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Dwight Howard isn’t the Los Angeles Lakers’ only problem. The Dwightmare Part II has kept the Lakers busy, distracting them from plenty of other issues, one of which is the relationship between head coach Mike D’Antoni and Pau Gasol. Speaking with David Alarcón of the Spanish basketball website basket4us.com, Pau said that D’Antoni wasn’t the [...]

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 [...]

J.R. Smith now has more than 24 million reasons to smile. The New York Knicks re-signed two key cogs in their close-to-a-championship machine, in Smith and Pablo Prigioni. According to Marc Berman of the New York Post, Smith’s deal is worth a reported $24.7 million over the next four years. The fourth year, per Howard [...]

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 [...]

Turns out the Brooklyn Nets don’t always get who they want. After striking a deal that landed them Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Jason Terry to pair alongside Brook Lopez, Joe Johnson and Deron Williams, the Nets were the presumed favorites to land sharp-shooter Kyle Korver. Once anonymous general manager even went as far as [...]

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 [...]

Currently the Los Angeles Lakers are hoping Dwight Howard wants to play Kobe Bryant for the foreseeable future. Pushing 35 and rehabbing a ruptured Achilles, the Black Mamba isn’t the ideal superstar partner any more. When healthy, he’s a top-10 superstar, even a half-decade removed from 30. There’s just no telling how healthy he’ll be [...]

The Boston Celtics made a play for Dwight Howard. Well, not really. They made an inquiry. An obligatory one. According to Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe, general manager Danny Ainge placed a call to Howard’s reps after free agency began to gauge his interest in joining the Celtics through a sign-and-trade. He was told [...]

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 [...]