This is the most important piece of work I have done since the pictorial analysis of Carlos Boozer's hair. heavy.com/sports/nba/t...

I know I'm biased as an unabashed Gooner but how in CHRIST was that not a penalty? Gyokeres got there first and couldn't avoid the hanging knee, why does it matter that Pope touched it second? Even Pope didn't object, he knew. What a freaking world. Everyone in it is awful.

Maybe the Clippers really were in panic mode after all.

Apropos of nothing, of course. heavy.com/sports/nba/l...

Was looking up something else when I noticed just how good was Sam Cassell was in his early 30s. heavy.com/sports/nba/m...

And now for Robert Sacre proudly announcing a vasectomy. heavy.com/sports/nba/l...

What's better than one piece of Pavel Podkolzin news in a week? Two pieces of Pavel Podkolzin news in a week. In addition to becoming the world's tallest footballer, Pavel has begun an acting career. I hit up YouTube/Google Translate to see the details. heavy.com/sports/nba/d...

Got a new favourite person. Thank you, Specsavers Guy, for saying that the over-40s discount "obviously does not apply" to me.

Apologies to the unnamed podcast host in my dream. There was no need for our Jusuf Nurkic vs Lonny Baxter debate to get quite that heated.

Letting it be known that you'll cut him anyway and make him available as a free agent is certainly one way to build up trade leverage for your guy.

Just watched The Matrix for the first time since about 2006. Came real close to understanding it this time, too, shouldn't think it will take me any more than about another 20 watches.

RIP Bradley Beal's no-trade clause. You had a great run and will be missed.

Saved a whole bunch of celebrity phone numbers into my address book to really confuse investigators if I die mysteriously.

All I'm saying is if you gave me the scoops, I'd give you all the PR, too.

For a short while there, a couple of years ago, it felt as though the Sacramento Kings had a plan. Nope.

Calling it now. The Hawks are contenders. And even if they aren't, they now have the roster management skills - and excellent assets - to make sure they very soon will be. heavy.com/sports/nba/a...

Luke Kennard's combination of $11 million expiring and excellent shooting + the 2026 pick that the Pelicans quite needlessly gave them at the draft = one hell of a tempting trade deadline package. The Atlanta Hawks got really good at asset management really quickly.

Wrote about Nigel Hayes-Davis here. He has improved a lot since leaving the NBA and risen to the top of the EuroLeague. heavy.com/sports/nba/b...

Hell of lot of money for Luke Kornet, $41 million over four years. That's more than I earn in TEN years.

Hawks sorely needed that S&T. With some depth they can get from retaining the MLE, they can put together a really, really good team.

Brook Lopez and Luke Kornet's careers are basically mirror-images of each other.

The Bulls have let the Nets incinerate their cap space, which greatly improves their chances of getting Josh Giddey to take a pay cut. Which will make it doubly annoying when they do not use this added leverage and overpay him anyway.

Every single person that I have spoken to, on both sides of the media/team divide, believes that Al Horford is going to the Warriors.

Just when you think you've gauged the price of a backup big at about $6-8 million or so, Luke Kornet comes in and gets double-figures through the age of 34. Good player and all after his mid-career reinvention but he's really going to need to hold up well.

Kevon Looney will somehow still only be 31 when that deal expires, even if his gait says 51.

Nuggets with the best hour since Eddie Murphy's Delirious

Nuggets can only send their 2032 first because they were just about under the second apron. Teams over it cannot send out draft picks seven years in advance. It is yet another reason to cut costs, and while it will hurt down the road, Denver just hugely rejuvenated themselves.

Don't think drafting the same player four times and getting Michael Porter Jr was quite what Nets fans had in mind for their offseason.

Cam Thomas and Michael Porter Jr about to combine for 64 points per game in a 29-53 season.

Rushing to be the first to break the news, only to be second and get it wrong anyway.

If we're not going to get much in the way of real news tonight, can we at least get some fakers to have some fun with it? Any Arye Abraham types out there willing to talk about the complex material shifts that the Brooklyn Nets are facing in their pursuit of the Honky-Tonk Man?

Rockets assembled a clutch of excellent young forwards and then....benched them.

FIRST 31 MINUTES OF NBA FREE AGENCY IN 2022: 31 deals announced. FIRST 31 MINUTES OF NBA FREE AGENCY IN 2025: ...four. One of whom was Jeff Green.

Faced with the prospect of the $240 million Jaren Jackson Jr renegotiation or the $80 million Marvin Bagley extension, the Grizzlies opted to be spoilsports.

To make the Jaren Jackson Jr renegotiation/extension happen, the Grizzlies will have to renounce every non-Aldama free agent cap hold they have. Farewell, Yves Pons and Lamar Stevens, we hardly knew ye.

Fire up the Woj version of the Batman symbol. This needs a bit of spice. We need to know which teams are zeroing in on who, who is fixated by where. We need news and we need metaphors.

If it was the Bulls doing the Zoom meetings, they'd only be using the 40-minute free version and we'd have answers soon.

Give me the news, I'll leak it, I don't care. I'll take the rap. What are they going to do, send the bailiffs around to take my second-round picks away?

No $141.1 million extension for Malcolm Brogdon, by the way.

All spent all those hours learning how to spell Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk really starting to pay off.

Just two hours left for Malcolm Brogdon to sign an extension. The most the Wizards can offer him is a four year, $141.1 million dollar pact that runs through 2029, but Brogdon may be able to get more on the open market.

Down to the wire now on an extension for Marvin Bagley, with only six hours left to sign the max $81.1 million extension that the Grizzlies can offer. However, with the Nets creating over $40 mil in cap room, they can offer him $160 million+. Does Bagley know something we don't?

As recently as 2022, we had 31 deals announced in the first 31 minutes of NBA free agency. It was a hell of a time for the F5 key. Now it's already half over, before it's even officially begun. That facade was always ridiculous, of course. But pretend adherence to it at least created some buzz.

Really looking forward to tomorrow when NBA teams can finally start negotiating with free agents in a way that definitely has not been happening yet.

Tytan Anderson, 6'6 forward out of Northern Iowa, will join the New Orleans Pelicans for summer league.

Ben Simmons to the Warriors makes some sense, right?

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For the first time in a while - shout-out to the Wizards. heavy.com/sports/nba/w...

Two days left for Marvin Bagley III to sign an extension. The most the Grizzlies can offer him is a four year, $81.1 million dollar pact that runs through 2029, but Bagley may be able to get more on the open market.

CJ Fulton, Irish pass-first point guard from College of Charleston, will join the Minnesota Timberwolves for summer league.