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The New York Knicks are serious about trying to acquire another first-round pick. According to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney, and as confirmed by ESPN.com’s Ian Begley, they’ve talked to the Portland Trail Blazers about landing one of their three first-round picks: Portland owns the No. 15, 20 and 26 picks in this draft, and several teams are [...]

Forget about the NBA Finals for a minute. Let’s draft it up. (For more 2017 mock drafts, please visit THD’s 2017 NBA Mock Draft Database) Here’s our lottery projections for this year’s prospect pageant. 1. Boston Celtics: Markelle Fultz, Washington, PG Loads of people want the Boston Celtics to trade this pick. The top prospects [...]

Lonzo Ball isn’t a lock to join the Los Angeles Lakers after all. While many assume the Purple and Gold will take the electric UCLA guard at No. 2, the team, apparently, isn’t so sure. It needs to see more from Ball before committing to him, according to Basketball Insiders’ Steve Kyler: With reports surfacing that [...]

The trilogy, Cavs-Warriors volume three, begins Thursday night as the match-up the basketball and sports world have been anticipating for basically a year now has finally arrived. Finally, both teams appear to be completely healthy and fully equipped for battle on the court, but as we all know that is not the case on the [...]

If there is a team outside the lottery that has the ability to throw the NBA draft for a whirl, it’s the Portland Trail Blazers. General manager Neil Olshey has collected three first-round picks, giving his team more draft selections than actual roster spots. They have enough non-guaranteed contracts (three) to make room for a [...]

Danilo Gallinari opted out from the final year of his contract with the Denver Nuggets on Tuesday, earning the right to explore unrestricted free agency. Though he’ll be one of the 10 to 12 biggest names available—and while he’s actually higher up on that totem pole when you consider players who aren’t actually flight risks—he [...]

Desperate situations call for exceptional measures, and Pistons head coach and president Stan Van Gundy appears to be shooting his shot. Van Gundy isn’t one to rush the process by trading away first-round picks, at least not impulsively or in excess. But according to NBA Insider Marc Stein, he’s open to moving his team’s lottery [...]

Tony Parker’s torn left quad will not keep him out of the San Antonio Spurs’ lineup for all of 2017-18—or so he says. In an interview with L’Equipe, Parker said he believes he’ll be ready for action sometime in January (via Eurohoops.net): “I will play my best basketball when I return in January”, Parker told L’Equipe. After his injury during [...]

If the NBA Finals started today, Steve Kerr still wouldn’t be on the sidelines with the Golden State Warriors. Fortunately, the Finals don’t tip off today. But Cavs-Warriors, Part III does begin on Thursday, a mere two days from now. And based off what Kerr said on Monday, per NBC Sports’ Rosalyn Gold-Onwude?, it doesn’t sound like [...]

What was that about bigs who don’t shoot threes struggling to find a place in today’s NBA? Nerlens Noel knows nothing of this. At least, he’s not about to. According to Scout.com’s Mike Fisher, a couple of teams are prepared to sling max offer sheets with the hope of poaching Noel from the Dallas Mavericks: [...]