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The Phoenix Suns seem to have finally gotten the message that having too many combo guards is not a good thing. According to reports from various NBA writers and the Arizona Republic, the Suns have been aggressively trying to move Eric Bledsoe and Brandon Knight in advance of Thursday’s NBA Draft. They have reportedly offered [...]

It sounds like Luke Walton is already over the Golden State Warriors’ NBA Finals implosion against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Having your dream job lined up can have that effect. The Los Angeles Lakers officially introduced Walton, who spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach with the Warriors, as their next head honcho. And [...]

The Boston Celtics are trying to turn their No. 3 draft pick into a star-caliber player. It is not going well. From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: But sources told ESPN that the Celtics, to date, have been rebuffed in their efforts to assemble a sufficiently enticing deal to acquire any of these four prime targets: Chicago [...]

Dwight Howard is now a free agent. As expected, the big man opted out of the last year of his deal with the Houston Rockets, according to The Vertical’s Shams Charania: [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/745374808385462272] The big man was slated to earn around $23.3 million next season, a salary no other team is likely to match now [...]

Kevin Love is an NBA champion. But that doesn’t mean his future with the Cleveland Cavaliers is suddenly safe. Per the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney: But the fact that Love’s name comes up is a testament to the number of teams that recognize he could be his old All-Star self if he did not have [...]

Well, this didn’t take long. The Cleveland Cavaliers’ championship champagne buzz hasn’t even fully worn off, and already we’re discussing the possibility of LeBron James leaving The Land for…the Los Angeles Lakers. Correction, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith is talking about James wearing purple and gold: [tweet https://twitter.com/FirstTake/status/744915453559078912] Stephen A. then doubled down on his take, [...]

Losing Game 7 of the NBA Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers has not bilked the Golden State Warriors of their confidence. Or rather, it hasn’t stamped out Klay Thompson’s confidence. From CBS Sports’ James Herbert: Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson started his end-of-season media session on Monday by saying that he barely slept the [...]

They say that the postseason is a completely different world than the regular season and no team learned that lesson more than the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors. A team that went an incredible, record-breaking 73-9 in the 2015-16 regular season finished 15-9 in the 2016 NBA Playoffs and were one minute away from a history [...]

Last night was the culmination of one of the most memorable and historically substantial NBA Finals series we have ever seen as the two best players in the world dueled one last time in a winner-take-all Game 7 for the right to be called champion. The Warriors would either lay claim to the greatest season [...]

During a summer in which the NBA’s available-player market is barren of high-end guards, restricted free agent Jordan Clarkson has some serious curb appeal. Just don’t bank on him leaving the Los Angeles Lakers. As he told NBCLosAngeles.com’s Shahan Ahmed: “LA is like home for me, so I definitely want to be here,” Los Angeles [...]