Robin Lopez

According to Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports, the Chicago Bulls will not negotiate a buyout with Robin Lopez despite the player’s representatives engaging the front office about an exit strategy since December. The Bulls are exploring trade options for Lopez’s expiring $14.4-million contract, as opposed to losing the 7-footer for nothing. Haynes reports that Lopez [...]

Robin Lopez and Justin Holiday have to play. The Chicago Bulls have been warned. Literally. As first reported by Yahoo Sports’ Shams Charania, the NBA cautioned the Bulls against resting healthy plays, such as Lopez and Holiday, as part of its crackdown on flagrant tank jobs: After the NBA issued a warning to the Chicago [...]

Robin Lopez is an 84-inch kid. Both Lopez brothers are. Robin and Brook Lopez are noted fans of comic books, superheroes, Disney World and all that fun stuff. But they’re especially partial to Disney World. Brook in particular has been photographed vacationing there, and articles have been written about his interest in the happiest place [...]

In the last decade or so, the league has taken measures to punish players severely for things that haven’t always seemed as serious. The punishment doesn’t always fit the crime. That’s why it’s somewhat strange to learn that Robin Lopez and Serge Ibaka were only suspended one game for their altercation Tuesday evening. Their dust [...]

Serge Ibaka and Robin Lopez got into it during the Toronto Raptors’ Tuesday night overtime victory against the Chicago Bulls. The scene was so contentious, suspensions have to be coming. And Robin Lopez knows it, per the Chicago Tribune‘s K.C. Johnson: [tweet https://twitter.com/KCJHoop/status/844375305892646913] Jimmy Butler, who charged into the initial scrum but then took a step back, [...]

In case you were wondering whether NBA players would take their role in choosing All-Stars seriously, Robin Lopez has given us an answer. From the Chicago Tribune‘s K.C. Johnson: [tweet https://twitter.com/KCJHoop/status/821807969486643200] Welp. We’re going to assume Lopez is kidding. Actually, on second thought, he probably isn’t. This seems to track with his jovial, if quirky, personality. [...]

Members of the New York Knicks are beginning to trust, or perhaps express more trust, in, well the New York Knicks. Both the players and head coach Derek Fisher waxed optimism following the Knicks’ 107-101 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday night, the team’s second in as many games, both of which have come [...]

Depending on the day and the source, the New York Knicks either spurned Greg Monroe in free agency or were burned by him. On this day, the latter seems more accurate. Greg Monroe was thought to be one of the Knicks’ top targets over the summer. Many went as far as putting him in a [...]

Carmelo Anthony clearly doesn’t see a repeat of the 17-win dumpster fire that the New York Knicks called a 2014-15 season. Nor does he see only marked improvement. Considering his reaction to record projections floating around the social-media sphere, he expects the Knicks to be so, so, so, so much better than they were last [...]

Carmelo Anthony believes in the New York Knicks. Do you? Doesn’t matter if you do, truthfully. It won’t be to the extent that he apparently believes in them. Speaking with reporters, New York’s lone superstar, the one who, per various offseason reports, doubted their immediate direction at some point or another, refused to buy into [...]