Brandon Jennings and Rajon Rondo will not be joining the Detroit Pistons. Apparently. Team president Joe Dumars denied that the Pistons were engaged in trade talks with the Milwaukee Bucks for Jennings, a restricted free agent, and the Boston Celtics for Rondo, who is still recovering from an ACL injury. “Bogus, bogus. No conversations.” Dumars [...]
July 17, 2013
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Carmelo Anthony is right. And he’s wrong. All at once. According to Marc Berman of the New York Post, ‘Melo wanted the Knicks to trade for Rajon Rondo after the Boston Celtics dealt future Hall of Famers Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce: Anthony told friends after the Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce trade to the [...]
July 10, 2013
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Long live the Dwightmare. Dwight Howard still hasn’t made a decision as to which team he will be joining next season. Yet. But he will. And it’s expected to come relatively soon, by Howard’s standards anyway. The Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets, Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks and Atlanta Hawks remain his top suitors. Houston [...]
The Detroit Pistons have a plan. Flush with cap space and a few expiring contracts, Detroit is thinking big. Really big. Monstrous even. According to Alex Kennedy of Hoopsworld, the Pistons have explored trading for both Rudy Gay and Rajon Rondo. Kennedy goes on to note that it’s unclear whether the Boston Celtics are interested [...]
Because the Houston Rockets can never have enough superstars, right? Daryl Morey and company’s two-year long pursuit of Dwight Howard is well known and has been well documented. The Rockets want him. Badly. Even after retooling their roster with Omer Asik, who turned into a double-double machine, they want Dwight. And we’re not about to [...]
The Boston Celtics have bigger problems than coming to grips with the departures of Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. Like the future of Rajon Rondo. With Garnett and Pierce moving on to the Brooklyn Nets, the Celtics have instantly become Rondo’s team. To be honest, this is the moment Boston was waiting for. Every year [...]
Welp. The New York Knicks completed a deal to land former No. 1 overall pick Andrea Bargnani from the Toronto Raptors on Sunday night. Howard Beck of the New York Times was the first to report the initial deal. UPDATE: Knicks and Raptors have agreed to deal to send Bargnani to New York. Awaiting league [...]
Something’s fishy in Portland. According to Mike McGraw of the Daily Herald, LaMarcus Aldridge wants to be traded from the Portland Trail Blazers and he would like to land with the Chicago Bulls: Word is, Aldridge wants to escape from Portland’s rebuilding project and has made it known that he’d like to land in Chicago. [...]
June 27, 2013
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Kevin Garnett can’t become a member the Los Angeles Clippers, but maybe he can join the Brooklyn Nets. According to Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News, Nets general manager Billy King made a call to the Boston Celtics to inquire about Garnett’s desire to play in Brooklyn: Multiple sources told the Daily News [...]
June 26, 2013
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Chris Paul was never going to join Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks. Never, ever. Now that Doc Rivers has joined the Los Angeles Clippers, we can finally accept that. The Boston Celtics agreed to part ways with their long-time head coach in exchange for an unprotected first-round draft pick from the Clippers in [...]
June 24, 2013
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