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Skip to main content NBAThe potential Wizards roadblock in a possible LeBron James-Anthony Davis reunion
By Grace McCarron Published June 30, 2026, 6:45 p.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.
Add The New York Post on GoogleThe Wizards plan on holding on to one of their veteran stars amid trade rumors.
Washington is not interested in trading Anthony Davis and is not even listening to trade offers on him, a source told ESPN’s Marc J. Spears on Tuesday.
Another NBA team executive said Wizards general manager Will Dawkins is a big fan of Davis, per Spears.

The report comes as trade rumors have been circulating about Davis for several weeks.
Kevin O’Connor of Yahoo Sports previously reported that the Warriors wanted to reunite Davis and LeBron James, putting them with Steph Curry. However, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst said Tuesday that there hadn’t been any progress in talks between Golden State and Washington.
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Davis is eligible for an extension this offseason. In a thus-far active offseason, the Wizards have already extended Trae Young with a four-year, $212 million contract.
They also drafted AJ Dybantsa with the first overall pick out of BYU. Dybantsa joins Washington’s young core that also includes Alex Sarr and Kyshawn George.
Davis has yet to appear in a game for Washington. He played only 20 games last season due to injuries, and after being traded to the Wizards from the Mavericks in February, the team shut him down so he could recover fully from his groin and hand injuries.

Davis, a 10-time All-Star, averaged 20.4 points, 11.1 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game for the Mavericks last season, shooting 50.6 percent from the field.
Should Davis remain with the Wizards, it would throw a wrench into the Warriors’ possible plans to build a superteam with Davis, James, and Curry, with Draymond Green potentially returning as well.
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MLB Home Run Derby 2026: Rays’ Junior Caminero joins the field
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This year's Home Run Derby will take place at Citizens Bank Park as part of MLB's All-Star week. Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images
By Johnny Flores Jr.June 30, 2026 8:09 pm EDT UpdatedMajor League Baseball’s All-Star season is finally here, and the announcements are starting to pile up. After the first two starters for the American and National League teams were revealed last week — Ernie Clement and Shohei Ohtani, respectively — the first competitor for the Home Run Derby was announced on Tuesday: last year’s runner-up, Junior Caminero.
From now through Derby day, The Athletic will update this page with every announced competitor for this year’s competition, plus some need-to-knows, including the updated format and new streaming partner.
When is the Home Run Derby?
The 2026 Home Run Derby will take place on Monday, July 13 at 8 p.m. ET
Where is the Home Run Derby?
Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park will play host to All-Star week, including the Home Run Derby.
Where can I watch the Home Run Derby?
For the first time, Netflix will host the annual slugging competition. The streamer had rights to this year’s “Opening Night” between the San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees, and it carried the World Baseball Classic tournament in Japan.
Has the format for the Home Run Derby changed?
Yes, this year’s Derby will look a lot different, and it’s not just because it’ll be on Netflix and not ESPN. This year, the Home Run Derby will ditch the time format that has been in place since 2015. Instead of timed rounds, each of the eight competitors will have a set number of swings: 20 in Round 1, 15 in Round 2 and 15 in the finals.
Each swing, regardless of whether it’s a home run or not, will count against that number. A player who homers on their final swing can continue hacking until he doesn’t get one.
The players with the top four home run totals will move on to the second round, where they will be seeded based on their numbers (No. 1 vs. No. 4, No. 2 vs. No. 3). That will determine the final round.
If there is a tie in the first round, then the longest home run between the two players will serve as the tiebreaker. In the next rounds, ties are broken by a three-swing swing-off.
In essence, the competition will look similar to the classic slugfests that made the Home Run Derby a must-watch event to begin with.
The Home Run Derby field
Junior Caminero, 3B Tampa Bay Rays
Junior Caminero celebrates a home run. (Mike Carlson / Getty Images)Age: 22
Bats: Right
Previous Home Run Derby experience: Runner-up in 2025, lost to Seattle Mariners’ Cal Raleigh
Season stats: .292/.384/.548, 22 home runs, 154 wRC+
Batted ball data:
- Average Exit Velo: 93.4 mph (95th percentile)
- Barrel rate: 13.1 percent (83rd percentile)
- Hard-hit rate: 52 percent (94th percentile)
- Average bat speed: 80 mph (100th percentile)
*Stats through June 30
Longest home run of 2026: 463 feet
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Tagged To: Junior CamineroMLBStarmer's defence plan is woeful and our enemies are watching
In January, it emerged that a Ministry of Defence analysis of the Strategic Defence Review calculated that £28billion of extra spending would be required to fund its recommendations and ensure the UK is prepared for a potential war with Russia as early as 2030.
What Starmer announced in yesterday’s Defence Investment Plan is woefully inadequate.
Despite his tub-thumping about ‘doing what it takes’ and ‘meeting the new world head-on’, the reality is that a huge shortfall is built into the defence budget. And it’s likely to get bigger – quickly.
Far from being given £28billion more, the Ministry of Defence will have to make do with just £15billion – of which nearly £4billion is money that was already allotted to other projects.
Yes, there were some eye-catching elements in the DIP package. Yesterday’s headlines focused on Britain’s ‘largest ever drone investment’, for example, with £5billion allotted to unmanned aerial systems. But the reality is that only 20 per cent of that figure is additional investment.
The MoD will also spend £500million on new tech for Special Forces, including the Royal Marine Commandos, and an extra £50million on attack drones equipped with cameras that give the operators a ‘first-person view’, as well as interceptor devices to bring down enemy drones.
There is £115million in the DIP to bolster our defences against the threats posed by artificial intelligence. And the plan includes jet-powered drones taking off from aircraft carriers, and six ‘common combat vessels’ (CCVs) as part of a ‘hybrid Royal Navy’.
Starmer's Defence Investment Plan is woeful, considering that the Ministry of Defence said £28billion of extra spending would be needed to ensure the UK is prepared for war with Russia
General the Lord Dannatt, a former Chief of the General Staff, says it is a terrible mistake to assume warfare today relies entirely on new tech, as the old weaponry is not yet redundant
These will serve as control hubs for drones, meaning that when the Navy identifies a foreign vessel as a threat, such as a Russian ship, ‘they will do so with outriders, uncrewed ships above and below the surface,’ according to the PM. But this capability will come at a high cost, since that money could have been spent on upgrading our traditional fleet. Instead, the CCVs are expected to replace our Type 45 destroyers, which are currently a mainstay of our sea defences.
At the same time, the Royal Air Force will develop its own drones as well as autonomous ‘wingmen’ designed to fly alongside fighter jets such as Typhoons. Starmer claimed these aircraft, which are due to be ready for testing by 2030, would be ‘invisible to enemy detection’.
The PM also reiterated Britain’s commitment to the £8.6billion Global Combat Air Programme in partnership with Italy and Japan, based on sixth-generation Tempest fighter jets. These, he said, ‘will secure our skies for decades to come’.
All the above goes to show that warfare has become more complex than ever. But it is a terrible mistake to assume it now relies entirely on new tech. The old weaponry is not yet redundant. Britain needs destroyers and main battle tanks as well as drones. We are at real risk of neglecting the unglamorous but necessary parts of our fighting machine, while placing too much trust in the latest electronics.
And we will achieve the appropriate combination of weaponry only if we increase our defence budget.
At the Munich Security Conference last February, Starmer was telling our allies that Britain would be committing 3 per cent of its GDP to defence by 2029, up from about 2.3 per cent.
The reality revealed yesterday is that the actual figure will be nowhere near that – more like 2.7 per cent.
Worse, he also talked of hitting 3.5 per cent of GDP by the middle of the next decade. That target is already slipping away from us – and fast. By contrast, Germany is on target for 3.7 per cent of GDP by 2030 and Sweden is not far behind at 3.5 per cent. Meanwhile, Poland is already spending 4.8 per cent of its GDP on defence and is calling for Nato allies to up spending to 5 per cent by 2030.
Our allies have every right to accuse us of backsliding.
In the years since the end of the Second World War, Britain has been at the forefront of defending Europe, spearheading Nato in its role as the West’s peacekeeper.
As recently as 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, we took the lead in going to its defence. But we are no longer in that position. The potential cost of our failure is incalculable.
Last year, Starmer told our allies Britain would be committing 3 per cent of its GDP to defence by 2029. But it has since been revealed that the actual figure will be nowhere near that
In his ‘coronation’ speech in Manchester on Monday, Burnham made no mention of defence and only the briefest of references to national security, Lord Dannatt writes
Starmer would have been far less vulnerable to Andy Burnham’s coup if he had taken a strong, decisive stance on our national security. Instead, he failed to back his former defence secretary John Healey and former Armed Forces minister Al Carns, who quit in protest – the final death knell for his premiership.
The new Defence Secretary, Dan Jarvis, would surely not have taken the job without a guarantee that more money would be forthcoming. But the top-up was minimal.
Healey and Carns resigned because the increased spending in the DIP amounted to 0.08 per cent of GDP. That has now risen to 0.09 per cent.
Despite protests from Burnham’s team that Starmer had no right, in the dying days of his premiership, to be talking about future plans at all, the outgoing PM insisted on making the announcement. But we have no idea whether Burnham will honour it.
What we do know is that, during his ‘coronation’ speech in Manchester on Monday, Burnham made no mention of defence and only the briefest of references to national security.
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He told us repeatedly that other things, such as devolution, were the ideals closest to his heart. The unwelcome inference is that he is not putting defence at the top of his agenda. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch highlighted this, declaring that if Burnham refuses to find the money to fund defence, he should call a General Election.
This isn’t purely a matter of money, though. It’s about restoring Britain’s role at the front line of Europe’s collective security.
We need to accept that we can no longer rely on the US to come to our aid when next we face attack. That means a readiness to fight a war in whatever form it takes and, as we have seen in Ukraine, that can mean the brutal realities of old-fashioned battlefield conflict as well as developing modern electronic and uncrewed weapons.
The Strategic Defence Review was not a starting point for negotiations and haggling. It identified the bare minimum that our Armed Forces require if we have any hope of keeping Britain safe. And what Starmer announced yesterday falls far short of securing that objective. We need £28billion; he conceded £15billion. We’re aiming for 3 per cent of GDP by 2030 and 3.5 per cent by 2035 but, as we have seen, we’re struggling to get to 2.7 per cent.
Military budgets are not about the cost of fighting a war. That’s incalculably higher, in human lives most of all, as we have seen in the daily tragedy of Ukraine’s struggle to hold back the Russian invasion.
The point of spending money on defence is so that we don’t have to fight a war. It’s about deterrence, not aggression.
Right now, Britain does not have the deterrent we desperately need. The price we could all pay for this failure is unthinkable as this underfunded settlement heightens the risk to our security.
Keir Starmer is a gambler in the last-chance saloon. Andy Burnham is calling ‘time’ – but will he do any better? Our enemies, our allies and our electorate are all watching.
General The Lord Dannatt is a former Chief of the General Staff
