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Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers might not have landed DeMarcus Cousins if the big man’s agent took his first response at face value. True story. Speaking on 95.7 The Game’s The Greg Papa Show with Bonta Hill, Myers recounted how he at first basically said the Warriors couldn’t afford the All-Star center (h/t NBC [...]

Well, that didn’t last long. Though it initially appeared Carmelo Anthony might be open to coming off the Houston Rockets’ bench, he pumped the brakes on that talk while speaking with TMZ Sports: Carmelo Anthony wants all the talk of him coming off the bench for the Houston Rockets to slooooow down … with the NBA superstar telling TMZ [...]

Basketball became a truly international game after the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, and while the love for the game has spread throughout Europe and some Asian countries, there is one Asian country and culture the NBA is trying to establish itself in: India. The league has been trying to present the game of professional basketball [...]

Almost everyone has a complaint about the NBA’s schedule whenever it comes out. These issues can range from something simple, like the Christmas Day slate, or something more major, such as the number of back-to-backs a team is playing. But Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has zero qualms with the 2018-19 slate. In [...]

Carmelo Anthony is an official member of the Houston Rockets. Finally. And it seems as if his role could be different than most would’ve initially envisioned. Pretty much everyone and their third cousin twice removed by divorce assumed Anthony would join the Rockets’ starting five, and he still might. But there seems to be at [...]

Writing thank you notes to an NBA city and its fans after your playing days are over have been common practice in the NBA for star-caliber players for some time. Especially when that player starred for a franchise for a half a decade or more. Carmelo Anthony felt the need to thank Oklahoma City fans [...]

If you didn’t already know that the Clippers dream outcome in the 2019 off-season is to acquire Kawhi Leonard, this story confirms it. The Clippers have employed former San Antonio Spurs defensive deterrent Bruce Bowen for a few years as a TV analyst and he made some disparaging remarks about Leonard and how he handled [...]

Some people were perplexed by the Atlanta Hawks’ decision to trade for Jeremy Lin. He turns 30 later this month and has spent each of the past two seasons battling injuries. Not only that, but they helped the Brooklyn Nets clear space to make a deal with the Denver Nuggets that landed them a first-round [...]

A second back surgery is not going to stop Michael Porter Jr. from trying to return very early into—perhaps even for the start of—the Denver Nuggets’ regular-season schedule. Speaking at the NBA’s rookie photoshoot on Sunday, Porter told ESPN.com’s Chris Forsberg he’s feeling good and, despite a conservative rehab, hoping to make his professional debut [...]

At least one part of Dwyane Wade’s future has been hammered out: If he returns for a 16th NBA season, he will only play with the Miami Heat. As for the matter of whether he’ll actually return, well, that remains a mystery. Wade offered this to clarify on his position during a Jr. NBA event, [...]