\n\t\t\tAugust 25th 2025 at 6:18pm CST by Dana Gauruder \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Spurs and Hawks are considered the co-favorites to make the biggest leap in the NBA during the upcoming season, according to a panel of ESPN Insiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n The panel made its predictions on a wide variety of topics, including the team most likely to make a big move before the trade deadline (the Warriors received the most votes) and the next superstar to request a trade (Zion Williamson<\/a> was the top vote-getter).<\/p>\n Here\u2019s more from around the international basketball world:<\/p>\n Anthony Edwards<\/a> tops the list of shooting guards ranked by The Athletic\u2019s Zach Harper<\/a>. Devin Booker<\/a> and Donovan Mitchell<\/a> fill out tier one \u2014 players who are potential MVP candidates \u2014 in \u201cThe Bounce\u2019s Top 40 Shooting Guards.\u201d Desmond Bane<\/a>, Klay Thompson<\/a>, Bradley Beal<\/a> and Zach LaVine<\/a> comprised the second tier as players \u201cwho can take over\u201d a game.
\nGabriel \u2018Iffe\u2019 Lundberg<\/a> won\u2019t return to Serbia\u2019s Partizan Belgrade, according to Sportando<\/a>. The Danish guard, according to a TeleSport report, has drawn interest from both Zenit St. Petersburg and Olympiacos. Lundberg had a brief stay in the NBA, playing four games with Phoenix during the 2021\/22 season.
\nTel Aviv\u2019s owner Ofer Yannay had a verbal agreement this offseason with Nigel Hayes-Davis<\/a> in the event that the free agent forward couldn\u2019t find an NBA contract. Hayes-Davis, who played in Turkey last season, wound up signing<\/a> a one-year deal with the Suns. \u201cWe were sure we were bringing Nigel Hayes-Davis. We were sure it was happening. He had an option to go to the NBA, and he basically said, \u2018I\u2019ll try to get a contract in the NBA, and if I don\u2019t, I\u2019ll come to you,\u2019\u201d Yannay said, per Eurohoops.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 25th 2025 at 6:18pm CST by Dana Gauruder The Spurs and Hawks are considered the co-favorites to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[20453,64,63,726,1170,12989,7224,23659,71223,14231,71224,85,12992,7226],"class_list":["post-96968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-anthony-edwards","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-bradley-beal","tag-desmond-bane","tag-devin-booker","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-gabriel-lundberg","tag-klay-thompson","tag-nigel-hayes-davis","tag-sports","tag-zach-lavine","tag-zion-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}