Rumors

What happens when you average 36.8 points, 10.8 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 2.3 steals and 1.0 blocks on 65.9 percent shooting through the first four games of the NBA season? You become the odds-on favorite to win the league’s MVP award. From SportsInsights Marky Mark: Antetokounmpo has moved from +1000 to +250 in this short stretch—close [...]

No. No, no. No, no, no. Not Anthony Davis. Not another marque injury. Not again. Not this season. Please, no. Er, sorry. But injuries stink. And now Davis is dealing with a knee injury. He left the New Orleans Pelicans’ loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, and the situation was serious enough that he needed [...]

Eric Bledsoe has played his last game as a member of the Phoenix Suns—at least, that’s what the Phoenix Suns say. One day after the point guard basically requested a trade on Twitter, the team sent him home. General manager Ryan McDonough said Bledsoe had an excuse for the “I don’t wanna be here” tweet—saying [...]

Eric Bledsoe may have requested a trade from the Phoenix Suns via Twitter on Sunday. At the very least, he tweeted something that is making us wonder whether he used social media to deliver a trade demand. Welcome to 2017. Here’s the tweet in question, which, as of this writing, remains live: DeAndre Jordan’s Twitter [...]

For as good of a motivator as he was as an NBA coach, Phil Jackson was that bad at being a personnel person (except for drafting Kristaps) and made numerous questionable moves while demanding his team play a style from the 1990s. One area where he was particularly bad: free agent recruiting. We have probably [...]

The Knicks just dealt with the face of their franchise being unwilling to play the position that would help them win most with the style of play in the current NBA, I am talking about Carmelo Anthony’s unwillingness to play the four for the Knicks the past few years despite the fact that he could [...]

Now that every team has unveiled their normal home and away uniforms for the 2017-18 season with the transition to Nike as the official apparel sponsor of the NBA, many teams alternate uniforms (every team will have four) are set to be unveiled around the NBA in the next few weeks, or so we thought… [...]

Jabari Parker, the former No. 2 pick of the 2014 NBA Draft, has blossomed in his third season with the Milwaukee Bucks and was averaging 20.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists on 49% shooting and 36.5% shooting from three before tearing his ACL for the second time this February. Parker is one of a slew [...]

The New Orleans Pelicans have a gaping hole on their roster currently on the wing as a team that was already thin at the shooting guard and small forward position became even thinner with the hamstring injury to Solomon Hill that will keep him out much of the season. With the acquisition of DeMarcus Cousins [...]

Longtime Spurs point guard and future hall of famer Tony Parker is rehabbing his torn left quadriceps this off-season, an injury he suffered against the Rockets in the western conference semi-finals last season. While initial prognosis for the injury was for Parker to return around or even after the all-star break, Parker has said numerous [...]