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Kobe Bryant will retire as a shooting guard. Next season, though, he’ll probably log most of his minutes at small forward. Some of his minutes might even come at the 4, too. Wait, what? The Lakers just have too many damn guards. Players will have to, well, play bigger than they stand. That’s the only [...]

It’s good to know that Daryl Morey always has James Harden and Dwight Howard on his mind. Well, maybe not always. But certainly before he pulls off a blockbuster trade, like the one he brokered Sunday night, when he acquired embattled Ty Lawson from the Denver Nuggets for a lottery-protected first-round pick in 2016 and [...]

When you know you’re wrong, you know you’re wrong, and J.R. Smith knows he’s wrong. Sort of. Rather than opting into the last year of his contract that would have paid him well north of $6 million next season, the Cleveland Cavaliers’ volume chucker elected to hit unrestricted free agency, probably thinking that he, like [...]

The 2014-15 New York Knicks won 17 games, and it’s not hard to see why. Injuries, specifically that to Carmelo Anthony, played a big role. So too did the lack of talent on the roster. The Knicks, quite simply, weren’t very good. But they were also needlessly dysfunctional, especially before team president Phil Jackson blew [...]

For months, both the Denver Nuggets and their point guard Ty Lawson have been wanting to part ways with one another. The Nuggets have been patiently looking at, and weighing all the options for them to find the best deal they could get. To no one’s surprise, several teams (Rockets, Lakers, and Pistons) showed enormous [...]

John Henson will be a restricted free agent next summer if he and the Milwaukee Bucks do not reach an agreement on a contract extension by October 31. Related: John Henson won’t be a restricted free agent. According to the Journal Sentinel‘s Charles F. Gardner, the Bucks and Henson are on the brink of striking [...]

One of these summers, the New York Knicks are going to stay out of the unflattering rumor mill. Not this summer, though. For a team that’s having an understatedly good offseason, even though they failed to nab another superstar in free agency, the Knicks just cannot escape the negatively charged conjecture bugaboo. This is mostly [...]

The Sacramento Kings are an off-court tire fire, but hey, at least they’re honest about it. Vice president of basketball operations Vlade Divac has openly discussed the growing rift between head coach George Karl and franchise cornerstone DeMarcus Cousins. Cousins himself has always been an interesting sound bite, and when rumors of discord between he [...]

Ty Lawson’s future with the Denver Nuggets doesn’t look good. Admittedly, neither does his trade value. After getting arrested in Los Angeles for driving while under the influence in the wee hours of Tuesday morning—his second DUI offense in less than six months—Lawson is no longer a trade commodity. He’s an off-court liability, and even [...]

Deron Williams is coming back home. Having been bought out by the Brooklyn Nets in order to decrease their payroll, Williams begins yet another chapter of his career in the league. This time, he’s decided to head back home and hopefully blossom with Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks. Both sides have reached a consensus [...]