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Pacers Rumored to Sign Aaron Gordon to Offer Sheet

Pacers Rumored to Sign Aaron Gordon to Offer Sheet

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 [...]

June 29, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

What the Spurs Should Do With Leonard

What the Spurs Should Do With Leonard

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 [...]

June 28, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

If Lakers Trade for Kawhi Leonard, It ‘Likely Clinches’ Commitment from LeBron James

If Lakers Trade for Kawhi Leonard, It ‘Likely Clinches’ Commitment from LeBron James

The Los Angeles Lakers are one Kawhi Leonard away from landing LeBron James in free agency. No big deal, right? ESPN.com’s Ramona Shelburne, Brian Windhorst and Adrian Wojnarowski have been on top of the Kawhi-to-Lakers rumors over the past couple days, and their latest batch of intel makes it seem as if LeBron is a [...]

June 28, 2018 admin Blogs 0

Memphis to Target Avery Bradley in Free Agency

Memphis to Target Avery Bradley in Free Agency

Avery Bradley didn’t exactly have the kind of year you hope for before entering free agency. The 27-year-old combo guard struggled mightily in Detroit and Los Angeles. He saw his numbers and efficiency level go down across the board as the perception of him changed from great two-way starting shooting guard to inefficient and overvalued [...]

June 28, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Enes Kanter Now Expected to Opt into Final Year of Deal with New York Knicks

Enes Kanter Now Expected to Opt into Final Year of Deal with New York Knicks

Big news: Enes Kanter has no plans to throw away $18.6 million. After publicly waffling on whether he was going to exercise his player option for next season, it seems the New York Knicks big man is now leaning toward playing out the final year of his deal, according to ESPN.com’s Ian Begley: This is…the [...]

June 28, 2018 admin Blogs 0

Two Members of Cavaliers Believe Cleveland Has Best Chance to Sign LeBron James

Two Members of Cavaliers Believe Cleveland Has Best Chance to Sign LeBron James

It has been difficult in recent months to find many who believe LeBron James will re-sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers this summer. But don’t worry: such people exist. According to ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin, at least two members of the Cavaliers, one of whom is a player, believe that Cleveland has the best chance of any [...]

June 28, 2018 admin Blogs 0

Paul George Hoping to Make ‘Majority of the People Happy’ with His Free-Agency Decision

Paul George Hoping to Make ‘Majority of the People Happy’ with His Free-Agency Decision

Paul George sounds like someone who will try to be the ultimate crowd-pleaser as he enters free agency. During ESPN’s behind-the-scenes look at his offseason prep, the Oklahoma City Thunder forward said that he hopes to make most people happy when he decides where he’ll play next year (h/t Brett Dawson of The Oklahoman): “I hope [...]

June 28, 2018 admin Blogs 0

San Antonio Spurs are Now Odds-On Favorites to Keep Kawhi Leonard

San Antonio Spurs are Now Odds-On Favorites to Keep Kawhi Leonard

It did not take long for the San Antonio Spurs to regain the inside track on keeping Kawhi Leonard. Apparently. In the latest odds released by Bovada, the Los Angeles Lakers have forfeited their pole position in the Kawhi sweepstakes, per Odds Shark: Look, I’m not going to say I told you so. But only [...]

June 27, 2018 admin Blogs 0

Curry Tried to Avoid Warriors on Draft Night

Curry Tried to Avoid Warriors on Draft Night

As it stands today, Steph Curry is one of the greatest and most accomplished point guards in NBA history, winning three NBA titles and two MVP awards. There was a time though when he was trying to avoid being drafted by the Warriors altogether… From Hawks GM and former Warriors Executive Travis Schlenk: “We were [...]

June 27, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Clippers and Wizards Swap Rivers and Gortat

Clippers and Wizards Swap Rivers and Gortat

It is clear that Doc Rivers no longer has any personnel power for the Clippers. The Clippers reportedly traded his son and backup point guard Austin Rivers to the Wizards for Marcin Gortat on Tuesday. While interesting (partially for the reason mentioned above), this trade is much ado about nothing in my opinion. It is [...]

June 27, 2018 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0