The Sacramento Kings made a few surprising splashes in free agency this year, adding to their young core of De’Aaron Fox, Buddy Hield, Willie Cauley-Stein and Skal LaBissiere with three veterans to help mentor them and improve the team in 2017-18: Zach Randolph, Vince Carter and George Hill. While all three were a bit of [...]
July 12, 2017
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John Wall is not walking back his recruitment of Paul George. He wants to make it clear, however, that he loves Otto Porter. As the All-Star point guard told CSN Mid-Atlantic’s J. Michael: “There’s nothing wrong about it. I know what Otto means for our team, what he does,” Wall said while watching the Wizards [...]
July 12, 2017
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Kevin Durant is full of surprises—so much so he shocked even his own head coach by re-signing with the Golden State Warriors at an unexpectedly steep discount. Though it was presumed Durant would take a slight pay cut so the Warriors could retain the Bird rights to Andre Iguodala and Shaun Livingston, he was supposed [...]
July 11, 2017
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Tim Hardaway Jr.’s introductory press conference with the New York Knicks was a rousing success on Monday—assuming, of course, you’re only in this for the jokes. There’s been much made about Hardaway’s four-year, $71 million deal with the team that drafted him. Though he finished the 2016-17 season strong, he is not a $71 million [...]
July 11, 2017
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We know the Houston Rockets have turned their attentions to a Carmelo Anthony trade following James Harden’s extension. What we don’t know is how long it’ll take to land him, or whether they’ll get him at all. Anthony, for his part, believes a deal will get done. As ESPN.com’s Ian Begley noted while doing a SportsCenter [...]
July 11, 2017
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DeMarre Carroll is excited to be joining the Brooklyn Nets. Or rather, he’s at least happy to be leaving the Toronto Raptors. In a candid interview with the Toronto Sun‘s Ryan Wolstat, Carroll expressed that he expected more out of his two-tenure with the Raptors: I wasn’t surprised because I knew it was a lot of [...]
July 11, 2017
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The Cleveland Cavaliers and owner Dan Gilbert are very fortunate. They currently employ the best basketball player in the world and one of the greatest players of all-time, along with two other star caliber players in Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love and an assortment of veteran role players. They have been to three straight NBA [...]
July 11, 2017
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Through all the waves that have reverberated across the NBA over the past few weeks with the NBA Draft and free agency, none was bigger and more shocking than the Oklahoma City Thunder coming out of nowhere to land Paul George in a trade (how can you not be im-Presti with Sam?). George was expected [...]
July 11, 2017
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Don’t worry, Philadelphia 76ers: Markelle Fultz will not be joining Joel Embiid, Nerlens Noel and Ben Simmons as the latest top prospect to miss his entire rookie campaign with an injury. It’s unfortunate we even have to talk about this, but alas, Fultz suffered an ankle injury during summer-league play that warranted x-rays. Embiid was, [...]
July 10, 2017
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Count Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban among those who want the NBA to eliminate the existence of conferences. Though, to be fair, it sounds like he’d settle for his Mavericks moving into the East. As he told ESPN’s broadcast during Dallas’ summer league bout with the Phoenix Suns on Sunday, per ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon: “We’re [...]
July 10, 2017
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