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It looks like the Milwaukee Bucks will be stuck (I know it’s a little harsh) with Greg Monroe for one more season. Monroe has decided to opt into the final year and $17.9 million of his contract with the Bucks. [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/877484459259551744] Monroe has some definite NBA skills including his ability to score with his [...]

Patrick Beverley is the Houston Rockets’ best defensive player, the guy who takes on assignments like Russell Westbrook and lives to tell the tale. So it only makes sense that they would be trying to trade him, according to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney: The Rockets have been actively shopping point guard Patrick Beverley, a [...]

What in the actual frickity frick are the Cleveland Cavaliers thinking? Parting ways with general manager David Griffin is a risk. Even if he wasn’t directly responsible for LeBron James’ arrival and the Kevin Love trade, he helped build a championship-level supporting cast around them and Kyrie Irving. Owner Dan Gilbert has never valued front-office [...]

Give Indiana Pacers president Kevin Pritchard this: The man has guts. Shopping Paul George is no easy task. He is a free agent after next season, and everyone expects him to sign with the Los Angeles Lakers. Any team that acquires him will do so under the guise that he’s a rental unless they can [...]

Kyle Lowry doesn’t want to re-sign with the Toronto Raptors. No, wait. Actually, he does. We think. Okay, we’re not sure. Bruce Arthur of the Toronto Star reported that, as of mid-May, people around the league were being informed Lowry had “zero interest” in returning to the Raptors: Still, things can change. That’s what Ujiri is facing. [...]

Amar’e spent the 2016-17 season connecting with his Jewish roots (as a Hebrew Israelite, it’s confusing feel free to look it up) and played a role on a championship winning Israeli team, averaging 9.9 points and 5.9 rebounds per game in 23 minutes per game. Amar’e is also the co-owner of the Hapoel Jerusalem B.C [...]

Can the Cleveland Cavaliers pull off a trade for Jimmy Butler without a general manager in place? The logical answer is hell no. The actual answer might be yes. From the Chicago Sun-Times‘ Joe Cowley: According to multiple sources in Cleveland, not only have Cavaliers players – including LeBron James and Kyrie Irving – been reaching [...]

In a true Spursian move by a true Spursian player at heart, Pau Gasol has declined to opt into the final year and $16.1 million of his contract with the intention to re-sign in San Antonio for cheaper. [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/877167318060683264] Gasol at 37 is clearly doing this to re-sign with the Spurs and help them [...]

The Houston Rockets don’t want James Harden going anywhere. So they’re going to make sure he doesn’t. After earning an All-NBA selection, Harden is now eligible for the designated player extension that was negotiated into the NBA’s new CBA. The deal, for him, would be worth four years and $168 million, and the Rockets plan [...]

According to a report from ESPN & Ramona Shelburne Tuesday morning, Chicago Bulls guard and former NBA Finals MVP Dwyane Wade is leaning toward picking up his $24 million player option with the Bulls for the 2017-18 season. [tweet https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/877140688013598720] Wade will be entering his 15th NBA season at the age of 35, and while [...]