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The Dallas Mavericks don’t have enough ammo to pull off a blockbuster trade, and owner Mark Cuban knows it. Here are his sarcastic comments on Dallas’ trade-deadline activity from an appearance he made on The Musers of 1310 AM The Ticket, courtesy of Mavs Moneyball’s Tim Cato: “Yeah, we’re trying to be!” Cuban said. “We’re [...]

Michael Carter-Williams can rest easy. The Milwaukee Bucks aren’t trading him. Or so they say. Per Marc J. Spears of Yahoo Sports: Guard Michael Carter-Williams has been told by the Bucks that he would not be traded, a source said, but the Sixers told him the same thing. — Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) February 16, [...]

Stan Van Gundy isn’t just the coach and president of the Detroit Pistons. He’s a certified O.G. The Pistons absolutely fleeced the Orlando Magic in Tuesday’s Tobias Harris trade, relinquishing only Brandon Jennings and Ersan Ilyasova. Jennings is on an expiring contract and was good as gone from Detroit, and Ilyasova’s salary for next season [...]

Are you waiting for New York Knicks president Phil Jackson to make a season-saving blockbuster deal ahead of the NBA’s Feb. 18 trade deadline? Well, keep waiting. From the New York Post‘s Fred Kerber: The NBA trading deadline is Thursday at 3 p.m., and Knicks fans await a move to reverse the recent fortunes that [...]

Ryan Anderson is almost on the move. According to The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the New Orleans Pelicans, who have been all over the place with trade rumors, are working feverishly to offload Anderson, a free-agent-to-be, somewhere else: The New Orleans Pelicans are pushing hard to find a trade for forward Ryan Anderson, whom they expect [...]

Miami Heat president Pat Riley never ceases to amaze. You know he’s aggressive when it comes to free agency (see: The Big Three) and trades (see: overpaying for Goran Dragic), but don’t think for a minute you understand the extent of his ambition. Exhibit A, per Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald: An official who [...]

Are the Phoenix Suns content to keep the (presumably still) disgruntled Markieff Morris past the NBA’s Feb. 18 trade deadline? It sure seems that way. Shoot, maybe they’re hoping to keep him and don’t want to move him at all. I mean, their asking price, according to Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, implies as much: Multiple [...]

This is what the Los Angeles Lakers planning for the future feels like. There are no world-beating trade rumors, no wild scenarios in which the Lakers land a superstar while giving up little to no assets. They are a team on the mend, preparing for Kobe Bryant’s retirement, patiently waiting for their young foundation of [...]

Assets, smashets. The New York Knicks still want Jeff Teague. Indeed, assets matter in this case, and the Knicks have very few. But according to ESPN.com’s Ian Begley, Marc Stein and Brian Windhorst, that won’t stop them from trying to bait the Atlanta Hawks: Members of the New York Knicks’ front office ran into a [...]

Chris Bosh pulled out of the 2016 NBA All-Star Game with a strained calf, but the situation is apparently more serious. From the Associated Press’ Tim Reynolds: Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat is dealing with another blood-clot scare, making this the second consecutive year that he’s spent the All-Star break facing a most uncertain [...]