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Get ready for a crazy NBA summer, folks. You already know commissioner Adam Silver is. The NBA’s salary cap is preparing to hit $89 million over the offseason, and it’s slated to jump above $105 million in 2017. Though player salaries will rise right along with the cap, this infusion of money has created at [...]

Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov is still championing the same cause that buried his team beneath a pile of rubble from which they cannot escape. Let’s see how that works out for him. Howard Beck of Bleacher Report dropped some knowledge for anyone hoping the Nets, who don’t have the rights to their own first-round [...]

Carmelo Anthony and New York Knicks president Phil Jackson are on the same page. Still. For now. The firing of head coach Derek Fisher gave way to the prospect of Anthony, now 31, growing frustrated with the Knicks and entertaining the idea that he should wave his no-trade clause. But he isn’t going to do [...]

Blake Griffin hasn’t suited up since Christmas, and that’s not changing anytime soon. The Los Angeles Clippers, in conjunction with the NBA, released a statement detailing Griffin’s punishment for punching the team’s assistant equipment manager, an incident that left him with a fractured right hand. Here’s the press release, courtesy of ProBasketballTalk’s Kurt Helin: The [...]

Man, Kobe Bryant sure is old. And he knows it. The 37-year-old Black Mamba is playing through his 20th NBA season, which is bound to lead to him facing players who were barely alive when he made his debut. Shit, Phoenix Suns rookie Devin Booker was born just four days before Kobe played in his [...]

From winning an Eastern Conference best 60 games last season, to considering a miniature teardown this season, the Atlanta Hawks have come a long way. The wrong way. According to ESPN.com’s Kevin Arnovitz and Brian Windhorst, the Hawks are weighing whether they should sell off three of last year’s four All-Stars: The Atlanta Hawks are [...]

According to rumors that surfaced just over a week ago, the Hawks seem to be willing to move their longest tenured player and leader Al Horford if the right deal presents itself. [tweet https://twitter.com/CBSSportsNBA/status/694392460080844800] According to other reports, the Celtics have been aggressive in pursuing Horford and have inquired about point guard Jeff Teague as [...]

Does Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers still think the Golden State Warriors are lucky? Insofar as employing Stephen Curry is lucky, yes. So, yes. ESPN.com picked the brains of Rivers, New York Knicks legend Walt Clyde Frazier, Milwaukee Bucks head coach Jason Kidd, Philadelphia 76ers head coach Brett Brown and Miami Heat big [...]

February 9, 1992 is a memorable and important day in NBA and pop culture history. Magic Johnson came out of retirement three months after testing positive for HIV and won the MVP award of the 1992 NBA All-Star Game. This was an important moment in history. Magic Johnson was the first superstar athlete to come [...]

In hindsight, Phil Jackson’s decision to fire New York Knicks head coach Derek Fisher seemed to be a long time coming. It didn’t feel that way at first. Fisher is a Jackson disciple. He was Phil’s second choice to man the Knicks after Steve Kerr committed to the Golden State Warriors. The Knicks were a [...]