We have seen a lot of chatter on the Internet today about the Minnesota Timberwolves’ efforts to trade Kevin Love. The Cleveland Cavaliers seems to be offering the most, with a package built around Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett — the two most recent overall No. 1 picks. Cleveland also holds the rights to three 2015 first-round draft picks, their own, the Grizzlies’ and the Heat’s. If they lump two of those into their package, they will win the Love sweepstakes,
It is not often that I get into a debate with a radio host over whether a player sucks or doesn’t suck, but that was the case Monday afternoon in Miami with Orlando Alzugaray (a.k.a. Big O) on AM640. He thinks Kevin Love is a stiff who always gets injured. I think Kevin Love is the key piece to the championship puzzle in Cleveland. Big O thinks LeBron James will not be competing for a championship in his first year in Cleveland, and
As free agency winds down and the new landscape of the NBA has started to take shape, there are still a few major dominos still standing. And sticking with the theme of the 2014 offseason, both of them are involving the Cleveland Cavaliers. [Read more…]
On Thursday, we brought back our Three-Man Weave, taking a look at some of the big picture questions for Eastern Conference teams that the offseason may or may not have answered. Today, we shift our focus to the Western Conference, where the player movement has been less dramatic and more subtle but entirely interesting and thought-provoking. Let’s take a look at some of the bigger issues. 1. Which team has taken the biggest step forward in the Western Conference? [Read more…]
MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES 2015-16 Offseason Additions: F Nemanja Bjelica, F Damjan Rudez, F Tayshaun Prince 2015 Draft Picks: C Karl-Anthony Towns, G Tyus Jones Draft Picks Coming: 2016 second round (Houston, protected 31-45); 2017 second round (New Orleans, 31-55); 2019 second round (Miami) Draft Picks Going: 2016 first round (to Boston, 1-12); 2018 first round (to Atlanta, 1-14); 2019 second round (to Cleveland) Cap Exceptions: Partial mid-level ($1,510,000) Trade Exceptions: Chase Budinger ($5,000,000, expires July 12, 2016) Over/Under: Over the cap Amnesty Provision: Used on Darko Milicic (2012) PLAYER 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 Ricky Rubio $12,700,000 $13,400,000 $14,100,000 $14,800,000 Nikola Pekovic $12,100,000 $12,100,000 $11,600,000 Kevin Garnett $8,500,000 $8,000,000 Kevin Martin $6,700,000 $1,230,000 $1,230,000 $1,240,000 Andrew Wiggins $5,760,000 $6,010,000 $7,570,000 $9,850,000 Karl-Anthony Towns $5,700,000 $5,960,000 $6,220,000 $7,840,000 $10,190,000 Nemanja Bjelica $3,950,000 $3,800,000 $3,950,000 $4,940,000 Anthony Bennett $3,650,000 Zach
This is the best time of the year in the NBA. The draft is only days away, opt-in and opt-out decisions are due a couple days later, and free agency courtships can begin July 1. We are currently in a holding pattern in which Kevin Love rumors, Carmelo Anthony speculation and Joel Embiid-Greg Oden comparisons are being wildly thrown around. You can lose track of yourself trying to keep track of all the rumors, so try to remember that rumors are
Wednesday the All-NBA Teams were announced, and with them came a slew of congratulatory, confused and frustrated tweets. Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant led all vote getters as the lone unanimous selection to the First Team, followed by Miami Heat forward LeBron James, Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah, Houston Rockets guard James Harden and Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul. Much to the chagrin of 124 NBA writers with voting privileges, Chris Sheridan, our esteemed Editor-in-Chief, was the lone vote preventing
Thursday afternoon the NBA unveiled the 2013-14 NBA All-Rookie Team, celebrating this past season’s top young athletes. One name you will not see on the the team is the Cleveland Cavaliers’ No.1 overall draft pick Anthony Bennett, who only played in 52 games, averaging 4.2 points and three rebounds in just 12.8 minutes per game. He is just the fifth top overall draft pick to miss the All-Rookie team in 26 years. There were quite a few young rookies deserving of the