Dwight Howard Leaving Houston Rockets For Charlotte Hornets

Edit Inquisitr 14 May 2016
NBA rumors have been swirling around Dwight Howard ... Howard will be looking for a new place to call home and hopefully compete for an NBA Championship ... This season, Howard is second in the NBA in field goal percentage and top five in rebounding. The negative from him this year is that he averaged the lowest in points since his rookie season ... That was when Howard was at the prime of his NBA career ... NBA Rumors....

Jakob Poeltl's eager to become first Austrian in NBA

Edit Deseret News 14 May 2016
CHICAGO — From being named the Pac-12 Player of the Year to winning both the Pete Newell Big Man and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar awards, future NBA big man Jakob Poeltl is in prime position heading into the 2016 NBA draft. After enjoying a stellar freshman season at the University of Utah, Poeltl resisted the temptation to jump to the NBA ... He also told me I'm going to have to be prepared for an 82-game season.”....

Dragic, Wade lead Heat past Raptors 103-91 _ and into Game 7

Edit Atlanta Journal 14 May 2016
Desperation? Maybe.Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade (3) shoots over Toronto Raptors' Bismack Biyombo (8) and Cory Joseph (6) during the first half of Game 6 of the NBA basketball Eastern Conference semifinals, Friday, May 13, 2016, in Miami ... The NBA playoff pool this season is $15 million, and teams get various pieces of that pie depending on where they finish in the regular season and how deep they go in the playoffs....

Early entry deadline changes bring flexibility, challenges to pre-draft process

Edit Deseret News 14 May 2016
The 6-foot-9 Sky View High School product has had a few solid collegiate seasons, earning second team All-Mountain West Conference honors as a sophomore and third team as a junior, but wasn’t exactly being discussed far and wide as a bona fide NBA prospect ... two seasons in the NBA with the Seattle SuperSonics before a 10-year career overseas....

Thunder are quite a contrast to Spurs

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 14 May 2016
Oklahoma City won 55 regular-season games — 12 fewer than San Antonio ... “He’s the fastest player in the NBA, so you really can’t take possessions off,” Thompson said Friday ... game in the regular season ... The Thunder easily led the NBA in rebounding differential this season, averaging 8.4 more per game than their opponents....

Kings could make a point by drafting a guard in first round

Edit Sacramento Bee 14 May 2016
It’s time to have the seemingly annual discussion of whether the Kings will select a point guard in the first round of the NBA draft ... Dunn, 22, averaged 16.4 points and 6.2 assists last season for the Friars. He believes his age and experience in college will aid his transition to the NBA ... Fredette spent most of last season playing in the NBA Development League....

Kenneth Faried Wants Trade From Denver Nuggets

Edit Inquisitr 14 May 2016
NBA rumors are swirling around Kenneth Faried. According to SB Nation, the veteran power forward might be asked to take a reduced role next season ... Kenneth Faried is a really solid player who is not all that known to NBA fans ... Joffrey Lauvergne, Nikola Jokic and Jusuf Nurkic have emerged as legitimate big men in the NBA ... Since he is capable of being a starter in the NBA, teams will be willing to give up assets to acquire his services....

NBA Draft: Jakob Poeltl believes he can play like Pau Gasol

Edit LA Daily News 14 May 2016
CHICAGO >> With the Lakers hoping to accelerate their rebuilding process, they spoke with one college prospect who believes he can emulate a certain player that once delivered them NBA championships. “I can be a lot like Pau Gasol,” said University of Utah sophomore center Jakob Poeltl, who interviewed with the Lakers on Friday here at the NBA pre-draft combine....

Sharpshooter Curry has made 3-pointer NBA’s shot of choice

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 14 May 2016
The recently named NBA most valuable player — his second consecutive MVP award — has proved the three-point shot is more important than anything in the game ... It is 116 more treys than anybody had made in a season ... The Warriors, the defending NBA champs who will face the Thunder in the Western Conference finals starting Monday, made more than 1,000 three-pointers during the regular season....

D-League announces Anaheim team

Edit Naples Daily News 14 May 2016
The NBA Development League continues to expand westward, announcing Tuesday the awarding of an expansion team to Anaheim, Calif., for next season....

Clarification: Stars fuel hope for mid-major prospects

Edit Boston Herald 14 May 2016
CHICAGO — In a story May 12 about the NBA Draft Combine, The Associated Press failed to clarify that Klay Thompson played at Washington State instead of a mid-major ... "I know how it is," English said Thursday at the NBA Draft Combine ... The 6-foot-4 English is trying to convince NBA executives he is more than just a mid-major star as he tries to move up from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, and in that sense, he has company....

Dragic, Wade lead Heat past Raptors 103-91 and into Game 7

Edit Deseret News 14 May 2016
Miami is 6-0 in its last six elimination games, the NBA's longest current streak ... 12 on the NBA's career playoff scoring list ... Miami is 6-3 all-time in Game 7s, having won four straight ultimate games (including one in the first round this season) ... The NBA playoff pool this season is $15 million, and teams get various pieces of that pie depending on where they finish in the regular season and how deep they go in the playoffs....

Has the NBA bid farewell to Manu Ginobili & Tim Duncan?

Edit The Oklahoman 14 May 2016
Kevin Durant dunks as Manu Ginobili runs by in what could be his final NBA game, Game 6 Thursday night ... Duncan played the entire fourth quarter, meaning there was no ceremonial exit for one of the NBA’s greatest players ... I could tell he didn't want to hang up because as long as we spoke, Tim and Manu were still part of this series, part of the NBA and part of us. But the conversation had to end just like the Spurs season....
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