Even though no financial details were officially revealed, ESPN, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes magazine have reported the $76 billion combined figure for the deals.
Klay Thompson won four championships with the Golden State Warriors alongside Stephen Curry and Draymond Green.
LeBron James has said for years he dreamed of playing alongside his son Bronny in the NBA.
JJ Redick's appointment as the head coach of Los Angeles Lakers, which was first reported last week, has raised eyebrows across the NBA given his lack of coaching experience.
Celtics' emphatic win came 16 years to the day after Boston's last NBA Finals win — over the Los Angeles Lakers — in 2008.
The 38-point margin in the end was the third-biggest ever in an NBA Finals game
Boston Celtics, who currently share the record of 17 NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers, can close out the series in game four in Dallas on Friday.
It was the ninth time the Boston Celtics have won the opening pair of games in the NBA Finals
Boston Celtics powered past the Dallas Mavericks 107-89 in Game 1 of the NBA Finals
Denied a sweep at home on Tuesday, the Mavs left no room for doubt in Minneapolis as they wrapped up the best-of-seven conference finals 4-1 to return to the NBA Finals for the first time since they won the title in 2011.
Boston Celtics swept Indiana Pacers 4-0 with a 105-102 victory in Game 4 to earn their second trip in three years to the NBA Finals
Minnesota Timberwolves will play the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference finals while the Indiana Pacers booked an Eastern Conference finals showdown with Boston Celtics
Dallas Mavericks erased a 17-point deficit to beat Oklahoma City Thunder and reached the NBA Western Conference finals
Jayson Tatum had 25 points and 10 rebounds, and Boston Celtics beat the Cleveland Cavaliers to advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the third straight season
Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was second and Dallas’ Luka Doncic was third in NBA MVP race.
Rudy Gobert of Minnesota Timberwolves has won the trophies in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2024.
Victor Wembanyama is the sixth player since the award debuted in the 1952-53 season to get every first-place vote.
Darvin Ham, a former NBA forward who won a title with Detroit in 2004, had served as a Lakers assistant coach from 2011-2013. He spent four seasons as an assistant coach for the Milwaukee Bucks, helping them win an NBA title in 2021 before being named in June 2022 to replace the fired Frank Vogel as Lakers coach.
The Pacers let a 19-point lead get away, but finally thwarted the short-handed Bucks' rally to gain a 2-1 lead in their best-of-seven Eastern Conference first round series.
Aaron Gordon scored 29 points and grabbed 15 rebounds and two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Nikola Jokic added 24 points, another 15 boards and nine assists for the Nuggets, who took a 3-0 stranglehold on the best-of-seven Western Conference first-round series.
Stephen Curry's late-game heroics included a pair of game-winning shots, one a 33-footer to beat the Phoenix Suns on February 10 and another a layup at the buzzer to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in the In-Season Tournament.
By beating Philadelphia 76ers on Monday, New York Knicks joined the Cleveland Cavaliers in taking a 2-0 lead in their first-round series.
The Nuggets continued their dominance of star-studded Los Angeles, who had dropped all three regular-season meetings.
Miami Heat, who emerged from the play-in to reach the NBA Finals last year, can still make the playoffs.
USA Basketball confirmed a formidable 12-man roster bristling with NBA talent that also includes reigning Most Valuable Player Joel Embiid.
Kobe Bryant's widow, Vanessa, said during the dedication ceremony that the statue is the first of three that will be created to honor the five-time NBA champion.
Anthony Davis dominated with 26 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists as the Lakers finished an NBA road trip 4-2 with the other wins at Boston, New York and Golden State.
During the match, LeBron James was knocked to the court after being hit in the face by Dillion Brooks as the two fought for a rebound.
LeBron James, a four-time NBA champion, broke the record for All-Star appearances that he had shared with another Lakers legend, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Dejan Milojevic had suffered a heart attack at a team dinner in Salt Lake City on Tuesday night and died on Wednesday morning