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LeBron James has joined the Los Angles Lakers. That is an objectively weird thing to say. So, too, is this: Kawhi Leonard is feverishly trying to join him. Per ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski: How badly does Leonard want to end up with the Lakers, you ask? Apparently very badly. Consider what ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith said, [...]

76ers Joel Embiid, 24-year old all-star, tweeted out, “The Lakers are FOREVER gonna be Kobe’s and Magic’s team….Process that.” LeBron James’ path to another championship may have been easier in Philly than Los Angeles, but James will now probably have to fight through either the Golden State Warriors or the Houston Rockets to get there. [...]

The Rockets fulfilled their initial promise to Chris Paul by signing him to a four-year, $160 million max contract. Chris Paul is still one of the most valuable players in the NBA and the Rockets may be in possession of the Larry O’Brien trophy right now if CP3 hadn’t gone down with a hamstring injury [...]

There are many teams with a lot of cap space going into free agency, but the best team with cap space available isn’t the Los Angeles Lakers, it is the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers could potentially have $35 million in cap space to try and improve upon a 48 win team in 2017-18. So where [...]

It is clear that the Kawhi Leonard sweepstakes is the 1B to the 1A off-season story line that is LeBron James free agency. While it is very apparent Leonard wants out and prefers LA, the Spurs reaction to Leonard’s demands and their course of action seems to alternate by the hour with different reports. Should [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers are one Kawhi Leonard away from landing LeBron James in free agency. No big deal, right? ESPN.com’s Ramona Shelburne, Brian Windhorst and Adrian Wojnarowski have been on top of the Kawhi-to-Lakers rumors over the past couple days, and their latest batch of intel makes it seem as if LeBron is a [...]

Avery Bradley didn’t exactly have the kind of year you hope for before entering free agency. The 27-year-old combo guard struggled mightily in Detroit and Los Angeles. He saw his numbers and efficiency level go down across the board as the perception of him changed from great two-way starting shooting guard to inefficient and overvalued [...]

Big news: Enes Kanter has no plans to throw away $18.6 million. After publicly waffling on whether he was going to exercise his player option for next season, it seems the New York Knicks big man is now leaning toward playing out the final year of his deal, according to ESPN.com’s Ian Begley: This is…the [...]

It has been difficult in recent months to find many who believe LeBron James will re-sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers this summer. But don’t worry: such people exist. According to ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin, at least two members of the Cavaliers, one of whom is a player, believe that Cleveland has the best chance of any [...]

Paul George sounds like someone who will try to be the ultimate crowd-pleaser as he enters free agency. During ESPN’s behind-the-scenes look at his offseason prep, the Oklahoma City Thunder forward said that he hopes to make most people happy when he decides where he’ll play next year (h/t Brett Dawson of The Oklahoman): “I hope [...]