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The Toronto Raptors will not let the NBA’s Feb. 18 trade deadline pass without a fight. An aggressive fight. According to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein and Brian Windhorst, the Raptors are still actively seeking an upgrade at power forward: The Raptors are chasing a power forward this week. Sources say Brooklyn’s Thaddeus Young, New Orleans’ Ryan [...]

The Denver Nuggets have a frontcourt logjam and they know it. Rookie Nikola Jokic’s breakout, along with Joffrey Lauvergne’s continued development and Danilo Gallinari’s need to see spot minutes at the 4, has put the team in a bit of a (pleasant) pickle. Throw in Jusuf Nurkic, Kenneth Faried and J.J. Hickson, and it becomes [...]

Are the Houston Rockets actively shopping Dwight Howard? And if so, will they actually move him? We honestly have no idea. Conflicting reports abound. But if the Rockets do move him, Howard apparently has a preference. As ESPN.com’s Chris Broussard said while making an appearance on Mike & Mike (h/t HoopsHype): “I’m told he would [...]

Hopefully you’re not yet sick and tired of Blake Griffin rumors. Because we have another one. Everything we’ve heard since the initial shock of Griffin fracturing his right hand as the result of punching the Los Angeles Clippers’ assistant equipment manager has been relatively similar: The Clippers are not going to trade him ahead of [...]

Any leverage the New Orleans Pelicans had in Ryan Anderson trade talks is officially gone. Leverage was nearly nonexistent to begin with. Anderson will be a free agent at the end of this season and, thus, is a potential flight risk—something teams must consider before opening their asset stable in negotiations. But suitors do have [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves are apparently prepared to move on from Ricky Rubio. According to Frank Isola of the New York Daily News, the Timberwolves are not only willing to take calls on their point guard but have made him “readily available” for the taking (h/t ProBasketballTalk): Zach LaVine was nothing short of spectacular in winning [...]

Marc Gasol, in all likelihood, has played his last game this season. Word came down on Wednesday that the 31-year-old big man suffered a broken right foot and would be sidelined indefinitely. Here’s more from ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol will be sidelined indefinitely with a broken right foot, the team said [...]

Add the Milwaukee Bucks to the list of NBA teams who most likely won’t be making a move prior to the February 18 trade deadline. Here’s Kidd on the Association’s player-swap cutoff, per Charles F. Gardner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Kidd on trade deadline: "I don't know if we have any action going on, [...]

If you thought the Atlanta Hawks were going to just give Al Horford and Jeff Teague away, think again. From CSN New England: Chris Mannix believes Horford would be a perfect fit with the Celtics, but the price tag might be standing in the way. “From everything I’ve been told in the last two or [...]

Dwight Howard is available for trade. Maybe. We think. We’re not really sure. The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Thursday that the Houston Rockets were acquiescing to a request/demand/general wonderment by Howard’s agents and dangling him in trades around the league. Both Howard and his agent denied such a request exists, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, [...]