George Hill is not a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers…yet. Because the Sacramento Kings and the Cavaliers themselves have backed away from reported trade talks…for now. There’s a chance this deal might not get gone…in theory. Excuse the opaque-speak, but that’s the status quo on this mini-buster as we know it. After seemingly getting on [...]
January 30, 2018
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George Hill may soon be a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers. After losing 10 of their last 12 games and giving the NBA’s rumor mill plenty of talking points over the past couple weeks, the Cavaliers are looking to shake things up. And while many will be waiting for them to dangle the Brooklyn Nets [...]
January 24, 2018
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George Hill’s angry-face emoji tweet may have meant something after all. Sure, the point guard initially passed it off as an expression of disappointment; he was irate that he let his teammates down during a crunch-time loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, in which he didn’t play down the stretch. And, hell, maybe that’s true. But [...]
December 12, 2017
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Who had the “Beginning of December” in the pool for when George Hill would turn on the Sacramento Kings? Well, congratulations to anyone who did, and still does. You might be on the verge of winning said contest. Few expected the Kings to be good this year. Signing Zach Randolph, Vince Carter and Hill always [...]
December 4, 2017
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George Hill would be a member of the New York Knicks right now if they didn’t can Phil Jackson before the start of free agency. Probably. From the New York Post‘s Marc Berman: Former Knicks president Phil Jackson had a French vision last summer with point guard George Hill in the middle of it. According to [...]
November 10, 2017
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The Sacramento Kings made a few surprising splashes in free agency this year, adding to their young core of De’Aaron Fox, Buddy Hield, Willie Cauley-Stein and Skal LaBissiere with three veterans to help mentor them and improve the team in 2017-18: Zach Randolph, Vince Carter and George Hill. While all three were a bit of [...]
July 12, 2017
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“Don’t let the fact that 11 other Western Conference teams can talk themselves into chasing a playoff berth next season distract you from the other fact that we can too” should be the Denver Nuggets’ motto in 2017-18. The Nuggets stole the show on Sunday night, for the most part, by signing Paul Millsap to [...]
The Utah Jazz have no plans to break up the band. Gordon Hayward (player option), George Hill and Joe Ingles make for a trio of pivotal, and thus expensive, free agents. The Jazz have no chance of evading the luxury tax if the plan is to re-sign them all. Hayward is getting max money, Hill [...]
April 26, 2017
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Any team that has soon-to-be free agents with undefined market values better beware the Brooklyn Nets. They have mountains of cap space, plus the incentive to overpay fringe stars both in the short and long term as they schlepp their way through an extensive rebuild. The assumption has always been they would throw max offers at [...]
March 15, 2017
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George Hill’s return to the Utah Jazz next season is no longer a formality. It was assumed all along the two sides might reach an extension that prevents the underrated-turned-Jazz lifeline point gurad from hitting the open market this summer, but extension talks died ahead of Tuesday’s deadline, according to the Salt Lake Tribune‘s Tony Jones: [...]
March 1, 2017
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