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The first huge free agency related bomb of the 2017 NBA off-season has already been dropped and it is June 28. According to Adrian Wojnarowski in what may be his final official “Woj Bomb” as a member of The Vertical (he moves to ESPN on July 1), the Rockets have reportedly agreed to a trade [...]

If you had to describe Andre Iguodala’s free-agency market in one word, what should it be? Robust. And even that might be underselling it. At least seven teams plan to pursue the 33-year-old wing this summer, according to ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes: Andre Iguodala has become the foremost target in an attempt to weaken the Golden State Warriors’ [...]

Phil Jackson’s reign of terror over the New York Knicks will not span more than 171 losses. The New York Knicks and team president Phil Jackson announced Wednesday morning that they mutually agreed to part ways. “After careful thought and consideration, we mutually agreed that the Knicks will be going in a different direction,” Knicks [...]

Danilo Gallinari has always been known to not be the most buttoned up with his comments to the media. He’s also had a tendency to be refreshingly honest throughout his career. That was the case Tuesday morning as Gallanari basically said returning to the Nuggets isn’t at the top of his list in free agency, [...]

It appears the tune has changed for future first ballot hall of famer and greatest European basketball player of all-time Dirk Nowitzki. At one point last season when he was dealing with an Achilles issue he though that the 2016-17 season could be it for him, now he intends to sign a new two-year contract [...]

According to a report from ESPN’s Marc Stein Monday morning, despite having dealt Kris Dunn and recently acquiring Jimmy Butler from the Chicago Bulls, the T’Wolves are still trying to trade Ricky Rubio to acquire more shooting power. [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/879360696571404288] While in some ways Rubio seems like the perfect point guard to feed and put [...]

The Brooklyn Nets may finally be back on the way up after putting themselves in possibly the worst position imaginable for a franchise with their questionable decisions in their pursuit to be a contender. Now that they have cleared out all of their large or bad contracts and obtained oodles of cap flexibility to take [...]

So this is what Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey meant when he said the team has something up its sleeve. According ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, the Rockets are putting plans in motion to pursue free agents Kyle Lowry, Paul Millsap, Chris Paul and Gordon Hayward: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/877578395793543168] Though the Rockets have the ability to start [...]

It’s been about a month since the San Antonio Spurs wrapped their 2016-17 season, but Manu Ginobili still hasn’t decided whether he’ll retire from the NBA or return for 2017-18. On the bright side, though, his brother, Sepo Ginobili, did say Manu will keep playing if he feels like he can help a team, per [...]

Patrick Beverley is the Houston Rockets’ best defensive player, the guy who takes on assignments like Russell Westbrook and lives to tell the tale. So it only makes sense that they would be trying to trade him, according to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney: The Rockets have been actively shopping point guard Patrick Beverley, a [...]