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The Los Angeles Lakers are no longer considered favorites to land Kawhi Leonard in free agency this summer. And that’s assuming they ever were favorites. Reports have been bandied about indicating that Leonard may have no desire to team up with LeBron James in purple and gold. Not everyone is buying that, particularly more than [...]

Luke Walton’s job is safe. For now. Despite reports of a tenuous meeting between the Los Angeles Lakers head coach and management, team president Magic Johnson came out and said on Sunday he has no plans to fire Walton, per ESPN.com’s Ohm Youngmisuk: “Yeah, we’re not going to fire him,” Johnson told ESPN after the [...]

Kawhi Leonard has yet to play both nights of a back-to-back this season, and it doesn’t seem like the Toronto Raptors are itching to bring him off said maintenance program. From the Toronto Sun‘s Ryan Wolstat: The Raptors will continue easing Kawhi Leonard into the mix, which likely means a night off on Monday in Utah. [...]

J.R. Smith wants off the Cleveland Cavaliers. This isn’t a rumor. It isn’t speculation. It’s what Smith himself told reporters, per ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski: Smith, unhappy with his playing time, was asked by a reporter Thursday if he hoped to be traded. “Yeah,” Smith said. “They know. They don’t want me here, so they obviously [...]

The Golden State Warriors signed DeMarcus Cousins this past summer knowing his would be a one-year stay. But could they maybe, possibly, potentially be holding out hope this is more than a single-season fling? Not according to head coach Steve Kerr. From Bay Area News Group’s Logan Murdock: Steve Kerr on DeMarcus’ 1-year deal with [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves’ season continues to get weird. Derrick Rose dropping a career-high 50 points on Wednesday was strange enough. Of course, though, no day would be complete without another wrinkle in the Jimmy Butler saga. The Athletic’s Shams Charania and Jon Krawczynski initially reported that Butler would miss the Wolves’ game against the Jazz [...]

If you started to wonder what Klay Thompson might look like running his own team following his 51-point detonation in under 27 minutes against the Chicago Bulls on Monday, we don’t blame you. It would be extremely interesting to see how he fares as the No. 1 option, outside the comfy confines of shadows cast [...]

Usually when drafting a player as high as No. 4 in any given draft, a team is expecting to get a perennial starter and foundational piece for their franchise moving forward. That has not been the case for the Suns and Dragan Bender. Bender has shown little in the way of progression or consistency at [...]

Kyle Korver may not be a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers much longer. As the team scrambles to figure out a longer-term solution to fill the head-coach vacancy created by the firing of Tyronn Lue, it’s also attempting to steer deeper into its youth movement by gauging Korver’s market value, according to ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski [...]

Despite a sluggish 2-5 start to the season, the Los Angeles Lakers aspire to be one of the NBA’s 10 best defensive teams. Or so says Luke Walton. Here’s what the Lakers’ head coach had to say (h/t Silver Screen & Roll’s Harrison Faigen): “We have a goal to be a top-10 defensive team, which [...]