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Chicago Bulls vice president John Paxson and general manager Gar Forman are proof that you can keep your job after failing to excel at it for quite some time. And according to the Chicago Tribune‘s K.C. Johnson, this isn’t going to change: With Dwyane Wade owning a player option and the Bulls perhaps repeating last June’s [...]

Sole ownership of second place in the Eastern Conference isn’t enough for the Boston Celtics. The Vertical’s Shams Charania wrote a nice in-depth piece on the development of Marcus Smart, wherein he also revealed that Boston has targeted multiple big men on the trade market: Before the postseason, the Celtics hope for the continued development [...]

Fans of NBA trade-deadline chaos were treated to renewed hope on the Carmelo Anthony-for-Kevin Love front late Tuesday. But it was short-lived, because the Cleveland Cavaliers are both sensible and hate fun. First, Frank Isola of the New York Daily News reported that LeBron James wanted the Cavaliers to deal for Anthony, who owns a no-trade [...]

Hey. Hi. Hello. How are you all? Good to hear. Take care. Oh, and real quick: Sacramento Kings general manager would like you to know he isn’t trading DeMarcus Cousins. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/828771623800954880] [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/828772112072482816] This runs counter to the belief that the Kings have yet to figure out whether Cousins is [...]

So John Wall takes early-February regular-season games pretty seriously. Strike that: Very seriously. Per CSN Mid-Atlantic’s J. Michael Falgoust, Wall called the Washington Wizards’ Monday night matchup with the Cleveland Cavaliers the biggest of his NBA career: [tweet https://twitter.com/JMichaelCSN/status/828069650021879808] This, more likely than not, is just Wall’s way of saying the game against the Cavaliers [...]

This will-they-or-won’t-they game with the Sacramento Kings is getting kind of old. DeMarcus Cousins is slated for free agency in 2018, theoretically creating a sense of urgency throughout the Kings organization. They need to decide whether they’re going to trade him soon, lest they eventually lose him for nothing or be forced to accept pennies [...]

Okay, seriously: What in the actual effing eff are the Chicago Bulls doing. The point guard rotation is a mess. Jimmy Butler and Dwyane Wade seem like they hate everyone else on the team. Head coach Fred Hoiberg is being criticized for not generating more shooting from a roster that isn’t built to shoot. The [...]

With James Harden checking in as an MVP favorite for 2016-17, he hasn’t been linked so strongly to Russell Westbrook since the two played together with the Oklahoma City Thunder. And yes, for the record, he does miss those days. As Harden told ESPN’s Hannah Storm, per Erik Horne of the Oklahoman: Harden, now battling Russell [...]

The NBA announced the participants for the 2017 Three-Point Contest on Thursday, and a certain someone was conspicuously absent from the final list of eight: [tweet https://twitter.com/BenGolliver/status/827314148836978690] No Stephen Curry? Say what? The Golden State Warriors’ point guard, who will be partaking in the Feb. 19 superstar showcase as a starter, offered an explanation for [...]

One season into the Emmanuel Mudiay experience, the Denver Nuggets may be ready to shift gears. From ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe: The Nuggets are quietly exploring what they might get for Emmanuel Mudiay and multiple picks, sources say, but they’re in no rush to move Mudiay, and the Suns may not want him when they could [...]