breakingbar

David Lee is officially a member of the Dallas Mavericks. The team announced the news on Monday, confirming chatter that was bandied about the NBA sphere over the weekend, just after the trade deadline. Here’s a snippet of Dallas’ release: The Dallas Mavericks announced today that they have signed free agent forward/center David Lee. Per [...]

Anthony Davis had a night to remember in Auburn Hills against the Detroit Pistons on Sunday. Davis became the second youngest player in NBA history to score 50 points and grab 20 rebounds in one game. “The Brow” had an incredible 59 points and 20 rebounds in 43 minutes. Anthony Davis is the 2nd youngest [...]

  [...]

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 Denver Nuggets are adding to the NBA’s waiver wire just in time to help asset-strapped playoff teams bulk up ahead of the postseason. According to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, the Nuggets plan on buying out the contracts of J.J. Hickson and Steve Novak, the latter of whom they acquired from the Oklahoma City Thunder, along [...]

A surprise contender emerged for Dwight Howard ahead of the NBA trade deadline. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/700422033914466305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Howard would have made some sense for the Bucks, though I wonder who they would have needed to trade. Greg Monroe almost certainly would have been involved. That would have made sense if Howard agreed to [...]

Oh how quickly things can change. Leading into Thursday’s NBA trade deadline, it looked like the Chicago Bulls were serious about moving the 35-year-old Pau Gasol, who is expected to decline his player option for next season and enter free agency. Rumors were so rampant, yours truly wasted entirely too much time doing this: [tweet [...]

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 [...]

  [...]

The Brooklyn Nets are bringing a little bit of the San Antonio Spurs to Barclays Center. No, it’s not Kawhi Leonard. Or Patty Mills. Or Boban Marjanovic. It’s Spurs assistant general manager Sean Marks. Brooklyn has officially hired him to be its general manager, per Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today: Nets have hired Sean Marks [...]