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Sam Hinkie, you dog, you. Despite boasting oodles of cap space in each of the last two summers, the Philadelphia 76ers haven’t been free-agency players. They’re trying to build from the ground up and from within, and not only does that mean they’re not in the market for outside talent, but they’re not in the [...]

The Phoenix Suns are seriously serious about seriously trading Eric Bledsoe. Rumblings gained some traction ahead of the draft, the belief being that Phoenix was looking to move up. But with the team preparing to offer restricted free agent Brandon Knight a fat contract, Bledsoe isn’t yet considered safe. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein (h/t ProBasketballTalk: [...]

Score this one as a win for general manager Sam Hinkie and the Philadelphia 76ers. Ironic, yes. They’ve spent the last two years actively evading wins. But this is different. Ohio State’s D’Angelo Russell is among the consensus top-three picks in this year’s NBA draft. Everything else about the selection extravaganza, which will take place [...]

Hopefully Jahlil Okafor is high on the Minnesota Timberwolves, because they’re high on him. As the NBA inches closer and closer to the June 25 draft, there is no definitive sense of who the Timberwolves will take with the No. 1 pick. Kentucky’s Karl-Anthony Towns has gained momentum as the top prospect in this year’s [...]

The Philadelphia 76ers have been in “Tank Mode” for the past few seasons as hoops fans in Philly seemingly haven’t had a signature player to build around since Allen Iverson. The franchise has endured 2 of the worst seasons in team history, winning 19 and 18 games in back-to-back seasons, and although they have drafted [...]

Whenever the Sixers all get on the court healthy and as a full unit, they will have one of the longest frontcourts in the game. They already have Nerlens Noel and Joel Embiid, who hasn’t played yet, and they just added JaVale McGee. It remains to be seen if they plan on unloading McGee for [...]

Question of the week: Do any of the NBA’s Eastern Conference fringe playoff teams actually want to make the postseason? Asking for a friend or 50 here. Seriously, once you leave the East’s top-six teams—Hawks(!), Raptors, Wizards, Bulls, Cavaliers and Bucks—it feels like you’ve entered the “Let’s try and suck as much as possible in order to [...]

With the 2015 NBA Draft now a little more than 8 months away, and the NCAA and NBA seasons ready to begin, it’s time to take our initial conclusive look at the top 1st Round prospects for the upcoming NBA Draft. Back in early August, we gave you 15 Early Prospects for the 2015 NBA [...]

Not too many people around the Association have been happy with the way that the Philadelphia 76ers have been using the so called “tanking” method in order to do an entire rebuild of the roster. But a knowledgeable hoops fan has to give GM Sam Hinkie credit for turning over a once mediocre team devoid [...]

Veteran NBA.com reporter Steve Aschburner reported Wednesday that one of the changes new NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is considering this off-season is the idea of a mid-season tournament in Las Vegas. Here is the excerpt from Aschburner’s column on NBA.com: “The popularity of the summer league in Las Vegas – with attendance up 25 percent, [...]