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After months of discussion about if and when 2016 No. 1 NBA Draft pick and potential future phenom Ben Simmons would debut in his rookie season, it appears we finally got our answer Friday and it is not the ideal one from a fan perspective. Ben Simmons will be out for the remainder of the [...]

The Indiana Pacers are headed toward an interesting offseason. Team president Larry Bird didn’t make any moves at the trade deadline. Franchise star Paul George was linked to numerous teams via multiple reports—mostly the Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics, but he ultimately stayed put. Hooray, right? Sort of. George wasn’t happy that the [...]

Oh, Bulls. Rajon Rondo clearly isn’t a part of Chicago’s future. At the same time, it’s not like the Bulls have a bunch of high-end point guards to supplant him. Not one of Denzel Valentine, Jerian Grant, Michael Carter-Williams or Isaiah Canaan qualifies. Cameron Payne, a late-lottery pick in 2015, might, though. And the Bulls [...]

NBA trade deadline day came and went Thursday with little intrigue and almost none of the players who were most rumored of actually being dealt across the league were. The biggest name to switch teams was former Philadelphia 76ers young big man and now the newest Maverick Nerlens Noel. There is one interesting result of [...]

Though Paul George remains with the Indiana Pacers following the NBA’s trade deadline, the Denver Nuggets did their darnedest to make him one of their own. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein and Chris Haynes: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/834842800067792897] [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/834843094398824448] It’s unclear what the Nuggets were offering, but according to ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe, they were reluctant to include [...]

Weeks and months of intense trade chatter came to ahead Thursday afternoon as the 2017 NBA trade deadline has come and passed. While All-Star weekend had a blockbuster conclusion as the host city acquired one of the 10 most talented and productive players in the game in DeMarcus Cousins, the final two days before the [...]

My how Brandon Knight’s value around the league has cratered. The 25-year-old guard was acquired by the Suns in the infamous final 15 minutes of the 2015 NBA trade deadline, in exchange for a Lakers 1st round pick that could be top five this season and now the Suns can’t even trade Knight for a [...]

Well the year long saga of whether the Philadelphia 76ers would trade Jahlil Okafor or Nerlens Noel has finally come to an end. Adrian Wojnarowski reported Thursday that the 76ers agreed to trade Noel to the Mavericks for Andrew Bogut, a 1st round pick that is top 18 protected in 2017 and Justin Anderson. [tweet [...]

Hello! Welcome to this space, where we will now confirm everything you suspected about the DeMarcus Cousins trade. Yes, the Sacramento Kings could have done better than Buddy Hield, Tyreke Evans, Langston Galloway, a top-three protected pick that probably won’t land in the top 10, and a second-round pick (via the Philadelphia 76ers! But still.). [...]

YOU GUYS: The Utah Jazz might be getting—pauses for effect—healthy(!!!!!!). No team except for the Los Angeles Clippers have been more adversely impacted by injuries. And where the Clippers’ issues can be isolated to freak, albeit protracted, absences from Blake Griffin and Chris Paul, the Jazz have suffered losses at pretty much every position since [...]