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Paul George. Kobe Bryant. Future teammates? Don’t hold your breath. The Indiana Pacers superstar is slated to become a restricted free agent next summer, when the Los Angeles Lakers will have a ton of cap space. See where I’m going with this? Not very far actually. Players like George don’t often make it to restricted [...]

Brandon Jennings and Rajon Rondo will not be joining the Detroit Pistons. Apparently. Team president Joe Dumars denied that the Pistons were engaged in trade talks with the Milwaukee Bucks for Jennings, a restricted free agent, and the Boston Celtics for Rondo, who is still recovering from an ACL injury. “Bogus, bogus. No conversations.” Dumars [...]

Mike Miller had one thing on his mind after being amnestied by the Miami Heat: Pringles. I’m most definitely not kidding, though that does need some clarifying. The Heat announced on Tuesday that they would be waiving Miller via the amnesty clause after the forward spent three years with the team. Miller was informed on [...]

Like Carmelo Anthony before him, Metta World Peace has finally come home. After spending nearly a decade and a half elsewhere, World Peace has joined the New York Knicks, the team that passed over him in the 1999 NBA draft in favor of Frederic Weis. Long past his prime, World Peace is also far removed [...]

There’s still no escaping the Dwightmare. Dwight Howard has already chosen to play for the Houston Rockets, and Kobe Bryant continues to bleed Los Angeles Lakers purple and gold, but the two continue to dance around and toward each other. Speaking with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith about his decision to spurn Los Angeles in favor [...]

Derrick Rose has good news. Though “good news” and “Derrick Rose” are no longer synonymous with each other, the Chicago Bulls finally have something to look forward to next season—Rose’s actual return. Rose was in Real Madrid, and when asked about his return, he responded by saying he is 100 percent and will play in [...]

Metta World Peace may be headed to the New York Knicks. After clearing waivers on Sunday, the World Peace sweepstakes began. As with all things Metta, his free agency is bound to be an adventure. According to Marc Berman of the New York Post, it’s one that may lead him right to New York to [...]

Streetball has long been the stepbrother of true hardwood basketball as many perceive the art form as an all flash and no fundamental style of hoops. But in fact the opposite is completely true as many of streetball’s top performers currently and in years past have been standout NCAA and NBA stars like Rafer “Skip [...]

The Boston Celtics have a message for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce: Thank you. With Garnett and Pierce headed to the Brooklyn Nets as the Celtics begin an extensive rebuild, the time for reflection is now. All the wins. All the hard-fought battles. All the emotions. The one championship. Everything. Pierce spent 15 years in [...]

Steve Nash was right, Dwight Howard really didn’t want to play for the Los Angeles Lakers. The NBA free-agency period is winding down. Most of the big-name players have signed, and a majority of the drama is over. And still I find myself writing about the Lakers on an almost daily basis. Partly because I [...]