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The Lakers have officially added two new players to the roster. Brandon Ingram, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2016 Draft and Yi Jianlian, who last played in the NBA in 2012. [tweet https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/767864822213988353] [tweet https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/768133348543782912] Terms of the deal were not released as per team policy, but nearly every team signs first-round picks [...]

Kyrie Irving and Dion Waiters were supposed to be the backcourt of the future when they were together in Cleveland. Kyrie always lived up to his end of the bargain, but that wasn’t always the case for Waiters. He was eventually shipped to OKC not longer after LeBron came back to town. In OKC, he [...]

The New York Knicks were almost the Chicago Bulls: epically imbalanced. Chicago has achieved such status by throwing Jimmy Butler, Rajon Rondo and Dwyane Wade, three high-profile ball dominators, on the same roster. But New York, apparently, almost did the same—or so says Carmelo Anthony, per the New York Daily News‘ Frank Isola: [tweet https://twitter.com/FisolaNYDN/status/755894693691396096] [...]

Trade Russell Westbrook? Just because Kevin Durant up and left for the Golden State Warriors? Puh-lease. The Oklahoma City Thunder have bigger plans, as evidenced by their decision to rescind Dion Waiters’ qualifying offer. They want to renegotiate Westbrook’s now, ahead of 2017 free agency, locking him up long term so that they don’t have [...]

Did Manu Ginobili almost sign with the Philadelphia 76ers? Probably not. Did the Sixers essentially force the Spurs to pay Ginobili $14 million next season by making a lucrative pitch to him in free agency? Probably. That’s the lowdown, according to The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski: Sources tell me the reason the Spurs had to go [...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder want Al Horford…in addition to Kevin Durant. I bet you thought they were done trying to make a splash. The Serge Ibaka trade caught a bunch of us off-guard. It was enough of a surprise to last the Thunder all summer. They would try to re-sign Durant and that would be [...]

How does Kevin Durant feel about taking a pay cut? That’s apparently an important question for the Los Angeles Clippers, who, according to Dan Woike of the Orange Country Register, will try to sell Durant on joining Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan and Chris Paul in Hollywood: The Clippers are scheduled to meet with free-agency’s top [...]

Re-signing Mike Conley isn’t enough for the Memphis Grizzlies. They apparently want to steal Chandler Parsons away from the Dallas Mavericks, too. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/748497638060761088] In this new, wild and wacky salary-cap climate, Parsons will command max money. His knee problems could drive his value down a bit, but he should at [...]

The New York Knicks have eyes for Atlanta Hawks free-agent Kent Bazemore. This is a good thing. Unless you actually expect them to pay him. In which case it’s a bad thing. From the New York Post‘s Marc Berman: Bazemore is high on the Knicks’ list for a shooting guard, but they know resources aren’t [...]

Los Angeles Lakers vice president and part-owner Jim Buss apparently believed his team would land Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony and Russell Westbrook, in addition to re-signing Dwight Howard. He also probably though Jesus Christ himself would take a pay cut to play in Hollywood. Only one of these things isn’t true, according to Bleacher Report’s [...]