Recruit

There could be a new trend starting with blue-chip recruits coming out of high school: opting to forego college in order to go straight to the G-League. Darius Bazley, the No. 9 recruit in the 2018 class, has decided to decommit from Syracuse and enter the NBA’s G-League, where he is allowed to play directly [...]

The race for LeBron James’ affections is getting heated. Not to mention overrun with billboards. First a Philadelphia-based company put up billboards in Ohio recruiting the four-time MVP on behalf of the 76ers. Now, a Lakers fan has done the same in Los Angeles, per ESPN.com’s Ohm Youngmisuk: Jacob Emrani, a personal injury attorney and [...]

The NBA’s All-Star Weekend is known for many things—food, parties, fashion statements, great memes, awesome gifs, even a little basketball. It’s also a hotbed for tampering. How could it not be? Put that many agents, team executives and league officials in the same vicinity, and some risque discussions are bound to take place. All-Star participants, [...]

DeMarcus Cousins is slated for free agency next summer, and no one has a great pulse on whether he’ll leave the New Orleans Pelicans, to whom he was traded last February. But this uncertainty hasn’t stopped him from acting as the team’s chief recruiter. As relayed by Will Guillory of NOLA.com, Cousin is apparently reaching out [...]

Unlike the 2017 NBA Draft Class, the 2018 prospective crop of top draft prospects class already figures to be very deep in front court players, with top one-and-done players such as Michael Porter Jr., DeAndre Ayton and Mohamed Bamba to name a few. That crop could get even deeper with the possibility of the best [...]

Paul George is the Los Angeles Lakers’ best free-agent recruiter. And he’s not even a Laker. While appearing on 95.7 The Game, NBC Sports Bay Area analyst and former NBA player Kelenna Azubuike said George has “definitely” started recruiting Klay Thompson on behalf of the team he doesn’t yet play for: [tweet https://twitter.com/957thegame/status/879721276742316032] I mean, [...]

Draymond Green didn’t wait long after Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals to begin recruiting Kevin Durant on behalf of the Golden State Warriors. In fact, he may not have even crossed the 90-minute mark of patience. ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe published a fascinating piece on how Green and the Warriors felt after he was suspended [...]

Soon-to-be NBA free agents get recruited by other players from other teams well in advance of the offseason. This is one of the Association’s worst-kept secrets. So if you’re dealing with a free agent worth a damn, you better believe they’re hearing from rival players. Unless, apparently, they’re Blake Griffin. He told HoopsHype’s Alex Kennedy [...]

Blake Griffin will be a free agent this summer if he, as expected, terminates the final year of his contract. He was born in Oklahoma City. He attended the University of Oklahoma. His Los Angeles Clippers are playing the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday. You know where this is going. Asked about his connection to [...]

Now that Kevin Garnett has retired, he’ll have to find something else to do keep himself occupied. Cavs head coach Tyronn Lue thinks he has just the thing. Lue is actively trying to recuit KG to be a part of the Cavs coaching staff. Even though he’s 40, Garnett has a young soul and would [...]