Center Andrew Bogut and point guard Deron Williams could be headed to the Cleveland Cavaliers.The Cavaliers are on the Golden State Warriors Jerseys verge of signing the NBA veterans to add some serious heft to their roster in the quest to defend their NBA title, according to multiple reports.The Mavericks waived Williams, and while several teams – including his former squad, the Utah Jazz – are interested, he intends to sign with Cleveland once he clears waivers, ESPN’s Marc Stein reports.Cavs star LeBron James has made Jabari Parker Jerseys clear his opinion that the team needs a playmaker to back up Kyrie Irving for the stretch run. Williams, a three-time All-Star, should suffice."I always liked D-Will," Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue told reporters Friday. "He's a good player. Anytime you have a guy who is an All-Star, he's a great talent. So he can make the plays, he's a great pick-and-roll player, he can Paul George Jerseys shoot the basketball. He has size, so you can switch 1 through 4 with him defensively. He can post smaller guards. So I've always been a big fan of D-Will."While not mentioning Williams specifically, Cavs GM David Griffin added, “Obviously, we have a great deal of interest, and we've said it for a long time, in a playmaker."The Mavs will pay Williams the $2.5 Gordon Hayward Jerseys million or so left on his contract, according to Stein. Dallas plans to hand its starring point guard duties to Yogi Ferrell. Bogut, meanwhile, was traded from Dallas to Philadelphia this week, but the 76ers are expected to waive him.Cleveland’s primary competition for his services is the Houston Rockets, Ohio.com notes. He’s also eligible to return to the Warriors, but Golden State coach Steve Stephen Curry Jerseys Kerr said he does not believe the team is in the market for another big man.
Knicks fans watched Carmelo Anthony at his best Saturday.Anthony, who has been on the trading block most of the season, and been criticized heavily by his own fan base, dropped 37 points on 15-of-25 shooting with six rebounds to lead the Knicks to a 110-109 victory over Julius Randle Jerseys the 76ers at Madison Square Garden. Anthony's jumper with 0.3 seconds remaining was the game-winner. It's easy to judge Anthony, a superstar who has never won much in the NBA, but he has been one of the best scorers of the last 13 years. He displayed the capability to score from all over the court against Philadelphia.The Knicks would love to move Anthony. He's Derrick Rose Jerseys getting older at 32, makes a ton of money, and doesn't play with the best tempo anymore. With that said, he can still fill it up and lead a team to victory any given night.The 76ers are probably happy they kept Jahlil Okafor after the 6-11 center scored 28 points with 10 rebounds. Robert Covington continued his hot streak with 20 points and 10 Cleveland Cavaliers Jerseys rebounds.Meanwhile, the Warriors became the first NBA team to clinch a playoff spot with a 112-95 win over the lowly Nets. The Warriors (49-9) actually clinched a playoff berth three days earlier than they did last year en route to setting an NBA regular-season record for wins. Hassan Whiteside had a monster game while helping the Heat to a 113-95 home win over the Klay Thompson Jerseys Pacers. Whiteside scored 22 points with 17 rebounds. Dion Waiters added 22 points and Goran Dragic had 21 points and four assists.Bulls guard Dwyane Wade flirted with a triple-double by scoring 20 points with 10 assists and nine rebounds in a 117-99 win over the Cavaliers with LeBron James (illness) and Kevin Love (knee) out of the game. Chicago's Jimmy Butler did complete a Paul Millsap Jerseys triple-double with 18 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.Anthony Davis scored 39 points with 14 rebounds, but the Pelicans still lost 96-83 to the Mavericks. New Orleans is laughably thin behind Davis, DeMarcus Cousins and Jrue Holiday.Speaking of going off while losing, Karl-Anthony Towns scored 37 points while hauling in 22 rebounds. Unfortunately for the Tumberwolves, they still lost 142-130 against the Rockets.
Amar'e Custom NBA Jerseys Stoudemire says he is sorry for his recent distasteful remarks about homosexuals, insisting he was joking."I want to apologize for my offensive comments against the LGBT community,” Stoudemire said, per TMZ Sports. “These remarks were taken from a larger interview where a reporter was asking me hypothetical questions, and all my answers had a comedic undertone."The answers I gave were meant to be taken Philadelphia 76ers Jerseys as jokes & I am deeply sorry for offending anyone."Two days after receiving the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for “efforts to promote diversity and tolerance,” Stoudemire was asked by Israeli website Walla Sport how he would feel about having a gay teammate.His response: "I'm going to shower across the street, make sure my change of clothes are around the corner. And I'm going 2017 NBA Draft Jerseys to drive — take a different route to the gym.”Considering he already intimated those comments were a joke while stressing “there’s always a truth within a joke,” the apology feels hollow.
Jeff Van Gundy is a straight shooter, and he kept it real again on Saturday night. This time, he had his sights set on the All-Star game.When broadcaster Mike Breen asked Van Gundy De Aaron Fox Jerseys during the Cavaliers-Bulls matchup if he liked this year's All-Star game, Van Gundy delivered a classic response."You know, Mike, I think the players have left the commissioner only one thing to do with the All-Star game … abolish it," he said.Van Gundy has a point. While the All-Star Game is about the fans, it has just become nothing more than a overly friendly, buddy-buddy L.A. Clippers Jerseys get-together among NBA players.Yes, it's really just a marketing ploy. Yes, it's an exhibition.Yes, they're all friends off the court, for the most part. But even through all this, does it really have to bleed into the on-court product?MORE: Van Gundy wants NBA to get tougher on domestic abusersCan we get some defensive stops? Anthony Davis is still dunking. There's also zero defense played, Joel Embiid Jerseys and the glorified night off is starting to lose as much juice as the slam dunk competition.And now, with unfair All-Star snubs and the NBA essentially admitting they prefer star power over deserving players (Carmelo Anthony over Bradley Beal, as one example), it's quickly becoming something of a joke.The NBA and TV networks probably cringed when they heard JVG's comments, but that shouldn't matter. Aaron Gordon Jerseys Van Gundy's 100-percent correct, and if nothing else, hopefully there are some NBA players listening.Jeff Van Gundy is a straight shooter, and he kept it real again on Saturday night. This time, he had his sights set on the All-Star game.When broadcaster Mike Breen asked Van Gundy during the Cavaliers-Bulls matchup if he liked this year's All-Star game, Van Gundy delivered a classic response."You Warriors Jerseys know, Mike, I think the players have left the commissioner only one thing to do with the All-Star game … abolish it," he said.Van Gundy has a point. While the All-Star Game is about the fans, it has just become nothing more than a overly friendly, buddy-buddy get-together among NBA players.Yes, it's really just a marketing ploy. Yes, it's an exhibition.Yes, they're all friends DeMarcus Cousins Jerseys off the court, for the most part. But even through all this, does it really have to bleed into the on-court product?Can we get some defensive stops? Anthony Davis is still dunking. There's also zero defense played, and the glorified night off is starting to lose as much juice as the slam dunk competition.And now, with unfair All-Star snubs and the NBA essentially admitting Zach Collins Jerseys they prefer star power over deserving players (Carmelo Anthony over Bradley Beal, as one example), it's quickly becoming something of a joke.The NBA and TV networks probably cringed when they heard JVG's comments, but that shouldn't matter. Van Gundy's 100-percent correct, and if nothing else, hopefully there are some NBA players listening.
The great Dennis Schroder-Isaiah Thomas war of words waged on Monday morning.More Kevin Durant Jerseys than a month after Thomas refuted Schroeder's allegations that the Celtics' point guard insulted Schroder's mother on the court, the Hawks' guard is calling baloney on Thomas' denial."Everybody heard it," Schroder said Monday. "My family sat courtside too. Thabo [Sefalosha] heard some things. He wasn't involved in it. It is what it is. We just try to compete. It gets heated in the game."Schroder's Cheap NBA Jerseys original allegations came after a Celtics 103-101 win Jan. 13."I’m playing basketball," Schroder told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution at the time. “If he think that he got to curse at my mom or say some dumb stuff about my family, that has nothing to do with basketball. That’s his choice. I’ve got too much class for that. Next one, we are going to get it."Thomas Russell Westbrook Jerseys responded then by saying Schroder was not someone the two-time All-Star concerned himself with, saying that Schroder was "not on [Thomas'] level" before denying the allegations."I don't talk about nobody's mom. I don't cuss at nobody's mom," Thomas said. And I don't talk about people's families. So whatever he said, that's a 100 percent lie, and he knows that." Thomas and Schroder can settle Kevin Durant Jerseys this feud on the court, as the Hawks take on the Celtics in Boston on Monday at 7:30 p.m.
Stephen Curry is featured in a new TV ad for Muscle Milk that breaks on TNT’s coverage of Warriors at Bulls on Thursday night, Ad Age reports .The 60-second spot shows a hiker, a traffic cop, a motorist, ballerinas and, of course, Golden State’s star Jimmy Butler Jerseys point guard getting down to the 2 in a Room song "Wiggle It."Curry was born in 1988; “Wiggle It” was released two years later.Mekanism, San Francisco, the agency that created the spot, wanted the ad to spotlight the way Curry sometimes celebrates after making a shot."I think there's a certain contagiousness that comes with Curry's expression of joy," said Tommy Means, founder and executive Buddy Hield Jerseys creative director at Mekanism.Curry is not wearing his Warriors uniform in the commercial because Muscle Milk is not an NBA sponsor.The campaign, which also includes 15- and 30-second versions of the ad, will run through the NBA Finals, where most NBA pundits expect Curry and the Warriors Ben Simmons Jerseys to be.
Young gun Devin Booker wanted no part of veteran Vince Carter after he was dropped by the 40-year-old Grizzlies player Tuesday night in Memphis. After he was fouled by Booker on a drive to the basket in the first quarter, Carter swung his right elbow to the face of Booker, who dropped to the floor on his back.As he picked himself up, Booker didn't even bother confronting Carter, who is twice as old as Booker.Instead, Booker let big man Alex Len and Co. get into a shoving match with Carter, who was the NBA Jerseys only player ejected in the incident.
Isaiah Thomas is doing something this season that we’ve never seen before. With an average of 10.5 points per fourth quarter, he’s on pace to surpass Kobe Bryant (9.5), LeBron James (9.1) and Tracy McGrady (8.6) for the highest fourth-quarter scoring since the NBA began tracking the stat in 1996. He’s also set to end the season Jayson Tatum Jerseys as the first player in 20 years to average double digit scoring in a quarter, which is an incredible feat considering Thomas fell to the final pick of the 2011 NBA Draft due to concerns about how his height would translate to the pros.Thomas has been incredibly efficient in fourth quarters, too. By shooting 48.7 percent from the field, 40.8 percent from the perimeter Stephen Curry Jerseys and 91.1 percent from the free throw line, his true shooting percentage in the final 12 minutes of games (67.3 percent) is better than Rudy Gobert (66.9), DeAndre Jordan (66.3) and Kevin Durant (65.1) on the season. Plus, while his defense has been a major concern, Thomas has been a net positive overall for the Celtics in crunch time.
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