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Don’t be fooled by Dirk Nowitzki’s two-year, $50 million deal with the Dallas Mavericks. He may not have that much basketball left in him. From Stephen Hunt of Today’s Fastbreak: “I always said I wanted to kind of take it year-by-year. Signing a two-year deal doesn’t mean I necessarily have to play those two years. [...]

A number of teams unveiled some new alternate jerseys that they will be wearing on occasion during the 2016-17 season including the Grizzlies, 76ers and Nets. All of which are paying homage to their franchise or territory’s history. Here is the Brooklyn Remix Uniform that the Nets will wear for 12 games in the 2016-17 [...]

Steve Clifford knows the Charlotte Hornets have their work cut out for them on offense. Last season, his troops finished ninth in points scored per 100 possessions, according to Basketball-Reference, surprising just about everyone. But Clifford isn’t expecting a repeat of that points-piling success, per the Charlotte Observer‘s Rick Bonnell: “We probably don’t have as [...]

The Houston Rockets showed Donatas Motiejunas some level of respect when they extended him, but not Terrence Jones, a qualifying offer at the start of the summer, making him a restricted free agent. But the love train apparently stopped there. Motiejunas is still floating around the NBA’s free-agency ranks. And his agent told ESPN.com’s Calvin [...]

After a very long and frustrating off-season for mercurial and brash New York product Lance Stephenson, the long wait is finally over as Stephenson has signed a one-year deal to join the New Orleans Pelicans. [tweet https://twitter.com/TodaysFastbreak/status/776075036981592064] Lance had to feel like the one rookie who would be left in the green room for hours [...]

The Dallas Mavericks, it turns out, didn’t hand Harrison Barnes a four-year, $94 million deal just for him to be an offensive decoy. They are investing in his future as a featured option, in a way the Golden State Warriors never could or wanted to. Some will find this to be an impossible concept. Barnes [...]

Mike D’Antoni doesn’t have to worry about ruffling James Harden’s feathers. His relationship with him, and his play style, is more similar to his dealings with Steve Nash than his experiences with Carmelo Anthony and Kobe Bryant. That’s been one of the knocks on D’Antoni—aside, of course, from his lack of defensive fortitude—over the past [...]

As if being the first overall pick in this year’s NBA draft wasn’t pressure enough for Ben Simmons, now he has to live up to Shaq’s career projections. The Big Aristotle was asked about Simmons’ potential while in Springfield, Massachusetts, for his Hall of Fame Induction. He offered up a comparison to LeBron James without [...]

It doesn’t matter how well Bojan Bogdanovic plays for the Brooklyn Nets next season. He’s already earned his contractual keep by trafficking in impossible optimism. This is to say, he thinks the Nets, as currently constructed, can make the NBA playoffs, per the New York Post‘s Brian Lewis: Bookmakers and pundits have projected the Nets [...]

Welcome to this edition of Random Sound Bite of the NBA Offseason, featuring rapper Fat Joe, Carmelo Anthony and New York Knicks-related pipe dreams. This is a real sentence, that I actually typed, without the slightest hint of irony. Fat Joe went on ESPN’s First Take, because obviously, and relayed an interaction he had with [...]