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Yes the Golden State Warriors are a superteam. No, Kevin Durant doesn’t want you calling them that. From the San Francisco Chronicle‘s Connor Letourneau: “First of all, if everybody wanted Steph, he would have been the No. 1 pick,” Durant said Wednesday of Curry, the No. 7 pick of the 2009 NBA draft. “A lot of [...]

Rumors that state LeBron James may leave the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2018 are not just noise. They’re for real. The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor first introduced the chatter after the Cavaliers were bounced by the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals. And now, The Vertical’s almighty Adrian Wojnarowski has spoken (via Silver Screen & Roll): “Not [...]

Josh Jackson has been a name that is trending upward in the past weeks as an extremely athletic and gifted 6’8″ player out of the University of Kansas who projects to be an elite defender who can guard multiple positions and the potential to be a 20 point per game scorer down the line. The [...]

The Utah Jazz have their work cut out for them if they want to re-sign free agent Gordon Hayward. The Miami Heat are ‘loading up‘ to pursue him, and the Boston Celtics have always loomed as a threat. Except, according to NBA insider Jordan Schultz, Beantown might actually be a more serious suitor than most anticipate: [...]

About those Chris Paul-to-San Antonio Spurs rumors having serious legs…One NBA executive isn’t buying it. From Bleacher Report’s Mike Monroe: “I think all that talk is nothing more than leverage,” one Western Conference basketball executive said Thursday. “Chris is just trying to make sure he can leverage Doc (Rivers). “If you’re the Clippers, don’t you [...]

The Boston Celtics got a workout with Markelle Fultz, the NBA’s consensus No. 1 overall pick. They won’t be getting one with Josh Jackson. Sources told ESPN.com’s Jeff Goodman and Marc J. Spears that Kansas’ wing, who is projected to go in the top five of this year’s prospect pageant, bailed on his scheduled meeting [...]

The Houston Rockets will not sit quietly as the Golden State Warriors steamroll the rest of the NBA. General manager Daryl Morey is going to make sure of it. His plan? Well, we’ll we’re not really sure. But he definitely has one. He told ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe so: “We are used to long odds,” Morey [...]

Adam Silver has a message for any teams that might be worried or put off by the existence of the Golden State Warriors: Your move, everyone. This is more or less what he said when pressed about the issue. But here’s what he actually said (prior to Game 4), per The Washington Post‘s Adam Kilgore (h/t Bleacher [...]

Will the Chris Paul-to-the-San Antonio Spurs hypothetical many are drooling over increase in traction or lose steam now after the Golden State Warriors thoroughly beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals? Let’s go with “increase in traction,” if only because it took 0.5 seconds for the scenario to crop up after Golden State secured its second [...]

James Dolan wants you to know the persisting crappy state of the New York Knicks is not his fault, because he’s not getting involved in matters of basketball. Here’s the lowdown of his new favorite defense, per ESPN.com’s Ian Begley: Knicks owner James Dolan maintains that he’s not involved in basketball decisions. “No, no,” Dolan [...]