Ameer and Raees Cajee, the pair that operated Johannesburg-based Africrypt since 2019. They appear to have vanished, along with an estimated $3.6 billion in Bitcoin — an amount that a lawyer for the brothers said was… Source link

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Trail Blazers to hire Chauncey Billups as next head coach

Chauncey Billups will take over for Terry Stotts in Portland. (Sarah Stier/Getty Images) The Portland Trail Blazers are in on Chauncey Billups. The Blazers will hire Billups their next head coach, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Billups, an assistant with the Los Angeles Clippers, will take over for Terry Stotts in Portland after his departure earlier this month. The Blazers officially offered Billups the job on Friday, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, with a negotiations for… Source link

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Trail Blazers, coach Terry Stotts part ways

The Portland Trail Blazers will look for a new coach after their first-round exit. The Blazers agreed to part ways with head coach Terry Stotts on Friday, sources told Yahoo Sports senior NBA insider Chris Haynes. Stotts’ exit ends a nine-season tenure in Portland, in which the Blazers reached the playoffs eight times. Five of those playoff berths ended in the first round, though, including the last two trips. The Blazers’ most recent exit came on Thursday, with the team falling to the Denver… Source link

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