The playoffs aren’t quite in the rearview, but with 26 teams now eliminated from contention, plenty of fans are now eyeing the offseason.

And while NBA free agency may not be as fruitful for teams as it once was, it can still offer us some surprises.

Today, we’re going to look at some potential moves that would fit that billing, while also making sense for both the free agent and the team acquiring him.

Just a couple other note before we start, though.

First, potential free agents whose futures are almost entirely dependent on the incumbent organization (so, restricted free agents and players with team options for 2026-27) weren’t included in this mix. That means no Jalen Duren, Isaiah Hartenstein or Walker Kessler, just to name a few.

But those who are unrestricted or have player options they can decline are fair game (unless all signs are pointing to returns, as they are with Trae Young and James Harden, for example).

Second, it’s important to remember that signing players outright from other teams is extremely rare in today’s NBA, largely because most teams operate over the salary cap. Even if every organization did all it could to maximize cap space this summer (meaning they’d have to renounce their own free agents, decline team options, etc.), there would only be 11 with any room. And only five of those can get to over $30 million.

Sign-and-trades may open up a few other spots, but functionally speaking, most of the NBA is off the table for star free agents.

Still, we managed to cook up some surprising (though realistic) landing spots for some of this summer’s top potential free agents.

The final episode of Football Focus was broadcast on Sunday, bringing to an end 52 years on the air.

It was an emotional episode as long-time pundit Garth Crooks returned to Focus, sitting alongside Alex Scott to reflect on the show’s past and preview the final day of the Premier League season.

Bob Wilson, the show’s first presenter, closed out the programme by saying: “All good things come to an end. Thank you to all of you at home for watching Football Focus for the last 52 years. We have had a ball.”

Launched in 1974, Football Focus provided fans with interviews, analysis and stories from across the game every lunchtime before the weekend’s fixtures begin.

The longest-running magazine show in the world began with a tribute to the programme, with its former presenters sharing their favourite memories from across the decades.

The programme’s old branding was used throughout in a nod to its history.

Crooks ended the show by presenting Scott with a picture of herself and Bob Wilson, on behalf of the “Football Focus family”.

Before handing over to Wilson, an emotional Scott said: “For 52 years, this show has done one thing. Week in, week out, it has brought football into your Saturday afternoons. Whether it was Bob Wilson or any of the brilliant people who sat in this chair after him, the thing that never changed was you – the fans.

“I won’t pretend this isn’t hard. What I know is, the football doesn’t stop, the stories don’t stop. The goals, the drama, the heartbreak, the magic, none of that stops. It just finds a new home.

“From everyone who has ever worked on Football Focus, thank you. Thank you for making Saturday lunchtime something to look forward to. It has been an honour.”

Wimbledon will offer to create a new player council in a meeting with leading player representatives scheduled for Roland Garros next week, with Tim Henman having intervened in the ongoing row over grand slam prize money.

The Guardian has learned the former British No 1 and All England Club Board member held talks with several top players, including representatives of the WTA Players’ Council at the Italian Open in Rome earlier this month. A formal meeting between Wimbledon officials and player agents at the French Open will follow.

Some players may join the meeting depending on their tournament schedules with Jannik Sinner’s representative, Alex Vittur, one of several leading agents to have confirmed their attendance.

Wimbledon, the French Open and the US Open have been open to meeting the top players’ representatives to discuss concerns over prize money, welfare and representation since December. But the representatives have insisted they will not discuss the formation of a player council until the grand slam organisers address requests for a greater percentage of revenue for players and contributions to welfare initiatives, such as pension funds. In March, the representatives rejected a proposed joint meeting at the Indian Wells Masters with the three slams on those grounds. It is not clear if Wimbledon will entertain those requests in Paris.

Wimbledon will offer to create its own player council and reaffirm their commitment to growing the sport and increasing prize money, with this year’s Championships prize fund to be revealed at a press conference on 11 June. The players’ representatives will also meet with the French Tennis Federation and United States Tennis Association, but Tennis Australia will not be involved in any discussions in Paris.

In a sign of the sport’s fractured governance the Australian Open has aligned with the Professional Tennis Players’ Association, which is suing the other three grand slam governing bodies in New York’s district court over alleged restrictive practices in a separate dispute.

It is unclear if Henman’s intervention has helped bring the players to the negotiating table, but given his status in the sport the 51-year-old may have helped to smooth relations. Henman is understood to have met representatives of the WTA’s Player Council in Rome, and is a regular presence on both tours and at slams due to his media commitments.

Wimbledon’s tournament director, Jamie Baker, and player relations director, Laura Robson, were also in Rome and both have good relations with the current crop of players.

The dispute has been rumbling since last year’s French Open when a delegation of players, including Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff, urged executives from all the slams to increase their prize funds to 22% of revenue by 2030.

Following a modest 7% increase in prize money by Wimbledon that had already been budgeted for in the aftermath of Paris, the US Open and Australian Open increased their prize funds by 20% and 16% respectively, but the French Open’s announcement of a 9.5% increase this year led to a further escalation in tensions.

The players responded by claiming last month that the real-terms increase as a percentage of the tournament’s revenue was 5.4%, as the French Open’s income last year increased by 14% to €395m.

After several players including Sinner, Sabalenka and Gauff openly discussed a future boycott of the slams in Rome all the leading players have agreed to reduce their media activities at the French Open in a coordinated protest, as revealed by the Guardian on Wednesday.

The players will only participate in pre-tournament press conferences with written media and conduct one interview with a host broadcaster.

In addition, they will refuse to conduct their usual one-on-one interviews with global TV rights holders, who pay significant amounts of money for such privileges.

“Of course, we are a little sad about this choice, quite simply, because I think we all find that it penalises all the actors of the tournament, the players, the fans, the press, of course,” Amélie Mauresmo, the French Open tournament director, said on Thursday. “Discussions have begun, and they’ll be even more so tomorrow evening.

“But we’re truly engaged in this communication, in this desire to exchange ideas, to move forward. To also acknowledge that everyone has a step to take towards the other. And I am confident in the exchanges that will take place … So I think that in the interest of tennis in general, I am rather confident.”

Aryna Sabalenka insisted the player push for a greater financial contribution from the grand slams is primarily focused on improving the welfare of lower-ranked players as the world’s elite advanced with their eve-of-tournament protest at Roland Garros.

“I feel like the whole point here, it’s not about me,” Sabalenka said. “It’s about the players who are lower in the ranking, who are suffering. It’s not easy to live in this tennis world with that percentage that we are earning.

“As the world No 1, I feel like I have to stand up and to fight for those players, for lower-level players, for players who are coming back after injuries, the upcoming generation. I feel like our point is pretty clear and pretty fair to everyone. That’s what we are all about.”

The top players opted to escalate their frustrations with the grand slams during media day at Roland Garros by refusing to participate in all but the mandatory media interviews.

Players usually allocate 60-90 minutes of their time for various interviews with broadcasters and written press, photoshoots and social media games, but the players planned to cap their media duties at 15 minutes, a symbolic figure chosen to represent the roughly 15% of average revenue allocated to player prize money by the grand slams. They agreed to split their time between a 10-minute press conference and a five-minute interview with the host broadcaster, their two mandatory duties.

A number of top players have been in dispute with the grand slam tournaments for over a year after sending a signed letter requesting the grand slams to allocate more of their tournament revenues to prize money, contribute to player welfare initiatives, such as a pension, and to create a grand slam player council so that the players have a greater say in the event.

The participants included the No 1s Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner, plus the top-10 players Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Mirra Andreeva, Félix Auger-Aliassime, Ben Shelton, Daniil Medvedev and Taylor Fritz.

Andrey Rublev, the men’s world No 13 and a member of the association of tennis players’ (ATP) advisory council, said: “It’s not only about the money and stuff like that. There are many aspects. They don’t hear you. They don’t answer.

“Just to give you an example: when you send the mail, no one responds to official mail for months. It’s like, ‘Come on, guys.’ We are together, or you completely don’t care that much that you cannot even communicate.” There were no dramatic walkouts or players abruptly ending their press conferences mid-sentence. Many certainly spent more than 10 minutes in their press conferences and 15 minutes overall.

However, throughout the day, the players navigated these unique circumstances in different ways. Despite the moderator calling an end to Medvedev’s press conference, a dogged Russian-language journalist managed to squeeze in two more questions. Medvedev graciously answered, stretching his press conference past the 15-minute mark.

Gauff, meanwhile, took a more direct approach. She discreetly put her phone down on the table in front of her, which was not visible to her audience, and she started a timer before fielding her first question. Nine minutes in, after the moderator asked for any further questions, Gauff looked down at the table: “I have about, like, one minute left,” she said, laughing. Asked whether she had been timing the press conference, Gauff responded with further laughter: “Yes, I’ve got to be strict,” she said. At the 10-minute mark, she personally excused herself from the press conference.

Towards the end of her press conference, Sabalenka glanced over to her agent on the side of the room, who held up one finger while mouthing “one more question”.

The Belarusian then assumed the role of moderator, marking an end to the interview herself. “And now it’s time for national language, and thank you so much for being here, for asking questions,” she said. “As I said a thousand times today, I have huge respect [for you], but we know what’s happening here, so thank you so much.”

The most high-profile omission from the protests was Novak Djokovic, who chose not to participate. The winner of 24 grand slams has been part of various player-power initiatives over the years, both in his time as the ATP council president and founder of the PTPA (Professional Tennis Players Association), but he has recused himself from these initiatives late in his career.

Still, Djokovic, who turned 39 on Friday, said he remains on the side of the players and that tennis should learn from the fractured nature of golf, with the emergence of the LIV tour: “Let’s try to be a bit more united and have a unifying voice into finding better structure and a better future for our sport, because now is the right time.”

Medvedev described this as the most unified he had seen the top players. “It’s good, because it’s probably the first time, at least in my span on the tour, where players are kind of really united,” he said.

Now that we know the Jacksonville Jaguars’ full 2026 NFL schedule, let’s take an early look ahead at each opponent.

In Week 2, the Jaguars are on the road to face the Denver Broncos, which kicks off a very difficult five-game stretch.

Jaguars at Broncos date and time

• When: Sun., Sept. 20 – Week 2
• Where: Empower Field at Mile High
• Time: 4:05 PM ET

Jaguars vs. Broncos matchup history

This will be the 17th all-time meeting between the Jaguars and Broncos. Right now, the series is split with each team winning eight games.

The last meeting between these two was just last season, a game that the Jaguars won 34-20 in Denver.

Jaguars vs. Broncos win probabilities

According to ESPN’s analytics, the Jaguars’ win probability for this game sits at just 29%.

Offseason moves by the Broncos

With help from CBS Sports, here is a rundown of notable additions and departures from the Broncos this offseason.

• Additions: WR Jaylen Waddle, DT Tyler Onyedim, RB Jonah Coleman
• Departures: DL John Franklin-Myers, S PJ Locke, LB Dre Greenlaw

“Given that Denver already boasted one of the top rosters in the conference, there wasn’t much on the offseason to-do list, but adding another pass catcher opposite of Courtland Sutton was certainly one of them, and they do just that with Waddle.” – Tyler Sullivan

Stats to know from the 2025 NFL season

The Denver offense ranked 15th in points per game last season, averaging 23.2 per contest. The defense, meanwhile, was one of the most disruptive and stingy in football, giving up just 18.5 points per game — the fourth-best mark in the NFL.

Players to know

QB Bo Nix: Last season, Nix completed 63% of his passes at 6.4 yards per attempt with 28 touchdowns to 12 interceptions.

RB JK Dobbins, RJ Harvey: The duo had a relatively split workload out of the backfield and rushed for a combined 1,369 yards, including the playoffs, with 11 touchdowns.

WR Jaylen Waddle: The Broncos acquired Waddle from Miami in a blockbuster trade. Waddle had 910 receiving yards last season with six touchdowns, and has surpassed 1,000 yards in three of his five seasons.

DT Zach Allen, DE Nik Bonitto: Two of the most disruptive pass rushers at their respective position groups, both Allen and Bonitto surpassed 70 pressures during the regular season.

CB Pat Surtain II: Surtain allowed a completion rate of just 52% while coming away with an interception and nine pass breakups.