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Breathe easy, Milwaukee Bucks fans. Giannis Antetokounmpo has no plans to pull a LeBron James. Ever. Apparently. Asked about LeBron’s decision to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Los Angeles Lakers on a recent appearance of The Herd, Antetokounmpo mostly demurred. He complemented James and showed respect for his decision. Pressed about whether he would [...]

Coming into his sophomore season at Texas A&M, Robert Williams was seen as a potential top 10 pick, possibly even a top five pick in the 2018 NBA Draft. His size, strength, explosiveness and quickness made him the ideal rim running center on offense and a rim protector on defense. An underwhelming start to his [...]

Rajon Rondo is now a member of the Los Angeles Lakers—and he isn’t joining LeBron James just to come off the bench. According to the Los Angeles Times‘ Tania Ganguli, Rondo will have the opportunity to win the starting point guard job from Lonzo Ball after signing a one-year, $9 million deal: This is only a [...]

Similar to the Cleveland Cavaliers exit from the NBA Finals, the third iteration of The Decision seemed to be a foregone conclusion. Game 1 of The Finals kept us monitoring NBA Twitter and asking; “Is this really going to happen?” Ultimately, reality set in and the Cavaliers lost. The Decision v3 was no different. LeBron [...]

While everybody digests the thought of LeBron James in a Lakers jersey, there are plenty of other free agency signings that are happening behind the scenes. These aren’t the sort of players who command large deals or are expected to step in and be a star player, but the kind of guys who can help [...]

LeBron James has joined the Los Angles Lakers. That is an objectively weird thing to say. So, too, is this: Kawhi Leonard is feverishly trying to join him. Per ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski: How badly does Leonard want to end up with the Lakers, you ask? Apparently very badly. Consider what ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith said, [...]

76ers Joel Embiid, 24-year old all-star, tweeted out, “The Lakers are FOREVER gonna be Kobe’s and Magic’s team….Process that.” LeBron James’ path to another championship may have been easier in Philly than Los Angeles, but James will now probably have to fight through either the Golden State Warriors or the Houston Rockets to get there. [...]

The Rockets fulfilled their initial promise to Chris Paul by signing him to a four-year, $160 million max contract. Chris Paul is still one of the most valuable players in the NBA and the Rockets may be in possession of the Larry O’Brien trophy right now if CP3 hadn’t gone down with a hamstring injury [...]

There are many teams with a lot of cap space going into free agency, but the best team with cap space available isn’t the Los Angeles Lakers, it is the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers could potentially have $35 million in cap space to try and improve upon a 48 win team in 2017-18. So where [...]

It is clear that the Kawhi Leonard sweepstakes is the 1B to the 1A off-season story line that is LeBron James free agency. While it is very apparent Leonard wants out and prefers LA, the Spurs reaction to Leonard’s demands and their course of action seems to alternate by the hour with different reports. Should [...]