Rumors

Johnathan Simmons is one of the best rags to riches stories in the NBA in quite some time. He went from a player spending his own money to participate in a D-League (or G-League these days) tryout to averaging 15 points per game in the western conference finals for the San Antonio Spurs in a [...]

As a general rule, if you have the opportunity to acquire a point guard with three years and $51 million left on his contract after you’ve already handed a five-year, $125 million pact to another floor general, you absolutely do it. Such is the mindset in New Orleans, apparently. According to Basketball Insiders’ Michael Scotto, [...]

When the sun finally sets on a bizarre 2017 free-agency period, Derrick Rose (probably) won’t be a member of the New York Knicks. But he could be on the Dallas Mavericks. Per the New York Post‘s Marc Berman: Rose has been most linked to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Los Angeles Clippers and Milwaukee Bucks—only one of which [...]

The biggest free agency fish in the NBA in 2017 has officially swam to a new home as Gordon Hayward agreed to a four-year, $128 million contract with the Boston Celtics. Although the Celtics and Danny Ainge have been unable to turn their king’s ransom of trade-able assets into a star through trade these past [...]

The Rockets are going all in. In the ever intensifying nuclear war that is building a championship contender in the NBA in 2017, the Rockets and longtime General Manager Daryl Morey realize that if they want any chance to compete with the Warriors western conference supremacy they need to accumulate as much star talent as [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves and Utah Jazz are both teams that are considered on the rise in the western conference, at least for the next few days, potentially until Gordon Hayward makes his free agency decision. It is clear that the Utah Jazz need some depth at the point guard position, especially if they lose free [...]

Paul George is the Los Angeles Lakers’ best free-agent recruiter. And he’s not even a Laker. While appearing on 95.7 The Game, NBC Sports Bay Area analyst and former NBA player Kelenna Azubuike said George has “definitely” started recruiting Klay Thompson on behalf of the team he doesn’t yet play for: I mean, this is [...]

The Brooklyn Nets may finally be back on the way up after putting themselves in possibly the worst position imaginable for a franchise with their questionable decisions in their pursuit to be a contender. Now that they have cleared out all of their large or bad contracts and obtained oodles of cap flexibility to take [...]

The Boston Celtics selected Jayson Tatum with the No. 3 overall pick on Thursday night, a decision they may have made out of pure respect for Tatum’s game and fit. Or because Josh Jackson blew them off. The Kansas stud, who ended up going at No. 4 to the Phoenix Suns, cancelled his workout with [...]

The rumor mill keeps churning as we are now less than 48 hours from the 2017 NBA Draft. One of the biggest players in the draft rumor game this year is the Los Angeles Lakers who hold the No. 2 pick and are currently trying to balance their desires in this year’s draft with their [...]