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Derrick Rose is the Most Important Player in the NBA This Season
With a regular season as long as the one the NBA has (82 games), there isn’t just one storyline to hold the fabric of interest together. With all due respect to LeBron James rising among the game’s legends, Kevin Durant still trying to be the best and Kobe Bryant trying to not lose with the Lakers, Derrick Rose and his comeback attempt with the Chicago Bulls should be the best one to follow in 2014.
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NBA Rumors – Utah Jazz Might Eventually Trade Brandon Rush to the Chicago Bulls
After missing almost an entire season due to an ACL tear, Brandon Rush was traded to the Utah Jazz to play for on the final season of his contract. By the end of this one, however, there’s a good chance he’ll end up playing for the Chicago Bulls.
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NBA Rumors – Phoenix Suns Will Trade Marcin Gortat This Season
When going through a rebuilding process, teams don’t want unhappy, old and expensive players on the team. Marcin Gortat is the wrong fit in the next step for the Phoenix Suns, which will surely get him traded by the end of the 2013-2014 NBA Season.
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NBA Rumors – Houston Rockets Might Still Trade Omer Asik
The fact that the Houston Rockets decided to ignore Omer Asik and his pleas to be traded after the arrival of a player who makes him most likely plays most of his minutes coming off the bench. Despite the willingness to make it work, the conception might fail, which will make Asik once more someone who could end up being traded.
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NBA Rumors – Sacramento Kings Might Trade Marcus Thornton
One of the changes we’re going to see from the Sacramento Kings next season is a greater focus on defense, which might push out some less than willing participants of the makeover, with Marcus Thornton looking like a very good candidate to not fit the new scheme, and possibly get himself traded.
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NBA Rumors – Boston Celtics Might Trade One Of Their Shooting Guards
We’re not going to see any player movement in the NBA at the moment when it comes to trades, but the Boston Celtics have a really unbalanced backcourt, with their point guard options beyond Rajon Rondo very limited at best, which just might mean that someone from the group that includes Courtney Lee, Avery Bradley, Jordan Crawford and MarShon Brook might get traded.
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Los Angeles Lakers – Kobe Bryant Makes it Impossible to Rebuild
The word rebuilding doesn’t exist in the universe of the Los Angeles Lakers; it’s always about winning as much as possible as soon as possible, and the hell with player development. The team has a shot at making a clean break from Kobe Bryant and his disastrous hold over the franchise for the last few years, but it probably won’t go down that road.
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Miami Heat – Michael Beasley Getting a Career Lifeline
It might be arrogance, but it might be that the Miami Heat have an eye for talent, even if it’s masked by a huge amount of personal problems. They’re willing to take a shot on Michael Beasley and give him an invite to training camp, in what might become one of the best under-the-radar pickups of this offseason.
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NBA Rumors – Miami Heat Won’t Re-Sign Shane Battier
Even though it’s hard to ignore the contribution of Shane Battier to the two NBA titles the Miami Heat have won, it’s just as difficult to avoid the fact that he wasn’t as vital during the second championship run the team made on both ends of the floor, and that might mean he isn’t going to be re-signed once he becomes a free agent at the end of the season.
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NBA Rumors – San Antonio Spurs Interested in Signing Sam Young
The San Antonio Spurs are looking for a player to fill their roster with 15, and Sam Young, a forward who spent last season with the Indiana Pacers, is close to being the guy to fill up their quota.