The long-simmering feud between Ray Allen and the other members of the 2008 Boston Celtics championship squad might be coming to an end.
Paul Pierce, the NBA Finals MVP for that team who signed a one-day contract with Boston earlier this summer to retire as a Celtic, posted a picture of himself and Allen together with the caption, "Time to get the band back together."
The Washington Wizards will sign Carrick Felix to a training camp deal.
Felix last played in the NBA during the 13-14 season with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Silver’s plan, if passed as legislation, would lessen bad teams’ odds at top picks.
In an effort to de-incentivize tanking, NBA commissioner Adam Silver is aggressively pursuing draft lottery reform that could be instituted before the beginning of the 2017-18 season, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Silver, according to Woj, is a proponent of lowering the odds of the NBA’s worst teams to land the top picks in the draft.
Thomas has played with a loss of cartilage and some arthritis in his hip for years, per report.
The news about Isaiah Thomas’s right hip keeps getting worse and worse. Not only did Thomas suffer a right femoral-acetabular impingement with a bruised hip and torn labrum, but according to The Athletic’s Jason Lloyd, Cleveland’s new All-Star point guard has other conditions complicating his healing process, including some arthritis and a loss of cartilage.
Incremental progress on NBA tanking is still progress
Back in 2014, as Sam Hinkie deftly built a franchise based upon the power of losing, the NBA considered reforming its draft lottery in a major way. Every non-playoff team would have a shot at the No. 1 pick, and a good shot at a top-5 pick. There would have been less incentive to be truly bad as the odds evened out among the lottery teams.
T-Mac heads into the Hall of Fame as a star wing ahead of his time.
Tracy McGrady loved to sleep. As an 18-year-old rookie on the Toronto Raptors, McGrady would reportedly sleep for up to 20 hours a day. That doesn’t sound like an inherently intimidating quality, but McGrady had a way of making it one. At his peak, T-Mac was the type of player who looked like he could roll out of bed and average 30 points per game.
These free agents show how tough the NBA free agency market has been in 2017.
NBA free agency typically burns hot and fast. Normally, most key free agents ink deals between the stroke of midnight on July 1 and the end of that month. Some players in trickier contract situations wait it out until early August. An occasional free agent — often one under restricted status — will wait until September.
The 76ers said their star big man is absent because of medical reasons.
Joel Embiid's agent, Leon Rose, reportedly wants the Philadelphia 76ers to ink the 23-year-old big man to a long-term deal before he’ll play 5-on-5 action, according to 94WIP’s Howard Eskin. It was first reported in early August that Embiid had not yet been medically cleared to play full-court basketball.
Thomas published a letter on The Players’ Tribune detailing the mixed emotions he had following his trade from Boston to Cleveland.
Isaiah Thomas was driving home after celebrating his one-year wedding anniversary when Danny Ainge called him. By now, you know the deal: Thomas was sent as part of a package to Cleveland that landed Boston its point guard for the future, Kyrie Irving.
