NBA Rumors

Thompson’s months-long standoff with the Cleveland Cavaliers is truly shocking. Want to know why? Because of LeBron James. It’s not that Thompson is so valuable the Cavaliers should have bent to his max-contract demands already. It’s not that Cleveland is playing hard ball, when it’s not as if it can take the money allocated for [...]

Tristan Thompson and the Cleveland Cavaliers are still at an impasse. Various reports had the two sides hammering out an agreement, or a would-definitely-be agreement, at the start of free agency. No big deal. Thompson’s restricted free agency has always been considered something of a formality. He was never expected to test the market, and [...]

The Golden State Warriors are prepared to make fourth-year forward Harrison Barnes a very rich man. And if Barnes is smart—read: privy to the salary-cap situation—he’ll hold out until they’re prepared to make him richer than very rich. With Barnes entering the fourth year of his career, the Warriors have until October 31 to reach [...]

DeAndre Jordan used Snapchat to get the ball rolling on his return to the Los Angeles Clippers, because of course he freaking did. Talking to Sports Illustrated‘s Justin Barraso, Doc Rivers proved to be chock full of interesting anecdotes. One such story included DJ snapchatting Rivers’ son—not Austin, but Spencer—after agreeing to sign with the [...]

Metta World Peace and Kobe Bryant are together again. Almost. According to Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, the 35-year-old MWP, who hasn’t played in the NBA since 2013-14, looks to be nearing a return to the Los Angeles Lakers: Yahoo Sources: Metta World Peace has begun to work out daily at Lakers’ facility, inching closer to [...]

LeBron James doesn’t give two flying brown-colored bowel movements that NBA training camps aren’t quite ready to open. His Cleveland Cavaliers are getting work in now. Or soon. According to Northeast Ohio Media Group’s Chris Haynes, LeBron isn’t quite over Cleveland’s loss to the Golden State Warriors in last June’s NBA Finals and has “summoned” [...]

So much for Carmelo Anthony not being committed, or particularly keen on, the New York Knicks’ future. Perhaps he’s still not feeling great and struggling to sustain an optimistic slant in the face of an extensive rebuild that became all too real as soon as the Knicks drafted long-term project Kristaps Porzingis. But, at the [...]

Ready for some good news? Yeah you are. I’ll be leaving for vacation soon, probably, I think. Oh, and there’s a growing sense on some level within the NBA that there won’t be another lockout in 2017, when both the owners and players have the opportunity to opt-out of the current deal that expires in [...]

DeAndre Jordan is changing his mind again. No, he’s not trying to renege on his deal with the Los Angeles Clippers. But he is leaving his agents at Relativity Sports following a controversial free-agency process in which he almost spurned the Clippers for the Dallas Mavericks. Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times first broke [...]

For someone who’s battled myriad injuries and, as of now, doesn’t rank in the top half of his position pool, Ricky Rubio ambles his way into the NBA’s rumor mill quite often. While responding Bleacher Report’s Ric Bucher buying that the Minnesota Timberwolves would move, or at least shop, Rubio this coming season, ESPN 1500’s [...]