Rumors

Well, those Eric Bledsoe-for-Reggie Jackson rumors certainly didn’t last long. They started on Thursday afternoon, with The New York Times‘ Marc Stein noting the Detroit Pistons could have interest in striking a deal for Bledsoe: [tweet https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/926121458438496256] [tweet https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/926122277179133952] Soon after that, Basketball Insiders’ Michael Scotto brought word that the Pistons had delivered an official offer [...]

Kristaps Porzingis will be extension-eligible this July, at which time, if he’s healthy and they’re smart, the New York Knicks will try to lock him up for the next four or five years. And yet, if his brother and agent, Janis, is to be believed, the 7’1″ skyscraper may not jump at the chance to [...]

Steph Curry was obscenely underpaid the past four seasons, winning two league MVPs and two NBA titles while being paid $11 million per season, less than Timofey Mozgov. That finally changed as Curry signed a five-year, $201 million super-max extension this summer. According to Marcus Thompson of The Athletic, Curry and his agent requested a [...]

Conspiracy theorists who believe Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue only started Dwyane Wade at the beginning of the season to prove that he should come off the bench are about to be vindicated. Speaking on the latest episode of The Lowe Post podcast, ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst told Zach Lowe that Lue was thrown off by [...]

Kristaps Porzingis apparently found closure with former New York Knicks team president Phil Jackson after the latter was canned. And even if he didn’t, he’s getting it now, as he averages career highs across the board and establishes himself as a shoo-in for All-Star honors. Things soured between executive and player this past summer, when [...]

As Kyle Neubeck of Philly Voice first reported on Tuesday, the Philadelphia 76ers have declined their fourth-year option on Jahlil Okafor, setting him up for unrestricted free agency this summer. The move isn’t surprising in a vacuum. The Sixers don’t have room for Okafor with Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons and Dario Saric up front. Richaun [...]

DeAndre Jordan is in a ridiculously weird spot. When he first signed his current contract, no one thought he’d opt into the final year, next season, worth $24.1 million. But then the NBA’s free-agency market this past season cratered. And then the market for bigs who don’t shoot tanked even harder than that. And now [...]

Steve Kerr and the Golden State Warriors aren’t breaking up anytime soon. This comes from Kerr himself, as well as owner Joe Lacob and general manager Bob Myers, according to The Athletic’s Tim Kawakami: Kerr and general manager Bob Myers held the initial talks — and Kerr, Myers and Warriors owner Joe Lacob all told The [...]

New York Knicks head coach Jeff Hornacek is safe. For now. On the heels of an 0-3 start that saw a couple of players question the engagement and execution of everything around them, some weren’t so sure Hornacek would last into the month of November. The Knicks were supposed to be bad, but another season [...]

Entering Week 2 of Eric Bledsoe trade watch, we still don’t have a great idea of what the Phoenix Suns are looking for in potential returns. We know they’re angling for something or someone substantial, otherwise a deal would probably be done. And now, thanks to The New York Times‘ Marc Stein, we know they’re also [...]