Category: NBA Headlines
Kevin McHale continued his war of words with Houston Rockets star James Harden on Friday. The former Rockets coach turned TV analyst had fired the opening salvo last week by declaring that Harden is “not a leader.” Harden responded by calling McHale “a clown” and questioning his character. “Calling me names is not going to change my opinion as to […]
Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid’s five-year, $146.5 million maximum extension is essentially guaranteed but protects the franchise financially should Embiid suffer a contractually specific catastrophic injury, league sources told ESPN. Embiid, 23, signed the rookie-scale max extension Tuesday, with the $146.5 million total for the deal based on the NBA’s new salary cap projections for the 2018-19 […]
NBA All-Star Weekend begins on February 16, 2018. The festivities will take place in Los Angeles, California, but when they do, things will be much different than we’ve come to know. On October 3, the NBA and NBPA issued a joint press release announcing that the game’s traditional format which featured the All-Stars of the […]
The New Orleans Pelicans and free agent forward Cliff Alexander have agreed to a one-year, non-guaranteed deal, a league source told Basketball Insiders. The addition of Alexander will give New Orleans 20 players heading into training camp. Alexander spent last season playing 40 combined games with the Erie Bayhawks and Long Island Nets in the […]
The Portland Trail Blazers and free agent shooting guard Anthony Morrow have agreed to a one-year, non-guaranteed deal, agent Wallace Prather told Basketball Insiders. The Vertical was first to report the agreement. Morrow, a career 42 percent shooter from beyond the arc, will compete with Archie Goodwin, Isaiah Briscoe, and C.J. Wilcox for the final […]
Josh Childress has signed a non-guaranteed deal with the Denver Nuggets, a source tells Basketball Insiders.
O.J. Mayo broke down in tears when he heard the NBA was going to ban him for at least two years for a failed drug test, and he surely would have cried even harder if he had known the embarrassment, loneliness and aimlessness that would follow. After July 1, 2018, Mayo will be eligible to apply for […]
Now [Caris] LeVert, who appeared Thursday at Barclays Center for a project: OM Yoga event, in partnership with the WWE and the Susan G. Komen Foundation to fight breast cancer, sees the playoffs in the Nets’ future. “I feel like it’s really realistic,” said LeVert, echoing recent sentiments of teammate Jeremy Lin, with whom he […]
NBA players agree that Russell Westbrook is the Most Valuable Player for the 2016-17 season. The National Basketball Players Association released the results of the players’ votes for 14 individual awards and Teammate of the Year for 30 teams for the 2016-17 season. Awards were given during the 2017 Players Voice Awards announced via Twitter on Friday. […]
Jamal Murray doesn’t get to come home often. Not back to Canada, and even less often back to the Kitchener-Waterloo region in Ontario where he was raised. This off-season has been a busy one for the 20-year-old Murray. He’s traveled the globe partly for fun and partly due to sponsorship obligations all while trying to work […]
