Hoops Rumors

The Hornets have the ignominious honor of holding the league’s longest active absence from the playoffs, leaving them with many questions to answer heading into the off-season, according to The Charlotte Observer’s Roderick Boone. In a mailbag column, Boone writes that he expects the team to add more veteran presence to the young core, similar to the addition of Taj Gibson last … [Read more...] about Southeast Notes: Hornets, Mitchell, Burks, Hawks

The Heat suffered through a rare losing season in 2024/25, but they were encouraged by the progress made by rookies Kel’el Ware and Pelle Larsson, writes Anthony Chiang of The Miami Herald. Both players saw little action early in the year, but worked their way up to regular minutes by the playoffs. Chiang notes that Ware, the 15th pick in last year’s draft, only logged … [Read more...] about Heat Notes: Ware, Larsson, Anderson, Jaquez

With so little cap room available around the NBA this year and most top free agents expected to remain with their current teams, executives across the league are projecting a significant amount of activity on the trade market during the upcoming offseason, writes Jake Fischer of The Stein Line (Substack link). “It’s gonna be a crazy summer,” one Western Conference exec told … [Read more...] about And-Ones: Trade Market, Top FAs, Award Ballots, Kemp

The seventh annual California Classic Summer League will take place this summer on July 5, 6, and 8 at Chase Center, the Warriors announced today in a press release. According to today’s announcement, the Warriors will be joined at this year’s event by the Heat, Lakers, and Spurs. Each team will face every other club once over the course of the three-day event. San Antonio owns … [Read more...] about Warriors Announce Details For 2025 California Classic Summer League

6:53pm: Sweeney is headed to Phoenix for an in-person interview on Wednesday, Gambadoro tweets. 6:37pm: There are conflicting reports regarding the finalists but the Suns have whittled their list of candidates for their head coaching job. According to Phoenix radio reporter John Gambadoro (Twitter link), there are four finalists for the position, with Heat assistant Chris … [Read more...] about Suns Pare Down List Of Coaching Candidates