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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 [...]

According to ESPN Reporter Marc Stein, the Phoenix Suns have announced that they will host a pair of regular season games in Mexico City in January. [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/755469821924352000] This will be the second year in a row that the NBA is hosting a regular season game in Mexico City as the Sacramento Kings and the [...]

Spanish news outlets reported that star center Marc Gasol will not be ready to play for the Spanish National Team in the Rio Olympics. [tweet https://twitter.com/Sportando/status/755385209898594304] Gasol has been recovering from a broken foot suffered in February, it was unlikely that he was going to be ready to go to the games but the national [...]

Playing in the 2016 NBA Finals should have been a win-win for Anderson Varejao. Now a member of the Golden State Warriors, he spent most of his first 12 seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers, including the first half of 2015-16. So even if the Warriors lost, he would still get a ring. Well, the Warriors [...]

J.R. Smith is looking to cash in on last season’s performance with the Cleveland Cavaliers. The good news? He wants the Cavaliers to be the team handing him that cash. Per Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders: [tweet https://twitter.com/stevekylerNBA/status/754758177418252288] Some friendly advice for the Philadelphia 76ers: Do it. Offer J.R. Smith a two-year max deal or [...]

Andre Iguodala made a pretty interesting observation on Thursday about the NBA pecking order during the 2016 NBA Playoffs. As we all know the Warriors lost in 7 games in the NBA Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers and defeated his new teammate Kevin Durant’s Oklahoma City Thunder in 7 games in the western conference finals. [...]

All of a sudden, retired NBA players are “considering a comeback.” Unfortunately for most of them, NBA teams aren’t considering their comeback. Most notably, Ray Allen (who teams would want), Stephen Jackson and Jermaine have expressed interest in returning to the league. The next one up is Richard Hamilton. Let’s just hope he’s not interested [...]

If the Boston Celtics do not trade for Blake Griffin, then they’ll target Russell Westbrook. And if they don’t get either one of those two, then they’ll target another big name. Such is life in Beantown, apparently. From the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney: The Celtics are up to something. Talk to any front-office executive here [...]

Breaking up is hard to do, but the Golden State Warriors made sure their divorce from Andrew Bogut went as amicably as possible. Golden State needed to dump the remaining $12.6 million on his contract to help make room for Kevin Durant. And though there were no shortage of teams who would have absorbed the [...]