Ryan Wolstat

1 week ago | torontosun.com | Ryan Wolstat

Pascal Siakam making doubters who wouldn't trade for him look silly in NBA Finals Pacers stepped up when Raptors couldn't find many bidders and it has paid off spectacularly well. Get the latest from Ryan Wolstat straight to your inboxSure, there were some Thunder-in-six picks too (and even a sweep for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s squad was a popular play in Vegas), but seven games, nah, wasn’t going to happen.

1 week ago | torontosun.com | Ryan Wolstat

Forget splashing free agency cash, Maple Leafs should instead follow an NBA model Taking on contracts from cash-strapped teams could be wiser than signing deals they'll likely regret. Get the latest from Ryan Wolstat straight to your inboxThis off-season has the potential for things to go really off track with dreadful long-term ramifications. Not enough quality in the free-agent crop and too many teams with ample cap space seems like a recipe for disaster.

1 week ago | torontosun.com | Ryan Wolstat

The NBA’s best defensive team was so overwhelmingly constricting (15 steals and 12 blocks, with that 27 combined ‘stocks’ the most since Philadelphia in 1981) and got such an impressive one-two punch from Jalen Williams and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander that one felt hard-pressed to think of any opponent that will be able to beat them four times in a series, keeping in mind the Thunder should only get better from here. That’s the scary thing.

1 week ago | thesudburystar.com | Ryan Wolstat

Emergence of Jalen Williams has opened all kinds of possibilities for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's franchise. Jalen Williams of the Oklahoma City Thunder celebrates a dunk against the Indiana Pacers. Getty ImagesArticle contentWe’ll never know if Oklahoma City would have been able to rally from a 3-1 series deficit had Indiana been able to hold on to a late double-digit lead in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. Advertisement 2This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

1 week ago | torontosun.com | Ryan Wolstat

To recap recent NBA events: Boston superstar Jayson Tatum, who helped lead the Celtics to last year’s title and 61 wins this season, tore his Achilles last month and probably will miss at least the 2025-26 regular season (and players often take a couple of years to return to top form, if they ever do). The Celtics now are expected to shed salary and perhaps take a “gap” year before returning to contention.