Long Term

More and more keeps trickling out about the most controversial off-season in quite some time in which a team that was coming off an NBA Finals appearance and a year removed from an NBA title, traded their 25-year-old star point guard and dealt with rumors all summer that the best player in the league would [...]

It doesn’t sound like Marcus Smart will sign an extension with the Boston Celtics before the regular-season deadline. It also doesn’t sound like he has any intention of leaving Beantown. From ESPN.com’s Chris Forsberg: While league sources indicate the Celtics are interested in an extension, Smart confirmed a Yahoo! Sports report Monday that suggested that neither he [...]

Andre Roberson is going to be one of this summer’s most fascinating restricted free agents. Unlike Otto Porter and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, he doesn’t have a defined max-contract value. He’s more Tim Hardaway and Tony Snell, only more so, because he’s elite in one area (defense). Will that be enough to land him near-max offer sheets [...]

Ty Lawson is not the player he was before leaving the Denver Nuggets. Far from it. There are nights when you see his quickness and evasiveness in its fullest forms, moments when you hearken back to his days as a fringe All-Star and, despite his diminutive frame, one of the most electric point guards in [...]

If you thought the New Orleans Pelicans were in danger of losing Anthony Davis’ allegiance, you can rest easy. Leading into the Pelican’s Wednesday night victory over the Los Angeles Clippers, head coach Alvin Gentry expressed his belief that Davis wants to remain in The Big Easy long term: [tweet https://twitter.com/JohnReid64/status/814252574140485632] So, like, this isn’t [...]

If Derrick Rose has his way, he’ll be a member of the New York Knicks for a long, long time. The 28-year-old point guard will be a free agent over the summer, and the Knicks have already kicked around the idea of signing him to an extension. No matter when his next contract comes, Rose [...]

The NBA’s extension deadline for fourth-year players came and passed on Halloween, ending without a new deal for many—including Otto Porter. But that doesn’t mean the Washington Wizards don’t want to keep him. They’ve made it clear that they do. As general manager Ernie Grunfeld said, per CSN Mid-Atlantic’s J. Michael: “We had conversations but [...]

Newly acquired Utah Jazz guard George Hill is happy with his new digs. So happy, in fact, he already doesn’t want to leave. Per Tony Jones of the Salt Lake Tribune: Hill has one year remaining on his contract, but Neff said he and his client hope to be in Utah beyond the 2016-17 season. [...]

August 16, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors For a guy that everyone is speculating might leave LA this summer to sign a long term deal with the largest bidder, he sure doesn’t act like it. Dwight Howard apparently just bought a $20M mansion in Los Angeles this week. And he paid for it with a [...]