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The New Orleans Pelicans added a little play making, veteran presence and let’s be honest, ornery-ness to their roster for the 2017-18 season by signing Rajon Rondo to a one-year deal. Rondo averaged 7.8 points, 6.7 assists and 5.1 rebounds for the Bulls last season and got them to a surprising 2-0 lead against the [...]

One of the biggest goals of the NBA and the NFL over the past five to ten years especially, is to become more of an international league and product. The NBA has had games in London and Mexico City and preseason games in China and Brazil for the past few years and the NFL has [...]

According to one of Adrian Wojnarowski’s many sources before trading Paul George to the Oklahoma City Thunder a few weeks ago, the Pacers reached out to the Golden State Warriors and offered George for Klay Thompson. Holy Cow Batman that would have been an earth-shattering trade, also a very foolish trade for the Warriors though, [...]

Usually losing the best free agent on the market and a max level contract player can set back an NBA franchise for years and make them a much worse team overnight, look at the Cavaliers when LeBron James left for Miami in 2010, until he came back and saved them of course, but that won’t [...]

The start of the NBA season has traditionally coincided with Halloween or the last few days of October, but has slowly been creeping up in recent years as the NBA tries to limit taxing back-to-back games or four games in five nights stretches for NBA teams. They took a big step forward to that end [...]

When anyone talks about the 2017 rookie class in the NBA, a few players and discussions are always brought up: How good will Lonzo Ball be and how annoying his dad Lavar Ball is, how good “The Process” can be now in Philadelphia with No. 1 pick Markelle Fultz joining Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, [...]

Rudy Gobert is not surprised Gordon Hayward left the Utah Jazz for the Boston Celtics. To the contrary, by the end of Utah’s sales pitch to the All-Star forward, Gobert expected him to leave for Beantown, per the Salt Lake Tribune‘s Tony Jones: He said he learned of Hayward’s departure through Twitter, although he and Hayward [...]

Nerlens Noel’s return to the Dallas Mavericks remains a formality, but negotiations on his new contract are not without their wrinkles. Or pitfalls. Per Tim Cato of SB Nation noted, the two sides remain far apart in talks as the second week of NBA free agency nears conclusion: This is fine…for now. And just to [...]

One of the major traditions associated with NBA All-Star Weekend every year is the proliferation of NBA trade rumors, those days are officially over. Traditionally the NBA trade deadline is the Tuesday after the NBA All-Star Weekend, but now the deadline has been moved up to February 8. This is a smart move for the [...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder are having one hell of an offseason. First they landed Paul George from the Indiana Pacers for 30 to 50 cents on the dollar. Since then, they’ve added Patrick Patterson to one of the best deals in the league, re-signed Andre Roberson to a team-friendly three-year, $30 million deal and (marginally) [...]