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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 [...]

The Philadelphia 76ers are happy with their current direction and apparently think superstar free agents will feel the same way. According to Philly Voice’s Kyle Neubeck, the team isn’t thinking twice about their decision to decline Jahlil Okafor’s fourth-year option because it has set sights on reeling in bigger fish over the summer: For the [...]

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 [...]

First the Philadelphia 76ers didn’t see a problem with having Markelle Fultz play through his shoulder injury. Then they shut him down for three games to evaluate a situation that had deteriorated under their noses. Now they’ve announced the rookie point guard is out indefinitely because of said shoulder injury. Here’s the team’s announcement, courtesy [...]

As if you couldn’t have guessed this from the multitude of “DNP: Coach’s Decision” absences that Jahlil Okafor is racking up, the Philadelphia 76ers still don’t have plans to make him part of their big picture. As a result, according to ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes, both the player and team are working together to find the [...]

It’s about damn time. Markelle Fultz has been playing through a shoulder injury, a setback that has also, it seems, caused him to adjust his shooting motion. The returns, naturally, have not been good, which left many people to wonder why the Philadelphia 76ers didn’t see a problem with playing him. Crap hit the fan [...]

What happens when you average 36.8 points, 10.8 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 2.3 steals and 1.0 blocks on 65.9 percent shooting through the first four games of the NBA season? You become the odds-on favorite to win the league’s MVP award. From SportsInsights Marky Mark: Antetokounmpo has moved from +1000 to +250 in this short stretch—close [...]

Plenty of people are worried about Markelle Fultz’s shoulder injury, which has, apparently, prompted him and the Philadelphia 76ers to tweak his shooting form. The result, through four games: 33 percent shooting from two-point range, no attempted threes and a 50 percent clip at the foul line. It would seem, then, as if profound concern [...]

The deadline for NBA teams to broker extensions with players nearing the end of their rookie-scale contracts is bearing down upon us. But while some like Norman Powell, Josh Richardson, Joel Embiid, Gary Harris and Andrew Wiggins have reached agreements, others won’t be so luck. This includes Aaron Gordon and Elfrid Payton. From the Orlando Sentinel‘s [...]

The No.1 pick of the 2014 NBA Draft is now the 3rd player in his class to sign an over $100 million extension in the past week, joining Joel Embiid and Gary Harris. Andrew Wiggins has reportedly agreed to a five-year, $146.5 million max extension with the T’Wolves. It’s interesting that the deal includes no [...]