Rumors

As the Los Angeles Clippers’ season continues to slip away, so, too, does the hope that they’ll finish the year with DeAndre Jordan on the roster. Perhaps that isn’t the prevailing sentiment within the organization, but rival squads definitely smell blood in the water, and they’re coming for the 29-year-old shot-blocker and rim-runner—four to be [...]

Who ordered yet another Marc Gasol-David Fizdale update, with extra salt? Details surrounding the relationship between the All-Star center and the Memphis Grizzlies’ former head coach continue to trickle out in the aftermath of the latter’s firing. We know Gasol complained about being benched during the second half of Memphis’ Sunday loss to the Brooklyn [...]

Robert Pera, majority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies, apparently has a tough decision on his hands. According to The Athletic’s Jon Krawczynski, minority team owners Steve Kaplan and Daniel Strausthe exercised a clause that requires the 39-year-old tech mogul to choose between buying them out or selling back his own stake in the franchise. The [...]

Iman Shumpert has missed the past four games with a left knee injury, and the Cleveland Cavaliers shouldn’t expect him back anytime soon. The team announced prior to Thursday’s win over the Atlanta Hawks that Shumpert’s injured knee will require surgery: Cavaliers guard Iman Shumpert (left knee effusion) was reevaluated following Tuesday’s game by team physicians Dr. [...]

Details about the Marc Gasol-David Fizdale relationship that wasn’t continue to trickle out. The latest comes from USA Today‘s Sam Amick and Jeff Zillgitt, who heard that when the Memphis Grizzlies fired their head coach, he and Big Spain hadn’t really spoken over the past 10 months: But while the widespread confusion about the Fizdale move [...]

Plenty of teams will be waiting when LeBron James enters free agency this summer (player option). And the Philadelphia 76ers are expected to be among them, according to some NBA executives. From USA Today‘s Jeff Zillgitt: J.J. Redick is a smart man. He went to Duke, an excellent academic institution. So when asked about any Ben [...]

Michael Porter Jr. needn’t worry about season-ending back surgery torpedoing his NBA draft stock. Though he is most likely out of contention for the No. 1 overall pick, at least a couple of general managers don’t see him slipping much further in the order. David Aldridge of NBA.com polled a bunch of front-office types about [...]

David Fizdale didn’t even make it through one-and-a-half seasons as head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies. The Grizzlies elected to fire the second-year clipboard-carrier 19 games in 2017-18, as first reported by ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, for reasons that aren’t totally clear. Sure, the team is 7-12, their playoff hopes fading fast. But they’ve dealt with [...]

Jahlil Okafor hasn’t yet given up hope that he’ll soon escape the Philadelphia 76ers. Buried on the bench, with his fourth-year team option long since declined, he knows his future isn’t in the City of Brotherly Love. The Sixers have Joel Embiid, Dario Saric, Ben Simmons and Richaun Holmes to develop up front. Okafor’s future [...]

Would the Cleveland Cavaliers consider dangling Tristan Thompson in a trade for DeAndre Jordan? At least one NBA source believes they would. As Cleveland.com’s Joe Vardon wrote while responding to a mailbag question: Hey, @jeneraljosh: DeAndre Jordan’s numbers are down this season. He’s averaging 10.4 points and shooting .664 from the field (he only shoots twos). Even [...]