For weeks there’s been speculation that the New Jersey 5s could be big players in the Major League Pickleball trade market. On Monday — deadline day — they finally made their move. The 5s acquired Federico Staksrud and Milan Rane from the Orlando Squeeze in exchange for Martin Emmrich and Lina Padegimaite. New Jersey also […]

A month ago the Dallas Flash were facing a nightmare scenario. They’d gone 1-4 at MLP Austin, left town with zero standings points and were at risk of missing the playoffs altogether. It was starting to look like a lost season. Then they got busy in the trade market, first moving Tyra Black to Columbus […]

Major League Pickleball is heading to San Diego this week as the regular season gets into the home stretch. There are three events remaining before the playoffs, so teams have a limited number of opportunities to improve their playoff seeding or get inside the playoff bubble (the Top 12 teams will make the postseason). There […]

The St. Louis Shock have been the most dominant team in Major League Pickleball for the past several weeks. They haven’t lost since May 31 and have been sweeping teams more often than not as of late, but were still No. 2 in the points standings heading into the Mid-Season Tournament this week. With all […]

The Major League Pickleball Mid-Season Tournament starts Wednesday at Belknap Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which has hosted the event alongside the annual Beer City Open for the past 3 years. It’s the only event on the schedule this season that features all 20 MLP teams, as well as four additional teams in the bracket: […]

It was a weird week at Major League Pickleball New York. There were a handful of upsets/confusing results, and the event itself was partially overshadowed by the scary incident that resulted in Brooklyn’s Rachel Rohrabacher being struck and injured by a baseline video board that was blown over by a gust of wind (more on […]

Major League Pickleball is heading back to Sportime Randall’s Island in New York, New York, this week. It’s the second straight year the massive tennis facility has hosted an MLP event. The event — hosted by the Brooklyn Pickleball Team — starts Thursday and runs through Sunday. There are 11 teams in the field this […]

The Major League Pickleball 2026 trade deadline is fast approaching, and several teams are making moves to bolster their lineups heading into the home stretch of the regular season. The deadline was initially June 30, but was bumped back to July 12 and then bumped back again to July 20 (we think for the last […]

The Columbus Sliders were the talk of Major League Pickleball heading into this week’s event in St. Petersburg, Florida. Last weekend they made a blockbuster trade to acquire Tyra Black, giving them four starters (Parris Todd, Tyra Black, Andrei Daescu and CJ Klinger) who are all Top 10 doubles players on the PPA Tour — […]