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Jonas Valanciunas has three years and $49.6 million left on his current contract, and the Toronto Raptors really don’t want to be the team bankrolling it anymore. According the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney, the Raptors have tried relentlessly, and unsuccessfully, to trade Valanciunas since February as they seek to reinvent their identity: Toronto has sought [...]

There have been numerous reports over the past few weeks that the Milwaukee Bucks and Derrick Rose have met once in free agency and are trying to schedule another meeting due to mutual interest with one another. The Bucks currently are siting at $1.6 million over the salary cap and can currently only offer $4.4 [...]

The Houston Rockets are all in on doing one thing this summer: build a team to challenge the Golden State Warriors. The Rockets, somewhat surprisingly, were a mid 50 win team last season behind James Harden’s historic season and incredible success at point guard. It was clear in the postseason that they didn’t have enough [...]

We have arrived at mid-July in the 2017 NBA off-season and with all of the big names off of the free agency board and only one real star caliber player on the trade market (or not apparently? Who knows), it is a good time to analyze the state of affairs of all 30 NBA teams [...]

The New Orleans Pelicans added a little play making, veteran presence and let’s be honest, ornery-ness to their roster for the 2017-18 season by signing Rajon Rondo to a one-year deal. [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/886249142967824384] Rondo averaged 7.8 points, 6.7 assists and 5.1 rebounds for the Bulls last season and got them to a surprising 2-0 lead [...]

One of the biggest goals of the NBA and the NFL over the past five to ten years especially, is to become more of an international league and product. The NBA has had games in London and Mexico City and preseason games in China and Brazil for the past few years and the NFL has [...]

According to one of Adrian Wojnarowski’s many sources before trading Paul George to the Oklahoma City Thunder a few weeks ago, the Pacers reached out to the Golden State Warriors and offered George for Klay Thompson. [tweet https://twitter.com/LegionHoops/status/885610216049397761] Holy Cow Batman that would have been an earth-shattering trade, also a very foolish trade for the [...]

Usually losing the best free agent on the market and a max level contract player can set back an NBA franchise for years and make them a much worse team overnight, look at the Cavaliers when LeBron James left for Miami in 2010, until he came back and saved them of course, but that won’t [...]

The start of the NBA season has traditionally coincided with Halloween or the last few days of October, but has slowly been creeping up in recent years as the NBA tries to limit taxing back-to-back games or four games in five nights stretches for NBA teams. They took a big step forward to that end [...]

When anyone talks about the 2017 rookie class in the NBA, a few players and discussions are always brought up: How good will Lonzo Ball be and how annoying his dad Lavar Ball is, how good “The Process” can be now in Philadelphia with No. 1 pick Markelle Fultz joining Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, [...]