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When the Chicago Bulls begin the 2017-18 regular season, head coach Fred Hoiberg expects Dwyane Wade to be on the team and part of the rotation. And that, in turn, means no buyout is forthcoming. General manager Gar Forman and vice president of basketball operations John Paxson were extremely up front about this in June, [...]

Chris Paul and Austin Rivers are totally cool. Rumors to the contrary flooded the NBA sphere following Paul’s trade to the Houston Rockets, but we now have confirmation, via Rivers himself, that everything is A-okay, per USA Today‘s Sam Amick: This was hardly the first time someone had alleged that Paul and Doc Rivers didn’t see [...]

After being renounced by the Pistons and becoming an unrestricted free agent last week, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope instantly became the most valuable free agent on the open market (restricted free agency is not an open market). While the Nets decided to pass on Pope while waiting on the Wizards to match their $100 million offer for [...]

The Sacramento Kings made a few surprising splashes in free agency this year, adding to their young core of De’Aaron Fox, Buddy Hield, Willie Cauley-Stein and Skal LaBissiere with three veterans to help mentor them and improve the team in 2017-18: Zach Randolph, Vince Carter and George Hill. While all three were a bit of [...]

John Wall is not walking back his recruitment of Paul George. He wants to make it clear, however, that he loves Otto Porter. As the All-Star point guard told CSN Mid-Atlantic’s J. Michael: “There’s nothing wrong about it. I know what Otto means for our team, what he does,” Wall said while watching the Wizards [...]

Kevin Durant is full of surprises—so much so he shocked even his own head coach by re-signing with the Golden State Warriors at an unexpectedly steep discount. Though it was presumed Durant would take a slight pay cut so the Warriors could retain the Bird rights to Andre Iguodala and Shaun Livingston, he was supposed [...]

Tim Hardaway Jr.’s introductory press conference with the New York Knicks was a rousing success on Monday—assuming, of course, you’re only in this for the jokes. There’s been much made about Hardaway’s four-year, $71 million deal with the team that drafted him. Though he finished the 2016-17 season strong, he is not a $71 million [...]

We know the Houston Rockets have turned their attentions to a Carmelo Anthony trade following James Harden’s extension. What we don’t know is how long it’ll take to land him, or whether they’ll get him at all. Anthony, for his part, believes a deal will get done. As ESPN.com’s Ian Begley noted while doing a SportsCenter [...]

DeMarre Carroll is excited to be joining the Brooklyn Nets. Or rather, he’s at least happy to be leaving the Toronto Raptors. In a candid interview with the Toronto Sun‘s Ryan Wolstat, Carroll expressed that he expected more out of his two-tenure with the Raptors: I wasn’t surprised because I knew it was a lot of [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers and owner Dan Gilbert are very fortunate. They currently employ the best basketball player in the world and one of the greatest players of all-time, along with two other star caliber players in Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love and an assortment of veteran role players. They have been to three straight NBA [...]