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Jimmy Butler can still apparently be had from the Chicago Bulls. From Steve Bulpett of the Boston Herald: Sources tell us the C’s are still holding the line on their offers from prior to the draft. They will make trades if teams come around to their price. Jimmy Butler and Jahlil Okafor are said to [...]

Get ready: We have officially reached the “Dwyane Wade is thinking about leaving the Miami Heat to join forces with LeBron James on the Cleveland Cavaliers” portion of the NBA’s 2016 offseason. There’s this: [tweet https://twitter.com/LuxJetGroup/status/750152536842129409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] And then there’s this, from the Huffington Post’s Jordan Schultz: [tweet https://twitter.com/Schultz_Report/status/750307445004787712] It’s not tough to imagine James and [...]

Now that Kevin Durant is a member of the Golden State Warriors, it’s only a matter of time before the Oklahoma City Thunder cut their losses and trade Russell Westbrook. Or maybe not. As ESPN.com’s Royce Young explained: They still have Westbrook, though, at least for another year. He’s an unrestricted free agent next summer [...]

After the Golden State Warriors' free-agency pitch to Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry apparently sent a text message, the contents of which arguably changed the NBA forever. Here's The Undefeated's Marc J. Spears with the lowdown: Even so, Curry apparently felt it necessary to send Durant a message hours after the meeting Friday night to reassure [...]

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 [...]

First Derrick Rose, then Kevin Durant? That’s the plan, apparently. After trading for Derrick Rose from the Chicago Bulls, the New York Knicks have let it be known to their new point guard that free agent Kevin Durant is on their radar this summer, according to the New York Daily News‘s Frank Isola: But Phil [...]

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 [...]

This offseason is supposed to be Kevin Durant or bust for the Golden State Warriors. Either they poach him from the Oklahoma City Thunder, or they run it back with their current core by re-signing restricted free agents Harrison Barnes and Festus Ezeli, while retaining the expiring contracts of Andrew Bogut, Shaun Livingston and Andre [...]

Will Dwyane Wade be playing with any team other than the Miami Heat next season? No. He just likes to pretend that’s a possibility. From ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst: Dwyane Wade’s initial contract discussions with the Miami Heat have not produced a common ground between the parties, and he is preparing to field outside offers when [...]