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Imagine trying to get the Washington Wizards to trade Otto Porter. Funny, right? Now imagine the Los Angeles Clippers being the team that tries getting Washington to sell its stud wing. Unfathomable, right? Yes, and no. It’s ridiculous in the sense it’s never going to happen, but possible in the sense Los Angeles tried, per [...]

The trade market for Jahlil Okafor, already tepid, was supposed to be freezing cold if many of his thought-to-be suitors in the New Orleans Pelicans, Portland Trail Blazers and Denver Nuggets pulled the trigger on other deals involving big man. That, apparently, hasn’t been the case. Both the Boston Celtics and Chicago Bulls remain in [...]

If the NBA is going to play host to another blockbuster deal ahead of the Feb. 23 trade deadline, it won’t include Jimmy Butler. Apparently. As ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst said (via HoopsHype): The Bulls are telling other teams that everyone except Jimmy Butler is available for trades and believes the team is more inclined to [...]

The Derrick Rose experiment in the Big Apple hasn’t been a huge success and has included a few bizarre speed bumps, most notably Rose leaving the team on a game day and going AWOL to be with family. Despite all of this, there appears to be a trade market for the 28-year-old former MVP (seems [...]

It turns out the New Orleans Pelicans’ acquisition of DeMarcus Cousins is great news for Jrue Holiday. There are the obvious reasons, starting with the fact Cousins give Holiday yet another weapon to which he can pass. But the big man’s arrival also gives the Holiday leverage in contract negotiations this summer when he enters [...]

Lou Williams looks more and more out of place on the Los Angeles Lakers by the day. He’s on the wrong side of 30, he takes touches away from the kiddies by default, and while he hasn’t hurt their tank, his absurd offensive output doesn’t do their top-three protected first-round pick (owed to the Philadelphia [...]

According to the daily NBA round-up by Basketball Insiders Writer Steve Kyler, the Clippers and Chris Paul have already verbally agreed to a new over $200 million max extension when Paul becomes a free agent this summer. [tweet https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/834070659227582465] Chris Paul has been expected for some time to opt out of the final year and [...]

Dealing DeMarcus Cousins to the New Orleans Pelicans may be the first of many moves for the Sacramento Kings leading into the NBA’s Feb. 23 trade deadline. From The Vertical’s Chris Mannix: The Kings excised Cousins, and there are strong indications they are not done dealing, either. Sacramento is determined to restock the franchise with assets, [...]

Kings Owner Vivek Ranadive is a highly creative software and business tycoon, but has proven to be a slightly meddling and legitimately loopy basketball mind. He was the one person who still loved DeMarcus Cousins and refused to trade him until the bitter end. He has actually suggested and wanted his team to play 4-on-5 [...]

After approximately one million stories about the seemingly never-ending saga between the Sacramento Kings and DeMarcus Cousins and who was more at fault for the organization’s struggles and whether they should or shouldn’t, would or wouldn’t trade the supremely talented and supremely ornery center, the Cousins era in Sacramento ended Sunday night after the All-Star [...]