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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 [...]

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 [...]

Who needs Kevin Durant when you can pursue…Ryan Anderson? With the Washington Wizards firmly out of the Durant free-agent sweepstakes, CSN Mid Atlantic’s J. Michael says they have turned their attentions to more realistic targets, including the New Orleans Pelicans’ Ryan Anderson: Now that Kevin Durant has dropped from the wish list for the Wizards [...]

This just in: The Houston Rockets are still the Houston Rockets. Translation: They still plan on chasing just about every superstar free agent under the sun. From ESPN.com’s Calvin Watkins: According to a source the Houston Rockets are looking at the following high-level free agents: Al Horford, Kevin Durant, Hassan Whiteside and Ryan Anderson. The [...]

The New York Knicks have an aggressive free-agent recruiter in Carmelo Anthony. Though the NBA’s open-market craze doesn’t officially begin until July 1, Anthony has already started courting Kevin Durant on behalf of New York. That’s the luxury of spending time together as members of Team USA’s basketball squad, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/747495034832850946] [...]

Brace yourselves: The inevitable has happened. Or maybe not. According to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, the Phoenix Suns would like to trade one of Eric Bledsoe and Brandon Knight before the start of the 2016-17 season: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/745983128464826372] Phoenix Suns head coach Earl Watson would beg to differ. As he said on SiriusXM NBA Radio: Never [...]

What is happening with the New York Knicks right now? Seriously, what? People pretend like they know, myself included. They don’t. I don’t. Team president Phil Jackson went from being obsessed with hiring Kurt Rambis, the triangle offense and this idea that the Knicks don’t need a high-end point guard to win, to giving the [...]

All you Kevin Love trade suitors just need to chill. The Cleveland Cavaliers aren’t trading him—or, for that matter, any other parts of their current core. Not according to general manager David Griffin, per Marc Stein of ESPN.com: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/747197674609319936] Never say never, David. Which you didn’t. Teams are always listening to trades. There are [...]

The trajectory of the entire NBA is about to flash before your eyes. Kind of. While appearing on ESPN’s The Jump with Rachel Nichols, Tracy McGrady said that the Chicago Bulls tried to trade for him in the 1997 draft, only to have their attempts thwarted by Michael Jordan. Here’s SI.com’s Kenny Ducey with the [...]