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Rejoice and be glad, fine people of Cleveland. Your new center Andrew Bynum is healthy. We think. Bynum, the Cleveland Cavaliers’ free-agency pride and joy, hasn’t played since 2012 when he was with the Los Angeles Lakers. Largely considered the successor to Dwight Howard’s throne as the best big man in the NBA, Bynum was [...]

The Golden State Warriors haven’t traded David Lee, but apparently, he thought they might have. Once the offseason began, Lee was linked to a number of different trade rumors. Fueled by Golden State’s sudden realization it could contend now and the team’s success during the playoffs without him, it seemed like a genuine possibility. Nothing [...]

Half of Jay Z’s Brooklyn Nets ownership stake will now rest in the hands of head coach Jason Kidd. The New York Post reported that Kidd would be purchasing the entire 0.67 percent of the team Jay Z owns for a cool $500,000: Jay Z is selling his minority ownership in the Brookyn Nets to [...]

Gary Payton better know best. It’s a turn of phrase I never thought I’d write. Well actually, that’s a lie. I’m not saying I never thought I’d agree with Payton. Smart money says we would agree on a lot of things, like his perimeter defense. That was astounding. Truthfully, it’s just a phrase I never [...]

J.J. Barea hasn’t forgotten how much he loved playing for the Dallas Mavericks. The point guard spent five seasons in Dallas, mostly as a backup, before signing with the Minnesota Timberwolves in the summer of 2011. His departure was and remains unsettling, since it came just after the Mavs beat the Miami Heat in the [...]

Never fear, Carmelo Anthony isn’t going anywhere, or so J.R. Smith thinks. In an interview with Ian Begley of ESPN New York, Smith admitted that there was no timetable behind his return from left patella tendon surgery. But because he didn’t want to be completely emo in his assessment of the future, Smith also said [...]

It’s not unusual for an up-and-coming, former highly touted young baller to make some bold prediction about his future status on the highest level. We’ve seen it in the past as future greats like Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant once challenged and occasionally got the best of all time superstar Michael Jordan, like most memorably [...]

Like you needed another reason as to why Dwight Howard left the Los Angeles Lakers. In a radio interview on ESPN 710 in Los Angeles transcribed by ESPN Los Angeles’ Ramona Shelburne (h/t ProBasketballTalk), Antawn Jamison, now a member of the Los Angeles Clippers, admitted that Kobe Bryant and Howard never trusted each other: What [...]

Could Lamar Odom find himself donning purple and gold once more? According to Radar online (h/t New York Post) the Los Angeles Lakers have reached out to Odom and told him they’re prepared to sign him if he goes to rehab to kick whatever drug habit he has: The Los Angeles Lakers have told troubled [...]

Larry Sanders wasn’t always a favorite of the Milwaukee Bucks. Per the Racine Jouranl Times‘ Gery Woelfel (h/t/ ProBasketballTalk) the Bucks wanted to cut Sanders roughly one year ago. Larry Sanders ascent to being Bucks' highest paid player is remarkable. A yr ago some Bucks officials wanted to cut him. — Gery Woelfel (@GeryWoelfel) August [...]