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NBA Rumors – Atlanta Hawks Might Keep Jeff Teague Instead of Sign Brandon Jennings or Monta Ellis
Even though Jeff Teague signed an offer sheet from the Milwaukee Bucks, being a restricted free agent means the Atlanta Hawks still have a short time to match the offer, as they’re considering keeping him instead of adding either Brandon Jennings or Monta Ellis.
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Minnesota Timberwolves – Ricky Rubio & Kevin Love Healthy Can Finally Get Them Into the Playoffs
For a third straight season, the Minnesota Timberwolves feel they have what it takes to finally make it into the postseason, which will be a first fo rthe franchise without Kevin Garnett on the team. After two seasons in which the injuries of both Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio got in the way, there’s a feeling of it’s now or never for the team.
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NBA Rumors – Brooklyn Nets Signing Andrei Kirilenko Suspicious to Some
The facts: Andrei Kirilenko opted out of next season’s deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves, worth $10.2 million, and signed with the Brooklyn Nets on a two-year deal worth $3.2 million a season. Suspicious? Some teams around the NBA think so.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Who is Going to Play Small Forward
Adding someone like Nick Young on a minimum salary is a great move for the Los Angeles Lakers, giving them a proven scorer off the bench to sub in for Kobe Bryant, but it still doesn’t take care of the biggest issue they have before them: Finding a small forward to start for them (and another one to come off the bench), and creating some kind of defensive identity for next season.
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Los Angeles Lakers – A Great Franchise But a Mediocre (At Best) Team
It seems that all those Los Angeles Lakers of past and present taking personality shots at Dwight Howard, from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant, have a hard time distinguishing between a great and successful franchise, which the Los Angeles Lakers obviously are, and a great NBA team, which at the moment, and for the last couple of seasons, the Lakers clearly aren’t.
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NBA Rumors – Miami Heat Might Use the Amnesty Clause on Mike Miller or Even Dwyane Wade
The Miami Heat have until July 16 to use the Amnesty Clause heading into the next season, and there’s a chance they’ll choose to use it on Mike Miller and the two years he has left on his contract, although if they pass that up, there’s a small chance they might use it in the future on Dwyane Wade.
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NBA Rumors – New York Knicks & New Orleans Pelicans Interested in Signing Tyrus Thomas
With Tyrus Thomas being amnestied by the Charlotte Bobcats, he is now available for signing to any team with some cap space, and if not, to everyone else in the NBA, as both the New York Knicks and the New Orleans Pelicans have taken an interest.
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Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Shouldn’t Be Traded
The only way the Houston Rockets get that third star player is if they trade both Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin for one player, and that Asik isn’t going to be moved. While the Rockets are rumored to be searching for a trade to get rid of Lin, they really shouldn’t.
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NBA Rumors – Chicago Bulls & Luol Deng Trying to Get an Extension
It doesn’t look like trading Luol Deng and his big expiring contract is going to happen at the moment, so the Chicago Bulls and their small forward are trying to find a way in which they can extend his contract.
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NBA Rumors – Charlotte Bobcats Trying to Trade Gerald Henderson
Sometimes it’s quite difficult to understand what the Charlotte Bobcats are trying to do with some of their moves, demonstrating strange long-term thinking, which includes trying to get teams to get in on a trade for Gerald Henderson.