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Hopefully you’re ready for another twist in the Donatas Motiejunas-Houston Rockets saga. The Rockets announced on Thursday night that they would be renouncing their rights to the restricted free agent, officially eliminating the possibility of his return while making him an unrestricted free agent who can sign with any team—except, of course, the Brooklyn Nets. [...]

Two games into his return from a hamstring injury, which spanned 17 of the Brooklyn Nets’ tilts, Jeremy Lin is injured again. Per Basketball Insiders’ Michael Scotto: [tweet https://twitter.com/MikeAScotto/status/809181517314457602] Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson informed reporters ahead of the game that Lin was a gametime decision with lower back tightness. He apparently showed up to [...]

Anyone who is hoping Paul George will get a new home before this season is out will need to find something else for which they can yearn. The Indiana Pacers aren’t dealing him. That was the prevailing message in Adrian Wojnarowksi’s latest podcast for The Vertical, as relayed to us by HoopsHype: There’s basically no [...]

After having a bit of a renaissance season in 2015-16 and leading an undermanned Mavericks team to the playoffs once again, the 2016-17 season has not been too kind to 39-year-old Dirk Nowitzki or the 6-18 Dallas Mavericks. Dirk is dealing with a nagging and debilitating Achilles injury that has caused him to miss 19 [...]

The Utah Jazz are getting healthy! Sort of. Okay, not really. But they are welcoming Derrick Favors back to the lineup following a 13-game absence while dealing with a bone contusion in his left knee. Here’s ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon with the lowdown: Favors isn’t expected to play much against the Oklahoma City Thunder, as he [...]

John Wall is averaging a career-high 23.6 points per game. He is shooting at a personal-best clip from three-point range and from the floor overall. He is playing as many minutes as he did last season. And he’s not even 100 percent. From NBA.com’s David Aldridge: And Wall is playing remarkably well for someone who [...]

If the Chicago Bulls want to re-sign Taj Gibson this summer, they won’t have to sell him on a return. He already wants to come back, per K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune: Taj Gibson has survived near-annual trade rumors to become, in his eighth season, the longest-tenured Bull. He’s also poised to become an [...]

The dance between Donatas Motiejunas and the Houston Rockets is finally over. Per Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical: [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/807251998928240640] [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/807253559817502720] And so ends one of the more bizarre player-team sagas in recent memory. Houston tried to deal Motiejunas to the Detroit Pistons ahead of last year’s trade deadline, only to have him fail [...]

Ian Mahinmi is injured again. The big man, fresh off signing a four-year, $64 million deal with the Washington Wizards, has been limited to a single appearance due to injuries in both his right and left knees. And now his right knee needs another MRI, according to CSN Mid-Atlantic’s J. Michael: Ian Mahinmi, who has [...]

The world’s injury bugs have not been kind to the Boston Celtics. Jae Crowder, Al Horford, Kelly Olynyk and Marcus Smart have all missed time, and now Isaiah Thomas seems slated to miss some time with a groin injury for which he needed an injection, per Chris Forsberg of ESPN.com: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNForsberg/status/806864451681058816?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet] Boston’s offense goes [...]