Rumors

The Dallas Mavericks don’t have any interest in DeMarcus Cousins. Forget the context. The New Orleans Pelicans could implode and start shopping him ahead of the February trade deadline, or he could merely take meetings around the league when he enters free agency this summer. It doesn’t matter. The Mavericks don’t, and won’t, want him. [...]

Charlotte Hornets head coach Steve Clifford is stepping away from the team for an undetermined period of time. Here’s the announcement from that the organization released on Wednesday: The Charlotte Hornets announced today that Head Coach Steve Clifford will be away from the team for the immediate future to address his health. Currently, there is [...]

It feels increasingly unlikely that DeAndre Jordan will finish this season with the Los Angeles Clippers. He turns 30 in July, at which time he’ll be up for a new contract (player option). Injuries have essentially torpedoed the Clippers’ playoff hopes this season. People are merely waiting for them to stage a miniature teardown that [...]

No coaching seat in the NBA seems hotter than the one on which Doc Rivers is sitting. Not only are the Los Angeles Clippers 4-14 over their past 18 games, but the team stripped Rivers of his official front-office powers over the summer, turning instead to Lawrence Frank as vice president of basketball operations and [...]

Stephen Curry is going to miss time with a right ankle injury. The Golden State Warriors just aren’t totally sure how long he’ll be out. The two-time MVP rolled his right ankle late in the fourth quarter of the Warriors’ Monday night victory over the New Orleans Pelicans. Neither X-rays nor an MRI revealed anything [...]

Before the New York Knicks appointed Steve Mills and hired general manager Scott Pretty to replace jilted team president Phil Jackson, their owner, James Dolan, tried to poach Jerry West. And, obviously, he failed. Mitch Lawrence has the details over at the Sporting News: They’ve done it with a new administration led by president Steve [...]

For the first time in the past couples years, DeAndre Jordan has an agent—a change that could spell the end to his time with the Los Angeles Clippers. According to ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Jordan has hired Jeff Schwartz to represent him, a move that comes in advance of his free agency (player option), but also [...]

Sometime in the near future, the Memphis Grizzlies won’t be pumping the rumor mill full of details regarding the relationship between Marc Gasol and recently fired head coach David Fizdale. But don’t take this to mean they’ll be out of the rumor mill altogether. They have an ongoing ownership battle currently playing out, one that’s [...]

If the Milwaukee Bucks want to trade for DeAndre Jordan, it will cost them. According to the Racine Journal Times‘ Gery Woelfel, the Los Angeles Clippers have their eyes fixated on Malcolm Brogdon, John Henson and Khris Middleton in any deal they they strike with an apparently interested Milwaukee team: Sources said Clipper officials have targeted [...]

Who had the “Beginning of December” in the pool for when George Hill would turn on the Sacramento Kings? Well, congratulations to anyone who did, and still does. You might be on the verge of winning said contest. Few expected the Kings to be good this year. Signing Zach Randolph, Vince Carter and Hill always [...]