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Rudy Gay is one of those players who seems to always be in the thick of NBA trade rumors and chatter and has been “on the block” for the Kings for at least the past year it seems. He is a talented combo forward that can give you 20-6-4 on any given night but does [...]

After 14 NBA seasons and a very successful career which included six NBA All-Star appearances and five All-NBA appearances (1x All-NBA 1st Team) Amar’e Stoudemire has decided to hang them up at the age of 33. [tweet https://twitter.com/hoopshype/status/758031482426429440] Stoudemire announced his retirement Tuesday and to the surprise of some, signed a one-day contract to retire [...]

How shocked was Tyler Johnson to learn that he would be earning $50 million over the next four years? So shocked, he puked. A couple of times. Seriously. From the South Florida Sun Sentinel‘s Ira Winderman: So what was Tyler Johnson’s reaction when he heard he was going to receive a four-year, $50 million contract? [...]

Kyrie Irving and Dion Waiters were supposed to be the backcourt of the future when they were together in Cleveland. Kyrie always lived up to his end of the bargain, but that wasn’t always the case for Waiters. He was eventually shipped to OKC not longer after LeBron came back to town. In OKC, he [...]

The Portland Trail Blazers were the NBA’s darlings last season. The team surprised everybody by winning 45 games and making the western conference semi-finals. There were a lot of ways Portland could have went this offseason with their near $60 million under the cap, and they have decided to go all in on locking up [...]

The criticism aimed towards Kevin Durant will ultimately pass. It may take a few years, but people will eventually get over it. But that doesn’t make his move any less egregious. Durant is no doubt tired of talking about his new team and the one he left behind. He’d much rather talk about Team USA, [...]

It wasn’t long ago it seemed like the NBA would successfully avoid its second lockout in less than seven years. Both the league and the NBPA can opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement in 2017, though the side that opts out must notify its counterpart by December. But that didn’t matter. It felt [...]

There have been rumblings for months that the NBA would pull the 2017 All-Star Game and festivities out of Charlotte if North Carolina legislators don’t change their recently enacted laws that discriminate against the LGBT community. According to The Vertical Reporter and Editor Adrian Wojnarowski, the NBA made good on their word and has decided [...]

There is a reason why the Houston Rockets renounced the rights to Terrence Jones, now of the New Orleans Pelicans, but not Donatas Motiejunas, who remains unsigned. He is a pretty hot commodity. Don’t let his current status fool you. D-Mo is a wanted man, per Fox 26’s Mark Berman: Forward Donatas Motiejunas would be [...]

One of the chief complaints by NBA players, and non-NBA fans, is that the playoffs go on and on and on. This past year the first playoff game of the season tipped off on April 16, with the Cavaliers besting the Warriors in Game 7 of the Finals a full 65 days later. During that [...]