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76ers Look To Fill Vacancy Left By Sam Hinkie's Disgraced Replacement With Hinkie's Mentor, Daryl Morey
The Sixers rolled into this summer riding high following a 52-win season and their first playoff series victory since 2012. The organization was finally ready to shift fully from Asset Collection mode to Fortifying a Contender mode, with head coach Brett Brown making noise in his exit interview abou...
Jabari Parker Signs Two-Year Deal With The Bulls, Gets The Fresh Start He Deserves
Confident proclamations from Giannis Antetokounmpo about Jabari Parker’s future in Milwaukee turn out to have been premature: Saturday the Milwaukee Bucks rescinded the qualifying offer that gave them matching rights for any restricted free agency offer for Parker, paving the way for Parker to sign ...
Of Course Jimmy Butler Rejected Minnesota's Bargain-Shopping Extension Offer
The story here is less that Jimmy Butler turned down a four-year, $100 million extension offer from the Minnesota Timberwolves than it is that the Minnesota Timberwolves thought there was any chance in hell that Jimmy Butler would agree to a four-year, $100 million contract extension, in the same su...
Okay, Sure, Devin Booker Is Now A Max Player
Devin Booker—Devin Booker—is set to become one of the highest-paid players in the NBA, after agreeing to a max contract extension with the Phoenix Suns. In a move that makes Sacramento’s $78 million offer sheet to Zach LaVine look downright frugal by comparison, the Suns will pay Booker a whopping $...
Bulls Save Kings From Themselves, Match $78 Million Restricted Free Agency Offer For Zach LaVine
The Bulls and Kings, two teams roughly as far from NBA relevance as possible, spent Friday in a brief tug-of-war over the right to pay huge sums of money for the services of Zach LaVine, a butt player with zero track record of contributing to anything even approaching functional professional basketb...
DeMarcus Cousins Says He Had No Other Offers
The one thing everyone wants to know when an NBA free agent lands at an unexpected destination for a bargain price is simple: They want to know how the hell it happened....
Goddamn, John Tortorella Is <i>Pissed</i>
I want to begin by noting that it’s pretty funny that this latest, greatest round of beef between the Blue Jackets and Penguins is all over Jack Johnson, of all players, a bottom-pairing defenseman on the wrong side of 30 and coming off his worst season as a pro. That said: Give me the beef!...
LeBronWatch: LeBron's Agent Meets With Sixers, Also LeBron Chooses His Next Destination, You Do The Math
The LeBron James sweepstakes are progressing at a terrifying pace. LeBron is zipping around the globe like Carmen Sandiego, raising and dashing hopes in various cities by the hour. It’s madness!...
Rockets Retain Chris Paul, Get Worse
Chris Paul has reportedly agreed to a four-year maximum contract worth $160 million to stay in Houston and continue fine-tuning the absolutely hateful brand of basketball he and James Harden pioneered last season. But they will have to do it without their most accomplished and important three-and-D ...
Cursed Sentence: DeAndre Jordan Has Reached A Verbal Agreement To Sign With The Dallas Mavericks
Uh oh. DeAndre Jordan has reached “a verbal agreement” to sign with the Dallas Mavericks in free agency. That is a cursed sentence. We have entered “fool me twice” territory, here....
Paul George Farts On Potential Lakers Superteam, Returns To Oklahoma City Thunder
Paul George took exactly zero meetings and wasted no time whatsoever before agreeing to a four-year max contract worth $137 million to stay with the Oklahoma City Thunder Sunday morning. This went down in a fun way: Russell Westbrook left a family vacation in Hawaii to fly back to Oklahoma City and ...
LeBronWatch: My SUPER CREDIBLE SOURCES Say He’s Going To L.A.
Are you ready for breaking LeBron Watch news that will absolutely BLOW YOUR NUTS OFF UNLESS YOU HAVE ALREADY WISELY FIGURED OUT THAT THINGS WERE ALREADY HEADED THIS WAY? Good, because I have such news. Now listen, I know my track record predicting things is, uh, not exactly sterling here. But tonigh...
LeBronWatch: LeBron Hunkers Down In "Decision Cave" In The Caribbean
LeBron James deposited the Cavaliers (and probably the Rockets) in the trash can this morning and will become an unrestricted free agent, so expect LeBronWatch comes to a frenzied, frothy climax over the next few days. Leave it to the very frothiest, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, to report that LeBron Ja...
LeBronWatch: Not Philly, No, Never Philly
Welcome back to LeBronWatch, the one and only Watch of LeBron James. LeBron’s going to be a free agent, and he’s going to the Lakers with Kevin Durant, and to the Knicks with Paul George, and also back to the Cavs with Kawhi Leonard, but one thing’s for sure, he’s definitely narrowed it down to L.A...
LeBronWatch: LeBron Officially A Free Agent
Folks, the thing all savvy LeBron Watchers knew was coming has indeed occurred. LeBron James has spiked the city of Cleveland back into the rubbish bin:...
LeBronWatch: "After-Hours" Phone Calls To Stephen A. Smith Reveal LeBron Wants To Take Kevin Durant To L.A.
The race to sign LeBron James is heating up, and we’ve never had more information to share with you here at LeBronWatch. We’ve already discovered that LeBron is destined to be a Laker, thinks Houston is garbage, will play for the Knicks with Paul George, will probably end up a Nugget, will stay in C...
Report: The Lakers Wanted Their Paul George Pitch Video To Be "More Jamie Foxx"
If, sometime between now and Friday, Paul George opts out of next season with the Thunder, he’ll become the NBA’s second-hottest free agent. How should a team entice such a player? The Los Angeles Lakers, likely front-runners in the pursuit of George, have devised a pitch as inspiring as a pre-fligh...
Report: LeBron Doesn't Want To See Your Damn PowerPoint Presentation
LeBron James is a few days away from having to decide if he will pick up his $35.6 million player option and remain a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers. There’s every reason to believe that he will decline the option and become a free agent, meaning that a handful of NBA teams will once again be in ...
The Most Thrilling Drama In The NBA Tonight Is Gregg Popovich And Kawhi Leonard Possibly Having A Meeting
The Kawhi Leonard trade saga has so far been short on specific news about the possibly still-injured Spurs forward’s future home, though the Lakers are supposedly the California native’s preferred destination. But it’s getting long on ridiculously specific media reports, which is really what’s neces...
LeBronWatch: Tyronn Lue's Posture Crumbles Upon Hearing The Words "LeBron James"
With the question of LeBron James’s free agency destination settled once and for all—he is for sure headed to the Lakers and the Knicks and the Nuggets this summer—the other hopeful teams around the NBA have got to be feeling like their chances of also landing LeBron are shrinking by the hour. One ...