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Tristan Thompson may want to get himself used to the idea of coming off the bench. In the aftermath of a wonky offseason, which ended, basically, with the arrival of Dwyane Wade, Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue is considering using Kevin Love as the starting center, per ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin: Kevin Love could be named [...]

Maybe we’ll get to see more than one season’s worth of this Oklahoma City Thunder squad after all. General manager Sam Presti has been rightfully lauded for piecing together a Big Three of Paul George, Carmelo Anthony and Russell Westbrook, seemingly on the fly. But this troika is viewed by many as a one-year placeholder. [...]

Kawhi Leonard will not take the floor with the San Antonio Spurs until the start of the regular season…at the earliest. The NBA’s preseason slate tipped off accompanied by some bad news coming out of Texas this past weekend, with the Spurs announcing their superstar forward would not participate in the team’s exhibition lineup as [...]

The reason why the NBA free agency market can be steaming hot like it was in 2016 when players like Timofey Mozgov were getting $16 million per season contracts, or frost bite inducing cold like it was in the 2017 off-season when Nerlens Noel could garner nothing more than the qualifying offer is pretty simple: [...]

Have fun with your Big Four of Steven Adams, Carmelo Anthony, Paul George and Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma City Thunder. Enjoy whatever a LeBron James-Kevin Love-Dwyane Wade-Isaiah Thomas foursome should be called, Cleveland Cavaliers. Keep on keeping on with your collection of four All-NBA players, Golden State Warriors. John Wall doesn’t care. He doesn’t need that [...]

While it has been rumored and ballyhooed about for quite some time now, it appears some NBA lottery has officially passed starting with the 2018-19 NBA season according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. [tweet https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/913478283387215872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] The reform is put in place to discourage tanking and evens the playing for the No.1 pick for the top three [...]

Tim Duncan has always been a highly effective and quiet leader behind the scenes and out of the public eye as he was not only the Spurs best player for almost 15 years on the court, but the heart and soul of the organization as a whole. He is leading and making a difference behind [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers are getting ready to use Dwyane Wade at point guard. Maybe. After the off-guard’s first practice wearing wine and gold, head coach Tyronn Lue said he gave him run at the 1 spot, per ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin: [tweet https://twitter.com/mcten/status/913478641220227072] Note that this experiment came with the second unit, which could mean anything [...]

So about Andrew Wiggins’ five-year, $148 million extension with the Minnesota Timberwolves…We’ve yet to hear confirmation that he’s actually signed it, which is weird. The question is: Might this be a sign of something more sinister at play? Timberwolves coach-president Tom Thibodeau doesn’t think so, per Jerry Zgoda of the Star Tribune: [tweet https://twitter.com/JerryZgoda/status/913187813142577152] As someone [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers’ loss is the Oklahoma City Thunder’s gain—in a big way. During an interview with SiriusXM, Carmelo Anthony revealed that both himself and Paul George were almost traded to the Cavaliers on draft night. Here’s ESPN.com’s Ian Begley with the details: Carmelo Anthony said in a SiriusXM interview that there was a trade [...]