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Now that Kevin Durant is a member of the Golden State Warriors, it’s only a matter of time before the Oklahoma City Thunder cut their losses and trade Russell Westbrook. Or maybe not. As ESPN.com’s Royce Young explained: They still have Westbrook, though, at least for another year. He’s an unrestricted free agent next summer [...]

After the Golden State Warriors' free-agency pitch to Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry apparently sent a text message, the contents of which arguably changed the NBA forever. Here's The Undefeated's Marc J. Spears with the lowdown: Even so, Curry apparently felt it necessary to send Durant a message hours after the meeting Friday night to reassure [...]

An interesting hypothetical was proposed on the Colin Cowherd show earlier this week surrounding Kevin Durant’s free agency and the amount of power he holds to shape the western conference for the 2016-17 season. Kevin Durant will meet with six teams during the free agency over the next few days as well as meeting with [...]

It seems the Toronto Raptors are already trying to prepare for life without Bismack Biyombo. According to ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe, the Raptors are trying to poach Nerlens Noel from the center-laden Philadelphia 76ers: The Raptors will need to move at least one big deal to have any hope of retaining both DeMar DeRozan and Biyombo, [...]

Don’t think the Golden State Warriors haven’t done their homework on Kevin Durant. During an episode of The Vertical Podcast with Woj, The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski revealed that Golden State’s players have been recruiting him to the Bay Area all season. Here’s the transcription, via ProBasketballTalk’s Dan Feldman: Here’s the thing that’s interesting about Golden [...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder want Al Horford…in addition to Kevin Durant. I bet you thought they were done trying to make a splash. The Serge Ibaka trade caught a bunch of us off-guard. It was enough of a surprise to last the Thunder all summer. They would try to re-sign Durant and that would be [...]

First Derrick Rose, then Kevin Durant? That’s the plan, apparently. After trading for Derrick Rose from the Chicago Bulls, the New York Knicks have let it be known to their new point guard that free agent Kevin Durant is on their radar this summer, according to the New York Daily News‘s Frank Isola: But Phil [...]

How does Kevin Durant feel about taking a pay cut? That’s apparently an important question for the Los Angeles Clippers, who, according to Dan Woike of the Orange Country Register, will try to sell Durant on joining Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan and Chris Paul in Hollywood: The Clippers are scheduled to meet with free-agency’s top [...]

Re-signing Mike Conley isn’t enough for the Memphis Grizzlies. They apparently want to steal Chandler Parsons away from the Dallas Mavericks, too. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/748497638060761088] In this new, wild and wacky salary-cap climate, Parsons will command max money. His knee problems could drive his value down a bit, but he should at [...]

In order to keep some semblance of normalcy, a salary cap in the NBA exists. If not, it’d be tough to have a league when every player feels he’s worth every penny on Earth. But in the case of LeBron James, there should be no financial ceiling. It’s impossible to put a figure on what [...]