Kyle Kuzma will be another advanced wing player on the trade market, although Washington’s asking price for the veteran scorer prior to February’s trade deadline was too rich for most rival teams.
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Harrison Wind: From today: No indication that there’s been any thought at all about the Nuggets trading Michael Porter Jr.
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Adrian Wojnarowski: ESPN Sources: Four months after Newport Beach (Calif) police announced a probe had been “unable to corroborate any criminal activity” against Oklahoma City’s Josh Giddey, 21, involving online allegations of an inappropriate relationship with an underage girl, the NBA has closed its own investigation into matter after coming to a similar conclusion.
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ClutchPoints: “This is the best offensive duo in NBA history.” Paul Pierce with some strong praise for Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving 👀 (via @undisputed) pic.twitter.com/909sSDvSak
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Ben Golliver: TNT’s Reggie Miller defends Tyrese Haliburton from “frontrunner” allegations: “You can make a case the Knicks were frontrunning and trash-talking. In Game 2, they didn’t start chanting until the game was in hand. Josh Hart didn’t come over to me until the game was in hand.”
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The Spurs and the Lakers keep coming up as potential suitors for the Warriors’ Chris Paul if Paul becomes a free agent this offseason. Paul’s longstanding friendship with LeBron James and his well-known desire to stay as close to his L.A.-based family as possible certainly add credence to the notion of the Lakers’ signing him.
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Run It Back: “There is a lot of optimism around the Cavs that they’re going to get a commitment from Donovan Mitchell on a 4-year $208 million dollar extension.”
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That is the same path the Philadelphia 76ers plan to pursue this summer, according to league sources. … With those bookends in place, Philadelphia is focused on filling the gap between them with an elite, two-way wing, sources said. … For all those complications, Philadelphia does have the cleanest path to making Paul George a new home. The Sixers are willing to spend future money and sacrifice draft capital, league sources told Yahoo Sports, in the name of chasing next year’s title. George has... Читать дальше...
While league personnel are of the mind Siakam will certainly be re-signing with Indiana, there was word circling among team officials at last week’s NBA Draft Combine that Anunoby’s situation with the Knicks is not as cut and dried. Perhaps those signals to rival teams will only help Anunoby elicit a larger dollar figure from the Knicks. But various teams left Chicago with the belief that OG Anunoby could reach unrestricted free agency and consider deals from other franchises in addition to New York, sources said. Читать дальше...
Jimmy Traina: Charles Barkley on @dpshow just now: “Morale sucks. Plain and simple. The people I work with screwed this up so badly.”
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