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How will Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban replace the bond he shared with Chandler Parsons now that the latter is a member of the Memphis Grizzlies? By texting and emailing his new center, Andrew Bogut, of course. Michael Lee of The Vertical spoke with Bogut about his summer—mostly about how he needed to represent the [...]

Ray Allen hasn’t played in the NBA for two seasons and now wants back in. And why? Apparently, because of Stephen Curry. Here’s what Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe, via CSNNE.com (thanks to ProBasketballTalk for the transcript): Ray wants to play again. I’m sure about that. I don’t think he particularly enjoys watching Stephen [...]

We have a Christmas present for you…in the middle of August…more than four months before actual Christmas: The New York Knicks and Boston Celtics will square off in the Big Apple on December 25. This news comes via The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor: [tweet https://twitter.com/KevinOConnorNBA/status/763194534050222080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] This marks a triumphant return to the Christmas Day slate for [...]

Will the Oklahoma City Thunder fans boo or cheer Kevin Durant when he returns to the Chesapeake Energy Arena for the first time as a member of the Golden State Warriors? We’ll have to wait until February to find out. From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: The Oklahoma City Thunder are tentatively scheduled to play host to [...]

J.R. Smith doesn’t need a new contract from the Cleveland Cavaliers. He has his own retail venture to fall back on. Okay, only half of that is true. Smith does have his own retail venture to help build his nest egg, but he could most definitely use the likely eight-figures-per-year contract the Cavaliers will inevitably [...]

If paying the luxury tax is what it takes to keep the Detroit Pistons’ core together, then that’s what owner Tom Gores is prepared to do. No, seriously, that’s what he told the Detroit Free Press’ Vince Ellis: Q: With a possible KCP extension, you could threaten the luxury tax line (an NBA mechanism to [...]

His airness has been a little more outspoken lately with his stance on the police shooting issue currently affecting our country and his opinions on the current NBA product. With that in mind, Michael Jordan has named which player reminds him most of himself in the NBA today and it is not who you would [...]

Things between Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant won’t be getting any less awkward any time soon. Durant, be it inadvertently or deliberately, drove a wedge between the two of them when he left the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors in free agency. That chasm has now only grown in the wake of [...]

Kemba Walker was sad to see Jeremy Lin leave the Charlotte Hornets for the Brooklyn Nets. But he’s also happy for the opportunity bestowed upon his former teammate. As Walker told the Charlotte Observer‘s Rick Bonnell: Walker has very mixed emotions about Lin signing with the Brooklyn Nets. “I hate to see him go, but [...]

After renegotiating his current contract, Russell Westbrook will be with the Oklahoma City Thunder through at least the 2017-18 season. The extension itself, while encouraging, has given the Thunder two seasons, before his player option ahead of 2018-19, to sell Westbrook on a long-term future in Oklahoma City. That long-term pitch begins immediately. And it [...]