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DeAndre Jordan is reconsidering his decision and may meet with the Clippers today.

Jason Pierre-Paul may have blown some fingers off yesterday in a fireworks incident.

Aldridge has chosen the Spurs, according to Adrian Wojnarowski

It always made the most sense for him to go there.

The Kings just traded some contracts and 2014 1st rounder Nik Stauskas, along with maybe another pick (not finalized yet) to Philly to clear cap space. The best part is their two main targets...

Rajon Rondo and Monta Ellis.

Putting together a Rondo/Ellis/Gay/Cousins team is entertaining as hell for all the wrong reasons.

Kevin Love back to the Cavs for 5 years, 110 million

Tristan Thompson back to the Cavs for 4 years, 80 million

Cavs about to set a record for biggest NBA payroll this season after they use Haywood's contract to get another piece in and re-sign Shumpert/Dellavedova/Smith/LeBron.

So uh....

Is Ray dead?

Sure as hell didn't see that coming...

Detroit and Charlotte will regret passing on Winslow. Steal of the draft for Miami.

I don't think the Lakers have enough assets to get Cousins unless he specifically demands a trade there. Basically all they have to trade is the #2 pick and Julius Randle. It's not enough to get a player of Cousins caliber unless they can get very creative with a 3 team trade.

The NBA has changed a lot because of the dearth of good big men in the league, especially as compared to the 90s when there were four or so around (Shaq, Hakeen, Ewing, Mourning). It skews things and makes guard-centric teams more viable than they've been at any other time in the history of the NBA. In fact, the only 'All-Time' type team built around a guard is the 90s Bulls, and even Wennington (sp?) or Grant would be top big men today.

The game has changed, but the next time a truly great big man enters the league, it'll change back. Playing inside-out will always be the best way to play.

That's the problem with the way the game is today though. Big men are coming into the league wanting to shoot 3s because that's the way the NBA seems to be going. Everyone wants to be the next Steph Curry, James Harden, or even Dirk Nowitzski, and you see guys like Blake Griffin start to play on the outside of the paint rather than the inside where he should be a dominant player every night. I don't know if a truly dominant inside big man is going to be in the cards going forward because it's not the way kids are seeing the NBA played nowadays. Everything is about shooting jumpers and the Warriors winning a title that way is only going to enhance it, for better or worse.

This Dwayne Wade situation is going to be something to watch closely in the coming weeks. Some local Heat folks (including Dan Lebatard) think him going to the Cavs is becoming a legit possibility this off-season. I don't buy it yet but it is something to monitor. I imagine he'd be the 6th man and play 28-32 MPG, taking a lot of the load off LeBron.

Cleveland was statistically at its best when Thompson and Mozgov were in there together, as opposed to Love. James is going to be cashing in after this season, so presumably Cleveland won't lock up both Love and Thompson long-term so they can allocate enough money to him. But even without that, can they afford both of them? Probably not, especially not after the last few weeks where Thompson's value has reached "is this guy the new Dennis Rodman?" levels.

The Cavs can afford to resign everyone and according to Brian Windhorst are preparing for a 100-110 million dollar team salary next year.

LeBron is finals MVP win or lose at this point, and the Cavs are major favorites to win next year with everyone healthy. Just sucks injuries robbed this team of a title because I am fairly certain the Cavs win this series with Kyrie and Love (and maybe in 4-5 games too). Warriors really don't impress me.

Delly wasn't on Curry after he dove into the stands and conveniently Curry started to get hot. Hope Delly's OK for game 4 to guard Curry again.

But wow, LeBron is on his way to a best ever series if the Cavs can win this. He's already scored the most points through 3 games in finals history. Who knows what else he has left in him but the Cavs only need to win 2 of the next 4 to be NBA champions. It's surreal (and at the same time, I'm not getting ahead of myself here as this is far from over).

This series is taking years off my life.

Delly with the go ahead FTs and the final defensive stop (along with great D on Curry all night)...what a game Cavs!

Keith Britton ‏@KeithBritton86 11s12 seconds ago

Kyrie Irving suffered fractured left knee cap. Will have surgery. Out for 3-4 months #Cavs

If Kyrie is out then this will be the most competitive game. Warriors in 4.

Speaking of shitty people, Prince Shembo has been arrested for kicking a small dog to death.

And he has been waived, good for the Falcons. Takes a real piece of shit human being to do what he did.

I'd say Thompson is about 50/50 to play game 1 now. The time off is big, but usually NBA players miss at least a week when they get a concussion based on recent history.

As far as I'm aware they are on the hook for all that money now... They've fired him... Another team doesn't take on that contract now... Unless it works differently for coaches but I'm pretty sure it doesn't...

All the rumours seem to point to Fred Hoiberg all but locked in as the next Bulls coach too...

Thibs will coach somewhere soon... I'd be willing to say someone like the Lakers snaps him up...

His contract has off-set language in it so they will get some of the money back if another team hires Thibs.

Perhaps, but the Bulls sure didn't do themselves any favors with this statement they released on it

http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/tomthibodeau528

I must be missing something

"While the head of each department of the organization must be free to make final decisions regarding his department, there must be free and open interdepartmental discussion and consideration of everyone's ideas and opinions. These internal discussions must not be considered an invasion of turf, and must remain private. Teams that consistently perform at the highest levels are able to come together and be unified across the organization-staff, players, coaches, management and ownership. When everyone is on the same page, trust develops and teams can grow and succeed together. Unfortunately, there has been a departure from this culture."

Completely unnecessary shots at a guy you already just fired. The Bulls should get over themselves (this is not the first time they've had issues with coaches.)

Perhaps, but the Bulls sure didn't do themselves any favors with this statement they released on it

http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/tomthibodeau528

The Bulls finally stopped acting like a petulant child and fired Thibodeau. I imagine he'll end up with the Pelicans or Magic now.

Well, that couldn't have gone any better for the Cavs

Warriors are big favorites in the finals (and deservedly so) but I'm sure not going to be the one to count out a LeBron team at any point.

Man, both teams played extremely tough and the Hawks were unlucky to lose that one...

They blew it the final possession of regulation. A long Teague jumper was a low percentage shot, and once it went to OT the Cavs were not going to lose.

There could be no NBA for 8 straight days if both of these series end in 4.