NBA Trade Rumors

Some thought the San Antonio Spurs would struggle to round out their bench after signing LaMarcus Aldridge. Those people are now bearing witness to the entire Spurs contingent taking a dump on their front lawn. The Spurs, against all logic, were able to retain Danny Green, Boris Diaw, Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili even after [...]

The Phoenix Suns are seriously serious about seriously trading Eric Bledsoe. Rumblings gained some traction ahead of the draft, the belief being that Phoenix was looking to move up. But with the team preparing to offer restricted free agent Brandon Knight a fat contract, Bledsoe isn’t yet considered safe. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein (h/t ProBasketballTalk: [...]

Sometimes the NBA is quiet ahead of its yearly draft. This is not one of those times. The Charlotte Hornets are making moves. Yes, plural. First, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports reported that the Hornets acquired Nicolas Batum from the Portland Trail Blazers. Here are the details on that one: Portland is finalizing a trade [...]

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, but Sacramento Kings head coach George Karl is begging you to disregard the effusive exhaust emanating from his slacks. Things have reportedly soured between DeMarcus Cousins and the Kings, at least in the sense that Karl apparently doesn’t want him and would prefer to trade him. On Tuesday, though, Karl [...]

Remember when the Denver Nuggets weren’t a rumor-mill dumpster fire? Things were simpler then. Now, not so much. The Nuggets have been riddled by rumors since they let George Karl go following a 57-win campaign in 2012-13. And while they showed some improvement under interim head coach Melvin Hunt to close out 2014-15, their status [...]

Joe Johnson and Jarrett Jack are not untouchable. Go figure. Trade rumors are an occupational hazard in the NBA. For the Nets specifically, they’re a daily occurrence, one that recycles the same old desires day after day after day. They have too much money invested in a mediocre roster and need to part with talent [...]

Ping pong gods are no fan of the New York Knicks. Phil Jackson and company had so much riding on Tuesday’s night’s lottery. They entered with the second-best chance (19.9 percent) at winning the No. 1 overall pick, and they desperately needed a top-three finish to nab one of the immediate fortunes-turning prospects, be it [...]

This feels weird. Never in my (somewhat short) career writing about basketball have I come across this many San Antonio Spurs rumors on an almost daily basis. It’s unsettling, and weird, and mind-melting, and clearly indicative how their current core, in its present state, is nearing its end. Keeping with that theme, we now know [...]

In the pantheon of surprise rumors, the Denver Nuggets being open to trading Ty Lawson ranks somewhere between “Oh” and “Yeah, we know.” Related: The Denver Nuggets are willing to trade Ty Lawson. On the heels of a since-deleted Instagram post that included Lawson waxing a desire to play for the Dallas Mavericks—or at least [...]

Sit down, because this might come as a shock: The Boston Celtics are in the market for good basketball players. I know, right? It’s so crazy, it almost makes sense. On the heels of the their first-round exit against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Celtics are thinking big. They made the playoffs in just the second [...]