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Tim Duncan is pretty generous. It’s easy to be generous, of course, when you’ve raked in nearly $235 million in career salary and aren’t even done playing yet. But, relative to the NBA’s financial stratosphere, Duncan has gone above and beyond and then back again—756 times. This all started with yours truly traveling down a [...]

J.R. Smith turned down his $6.4 million option from the Cavaliers in hopes that he would receive more than that on the open market. That hasn’t exactly happened and he hasn’t garnered much interest. The Cavs have reached out to Smith to retain his services for less than he would’ve received had he not declined [...]

Because he has emerged as one of the best big men in the league, DeMarcus Cousins is a hot commodity. His name has been thrown around of late as being on the trading block, but that comes with the territory . Also, his “attitude” adds to the desire to flirt with getting rid of him. [...]

James Harden is on board with the Houston Rockets trading for Ty Lawson. We of course know this on some level. Rockets general manager Daryl Morey apparently consulted with both Harden and Dwight Howard before pulling the trigger on that deal with the Denver Nuggets. But if anyone still had any doubt about how Harden [...]

Charles Barkley is hoping Kobe Bryant knows when to call it quits. And he’s also hoping Kobe calls it quits after next season. While speaking with Frank Isola and Brian Scalabrine on SiriusXM NBA Radio (h/t Fox Sports), the former NBA star and current TNT analyst provided his thoughts on Kobe’s 20th season: I hope [...]

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The Portland Trail Blazers’ offseason did not go as planned, and General Manager Neil Olshey knows it. Last summer, it was expected that they would retain LaMarcus Aldridge, re-sign Wesley Matthews, extend Damian Lillard and probably keep Robin Lopez, and then run it back with the same core for a few years until their title [...]

LeBron James’ feelings haven’t changed. He believes Tristan Thompson should remain with the Cleveland Cavaliers. That much has been clear for a while. It was assumed when LeBron first returned to Cleveland, since he and Thompson, a restricted free agent, are both represented by Rich Paul. Then it became an ironclad fact back in May, [...]

Michael Jordan is most certainly the Greatest Of All-Time. The one and only GOAT. But many other names get bandied about in debates about who the GOAT is. Names like Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, Bill Russell, Kobe Bryant, and Lebron James. But I don’t recall too many of these conversations listing Tracy McGrady….until now. The [...]

This is so going to happen. Team USA held its usual scrimmage on Thursday night, which went off without a hitch. No one was injured. Every participant walked away healthy, proving, once again, that Paul George’s broken leg in 2014, while tragic, was a freak anomaly. But that’s not why we’re here. Nor are we [...]