Rumors

Heads seem like they’re about to roll following the Portland Trail Blazers’ first-round sweep from the playoffs. Head coach Terry Stotts’ name has already entered the speculation mill, and apparently, the CJ McCollum-Damian Lillard backcourt isn’t far behind. According to The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor, certain NBA execs believed Blazers general manager Neil Olshey would break [...]

Whether or not you believe that the Spurs will actually trade Kawhi Leonard this summer there is no denying there is a strained relationship between he and the organization. Because of the strained relationship with the team and his absence despite being cleared by team doctors, teams around the league are salivating about a prospect [...]

So it turns out certain NBA owners are pretty invested in tanking. During a recent, pre-playoff episode of The Woj Pod, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski relayed an uber-interesting anecdote about the owner of a team laying into his head coach for failing to lose enough games down the stretch of the season. Here’s what Woj said (h/t [...]

If the San Antonio Spurs’ closed-door hints are to be taken seriously, Kawhi Leonard isn’t going anywhere. The two-time Defensive Player of the Year has been noticeably absent from the sidelines during the Spurs’ first two games, both losses, against the Golden State Warriors. Coupled with everything else that’s happened this year, including seemingly veiled [...]

The NBA doesn’t expect to see its salary-cap projections for this year or next year change by considerable margins. In a memo it sent to teams, the financial forecasts for the next two seasons remained largely the same, per Basketball Insiders’ Eric Pincus: [tweet https://twitter.com/EricPincus/status/986003181174898688] Some other food for thought as well: [tweet https://twitter.com/EricPincus/status/986003974925893632] The [...]

The New York Knicks wasted little time in firing head coach Jeff Hornacek following their final game of the season. And they wasted even less time coming up with a list of potential replacements. According to ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Knicks canned Hornacek almost immediately after they returned from their road victory over the Cleveland [...]

Doc Rivers-to-the-New York Knicks conspiracy theorists and enthusiasts rejoice: The Los Angeles Clippers are not trying to extend their head honcho. Yet. ESPN.com’s Kevin Arnovitz penned an interesting profile on Rivers and the Clippers just after they were eliminated from playoff contention for the first time since 2012. Within it, he reports on Doc’s future [...]

LeBron James and Erik Spoelstra seemed to, for the most part, get along well enough during their time together with the Miami Heat. But if the former had his way in the early going of his arrival, the two never would have gotten the chance to mesh. Heat president Pat Riley said as much in [...]

The murmurs on where LeBron James decides to sign as an unrestricted free agent this summer will only grow louder from here to July. Many think it is a four team race between the Cavaliers re-signing him, the Lakers, 76ers or the Rockets. Nobody truly knows what James will do at this point though, because [...]

Dirk Nowitzki has played his last game for the Dallas Mavericks…this season. Rumor has it, though, he still has plenty of outings left in him for next year. The 20-year veteran underwent surgery on his left ankle and is now done for the year, which comes as a major bummer. On the bright side, this [...]