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The NBA has taken the next step toward draft-lottery reform. According to ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the NBA’s competition committee has officially recommended the latest lottery reform proposal, which means the Association’s board of governors will be putting it to a vote later this month. Woj has more details: NBA commissioner Adam Silver has been determined [...]

Micky Arison has been the owner of the Miami Heat through the Alonzo Mourning era, Shaq and Wade era and the Big 3 in Miami. He is a staple of the local culture and city. He along with the Miami Heat Charitable Fund, Carnival Corporation and the Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation, have announced [...]

Lists and rankings should be fairly common place in sports. People love reducing athletes into lists and positioning them according to the performances they have delivered up that point. As such, it is a little surprising that so many NBA players have come out to harshly criticize the many media outlets that had the audacity [...]

It appears we may have seen the last of Boris Diaw in an NBA uniform. After struggling mightily in Utah last season, Diaw was unable to find an NBA home this off-season and is now reportedly headed to play professionally in France this season. Diaw is currently playing for France in Euro Cup and at [...]

The Portland Trail Blazers have roughly three bajillion bigs on their roster. And Ed Davis doesn’t care. The 28-year-old, who is still working his way back from season-ending shoulder surgery last February, will wrap up the three-year, $20 million he signed in 2015 at the end of 2016-17—at which point he hopes to re-sign with [...]

Clint Capela and the Houston Rockets have until Oct. 16 to hammer out a contract extension, otherwise he’ll enter restricted free agency next summer. As of now, according to what league executives have told The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor, it doesn’t sound like a deal is close to getting done: The Rockets have three other young, [...]

To answer a question many of you had and many of you didn’t: No, the Cleveland Cavaliers don’t currently have a desire to deal Kevin Love in the aftermath of the Kyrie Irving trade. From ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe: The Cavs have contemplated trading Love off and on almost since that series, though they have no [...]

The Miami Heat are all in on building around their core that helped lead them to a 30-11 record the second half of the 2016-17 season (Richardson was hurt for much of that) and are signing 23-year-old 3-and-D wing Josh Richardson to a four-year, $42 million extension. Richardson dealt with some injury issues his second [...]

Magic Johnson was a wanted man long before he became the Los Angeles Lakers’ team president. During a recent interview on ESPN’s First Take, the 58-year-old Hall of Famer revealed that he fielded job offers from teams like the Detroit Pistons and Golden State Warriors, in addition to perhaps the New York Knicks. Here’s the video [...]

Draymond Green wasn’t necessarily expecting to see Kyrie Irving suit up for the Boston Celtics this season, but he also wasn’t surprised to learn of the All-Star point guard’s trade request. As he told reporters, per The Athletic’s Anthony Slater (h/t Bleacher Report’s Tyler Conway): “I wouldn’t necessarily say it surprised me,” Green told reporters Tuesday. “I [...]