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Jaylen Brown on his decision to start his own shoe brand: "I decided with my time, because of my frustrations with brands, just to start my own. I've been a Top 5 MVP candidate. Should have been Top 1 one, but the media votes for that. All-star, all-star starter, all these different things, and they just keep moving the bar on me, and that's fine, because I'm not chasing their bar, I'm chasing my own. I'm going to get even better. That's why I'm here, to get even better at the details and efficiency, because people think they've seen the best version of me and they want me to see me fail or move the bar."
NBA Communications: The 2026 NBA All-Summer League First Team: Cameron Boozer, @memgrizz, Brayden Burries, @Bucks, Yaxel Lendeborg, @warriors, Meleek Thomas, @cavs, Caleb Wilson, @chicagobulls. The team was selected by a vote of all 30 NBA teams based on performance at Summer League in Las Vegas.
NBA Communications: The 2026 NBA All-Summer League Second Team: Cedric Coward, @memgrizz Egor Dёmin, @BrooklynNets Khaman Maluach, @Suns Liam McNeeley, @hornets Zyon Pullin, @Timberwolves
NBA Communications: Yaxel Lendeborg of the @warriors has been named Most Valuable Player of the 2026 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas. Lendeborg averaged 14.8 points, 6.8 rebounds and 4.0 assists in six games as Golden State won the championship. The MVP was selected by a vote of all 30 NBA teams.
Jalen Brunson took home the Best NBA Player and Best Championship Performance ESPY Awards on Tuesday. Brunson was announced the winner of the NBA-focused award earlier on Wednesday and earned his second honor at the award show at Lincoln Center in New York.
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Brunson, on hand with his wife, Ali Marks Brunson, accepted his award on the David H. Koch Theater stage while dressed to the nines in a tuxedo. “First and foremost, I want to thank my family for sacrificing everything day in and day out,” Brunson said. “Thank you to [owner] Jim Dolan and the Knicks organization, [president] Leon [Rose], the front office, Mike Brown, my teammates — without them, none of this would be possible; they allow me to be me. I’m forever indebted to them.”
Golden State Warriors star and former two-time MVP Stephen Curry took home another award Tuesday night, receiving the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award. Curry was recognized for his impact, creating the "Eat Learn Play" foundation. The former Davidson product beat out two NFL players for the award, as Damar Hamlin (Buffalo Bills) and the recently retired Adam Thielen were the two other finalists.
Oh No He Didn't: Yaxel Lendeborg on his rookie year goals: "Try to slow the game down. I don't really have any like MVP kind of things. I just want to be a role model to the kids, I wanna be somebody that the kids look up to and wanna be like...try to be as simple as possible"
Bob McAdoo, a longtime NBA Assistant Coach and a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, is the recipient of the 2026 Tex Winter Assistant Coach Lifetime Impact Award, the National Basketball Coaches Association (NBCA) announced today. “Bob McAdoo is one of the true giants of our game,” said J.B. Bickerstaff, Detroit Pistons Head Coach and NBCA President. “A Hall of Fame player, a champion, and an exceptional Coach, Bob has impacted generations of players through his knowledge, humility, and passion for teaching. His influence can be seen in the many players, coaches, and the Heat organization that he helped elevate throughout his coaching career. Congratulations to Coach McAdoo on this well-deserved recognition.”
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“I am grateful, honored and humbled to have been selected by the NBCA Selection Committee for the 2026 Tex Winter Assistant Coach Lifetime Impact Award,” said Coach Bob McAdoo. “One never receives this type of award by oneself. I’d like to thank my wife Patrizia and family for all their love and support. I will be forever grateful to Pat Riley who took me on as an assistant coach for a fantastic NBA journey together. Thanks also to the Arison Family and the HEAT organization who have made an impact on my life both professionally and personally.”
Nick Young: "Steph and Kevin Durant was fighting over Finals MVP, that's about it. You could tell they both was trying to get it without saying they trying to get it. Kevin Durant was taking it a little easy, I felt like, and Steph wasn't having that good of a game that game. So Kevin Durant just had to turn it up. And I think that's when he won Finals MVP too, after that game. It was a big night for him."