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Kristaps Porzingis on Knicks: This is ‘Where I Want to Stay,’ and ‘This is Where I Want to Win’

Kristaps Porzingis on Knicks: This is ‘Where I Want to Stay,’ and ‘This is Where I Want to Win’

The New York Knicks needn’t worry about Kristaps Porzingis trying to find the nearest exit. Not at the moment anyway. Speaking at a basketball camp in Latvia, the 7’3″ skyscraper made it clear that The Big Apple is where he wishes to stay, per the New York Post‘s Marc Berman: Last weekend at a basketball camp [...]

July 25, 2017 admin Blogs 0

Dwane Casey Says Toronto Raptors Will Give DeMar DeRozan More Time at Point Guard Next Season

Dwane Casey Says Toronto Raptors Will Give DeMar DeRozan More Time at Point Guard Next Season

Watch out, Kyle Lowry. DeMar DeRozan is coming for your job. Not really, of course. But the Toronto Raptors do have plans to slot DeRozan at point guard more in 2017-18. As head coach Dwane Casey told The Andrew Walker Show on Sportsnet 590 The FAN (via Sportsnet) “We got to have a better mentality of [...]

July 21, 2017 admin Blogs 0

Chicago Billboard Calls for GM Gar Foreman’s Firing

Chicago Billboard Calls for GM Gar Foreman’s Firing

Not long ago seen as a championship contenders and one of the best run franchises in the NBA, the Chicago Bulls have fallen on hard times and a series of questionable personnel decisions have led to a lot of angst among fans. That anger has reached a new level apparently, as a new #FireGarPax (referring [...]

July 20, 2017 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Casualties of NBA Free Agency 2017

Casualties of NBA Free Agency 2017

We are about three weeks into free agency and almost all big names are off the board and only one real big trade piece (that everyone is aware of) in Carmelo Anthony is still on the market. That got me thinking about the casualties of the 2017 free agency period from a player perspective and [...]

July 20, 2017 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Rival Executives Believe Boston Celtics will ‘Make a Strong Run’ at Anthony Davis Trade

Rival Executives Believe Boston Celtics will ‘Make a Strong Run’ at Anthony Davis Trade

As of now, right this moment, Anthony Davis ranks among the most untouchable players in the NBA. The Boston Celtics don’t care. People around the league believe the Celtics will be blowing up the New Orleans Pelicans’ phones if the Davis-DeMarcus Cousins pairing goes south in any way this season, according to The Vertical’s Chris [...]

July 19, 2017 admin Blogs 0

Portland Trail Blazers Hope to Enter Carmelo Anthony Trade Sweepstakes

Portland Trail Blazers Hope to Enter Carmelo Anthony Trade Sweepstakes

Is there a team other than the Cleveland Cavaliers or Houston Rockets that can convince Carmelo Anthony to waive his no-trade clause? The New York Knicks sure hope so. And the Portland Trail Blazers are thinking it could be them. From ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski: One team that New York and Houston had hoped would facilitate [...]

July 17, 2017 admin Blogs 0

Miami Heat Have ‘Zero Indication’ LeBron James Would Be Interested in Returning as Free Agent

Miami Heat Have ‘Zero Indication’ LeBron James Would Be Interested in Returning as Free Agent

Now that the race for LeBron James’ affections is once again on the come-up, it’s only right we wonder whether he’d consider returning to the Miami Heat. I mean, he left Cleveland for Miami only to rejoin the Cavaliers four years later. By that math, he’s due for a Heatles reunion in 2018 when he [...]

July 17, 2017 admin Blogs 0

Toronto Raptors Have Been Trying to Trade Jonas Valanciunas for Quite a While

Toronto Raptors Have Been Trying to Trade Jonas Valanciunas for Quite a While

Jonas Valanciunas has three years and $49.6 million left on his current contract, and the Toronto Raptors really don’t want to be the team bankrolling it anymore. According the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney, the Raptors have tried relentlessly, and unsuccessfully, to trade Valanciunas since February as they seek to reinvent their identity: Toronto has sought [...]

July 17, 2017 admin Blogs 0

Grouping the NBA Teams in Tiers for 2017-18 Season

Grouping the NBA Teams in Tiers for 2017-18 Season

We have arrived at mid-July in the 2017 NBA off-season and with all of the big names off of the free agency board and only one real star caliber player on the trade market (or not apparently? Who knows), it is a good time to analyze the state of affairs of all 30 NBA teams [...]

July 17, 2017 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

2017-18 NBA Season to Start on October 17

2017-18 NBA Season to Start on October 17

The start of the NBA season has traditionally coincided with Halloween or the last few days of October, but has slowly been creeping up in recent years as the NBA tries to limit taxing back-to-back games or four games in five nights stretches for NBA teams. They took a big step forward to that end [...]

July 14, 2017 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0