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The Atlanta Hawks’ search for a new general manager appears to be leading them to some expected faces. Like Chauncey Billups, among others, for instance. From The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski: The Magic are competing with the Atlanta Hawks, who have a general manager opening. Atlanta is considering a number of candidates, including Griffin, Joe Dumars, Houston vice [...]

Gregg Popovich, as it turns out, won’t be taking the high road in light of Kawhi Leonard’s latest ankle injury. Midway through the third quarter in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, Zaza Pachulia closed out on a Leonard three-pointer, invariably hopping his way into the All-Star forward’s landing space. Leonard turned his left [...]

Teams which continually fail to make the playoffs and/or contend for the CHIP, year over year, tend to turn to using draft lotteries to get ahead. This gives them a chance to choose players that are slam dunk to turn the franchise fortunes. This is a much preferred way because those players who are at [...]

Would Mike Brown be an assistant coach-turned-interim-head coach with the Golden State Warriors without Gregg Popovich? The short answer: Nope. Here’s Anthony Slater of the Bay Area New Group with the extended explanation: A year ago around this time, Steve Kerr was in the market for a new lead assistant and Mike Brown was a target. But [...]

So let’s put those “Kawhi Leonard cannot be an MVP candidate because the San Antonio Spurs are too good without him; just look at how they won Game 6 against the Houston Rockets” takes to bed, shall we? On Sunday, in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals, Leonard re-aggravated his left ankle injury that he [...]

Any changes the New Orleans Pelicans make this summer will come via roster moves. Because the executorial pecking order isn’t going anywhere. According to The Advocate‘s Scott Kushner, the Pelicans plan to keep head coach Alvin Gentry and general manager Dell Demps in place as they prepare for next season: General manager Dell Demps and coach [...]

New York Knicks president Phil Jackson is really good at his job—provided his job is to destroy the market value of his best assets. We’re referring, of course, to Jackson’s handling of the Carmelo Anthony situation. He bombed his approach to trying to move him during the regular season, and things didn’t get much better [...]

LaVar Ball has no doubt his son, Lonzo, will trade in his UCLA jersey for Los Angeles Lakers garb at this June’s draft. Holster your “The lottery is rigged!” takes for another time. This has nothing to do with existing knowledge, and everything to do with LaVar’s commitment to treating his gut feelings as future realities. [...]

When the Golden State Warriors added the superstar Kevin Durant to the greatest regular-season team in N.B.A. history, the general reaction was that the season was effectively over. Fans, sportswriters and even opposing players began to speculate on who could actually beat them, how many more titles the Warriors would win and how many records [...]

Philadelphia 76ers fans will have to wait until the regular season to see Ben Simmons play competitive basketball. Simmons missed his entire rookie season recovering from a fracture in his foot. Though the initial hope was he would be able to participate in the summer-league festivities, Sixers head coach has confirmed that he will not [...]