Rumors

According to Miami Herald reporter Barry Jackson in his Friday buzz column, the Heat front office is considering a pursuit of Mike Conley in free agency this summer. Here is an excerpt from the article: “…one of many decisions for Pat Riley this summer will be whether to try to sign Memphis point guard Mike [...]

The Phoenix Suns are finally free of Markieff Morris. Keef has made things difficult in Phoenix this year, after the team traded his brother, so he finally got his wish. He was dealt to the Wizards for a draft pick. At this point, I’m sure Phoenix would’ve taken anything just to get rid of him. [...]

Channing Frye is on the move. The serviceable, versatile big man is headed from Orlando to Cleveland. After getting handled by the Warriors several weeks back, Cleveland realizes that they can’t hang with the eventual Western Conference champs. That’s evident by way of a team in first place firing their head coach and taking steps [...]

According to Orlando sports reporter David Baumann, the Magic offered Nikola Vucevic and Aaron Gordon in a trade package for Blake Griffin and were turned down: https://twitter.com/DavidBaumannORL/status/699775403083358209 Although that may be fair value and about as good as you could get when dealing a superstar, the trade doesn’t really make a lot of sense for [...]

According to numerous reports the Bulls have tried to satisfy the Raptors power forward needs by offering Taj Gibson for Patrick Patterson straight up. The Raptors apparently said no thanks because of Gibson’s slightly more expensive and shorter contract, and the fact that they are clearly in search of a more small ball hybrid forward [...]

Assets, smashets. The New York Knicks still want Jeff Teague. Indeed, assets matter in this case, and the Knicks have very few. But according to ESPN.com’s Ian Begley, Marc Stein and Brian Windhorst, that won’t stop them from trying to bait the Atlanta Hawks: Members of the New York Knicks’ front office ran into a [...]

Since retiring, we’ve seen Tracy McGrady play minor league baseball and serve a stint as an NBA TV analyst. He was also all over the place during TNT’s all-star weekend telecast. McGrady’s next stop will be ESPN as an analyst. He joins ESPN’s roster of Jalen Rosen, Chauncey Billups and other former players. Former All-Star [...]

LeBron James is on record as being “emotional” when he really sits and realizes that this is Kobe Bryant’s final season. In fact, they embraced for a while after they played one another on Wednesday night, and Kobe gave LeBron a signed pair of his game-worn sneakers. LeBron’s admiration for Kobe goes beyond. It reportedly [...]

The Heat’s Hassan Whiteside is proving to be one of the best rim protectors in the game. He’s threat for a triple-double, including blocks, each and every night. But he often times lets his emotions get the best of him and we saw that a few nights ago. Whiteside got tangled up with the Spurs’ [...]

Where will Kevin Durant end up? That’s what we all want to know and maybe he hasn’t made up his mind yet. But what we do know is that the Knicks are on his short list. Allegedly. But has that changed? KD and Derek Fisher were teammates a few years ago in OKC and were [...]