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Andre Drummond will earn almost $3.3 million next season, his fourth, which is not insubstantial. It’s just going to look like chump change compared to what he’ll earn in 2016-17. The almost-22-year-old is eligible to sign an extension with the Detroit Pistons. If he doesn’t ink one, he’ll become a restricted free agent next summer. [...]

The New York Knicks have spent a bulk of the NBA offseason acting like an actual team, which, naturally, has brought the future of Carmelo Anthony into question. Kristaps Porzingis and Jerian Grant won’t help the Knicks win now. Robin Lopez and Kyle O’Quinn are not Marc Gasol and LaMarcus Aldridge. Phil Jackson actually gave [...]

Sam Hinkie, you dog, you. Despite boasting oodles of cap space in each of the last two summers, the Philadelphia 76ers haven’t been free-agency players. They’re trying to build from the ground up and from within, and not only does that mean they’re not in the market for outside talent, but they’re not in the [...]

In the NBA, unexpected heroics are cause for…severe skepticism. Corey Brewer hung 51 points on the Houston Rockets (his current team) as a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves in April 2014. It was an electric performance, and the Timberwolves needed every last one of his 51 bones to squeak out a 112-110 victory. You can [...]

There are just some things you don’t do in the NBA, and talking trash to Giannis Antetokounmpo feels like one of those them. Antetokounmpo just looks and talks so nice. Any anecdote you hear paints the picture of an innocent 20-year-old kid, one who is great at basketball but doesn’t seem like he has a [...]

Tim Duncan is still Tim Duncan, and as such, he will continue to play like Tim Duncan. Those are Gregg Popovich’s words, more or less, not mine. While making an appearance on SiriusXM NBA Radio (h/t Project Spurs), Pop talked about the kind of game Duncan will play for the San Antonio Spurs next season, [...]

Strap up, y’all. Gilbert Arenas has something to say about Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. Arenas posted a photo of James on Instagram Wednesday night accompanied with a lengthy caption. Why? I’m not entirely sure. But it happened. Here’s what the caption read (h/t Bleacher Report): KINGJAMES…..this person comes around once in a blue moon…a [...]

Long before the Minnesota Timberwolves actually traded Kevin Love, the prevailing belief around the NBA was that they were going to move him. It wasn’t a hunch. It wasn’t an inkling. It was a fact. And then they actually moved Love to the Cleveland Cavaliers, after a brief dalliance with the Golden State Warriors. But [...]

Tony Parker is a Debbie Downer. And a realist. The San Antonio Spurs figure heavily into next season’s championship picture after signing LaMarcus Aldridge and David West, and bringing back Kawhi Leonard, Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Danny Green. And that’s good, because next year could be the Big Three’s last shot at winning a [...]

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