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Dirk Nowitzki has had an incredible career, a league MVP, Finals MVP and NBA champion, Dirk has been the heart and soul of the Dallas Mavericks for the past 16 years and become the standard bearer to which all foreign skilled big men are measured against. He reached another career milestone Sunday in the Mavericks [...]

David Lee is officially a member of the Dallas Mavericks. The team announced the news on Monday, confirming chatter that was bandied about the NBA sphere over the weekend, just after the trade deadline. Here’s a snippet of Dallas’ release: The Dallas Mavericks announced today that they have signed free agent forward/center David Lee. Per [...]

Anthony Davis had a night to remember in Auburn Hills against the Detroit Pistons on Sunday. Davis became the second youngest player in NBA history to score 50 points and grab 20 rebounds in one game. “The Brow” had an incredible 59 points and 20 rebounds in 43 minutes. Anthony Davis is the 2nd youngest [...]

Patrick Beverley could have been a member of the New York Knicks. So long as those same Knicks were willing to meet the Houston Rockets’ astronomical asking price. From Michael Scotto of Sheridan Hoops: Sources: Knicks turned down a Rockets offer of Patrick Beverley. Asking price of a first-round pick and two rotation players was [...]

The Denver Nuggets are adding to the NBA’s waiver wire just in time to help asset-strapped playoff teams bulk up ahead of the postseason. According to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, the Nuggets plan on buying out the contracts of J.J. Hickson and Steve Novak, the latter of whom they acquired from the Oklahoma City Thunder, along [...]

The NBA trade deadline has come to pass. You made it. And you’re sad. Twelve deals—or rather, 10 after two consolidations—went down, none of them huge. Tobias Harris went to the Detroit Pistons, Channing Frye was shipped to the Cleveland Cavaliers and Markieff Morris was passed off to the Houston Rockets. That was the extent [...]

A surprise contender emerged for Dwight Howard ahead of the NBA trade deadline. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/700422033914466305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Howard would have made some sense for the Bucks, though I wonder who they would have needed to trade. Greg Monroe almost certainly would have been involved. That would have made sense if Howard agreed to [...]

Oh how quickly things can change. Leading into Thursday’s NBA trade deadline, it looked like the Chicago Bulls were serious about moving the 35-year-old Pau Gasol, who is expected to decline his player option for next season and enter free agency. Rumors were so rampant, yours truly wasted entirely too much time doing this: [tweet [...]

The Brooklyn Nets are bringing a little bit of the San Antonio Spurs to Barclays Center. No, it’s not Kawhi Leonard. Or Patty Mills. Or Boban Marjanovic. It’s Spurs assistant general manager Sean Marks. Brooklyn has officially hired him to be its general manager, per Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today: Nets have hired Sean Marks [...]

How’s the market for Dwight Howard, you ask? Not very good. The Houston Rockets remain motivated to move the 30-year-old Howard, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/700218509490425856] Cool. The issue? Getting a substantive return for his services. And judging by the deal that the Charlotte Hornets offered, according to Frank Isola of the New York [...]