Waiters Island has repopulated so quickly!
Where will Kyrie Irving end up? It’s the question that has been dominating the second half of the NBA offseason, ever since it was reported that Irving had requested a trade from the Cleveland Cavaliers. The latest team name to appear in the ‘rumorsphere’ is the Miami Heat, who ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne mentioned on a recent Bleacher Report podcast.
According to Tim Kawakami and Marcus Thompson of The Athletic, the Warriors may be trying to add Paul George to the superteam in the future. But don’t expect Paul George to actually become a Warrior.
The Golden State Warriors are already the greatest superteam in NBA history, but they might not be finished trying to add star talent to their roster.
On the podcast Posting Up with Tim Bontemps, Tim Kawakami revealed he and Marcus Thompson were speculating that the Warriors would try to acquire Paul George in the near future.
A couple weeks ago Adam Silver mentioned that Seattle would be on the shortlist for inevitable league expansion. Once a franchise is about to begin play in the league one of the first things that is done is an expansion draft. All blogs in the SB Nation basketball world participated in figuring out what eight players their team would ultimately keep and what players they would roll the dice on for being taken in an expansion draft. From that list of players, Taylor and myself picked in a draft against a hypothetical Virginia Beach franchise picked by Kristian Winfield from SB Nation NBA.
Is this the last time we’ll see “Did Not Play-Rest” in a box score?
In response to the growing trend of resting star players, NBA owners are expected to approve a new set of rules in September that would govern such behavior from teams and coaches, according to USA Today Sports’ Jeff Zillgitt.
Doc Rivers had finished talking about his vision of running the LA Clippers, about the partnership possibilities of Chris Paul and Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan, about the Spurs' management model, about a bright new NBA vista, and now he was walking outside a lunch spot in Century City, California, on a sun-splashed September afternoon.
Warriors vs. Cavaliers is our headliner, but the rest of the schedule is extremely interesting, too.
Christmas Day is the best time of year for NBA fans. For years, the sport has dominated that day, hosting five-game slates with some of the regular season’s most intriguing matchups. Here we go again.
The Detroit Pistons are coming off a disappointing season - one that raised significant questions about whether Andre Drummond is the type of player they envisioned when they gave him a massive contract.
Drummond admits 2016-17 wasn't good enough.
"It was like a roller coaster ride for me," Drummond said. "Just an inconsistent year for us as an organization."
Good morning. We have that and more in Thursday’s NBA newsletter.
Adam Silver recently called NBA expansion talks "inevitable." So we rolled with that and had a massive SB Nation NBA effort to work out how expansion might work. Our 30 team blogs chose players to protect in an expansion draft, and two front offices -- one at Sonics Rising and one at SBNation.com -- drafted faux expansion teams for Seattle and Hampton Roads, respectively.
The young core is working hard over the summer.
If the Los Angeles Lakers are going to outperform (or even reach) the 30ish win projections many have them pegged for, they’re going to need substantial production from their young talent. Brandon Ingram will have to make a sophomore leap, Ivica Zubac will need to be ready to play back-up center full time, Julius Randle will need to show he’s a helpful NBA player rather than just an intriguing collection of tools, Larry Nance, Jr. will have to make figurative leaps in his game instead of literal leaps off of the ground and so on and so forth.
