NBA Basketball 3 Days

Last updated: June 21, 2026, 8:30 PM ET

NBA Player Movement & Front Office News

The Phoenix Suns are retaining key backcourt talent, with Collin Gillespie agreeing to a four-year, $48 million deal to return to the franchise after a breakout campaign sources told ESPN. The team also secured guard Jordan Goodwin, who intends to re-sign and join Gillespie in Phoenix sources told ESPN. Meanwhile, veteran guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is exercising his $21.6 million player option with the Grizzlies for the 2026-27 season sources tell ESPN. In Atlanta, CJ McCollum has reached a one-year, $21 million contract extension with the Hawks his agent told ESPN. On the front office side, Kendrick Perkins has agreed to a new role as the men's basketball general manager at Jackson State he told ESPN.

NBA Historical & Cultural Notes

A decade after their historic comeback, the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers roster, including LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, and Timofey Mozgov, is being revisited to see where those championship players are now ESPN NBA. Separately, a cultural connection between the New York Knicks and the birth of hip-hop is being explored, noting that the team's last championship coincided with the genre's emergence, with New York's rappers celebrating the team's recent successes ESPN NBA.