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Saturday Afternoon Briefing Edition from Stein & Fischer

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Jun 27, 2026
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No time for idle chit-chat or ornate intros right now.

We published an around-the-league Intel compilation late Friday night (enclosed below) and have already collected an array of new items for you just hours later because, well, you already know: It's that time of year.

The NBA's up-to-the-minute latest trade and free agency Intel

The NBA's up-to-the-minute latest trade and free agency Intel

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Jun 27
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To the latest from our notebooks on the Nuggets and their efforts to retool around Nikola Jokić after a first-round exit ... plus lots more fresh trade and free agency chatter before the marketplace officially opens Tuesday at 6 PM ET:

Jokić informed the Nuggets around this time last year that he preferred to delay contract extension talks for another year.

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