Trade

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 [...]

The Nuggets are flying high lately. They have won seven of their last 10 games to improve to 21-27 and are now in the race for the western conference No. 8 seed. One of the changes the team has made during this successful stretch is benching 29-year-old combo forward Wilson Chandler. Chandler was having the [...]

Well now that we are in February, you can fully expect the trade chatter that has been constant since mid-December to actually come to life as teams try to improve their roster or give themselves more financial flexibility for whatever path they are headed toward. One domino fell and came out of left field, as [...]

Detroit Pistons coach-president Stan Van Gundy may be ready to make some moves. According to Basketball Insiders’ Michael Scotto, the team has put bigs Aron Baynes and Boban Marjanovic on the chopping block: The Detroit Pistons are exploring the trade market on centers Aron Baynes and Boban Marjanovic, league sources told Basketball Insiders. Baynes has [...]

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 [...]

Ricky Rubio’s name is the constant source of trade speculation, but that doesn’t mean he and Minnesota Timberwolves coach-president Tom Thibodeau are on bad terms. At least not according to Thibodeau, as he intimated in a question-and-answer session with MinnPost’s Britt Robinson: MP: There has been a lot of talk about the fact that you [...]

LeBron James must really want the Cleveland Cavaliers to land a point guard. Because the team is apparently interested in trading for 32-year-old Deron Williams, according to USA Today‘s Sam Amick: The Cavs could take the trade route too, of course, and they are known to have inquired about the Dallas Mavericks’ Deron Williams. The 32-year-old, three-time [...]

Jimmy Butler is playing untouchable-level basketball, but rival league executives told the Chicago Tribune‘s K.C. Johnson he might not be so untouchable as the NBA nears its Feb. 23 trade deadline: There are rival executives who believe the Bulls and Celtics will rekindle trade talks centered on Jimmy Butler before the Feb. 23 deadline. The teams [...]

Remember how we all thought Nikola Vucevic was the only Orlando Magic big truly on the chopping block? Yeah, that’s not true. Serge Ibaka is right there with him, according to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney: It has not taken long for buyers’ remorse to kick in. League sources told Sporting News that the Magic [...]

Nothing has changed for the Orlando Magic. They are still the NBA’s wildest roller coaster, still trying to trade for a wing, and still attempting to move Nikola Vucevic to make that happen. From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: Orlando, according to league sources, remains focused on acquiring a proven scorer on the wing before the Feb. [...]