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What, you didn’t think the Houston Rockets were going to be quiet during NBA free agency this summer, did you? Of course not. Why would you? Not only is the salary cap exploding, giving most teams plenty of money to spend, but Houston’s general manager, Daryl Morey, is notorious for chasing superstars at every turn. [...]

Stephen Curry. Anthony Davis. LaMarcus Aldridge. James Harden. Chris Paul. Russell Westbrook. John Wall. What do they all have in common? They, among many other high-profile players, won’t be participating in the Team USA festivities. You’ll notice that the point guard position in particular is taking a hit. Four of its top-five contributors—Curry, Paul, Westbrook, [...]

Jahlil Okafor knows the Philadelphia 76ers are trying to trade him. Here’s what he told Basketball Insiders’ Alex Kennedy: “Well, of course you hear it,” Okafor said of trade rumors. “You hear it because of people texting you and asking you and all of that stuff. There were trade rumors involving me throughout the season. [...]

Draymond Green let his Golden State Warriors teammates down by allowing his emotions get the best of him in Game 4. He inexplicably reacted to LeBron James stepping over him in the fourth quarter and was retroactively assessed another flagrant, forcing him to watch Game 5 as a spectator outside Oracle Arena. The Warriors lost [...]

Stephen Curry is not a immune to pressure. You can forgive yourself if you thought otherwise. Even as he’s struggled during these NBA playoffs, seldom piecing together entire games of trademark Stephen Curry basketball, he has always seemed to come up big when it matters most. The end of Game 6 of the Western Conference [...]

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The Sacramento Kings are experiencing a full-on re-brand and repackaging this off season. They unveiled a new slogan, logos and court design about a month ago and now they will have some new duds as they transition to their new arena. The Kings featured five new jerseys on their team Twitter account Wednesday for the [...]

Joel Embiid’s NBA debut is starting to feel imminent. This is perhaps irrational, since he won’t be playing in any summer league games and, thus, at the earliest won’t be suiting up in an official capacity until October 2016. So, technically, his debut is still a ways out. Still, he’s making substantial progress for the [...]

It was all but assumed that after suffering what appeared to be a very painful knee injury Monday night in Game 5 of the 2016 NBA Finals that Andrew Bogut’s season was most likely done. That news became official Wednesday morning as Bogut was ruled out for the remainder of the postseason. [tweet https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/743107945991397376] Bogut [...]

Game, as the kids say, recognize game. Which is why, during a Twitter Q&A, Damian Lillard named Anthony Davis as the player not currently on his team whom he would most like to team up with (h/t ESPN.com’s Justin Verrier): [tweet https://twitter.com/Dame_Lillard/status/742471569578954753] Easy does it, conspiracy theorists. Lillard has no plans to leave Portland: [tweet [...]