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The Utah Jazz have their work cut out for them if they want to re-sign free agent Gordon Hayward. The Miami Heat are ‘loading up‘ to pursue him, and the Boston Celtics have always loomed as a threat. Except, according to NBA insider Jordan Schultz, Beantown might actually be a more serious suitor than most anticipate: [...]

About those Chris Paul-to-San Antonio Spurs rumors having serious legs…One NBA executive isn’t buying it. From Bleacher Report’s Mike Monroe: “I think all that talk is nothing more than leverage,” one Western Conference basketball executive said Thursday. “Chris is just trying to make sure he can leverage Doc (Rivers). “If you’re the Clippers, don’t you [...]

The Boston Celtics got a workout with Markelle Fultz, the NBA’s consensus No. 1 overall pick. They won’t be getting one with Josh Jackson. Sources told ESPN.com’s Jeff Goodman and Marc J. Spears that Kansas’ wing, who is projected to go in the top five of this year’s prospect pageant, bailed on his scheduled meeting [...]

The Houston Rockets will not sit quietly as the Golden State Warriors steamroll the rest of the NBA. General manager Daryl Morey is going to make sure of it. His plan? Well, we’ll we’re not really sure. But he definitely has one. He told ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe so: “We are used to long odds,” Morey [...]

Adam Silver has a message for any teams that might be worried or put off by the existence of the Golden State Warriors: Your move, everyone. This is more or less what he said when pressed about the issue. But here’s what he actually said (prior to Game 4), per The Washington Post‘s Adam Kilgore (h/t Bleacher [...]

Will the Chris Paul-to-the-San Antonio Spurs hypothetical many are drooling over increase in traction or lose steam now after the Golden State Warriors thoroughly beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals? Let’s go with “increase in traction,” if only because it took 0.5 seconds for the scenario to crop up after Golden State secured its second [...]

James Dolan wants you to know the persisting crappy state of the New York Knicks is not his fault, because he’s not getting involved in matters of basketball. Here’s the lowdown of his new favorite defense, per ESPN.com’s Ian Begley: Knicks owner James Dolan maintains that he’s not involved in basketball decisions. “No, no,” Dolan [...]

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr was emotional following his team’s Game 5 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night, because, well,  duh. They had just won the NBA Finals, securing their second title in three years. But his display of emotion was about more than just that. It was about what this championship [...]

While LeBron James and the Cavaliers were unable to successfully defend their NBA title against the never-before-seen caliber of juggernaut that is the Golden State Warriors with Kevin Durant, he still managed to make history as usual and in numerous ways. LeBron not only set a new record for triple-doubles in a career in the [...]

What was that about Markelle Fultz, the NBA’s consensus No. 1 pick, only meeting with the Boston Celtics? Though it was initially expected the point guard would only break bread with the owners of the no. 1 pick, it turns out he will be meeting with the Los Angeles Lakers, proprietors of the second overall [...]