Roughly one year after installing general manager Sean Marks and head coach Kenny Atkinson and committing to an extensive rebuild, Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov is looking to sell a 49 percent stake in the team, per the Associated Press (via ESPN): Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov has told Russian media he’s selling a 49 [...]
April 21, 2017
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Take a deep breath, New York Knicks fans. Kristaps Porzingis doesn’t want to leave. And if he does, he only wants to play for the Brooklyn Nets, so you won’t entirely lose him. As the 7’3″ skyscraper told the New York Post‘s Marc Berman: Kristaps Porzingis will leave for Latvia on Thursday without meeting with Phil [...]
April 20, 2017
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One second, Mike D’Antoni is out of head-coaching work in the NBA, the stench of his failed tenures with the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers persisting, even after the Golden State Warriors won a championship, in 2015, playing a style similar to what he championed. The next second, D’Antoni is guiding the Houston [...]
April 20, 2017
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After firing general manager Rob Hennigan at the end of the regular season, the Orlando Magic have a gaping hole in their front office — causing a problem with the draft and free agency on the horizon. Matt Lloyd has taken the reins in the interim, but the team has reportedly started kicking around a bunch [...]
April 19, 2017
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It feels like Ray Allen retired too soon in many ways. His final season, in 2013-14 with the Miami Heat, saw him play more than 26 minutes per game and drain 37.5 percent of his threes. When LeBron James left for the Cleveland Cavaliers, it seemed like only a matter of time before Allen followed [...]
April 19, 2017
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The Los Angeles Clippers, it would seem, are reaching a natural pivot point this summer. Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and J.J. Redick are all free agents. Throw in Luc Mbah a Moute, and four of their five starting-lineup members are ready to reach the open market. If they were going to move away from this [...]
April 19, 2017
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Carmelo Anthony doesn’t sound like someone who plans on being with the New York Knicks much longer. The All-Star forward, who owns a no-trade clause, admitted on Thursday the team “might” trade him, and he also expressed that it became difficult to trust Phil Jackson after all the extracurricular storylines that plagued him through the [...]
April 17, 2017
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Imagine, for a second, the Golden State Warriors lose in the NBA Finals. Might Kevin Durant, who owns a player option for next season, want to leave? Eh, no. The expectation has always been that he’ll return to Golden State no matter what. That hasn’t changed. He said so himself during the Warriors Plus/Minus podcast [...]
April 17, 2017
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After all the New York Knicks have been through, Carmelo Anthony probably wants to leave. Derrick Rose doesn’t. He reiterated as much while speaking with The Undefeated’s Lonnae O’Neal: “I would love to stay here,” Rose said of New York. “I love my teammates, I love the coaches, I love the front office. But this will [...]
April 13, 2017
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We have talked a lot about Manu Ginobili in this space over the last year. Stances on whether he’ll retire have changed, not daily, but they’ve moved. The latest: He’s undecided about whether he’ll return to the San Antonio Spurs in 2017-18. Per the San Antonio Express-News’ Jeff McDonald: It is a sentence no true Spurs fan [...]
April 13, 2017
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