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With the Cleveland Cavaliers rampaging through the playoffs, it’s easy to forget that the Boston Celtics wrapped the regular season with the better record. It is them, not the Cavaliers, who will have home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference Finals, which tip off on Wednesday. And yet, the Celtics aren’t operating under any delusions. They [...]

Cleveland Cavaliers general manager David Griffin continues to operate without a contract extension, which is weird. The Cavaliers won a title last season, and he’s responsible for many of the savviest post-LeBron James moves this franchise has made, despite its glaring lack of flexibility. The Orlando Magic, who remain in the hunt for a successor [...]

Would Mike Brown be an assistant coach-turned-interim-head coach with the Golden State Warriors without Gregg Popovich? The short answer: Nope. Here’s Anthony Slater of the Bay Area New Group with the extended explanation: A year ago around this time, Steve Kerr was in the market for a new lead assistant and Mike Brown was a target. But [...]

Apparently, as it pertains to the Boston Celtics, there is such a thing as having too much talent. Though the team is considered to be in an enviable situation, with cap space, a deep roster and a top-three pick on the way, agents of certain NBA draft prospects aren’t as high on the asset stable [...]

New York Knicks president Phil Jackson is really good at his job—provided his job is to destroy the market value of his best assets. We’re referring, of course, to Jackson’s handling of the Carmelo Anthony situation. He bombed his approach to trying to move him during the regular season, and things didn’t get much better [...]

Why, yes, the relationship between Mike D’Antoni and Carmelo Anthony during their brief time together with the New York Knicks really was that bad. So bad, D’Antoni quit. And he clearly, and finally, admitted as much to ESPN The Magazine‘s Tim Keown: In New York in 2012, after Anthony said the team needed to choose between him [...]

A season-ending Achilles injury won’t prevent Rudy Gay from opting out of his contract and joining the NBA’s free-agency ranks this summer. From the Sacramento Bee‘s Jason Jones: Forward Rudy Gay has informed the Kings he still plans to opt out of the final year of his contract and become an unrestricted free agent this summer, [...]

So much for Kyle Lowry’s return to the Toronto Raptors being a formality. The 31-year-old confirmed on Monday, a mere 24 hours after his team was eliminated from the playoffs by the Cleveland Cavaliers, that he would be opting out of his contract this summer: [tweet https://twitter.com/Eric__Smith/status/861614966180372481] We knew this was coming, so it’s not [...]

Kristaps Porzingis cannot hit restricted free agency until 2019, and with the advantages incumbent teams hold in those situations, it’s likely he won’t actually be a free agent until sometime around 2023 or 2024. But that didn’t stop Damian Lillard from rolling out the recruiting carpet on behalf of the Portland Trail Blazers during a [...]

If the New York Knicks do, in fact, trade Carmelo Anthony before next season begins, it won’t be to the Miami Heat. Mostly because the Heat have no interest in entering the Melo sweepstakes that aren’t, per Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald: One person in touch with the Heat said he does not expect a Heat [...]