Multiteam Trade Details* Cavs get: Peyton Watson from Nuggets 2027 second-rounder from Clippers, that is going to Wizards Cam Whitmore from Wizards
Nuggets get: unprotected 2031 Cavs first-round pick 2032 Kings second-rounder Julian Reese from Wizards (will waive Reese off his two-way deal)
Clippers get: Max Strus
Wizards get: Tre Mann from Cavs 2027 second-rounder from Cavs, from Clippers Cash from Cavs
The Cavaliers, Nuggets and Clippers have agreed on a trade that will send Peyton Watson to Cleveland and Max Strus to Los Angeles, sources told ESPN.
As part of the multiteam deal, Denver will receive an unprotected 2031 Cavs first-round pick and a 2032 Sacramento Kings second-rounder, according to sources.
Watson will sign a new four-year, $88 million deal with a player option and trade kicker to join the Cavaliers, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul and agents Lucas Newton and Calvin Andrews told ESPN.
The Cavaliers, coming off an Eastern Conference finals appearance where they were swept by the New York Knicks, have retooled their roster, bringing in the 23-year-old wing for athleticism and scoring after a career year in Denver. In the past week, the Cavs have traded Dennis Schroder, who was sent to the Charlotte Hornets for Tre Mann, and now Strus. The Schroder deal, which happened last Friday, makes the overall swap a five-team deal.
The Clippers are sending a 2027 second-rounder acquired from the Philadelphia 76ers in the Johni Broome trade to Cleveland to acquire an established player in Strus via a trade exception.
As part of the deal, the Cavaliers are sending Mann, the 2027 second-rounder from the Clippers and cash to the Washington Wizards for Cam Whitmore, sources said.
The Wizards also are sending Julian Reese to the Nuggets, who will waive Reese off his two-way deal.
Mann fills a positional need as the Wizards have searched for an additional guard in recent weeks, and Mann has history with general manager Will Dawkins from their time with the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Cavaliers, meanwhile, gain a smaller salary in Whitmore to create optionality under the first apron.
Denver and Cleveland officials finalized the deal Wednesday amid a difficult restricted free agency landscape, with Watson's reps navigating interest and offers from the Milwaukee Bucks, Portland Trail Blazers and Clippers before narrowing on the guaranteed $88 million deal with the Cavaliers.
Watson, who started 40 games last season, averaged career highs in points (14.6), rebounds (4.9), assists (2.1) and steals (0.9) while shooting 41% from 3. He also had four 30-point games, after having none in his first three NBA seasons.
Since entering the league in 2022-23, Watson ranks second in field goal percentage allowed as the contesting defender among players to contest at least 2,000 shots.
Brown University will pay $50 million to Rhode Island workforce development organizations in a deal with the Trump administration that restores lost US federal research funding and ends investigations into alleged discrimination, including against Jews at the Ivy League school, officials said Wednesday.
In a Republican-leaning state, sending an extreme-left candidate only serves to have the state lean a little more to the right when all is said and done.
That's exactly what will happen in state like Florida if that's even possible. As of now according to registered voter information Florida has just slightly less than 1.5 million more registered Republican voters than Democrats. So it isn't just a "Republican-leaning state". In actuality considering those numbers it's pretty much sold red with a few Democrat strongholds which were extremely watered down by redistricting.
The Democrat nominee for Florida governor is David Jolly. He won with an overwhelming 61% of the vote over his other opponents with his closest opponent receiving just 15.1% of the vote. He is a former Republican who actually stated that he is a capitalist that he does not agree with or support the DSA platform.
And to further muddy the waters Kushner said the talks with Iran that trump said they are not having were ongoing and "robust".
Kushner: US having robust talks with the Iranians, but they’re not ready to make deal we want
18 August 2026, 12:29 am
US special envoy Jared Kushner says conversations between the US and different areas of the Iranian government have probably been more robust than ever, but the two sides have not yet reached an understanding.
I suppose one could say that. I was raised that by omitting the truth made it a lie. But that's when I lived in America and not trumplandia. I have no idea what the new rules are.
Oh and don't forget about all the lies about the Iran war, and listen to this (fromJon Ossoff, the next PoTUS)
.... “Remember, last year, they claimed Iran’s nuclear program had been obliterated? Then, this year, they claimed it posed an imminent nuclear threat? Both times, lies. On day one of the war, listen to this, day one, the president said the war was quote, ‘Ahead of schedule.’ Ahead of schedule. On day four, he declared victory. Today is day 170,” said Ossoff, who is running for reelection this year.
.... “Listen to this, on day nine of the war, the incompetent Pete Hegseth guaranteed Iranian surrender. On day 14, he claimed Iran’s military had been destroyed. On day 40, he said every single objective had been achieved. That was four months ago,” Ossoff added.
So instead of paying attention to the real time incompetence, lies and corruption in the White House - the right wing spin machine is full overdrive about a fringe group of hardcore crazy communists who aren't part of the Democratic party, but with every post they make they try to make it seem like they are.
So you claim the entire population of Gaza celebrated the acts of Hamas in October? Or was it a select minority of the citizens of Gaza you saw? You try to use an election held in 2006 as your excuse? You do realize that Hamas has not allowed an election since then, right? And you do realize that children don't have the right to vote. That means that anyone who was under the age of 18 in 2006 hasn't ever been able to vote.
It's strange that any Christian would try so hard to find excuses to kill innocent people. What part of the Bible did you get that from?
You fail to see innocent people because you refuse to look and don't want to see them.
Supreme Court rejects final Trump appeal of $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict
Carroll has received the money in the 2023 case, her representatives said.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined a request from President Donald Trump to reconsider its rejection of his appeal in the 2023 E. Jean Carroll case.
The decision means it's the end of the line for Trump's bid to overturn a $5 million jury award to Carroll, which the writer's representatives said was paid in July.
The Court did not explain its decision and there were no noted dissents. No request for a rehearing has been granted since the 1960s.
A jury determined in 2023 that Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and that he defamed her in a 2022 social media post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!"
In 2024, following a separate trial, Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her allegations of sexual abuse.
Trump, who denies any wrongdoing, is continuing to appeal that judgment with a petition to the justices currently pending. They are expected to decide later this year whether or not to take up the case.
In his appeal, Trump alleges that his 2019 comments about Carroll -- which were later found to be defamatory -- were "official" statements as president and therefore immune from use in a legal case against him.
Stephen Vogt has severely regressed in his pitcher selections.
He keeps pulling bullpen pitchers with 2 outs and the lead and the next pitcher responds by giving up runs.
I think it is more the pitchers inability to come in and get the out.
no one else throws 2 pitchers in (middle innings) 1 inning. He obsseses over matchups too much.
Maybe so. I don't know how often that happens. Maybe it should happen more often. You never know when a games critical inning is going to happen. The don't always come in the late innings.
No one has had their injuries disclosed yet. Monken isn’t talking until he has to. I’m not worried about Carson but I am worried about a couple of the others who limped out.
I’m not sure he was even dismissive of it in terms of he will never be able to do it in an NFL game, I took it more as this game had very few elements of a real NFL game where there will be shifts, coverage disguising, full temper rushing with guys that belong on the league, etc. the HOF game wasn’t just vanilla, it was a hyped practice with a 1/4 of the playbook being ran by 3rd stringers and guys that won’t make a roster.
