Rumors

In the wake of a recent trade rumor, Will Barton has declared his allegiance to the Denver Nuggets. Here’s what the 25-year-old said, per The Denver Post‘s Christopher Dempsey: “It’s tough but you hear a lot of stuff going around,” Barton told The Denver Post. “I don’t pay any attention to it, I try not [...]

The NBA trade rumor mill is starting to churn this time of year as disgruntled and underutilized talent around the NBA is being targeted by teams around the league looking for fill specific needs or dump salary. One name that has popped up in recent days is sixth man extraordinaire Will Barton of the Denver [...]

Roughly one-third of the NBA’s 2016-17 season is in the books. Some people will say that’s too early to start taking stock of the championship picture. But those people are wrong. Truth is, the NBA already has the favorite to end all favorites in place. The Golden State Warriors, according to TopBet’s futures, are a [...]

As you may have noticed over the past decade or so, the Sacramento Kings aren’t exactly operating at the San Antonio Spurs level when it comes to professionalism, organization and relations between the players and front office. We all know about the constant DeMarcus Cousins saga and the fact that Rudy Gay has seemingly been [...]

Jimmy Butler almost became a member of the Boston Celtics on draft night. Kind of. Sort of. Maybe. Look, we’re not sure, okay? But the talks we heard about between the Chicago Bulls and Celtics were real. Equally real, according to K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune, was Chicago’s interest in Boston’s offer: Jimmy Butler’s [...]

Before Buddy Hield was a member of the New Orleans Pelicans, he was just some dude Kobe Bryant texted on draft night. Yes, it’s true: Fresh into retirement, Bryant texted the would-be sixth-overall pick of this year’s NBA prospect pageant. Hield recounted the experience for The Players’ Tribune: On draft night, I got a text [...]

Phil Jackson is many things. “A great basketball mind” is definitely one of them. Perhaps, so is “very tough to deal with.” We can’t deny his accomplishments, but, as rumor has it, the guy can sometimes be insufferable. Jackson’s recent reaction to LeBron taking offense to his business partners being labeled as a “posse” certainly [...]

Those of you who thought the DeMarcus Cousins-to-the-Boston Celtics trade rumors would dissipate with the latter’s acquisition of Al Horford over the summer thought wrong. Per Adam Kaufman of CBS Sports Radio: Kaufman notes that he’s not hearing this from a Sacramento Kings or Celtics source, which is important. Just last week, word came from [...]

Even though DeMarcus Cousins profiles has an insanely likely flight risk when he reaches free agency in 2018, the Sacramento Kings aren’t yet ready to trade him. From The Vertical’s Chris Mannix: But with the league a week away from the unofficial start of trade season — on Dec. 15, players signed over the summer [...]

During the offseason, the Golden State Warriors signed coveted free agent Kevin Durant, adding the former league MVP to a team that won a record 73 games and almost won the NBA title for a second straight season. If you want to bet on the NBA, our American site offers the latest NBA odds. With [...]