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Carmelo Anthony knows a thing or two about free agency. After exploring the open market himself for the first time this past summer, Melo has a better understanding of how available players think and what goes into their decision-making process. And after general manager Danny Ferry and controlling owner Bruce Levenson were caught with their [...]

Free agent forward Earl Clark accepts a training camp deal with the Memphis Grizzlies, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo!Sports. The 26-year-old product from Louisville was recently under successive 10-day-contracts with the New York Knicks last season, and then was unfortunately dropped by the team after only playing in nine games. [tweet https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/511184103732154368] Clark tallied [...]

The Atlanta Hawks have re-signed two-time all-star power forward Elton Brand to a one year, $2 million dollar contract, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. Brand, 35, produced 5.7 points and 4.9 rebounds in an average of 19 minutes per game last season for the Hawks. Despite his growing age, he can still be [...]

Fresh off handing Chandler Parsons $46 million, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban didn’t want him playing for Team USA, risking injury and, more importantly, putting his investment in harm’s way. Go figure. Here’s what Parsons had to say after he threw out the first pitch at a Texas Rangers game, via The Dallas Morning News‘ [...]

Paul George did a dumb thing. Yes, it was dumb. Very dumb. He took to Twitter with his thoughts on the Ray Rice and Janay Palmer situation. It’s a chilling debacle, one which should already know about. Rice punched his then-fiancee, now-wife and knocked her out cold. He was initially suspended two games, but then [...]

Everything and anything about Derrick Rose continues to incite strong responses. When he struggles, the walls are closing in, his knees crumbling like cake, his future dark and dreary, toeing the line of hopeless. When he thrives—even if only for one game, one play or a warmup dunk—clouds part, birds sing, the harrowing reality of [...]

Greg Monroe is having a weird summer. Restricted free agency ruined any chance he had of a quiet vacation. A months-long dance with the Detroit Pistons that culminated in neither a new contract nor sign-and-trade finally ended with him signing a qualifying offer, making it so he can explore unrestricted free agency next summer. That [...]

After being honored by having a wax statue of himself at Madame Tussauds wax museum in San Francisco last month—the Los Angeles Lakers point guard Jeremy Lin recently decided to pull out one of the funniest pranks by pretending to be a wax statue which scared a lot of fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNBIVUeMrvU This is definitely one [...]

Two Dragons are better than one. The Phoenix Suns are one of the teams that have expressed interest in acquiring Goran Dragic’s brother, Zoran Dragic, according to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein. The team still doesn’t know on whether or not their guard Eric Bledsoe will remain with the team for next season, and if ever he [...]

Carmelo Anthony fancies himself a trend-setter. During an interview with former New York Giants great Michael Strahan for Adweek, Anthony was asked whether LeBron James’ decision to sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers influenced his return to the New York Knicks. He, of course, said it was the other way around. From Newsday‘s Al Iannazzone: “Honestly, [...]