NBA Rumors

Draft season rumor-mill frenzy sequence, Take 1,268. The Los Angeles Lakers, owners of the No. 2 pick in Thursday’s NBA draft, are trying to poach DeMarcus Cousins from the Sacramento Kings. No, seriously. They are. From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: The Los Angeles Lakers have emerged as one of the most determined trade suitors for Sacramento [...]

Oh me, oh my: The Phoenix Suns are apparently at it again. After flipping two of the three heads on their three-headed point guard monster during the regular season—Goran Dragic and Isaiah Thomas—the Suns are now apparently willing to move Eric Bledsoe. Not only that, they’re being aggressive about it, targeting the New York Knicks’ [...]

Score this one as a win for general manager Sam Hinkie and the Philadelphia 76ers. Ironic, yes. They’ve spent the last two years actively evading wins. But this is different. Ohio State’s D’Angelo Russell is among the consensus top-three picks in this year’s NBA draft. Everything else about the selection extravaganza, which will take place [...]

LeBron James is no friend of the Miami Heat. Yes, he won two championships and a pair of MVP awards in South Beach. And sure, he made four consecutive Finals appearances and was on the brink of forging a dynasty in 2014. But he is still no friend of the Heat, at least outside of [...]

Kevin Love and LeBron James are both going to become free agents. No, Cleveland Cavaliers fans shouldn’t panic like crazy. And yes, we’re manipulating the concept of free agency here. Both players own player options for next season. Neither is expected to accept his. Love and LeBron will instead opt out and, in theory, be [...]

Oh look, it’s those pesky New York Knicks again. Ahead of and just after the NBA’s draft lottery, the idea of the Knicks trading their top pick—which ended up being No. 4—held some serious clout. Slowly, surely as the general public started to realize they wouldn’t land a superstar for that pick, the speculation dissipated. [...]

Jimmy Butler bet on himself earlier in October when he elected not to sign the contract extension the Chicago Bulls laid before him. Now he’s preparing to bet on himself again. That initial gamble paid off. The Bulls were slinging something like $10 million annually at the time, and Butler quickly established himself as a [...]

The Dallas Mavericks don’t get along with guards. At least that’s how it seems these days. They sent Rajon Rondo packing midway through their first-round playoff series with the Houston Rockets, and now they’re lower than low on Monta Ellis, who, relative to his time with the Golden State Warriors and Milwaukee Bucks, has played [...]

NBA free agency is less than a month away, so, naturally, it’s time to see what Jalen Rose, former player-turned-ESPN-analyst, thinks is going to happen. While recording Grantland’s Jalen and Jacoby podcast (h/t Blazers Edge), Rose predicted that the New York Knicks will sign two of Tobias Harris, Paul Millsap and Greg Monroe. You can [...]

The Boston Celtics like Kevin Love as a friend. Do they love him? Eh. Last summer, the Celtics were one of the teams most frequently mentioned in the same breath as Love. He wanted out of Minnesota, and Celtics president Danny Ainge had assets to sling. None of those assets ultimately caught the attention of [...]