Category: 2016 TD
An interesting wrinkle to how the Magic pulled off their Tobias Harris trade has surfaced. Our own cap guru Eric Pincus revealed that prior to the Brandon Jennings/Ersan Ilyasova trade with the Detroit Pistons, the Magic renounced rights to free agents Willie Green and Jeremy Richardson, which dropped them below the salary cap and negated […]
Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard reiterated Wednesday that he wants to finish the season with the team despite reports of a pending trade. The Rockets have talked to several teams about trading Howard for a variety of players, though nothing has been finalized. The Rockets have spoken to Charlotte, Atlanta, Boston and Toronto about trading […]
Anything can happen in the hours leading up to the NBA trade deadline, but the New York Knicks weren’t on the verge of making any major deals as of Wednesday evening, according to head coach Kurt Rambis. “Anything that comes up, I’m sure [Phil Jackson and Steve Mills] will address it with me and ask […]
Don’t count on the Los Angeles Lakers entering Thursday’s trade-deadline frenzy, according to general manager Mitch Kupchak. “I think it’s unlikely that something will happen between [Wednesday] and [Thursday], but [it’s] possible,” Kupchak said at the team’s practice facility on Wednesday. Source: Jovan Buha of ESPN
[A] source said general manager Sam Hinkie is “gauging interest in [Jahlil] Okafor” around the league heading into Thursday’s 3 p.m. deadline. Coach Brett Brown is trying to figure out a way to make it work with natural centers Nerlens Noel and Okafor, but it’s been difficult with the natural centers who each want to […]
The Bulls have discussed deals with multiple NBA teams on Gasol, but one discussion lingered on Tuesday, league sources told The Vertical’s Wojnarowski and Chris Mannix: Gasol and Tony Snell to the Sacramento Kings for Kosta Koufos, Ben McLemore and a lowering of the lottery protections on the 2016 first-round pick that Sacramento owes the […]
Cleveland’s growing interest in New Orleans’ Ryan Anderson bodes well in Boston’s seemingly never-ending quest to acquire Kevin Love in what’s shaping up to be a potential three-team deal that would include the Boston Celtics. The particulars of the deal are still in the discussion phase, but the end result if it comes to pass […]
Sources say Houston, well aware Utah has been on the hunt for a veteran point guard for the stretch run, is pitching Ty Lawson to the Jazz. Ty Lawson talks are serious and Jazz have committed to ship out Trey Burke … 12 hours and change left for someone to trump Houston’s offer. via Marc […]
With plenty of cap space, the Sixers would consider helping teams make a trade work, according to a league source. The source said the Sixers were sending out feelers on Wednesday about being a third team in any deal that is looking to dump contracts. The source said that Sixers would take on the salaries […]
The Cavaliers are showing strong interest in acquiring Pelicans forward Ryan Anderson, sources said. via Marc Spears of Yahoo Sports
