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Paul Millsap is happy right where he is. Following a report from ESPN.com’s Marc Stein and Brian Windhorst that said the Atlanta Hawks were listening to offers for Millsap, the All-Star forward has made it clear he prefers to stay put, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s Chris Vivlamore: Millsap owns a player option for next season [...]

When Jimmy Butler capped off another quality performance with 52 points in the Bulls 118-111 comeback victory over the Charlotte Hornets Monday night in Chicago, Butler became the 8th player in the 2016-17 season to have a 50 point game. Feel free to read that sentence again. With Butler joining Russell Westbrook, James Harden, DeMarcus [...]

The New York Knicks are not a good defensive team. They rank 25th in points allowed per 100 possessions, and they’ve at times looked much, much worse than that. Head coach Jeff Hornacek, naturally, isn’t happy about his team’s defensive stands. And he was particularly frustrated after the Knicks relinquished 115 points to the usually [...]

Rajon Rondo’s foray into free agency this past summer didn’t unfold as planned. The Chicago Bulls signed him to a two-year deal, the second of which is only partially guaranteed. And after he put pen to paper, Dwyane Wade followed him to the Windy City, creating a backcourt with very little spacing. Following a relatively [...]

You know you needed yet another Donatas Motiejunas update. According to The Vertical’s Shams Charania, the 7-footer is now expected to sign a deal with the New Orleans Pelicans to seal his NBA return: Free-agent power forward Donatas Motiejunas is in serious discussions to sign with the New Orleans Pelicans, league sources told The Vertical. [...]

James Harden is not like Carmelo Anthony, or Dwight Howard, or probably Kobe Bryant. He actually likes playing for head coach Mike D’Antoni. Per the Associated Press (USA Today): Minutes after collecting 53 points, 17 assists and 16 rebounds in his second straight triple-double, Houston’s James Harden was asked what it has been like to [...]

Less than two seasons into Fred Hoiberg’s tenure as Tom Thibodeau’s successor, the Chicago Bulls may have seen enough. From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: The latest chatter on the coaching grapevine, meanwhile, tells us that the toastiest seat on the NBA map at present belongs, rightly or wrongly, to the Chicago Bulls’ Fred Hoiberg. The Bulls’ [...]

So much for the Phoenix Suns not being open to trading Brandon Knight. Previous speculation has been denied by the team time and again. The Suns, driven by this untenable hope of contending for a playoff berth while rebuilding, weren’t looking to trade Knight—a point guard on a pre-cap-boom contract relegated to backup duty behind [...]

The Denver Nuggets tried to play Jusuf Nurkic and Nikola Jokic together. They really did. Through November, the two logged 104 minutes of court time together. But the Nuggets were outscored by more than 15.4 points per 100 possessions during those situations, according to NBA.com. The two, as a result, have seen just one minute [...]

Rudy Gay and the Oklahoma City Thunder have been linked to another since before the start of the 2016-17 season. Oklahoma City lost Kevin Durant over the summer and needs another scorer who can also get buckets from three-point range off the catch to pair with Russell Westbrook. Gay has a player option for next [...]