Ryan Bawek

Most NBA executives and those involved in the game will agree that the worst position to be in as a franchise is a middle of the road team over the salary cap and a roster filled with veterans. That is the NBA version of purgatory hypothetically. The one NBA franchise that exemplifies this situation the [...]

There was once a time when Monta Ellis was seen as being one of the featured options of an NBA offense and averaged 25.5 points per game for the Warriors in the 2009-10 season. He found himself out of the league by the age of 31 last season, unable to catch on with a team [...]

Native American themed mascots, logos and team names are pervasive all over the professional and collegiate sports scene, but rarely do they truly pay homage. The alternate uniforms that the Thunder unveiled on Monday do seem to be the rare instance where the culture is being honored and not parodied or done in a disrespectful [...]

Tom Thibodeau is basically Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite at this point. Trying to rekindle the golden days he had as the coach of the Chicago Bulls by signing and giving a role to any one of the major pieces of that era of Bulls basketball that he can get his hands on. Much like [...]

The Phoenix Suns added a lot of talent this off-season and a solid veteran wing player in Trevor Ariza in free agency, but they still have one massive need though, a point guard. The current list of point guards on the Suns roster is Elie Okobo, Shaq Harrison, Isaiah Canaan and DeAnthony Melton…yikes. The Suns [...]

Restricted free agency has not been quite to many young players in recent years. After entering this past season as a guy who many thought could garner $10 million or more per year from the Jazz or elsewhere and then struggling with the Jazz before being traded to the Cavaliers and struggling to find a [...]

Kevin Garnett has made a good living from the game of basketball, according to Business Insider. At the moment Garnett has more career earnings at $326 million than any other player in NBA history. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that he has seen all $326 million of those earnings, as $77 million was allegedly stolen from [...]

In a somewhat surprising move, the Clippers decided to match the Pelicans offer sheet for free agent forward Tyrone Wallace. The reason this is of interest is because that now gives the Clippers 17 guaranteed contracts for the 2018-19 NBA season which screams two words: trade coming. Here is their roster at the moment: When [...]

Udonis Haslem has been a member of the Miami Heat since LeBron James rookie year in the NBA, before social media was a thing and when the concept of TiVo was relatively new. He has agreed to a one-year, $2.4 million deal to play his 16th season as a member of the Heat. Haslem has [...]

It is pretty amazing how quickly the Lakers have turned their roster and roster flexibility around considering they handed out two of the worst contracts in NBA history in the summer of 2016, paying Timofey Mozgov $64 million over four years and Luol Deng $72 million over four years. They were able to get off [...]