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Cold water is being thrown on the idea that the San Antonio Spurs pose a threat to stealing Chris Paul from the Los Angeles Clippers. Worst of all, for Spurs fans anyway, this cold water comes courtesy of breaking-news sage Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical. During an appearance on CBS Sports Radio with Gary Parish (h/t Kyle [...]

If the NBA Finals started today, Steve Kerr still wouldn’t be on the sidelines with the Golden State Warriors. Fortunately, the Finals don’t tip off today. But Cavs-Warriors, Part III does begin on Thursday, a mere two days from now. And based off what Kerr said on Monday, per NBC Sports’ Rosalyn Gold-Onwude?, it doesn’t sound like [...]

What was that about bigs who don’t shoot threes struggling to find a place in today’s NBA? Nerlens Noel knows nothing of this. At least, he’s not about to. According to Scout.com’s Mike Fisher, a couple of teams are prepared to sling max offer sheets with the hope of poaching Noel from the Dallas Mavericks: [...]

This just in: LeBron James believes in himself and his Cleveland Cavaliers teammates. Shocking, I know. Though most statistical models don’t give the reigning champs even a puncher’s chance of taking down the Golden State Warriors for a second straight year–FiveThirtyEight has Cleveland pegged as a 10 percent hopeful—the four-time MVP feels differently, per ESPN.com’s [...]

It seems Tyronn Lue waxing respect for the Boston Celtics has offended the Golden State Warriors. At the very least, acting Warriors head coach Mike Brown has taken stock of it. The Cleveland Cavaliers head coach previously said that, to him, it was harder to game plan for the Celtics’ offense than for the Warriors’ [...]

Although the Phoenix Suns keep saying one thing, rival NBA teams continue to believe another. Eric Bledsoe looks out of place in his current situation. He will turn 28 in December, and the Suns aren’t anywhere near ready to compete for a title. They seem lightyears away even from a playoff berth. That hasn’t stopped [...]

Magic Johnson really likes Brandon Ingram. As the Los Angeles Lakers team president told ESPN Los Angeles, per USA Today‘s A.J. Neuharth-Keusch: “I would say probably the only player that we would say, ‘Hey’ — that we would probably not move — is Brandon Ingram,” Johnson told ESPN Los Angeles on Thursday. “I think that we’re excited [...]

Shots fired! Okay, well, not really. More like: Immense respect for the Boston Celtics and offensive architect Brad Stevens fired! Although the Cleveland Cavaliers have been in control of the Eastern Conference Finals from the jump, their head coach, Tyronn Lue, believes the Celtics offense is harder for his team to plan around than that of [...]

The Dallas Mavericks need to upgrade at point guard. They have the No. 9 pick in this year’s draft. Ricky Rubio has been bandied about the trade rumor mill since the beginning of time—or at least since Tom Thibodeau took over as the Minnesota Timberwolves’ head coach and president. Eric Bledsoe’s timeline looks to run [...]

For the Chicago Bulls to have any sort of meaningful cap space this summer, they need at least one of Rajon Rondo and Dwyane Wade to be suiting up elsewhere. And we already know Rondo’s non-guaranteed deal probably isn’t going anywhere, so that leaves Wade. Except he’s not going anywhere either. From the Chicago Tribune‘s K.C. Johnson: [...]