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Yes, you read that mind-blowing headline correctly. According to ESPN NBA reporter Brian Windhorst, the Lakers front office called the Cavaliers front office to inquire about a potential earth shattering Kobe for LeBron trade. According to Windhorst this happened in the summer of 2007 after LeBron had just led an underwhelming team to the NBA [...]

George Karl’s seat cushion is cooling off. All signs pointed to the Sacramento Kings firing him not 48 hours ago. Now, the Kings are Kings-ing, changing their minds in true Kings fashion. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein (h/t ProBasketballTalk): ESPN sources say that the Sacramento Kings, in a dramatic about-face, have decided to keep George Karl [...]

This is not the New Orleans Pelicans’ year. Anthony Davis has been banged up, Eric Gordon is injured, Omer Asik is useless, the supporting cast is underwhelming and the playoffs are officially a pipe dream. Things just can’t get any worse. Except they just did. Tyreke Evans will most likely miss the rest of the [...]

The Pistons are doing their best to pay homage to players for their championship caliber run from 2003 to 2008. They retired undersized, defensive and rebounding extraordinaire and fan favorite Ben Wallace in January and now they will be retiring “Mr. Big Shot” Chauncey Billups’ no. 3 jersey tonight. The Pistons played their best game [...]

Dwyane Wade’s trip down Free Agency Lane manifested into an unanticipated issue last summer. That’s not going to happen this summer. Wade himself won’t let it, per Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald: Wade told me this week that he does not want to even test the free agent market and instead wants to wrap [...]

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 [...]