Trade

The NBA Finals, in many ways, are already over. Maybe the Cleveland Cavaliers steal a game at home. Hell maybe, against all odds, they get Games 3 and 4. But they are absolutely not going to win this series. Not against the Golden State Warriors. Not against the best team in league history. Once they [...]

The Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers will not be the only teams making headlines during the NBA Finals. The Philadelphia 76ers and Atlanta Hawks are making sure of it. According to The Vertical’s Shams Charania, the two sides are talking about a potential Nerlens Noel-for-Jeff Teague swap: Atlanta and Philadelphia are discussing a possible [...]

So about the Indiana Pacers being open to trading Paul George…It turns out they aren’t. Here’s Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders: Not sure where the trading Paul George thing came from, but was laughed off the phone when I asked a Pacers source if it was a consideration. The Pacers are absolutely not looking at [...]

Channing Frye is busy draining threes and contending for a championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers. And that could have been Ryan Anderson. Speaking on the “Vertical Pod with J.J. Redick,” Anderson revealed to his former Orlando Magic teammate that the New Orleans Pelicans nearly traded his expiring contract to the Cavaliers at the trade deadline. [...]

If Phil Jackson is really looking for Carmelo Anthony to waive his no-trade clause, all he needs to do is what he’s planned on doing all along: keep Kurt Rambis as the New York Knicks’ head coach. Seriously? Seriously. Appearing on CBS Sports Radio’s Brown and Scoop” podcast, former writer/still-well-connected Peter Vecsey, painted a pretty [...]

The Sacramento Kings won’t be trading DeMarcus Cousins anytime soon—depending, of course, on how you define “soon.” Here’s the team’s general manager Vlade Divac on the DeMarcus Cousins situation, per Sean Cunningham of ABC 10 in Sacramento: [tweet https://twitter.com/SeanCunningham/status/730113997589065728] “This year” is pretty ambiguous terminology. Does Divac mean he won’t be traded at all during [...]

According to former ESPN columnist, Grantland and creator of The Ringer, Bill Simmons has reported that the Lakers will try to package their anticipated top-three pick in the 2016 NBA Draft for Pacers star forward Paul George. [tweet https://twitter.com/MySportsLegion/status/727902044523249664] Don’t get me wrong this rumor is very juicy and very Lakers as the historically great [...]

Take that, Mark Cuban. Ahead of the Dallas Mavericks’ Game 5 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night, a letdown that bounced them from the first round of the playoffs, Cuban had a not-so-nice, totally out-of-touch thing to say about Russell Westbrook, per ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon: [tweet https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon/status/724732258670649345] Westbrook responded with a 36-point, [...]

Who had Greg Monroe lasting only one season with the Milwaukee Bucks in the “Greg Monroe’s Tenure in Milwaukee” pool? Well, you may be headed for a clutch, not-at-all-real win. According to Gery Woelfel of the Racine Journal Times, the Bucks plan to shop Monroe around the NBA this summer: Toss in the fact the [...]

Jimmy Butler apparently isn’t untouchable to the Chicago Bulls. This is a weird thing to write, and an even weirder thing to know. It wasn’t long ago that these Bulls were supposed to be the biggest threat to the Cleveland Cavaliers’ throne. Now they’re on the verge of missing the playoffs under rookie head coach [...]