Kevin Durant

Dwyane Wade’s trip down Free Agency Lane manifested into an unanticipated issue last summer. That’s not going to happen this summer. Wade himself won’t let it, per Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald: Wade told me this week that he does not want to even test the free agent market and instead wants to wrap [...]

Get ready for a crazy NBA summer, folks. You already know commissioner Adam Silver is. The NBA’s salary cap is preparing to hit $89 million over the offseason, and it’s slated to jump above $105 million in 2017. Though player salaries will rise right along with the cap, this infusion of money has created at [...]

Kevin Durant hasn’t entertained many questions pertaining to this summer’s foray into free agency. But he readily admits he’s thinking about it—or rather, that he’s trying really, really hard not to think about it. From Michael Singer of USA Today: “It’s hard for it not to enter your mind,” he said. “There’s a lot of [...]

On the eve of Super Bowl 50, the Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder will meet for the first time this season, because the NBA, as it turns out, loves you. This is a marquee matchup, between two marquee teams, with subtly enormous stakes. The Warriors have yet another opportunity to prove they’re head [...]

The Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder—and every other team in the NBA—have some competition when it comes to free-agent-to-be Kevin Durant. The Houston Rockets want in on the fun, too. It’s long been assumed the Rockets would wedge their way into the Durant sweepstakes. General manager Daryl Morey has a superstar fetish, nearly [...]

Kevin Durant cannot stop the free-agency crazy train. And he’s dealing with that. Adrian Wojnarowski of the Vertical heard that the Golden State Warriors figure to be a serious threat to land Durant in free agency this summer. That, naturally, sent the NBA world aflutter. The Durant-Warriors theory has existed for a while now, but [...]

The Clippers emergence without Blake Griffin is a head-scratcher, for sure. Who knows; they probably would’ve been just as successful with him in the lineup during this stretch, but it’s not a good look for him. Because of the success minus Blake, rumors are swirling about dealing him. One such rumor suggests that the Clippers [...]

I know every single NBA fan just re-read that headline three of four times as their eyes got bigger and then they made the Home Alone face… According to a recent report from NBA information breaker extraordinaire Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports in his “The Vertical” podcast, the Warriors are not only in the mix [...]

Kevin Durant has a high opinion of New York Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis. And Unicorns. Per the Washington Post‘s Tim Bontemps: KD on KP: "He's a 7-footer who can shoot all the way out to the 3-point line … And he can blocks shots. That's a unicorn in this league." — Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) January [...]

Carmelo Anthony is working behind the scenes for the New York Knicks, whispering in the ears of the NBA’s highest-profile free agents. And he’s bringing snacks—specifically bread. No butter, no jam, no peanut butter. Nothing. Just breakable bread. With the New York Knicks getting set to play the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night, the [...]