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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 [...]

The Dallas Mavericks don’t have enough ammo to pull off a blockbuster trade, and owner Mark Cuban knows it. Here are his sarcastic comments on Dallas’ trade-deadline activity from an appearance he made on The Musers of 1310 AM The Ticket, courtesy of Mavs Moneyball’s Tim Cato: “Yeah, we’re trying to be!” Cuban said. “We’re [...]

Michael Carter-Williams can rest easy. The Milwaukee Bucks aren’t trading him. Or so they say. Per Marc J. Spears of Yahoo Sports: Guard Michael Carter-Williams has been told by the Bucks that he would not be traded, a source said, but the Sixers told him the same thing. — Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) February 16, [...]

Don’t let the Boston Celtics’ relatively quiet rumor mill fool you. Team president Danny Ainge is still on the prowl. From the Boston Herald‘s Steve Bulpett: According to several sources, the club is holding out for a hero to shake loose from another roster while also looking for the next partially hidden gem (think Jae [...]

February 17 is a very big day on the basketball fan’s calendar, it is Michael Jordan’s birthday. The G.O.A.T. for all intents and purposes hasn’t played in an NBA game in 13 years, but is still the most marketable, profitable and popular basketball player in the world. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL JORDAN! pic.twitter.com/JJCnIttTH6 — Chicago Bulls [...]

Stan Van Gundy isn’t just the coach and president of the Detroit Pistons. He’s a certified O.G. The Pistons absolutely fleeced the Orlando Magic in Tuesday’s Tobias Harris trade, relinquishing only Brandon Jennings and Ersan Ilyasova. Jennings is on an expiring contract and was good as gone from Detroit, and Ilyasova’s salary for next season [...]