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The Utah Jazz have no plans to break up the band. Gordon Hayward (player option), George Hill and Joe Ingles make for a trio of pivotal, and thus expensive, free agents. The Jazz have no chance of evading the luxury tax if the plan is to re-sign them all. Hayward is getting max money, Hill [...]

Kobe Bryant is no longer playing in the NBA, but he is, apparently, still very much a part of it. Mostly because current players won’t let him not be. From Mark Medina of the Orange County Register: Have Bryant and Ingram scheduled any workouts yet? “I don’t know, honestly. I’m always around,” Bryant said. “Guys call [...]

In the aftermath of their first-round exit at the hands of the Houston Rockets, the Oklahoma City Thunder have a bunch of questions to answer. Chief among them: What to do with restricted free agent Andre Roberson? That question, to some extent, has already been answered. The Thunder want to keep him, per ESPN.com’s Royce [...]

If the Los Angeles Clippers fall to the Utah Jazz in the first round, it’s reasonable to expect the franchise to undergo some change. Those modifications just won’t be coming at the executive level. According to Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical, Doc Rivers and company are going to stay put: If the Clippers can’t come [...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder’s season is over, but Russell Westbrook’s time with the team is not. Nor does he sound like a player who wants it to be. Westbrook cannot explore free agency until 2018 (player option), so with regard to next season, the issue is kind of moot. But he will be eligible to [...]

Damian Lillard gets it. Following the Portland Trail Blazers Game 4 and, thus, first-round loss to the Golden State Warriors on Monday, the All-Star point guard said that beating the team that has ousted his own in each of the last two postseasons is officially an obsession, per ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes: “You have to be [...]

Kristaps Porzingis wants to remain in New York, but he’s also still giving the Knicks the silent treatment. He admitted as much during a press conference on Monday to announce his intent to play for Latvia’s national team this summer, per ESPN.com’s Ian Begley: Porzingis said at the news conference on Monday that he did [...]

Many people have floated the idea that Blake Griffin would consider signing with the Oklahoma City Thunder when he reaches free agency this summer. He was born in Oklahoma City, attended high school in Oklahoma and went to the University of Oklahoma. The hometown ties are there. But Griffin, who will miss the rest of [...]

Rajon Rondo is making progress in his recovery from a fractured right thumb, just not enough for him to suit up when the Chicago Bulls travel to play the Boston Celtics in Game 2. And so, Isaiah Canaan, an unlikely almost-hero in Game 4, will get the start instead, per ESPN.com’s Nick Friedell: – Rajon [...]

Tristan Thompson doesn’t care who wins the NBA’s MVP award, because he knows it won’t be LeBron James, who, in his eyes, is the real MVP (sorry). As he said after the Cleveland Cavaliers’ series sweep of the Indiana Pacers on Sunday, per The Athletic’s Jason Lloyd: [tweet https://twitter.com/JasonLloydNBA/status/856258204921212928] If the Cavaliers defended better during [...]