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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 [...]

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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 [...]

How’s the market for Dwight Howard, you ask? Not very good. The Houston Rockets remain motivated to move the 30-year-old Howard, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/700218509490425856] Cool. The issue? Getting a substantive return for his services. And judging by the deal that the Charlotte Hornets offered, according to Frank Isola of the New York [...]

Just in case Gilbert Arenas had even the smallest semblance of a legacy left, he is making every effort to squash it. Tonight he took to Instagram and in a weird classless rant, seemed to compliment Kobe Bryant, beg for a 10-day contract, then attack virtually every player on the Lakers bench. Maybe he was [...]

Last time we met, we were preparing for the NBA’s All-Star break. And, well, we’re still on that gosh darn All-Star break. The NBA returns to action on Thursday, Feb. 18. Incidentally, that’s the same day as the league’s trade deadline. I’m sure that won’t be a chaotic time at all. It will be totally [...]

According to Orlando sports reporter David Baumann, the Magic offered Nikola Vucevic and Aaron Gordon in a trade package for Blake Griffin and were turned down: https://twitter.com/DavidBaumannORL/status/699775403083358209 Although that may be fair value and about as good as you could get when dealing a superstar, the trade doesn’t really make a lot of sense for [...]