Kawhi Leonard opens his Raptors press conference with a statement regarding the recent NBA investigation.

Believe it or not, this is my first Lakers Media Day. I couldn't attend before, but now I can and I'm excited to cover it my way. This is going to be a great year.

All-NBA center Jalen Duren is not attending Detroit Pistons media day Monday nor the start of training camp, declining the team’s five-year, $200 million fully guaranteed offer in restricted free agency so far, sources tell ESPN. The sides remain at a stalemate ahead of Thursday deadline on a one-year, $9.6 million qualifying offer.

Angel Reese makes Dream history ✨ She becomes the first player in franchise history to earn AP Defensive Player of the Year honors 🏆

Zach Fox describing British food is killing me. He made a video about those people’s food in their restaurant and they probably don’t know that he dragged them

Draymond on Tyler Herro recreating TJ Ford’s rookie photo shoot: “I thought this was the corniest thing ever. I’m just going to leave it at that because I ain’t really trying to sh*t on nobody, but I thought it was super corny.” (via @DraymondShow, h/t @TheNBABase)

bro what is my starting shooting guard posting on Instagram 😭😭

Inside the start of a new era of Chicago Bulls basketball:

Tim Tebow announced he is “pausing” his relationship with Life Surge following our investigation with @MotherJones. More to come.

Highest on-court earnings, NBA history (via @BobbyMarks42): 1. Stephen Curry - $652M 2. Kevin Durant - $598M 3. LeBron James - $592M 4. Kawhi Leonard - $543M 5. Paul George - $519M 6. Joel Embiid - $515M 7. Donovan Mitchell - $514M 8. James Harden - $510M

BREAKING: Golden State’s Stephen Curry has agreed on a two-year, $116 million contract extension with the franchise, with a player option in 2028-29, sources tell ESPN.

I’m at Ruth’s Chris Steak House with $20. What should I get?

Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua could be called off due to issues, according to sources, and a replacement fight between Terence Crawford and Ryan Garcia is being considered.

Pick a pancake 🥞

Private equity is the vampire of late-stage capitalism — and it's making youth sports "crazy expensive." "That should be illegal! ... You shouldn't be able to profit off of kids playing sports. Am I nuts?"