NBA Free Agency

Marc Gasol and the New York Knicks’ dance around and toward each other continues. Actually, it’s not so much a two-party dance as it is one-sided stalking. One party (the Knicks) is obviously gunning for the other, while the targeted party (Gasol) tries to elude their grasp, at least for now, amid a heated NBA [...]

It’s shaping up to be an eventful offseason for the Cleveland Cavaliers. This, in a way, isn’t surprising. Active offseasons could include a championship parade, so that’s pretty cool. But active in the sense they have to worry about their roster, specifically their Big Three foundation, isn’t so cool. LeBron James can become a free [...]

Draymond Green isn’t going anywhere. Sometimes, as higher-profile players approach unrestricted and restricted free agency, people like to craft urgent narratives that prove or suggest those same higher-profiles players or going to leave. The same has been happening with Green and the Golden State Warriors. At season’s end, Green with hit restricted free agency, where [...]

Not so fast, NBA superstar vultures. Kevin Durant is off limits. Apparently. With Durant streaking toward free agency in 2016, former Portland Trail Blazers vice president Tom Penn, now an ESPN NBA analyst, threw out the idea that Oklahoma City Thunder general manager Sam Presti would deal his prized superstar rather than lose him for [...]

Um…. Er… Sure. Kevin Durant and trade don’t go together in the same breath or sentence or room or shared sides of the globe. Not unless you’re referencing his opinion on a different deal, one the Oklahoma City Thunder pulled off or otherwise. For example, one such headline might read, “Kevin Durant Thinks Thunder Trading [...]

Kobe Bryant and Mitch Kupchak are on the same page. It’s just not the page you think. All along it’s been assumed the Los Angeles Lakers would be rabid free-agency players this summer, trying to make the most of Kobe’s fast-fading twilight by throwing money every which way at players of note. While they’ll still [...]

It’s almost like Marc Gasol knows what he’s doing or something. With the NBA’s 2015 free-agency pool nearly bereft of poachable talent, Gasol has long been viewed as the summer’s top prize. You can’t see LaMarcus Aldridge leaving Portland, or Goran Dragic abandoning Miami, or even Kevin Love spitting in LeBron James’ face. You also [...]

Jimmy Butler has a list of two NBA teams he would be willing to sign with this summer. The New York Knicks are one of them. Ahem: [tweet https://twitter.com/AnthonyMSG/status/571333395638317056] Because he’s already on the Chicago Bulls, we’re going to assume they’re the second team on his wish list. And because we’re also smart people who [...]

Signing Ed Davis made sense for the Lakers last summer. Re-signing him this summer may not. The Lakers pulled off a small-scale free-agency coup last July when they signed Davis for under $1 million with a player option for 2015-16 worth just a little more. The 13th overall pick from the 2010 draft has never [...]

When Phil Jackson first arrived at Madison Square Garden to assume control of the Knicks, he did so preaching patience, process and transparency. Most of what Jackson said then has held true. Most importantly, he hasn’t been invisible, hiding behind a crazy-strict media policy. But he hasn’t been incredibly visible either. Or rather, chatty. He [...]