NBA RUMORS AND NEWS

Yahoo! Sports "With a full understanding that free agent Chris Paul wants this deal completed, the Los Angeles Clippers re-engaged the Boston Celtics on the Kevin Garnett-Doc Rivers negotiations on Wednesday afternoon, league sources told Yahoo! Sports. The Clippers walked away from the talks on Monday..." June 19

Dallas Morning News "Armed with their highest draft pick in more than a decade, the Mavericks are thinking strongly about trading the asset. And “strongly” means it is a virtual certainty. One source put the chances of the Mavericks having the 13th overall draft pick on their opening-day roster next season at 0..." June 19

CBSSports.com "On the Spurs' final possession of regulation in Game 6 Tuesday night, Tim Duncan inbounded the ball to Tony Parker, who raced up the court and lofted an errant, fallaway shot from the baseline at the buzzer. One of the best Finals games in years was going to overtime. But rewind that: Duncan,..." June 19

ESPN.com "The Tuesday night interview between Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and Byron Scott went very well, according to sources with knowledge of the meeting. Sterling will meet with Brian Shaw on Wednesday. He met with the Clippers' other coaching candidate, Lionel Hollins, last week. A..." June 19

Boston Herald "After living with uncertainty about their coach since the night the team was eliminated from the playoffs, the Celtics will hope to gain a better understanding today when Doc Rivers meets with Danny Ainge. According to a league source, Rivers hopes after that discussion to make his first public..." June 19

CBSSports.com "Dwyane Wade didn't start the second half of Game 6 because of a stiff knee from banging into Manu Ginobili in the first half. "Early in the game I took a good shot right on my left knee and that's the knee I had surgery on," Wade said Wednesday. "That kind of trauma to it at that moment, it..." June 19

USA Today "LeBron James went from goat to hero to goat to hero in the span of 50 exhilarating and exhausting minutes against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday. It was a microcosm of James' NBA Finals performance against the San Antonio Spurs: great one game, not great enough the..." June 19

Washington Post "Bradley Beal is still more than a week away from his 20th birthday, but there is another significant date that the Wizards’ shooting guard is possibly monitoring with even greater anticipation: The day when he will finally be cleared to participate in basketball-related activities. According to..." June 19

ESPN.com "Hoping in part to push along sales of NBA jerseys, more teams will wear uniforms with sleeves next season. An NBA source told ESPN.com that as many as five teams will wear the short-sleeve jerseys as an alternate jersey for as much as 12 games during the season. "We are interested in doing..." June 19

Denver Post "Paul George used to be as anonymous as some guy named John Ringo. Now? He's an NBA all-star, having averaged 19.2 points, 7.4 rebounds and 5.1 assists a game during the postseason, in which he led the Indiana Pacers to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals. On Tuesday, George worked out with..." June 19

CSN Chicago "Bulls assistant coach Ed Pinckney will have a second interview for the Grizzlies' head-coaching vacancy Wednesday in Memphis, CSNChicago.com has learned. Pinckney initially interviewed with Grizzlies CEO Jason Levien last week in New York and according to a person with knowledge of the..." June 19

Detroit News "There’s a new player matched with the Pistons in the latest mock draft by ESPN’s Chad Ford, updated Tuesday. Michigan point guard Trey Burke. “The Pistons are hoping, for a third year in a row, that one of the top seven players on the board slides to them on draft night,” Ford writes in mock..." June 19

New York Post "Nate Wolters has always stood out wherever he has been, but the gifted guard’s journey through St. Cloud, Minn., and Brookings, S.D., left him under-recruited, underexposed and under the radar. Now, after four mostly unseen seasons at South Dakota State, Wolters could be transplanted to the..." June 19

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel ""Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted, one moment, would you capture it or just let it slip?" -- Eminem, "Lose Yourself" At one point, before there was a Big Three, before Pat Riley's championship-or-failure proclamations truly took residence at..." June 19

Yahoo! Sports "After talks in a blockbuster deal fell apart over draft pick compensation, Doc Rivers is unsure about returning to the Boston Celtics as coach, league sources told Yahoo! Sports on Tuesday. Celtics general manager Danny Ainge informed Rivers of the failed trade talks on Tuesday morning, and..." June 18

Dallas Morning News "Armed with their highest draft pick in more than a decade, the Mavericks are thinking strongly about trading the asset. And “strongly” means it is a virtual certainty. One source put the chances of the Mavericks having the 13th overall draft pick on their opening-day roster next season at 0..." June 18

L.A. Daily News "As plenty of teams wait to make their pitches in hopes of wooing Dwight Howard away from the Lakers, one option appears to be off the table. The Lakers won't deal Howard in a sign-and-trade. A league source familiar with the Lakers front office's thinking said, "they'll either re-sign Dwight..." June 18

Nets Daily "In an interview with Greg Kelly and Rosanna Scotto on Good Day New York Monday, Jason Kidd touched on a number of the same issues he talked about at last week's press conference, including his recruitment of Lawrence Frank as his lead assistant. "I'm working as hard as I can," said Kidd. "So,..." June 18

The Oklahoman "Unable to play basketball this offseason, Russell Westbrook has taken up Vine as a mini-hobby. Last week, he made some six-second clips on the social media video service, covering a pair of Taylor Swift songs. And now, via Vine, he has announced a fairly large stepping stone in his rehab..." June 18

TheScore.com "No big deal, right? Just a low-top version of the LeBron X that some people are calling the “Floral” edition. Seems like a chill off-court shoe to wear with some short pants. But check out the sockliners. The fix is in. Or Nike might have a massive recall on their hands. Or these are a..." June 18

Boston Globe "Decisions, decisions. The Celtics don’t have many free agents, but with the rest of the league passing them by, they have to take a serious look at each player on the roster and decide which direction they’d like to go. Core players Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Rajon Rondo brought Boston a..." June 18

CSN Washington "The time is almost there for Alex Len to stand on his own two feet. The 7-1 center from Maryland, who had sugery in April to repair a stress fracture in his left ankle, is getting examined by orthopedic surgeon Robert Anderson in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday. “I probably got two more weeks on..." June 18

CBSSports.com "San Antonio Spurs shooter Danny Green already has 25 made 3-pointers through the first five games of the NBA Finals. It broke Miami Heat guard Ray Allen's record of 22 threes, that he set with the Boston Celtics back in their 2008 championship run. Green has been open on a lot of his looks..." June 18

Oregonian "Maryland big man Alex Len has not been able to work out with NBA teams—he is coming off surgery to fix a stress fracture in his ankle. And yet he has moved to the rumor-mill forefront of this year’s draft. Len is visiting Charlotte, which holds the No. 4 pick in this year’s draft, to meet with..." June 18

Orlando Sentinel "Ryan Blake, the senior director of NBA scouting operations, shares with the Orlando Sentinel his take on Lehigh University combo guard C.J. McCollum: “I really like him. Before his foot injury, he was shooting over 50 percent from behind the arc. He was on a team that relied on him not only to..." June 18

USA Today "In moments like these for the Miami Heat — when a victory is absolutely necessary — Coach Erik Spoelstra falls back on two ideas. One, his players play their best when the lights are the brightest. It is paramount for LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to have strong performances in Game..." June 18

TMZ.com "Former NBA superstar Allen Iverson has returned his kids to their mother ... and insists he was NEVER holding them hostage in the first place ... at least that's what A.I. claimed in court last week. We broke the story ... Iverson's ex-wife filed court docs insisting Allen had all 5 of their..." June 18

Dallas Morning News "Mavericks owner Mark Cuban joined BaDD Radio on KTCK-AM 1310 on Monday. Here are some highlights from the interview. On if he wants to trade his draft pick: “That is the case. The numbers are the numbers. If I’m going to talk about cap and CBA I can’t BS my way around that. … There’s risk..." June 18

The Oklahoman "Unable to play basketball this offseason, Russell Westbrook has taken up Vine as a mini-hobby. Last week, he made some six-second clips on the social media video service, covering a pair of Taylor Swift songs. And now, via Vine, he has announced a fairly large stepping stone in his rehab process..." June 18

Los Angeles Times "Norvel Pelle’s odyssey to reach the NBA just got at least one year longer. The former Los Angeles Price High star who twice failed to meet college academic entrance requirements withdrew from the NBA draft on Monday because of a foot issue that forced him to miss workouts for four..." June 18

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Kentucky center Nerlens Noel was the presumed No. 1 choice for next week's NBA draft, but nobody could say for sure. And nothing is settled yet. The Cleveland Cavaliers have kept everyone guessing while they try to sort out their options after winning the NBA draft lottery for the second..." June 18

Nets Daily "In an interview with Greg Kelly and Rosanna Scotto on Good Day New York Monday, Jason Kidd touched on a number of the same issues he talked about at last week's press conference, including his recruitment of Lawrence Frank as his lead assistant. "I'm working as hard as I can," said Kidd. "So,..." June 18

The Deseret News "Another day, another couple of pre-draft workouts for the Utah Jazz. Continuing a string of prospect evaluations for the June 27 NBA Draft, the Jazz will hold two sessions again Tuesday at Zions Bank Basketball Center. The first session will include projected lottery pick Syracuse guard..." June 18

ESPN.com "The Brooklyn Nets are interested in adding Roy Rogers as an assistant coach on Jason Kidd's staff and will be talking with Rogers this week, according to a source. Rogers worked as an assistant coach with the Nets for two seasons (2008-10) -- working under Lawrence Frank until the head coach..." June 18

New York Post "You could see the pressure etched on the stone faces of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade late Sunday night as they sat together on a podium in San Antonio. The defending NBA champion Miami Dream Team is now 48 minutes away from having its three-year legacy viewed in a whole new light — as a..." June 18

Yahoo! Sports "For the Los Angeles Clippers to bring Kevin Garnett and Doc Rivers to chase the franchise's first NBA championship, the price to complete a deal could come down to a willingness to include an additional first-round draft pick in the package to the Boston Celtics, league sources told Yahoo! Sports..." June 18

CBSSports.com "Attorneys for Derek Fisher and his assistant filed a motion for a change of venue Monday in the lawsuit filed against them by Billy Hunter, the former executive director of the National Basketball Players Association. Among other things, the motion presented evidence of an alleged conflict of..." June 18

Sacramento Bee "Pete D'Alessandro was in a comfortable place. He could have stayed in Denver and angled to be the Nuggets' new general manager, continuing to work with team president Josh Kroenke. But D'Alessandro wanted to take a chance on himself. "I've always been that second guy," D'Alessandro said...." June 18

Detroit Free Press "ESPNNewYork.com’s Ian Begley profiled former Pistons great Isiah Thomas’ peaceful efforts in his hometown of Chicago. The article shows that Thomas — along with other NBA players from Chicago — are trying to make difference in the city wracked by gun violence. And he is using..." June 18

Boston Globe "While Doc Rivers still continues to ponder whether he wants to coach the Celtics or Clippers, the two teams reignited talks regarding the longtime coach and Kevin Garnett in a complicated deal that would include Los Angeles center DeAndre Jordan. That's what is known right now. The rest is..." June 17

ESPN Dallas "The Mavericks’ big-fish recruiting pitch includes essentially offering an assistant GM job and a squeaky-clean salary-cap picture for next summer. We’ll see whether Chris Paul or Dwight Howard bite as they weigh the opportunity in Dallas against other options. Never mind the dollar details..." June 17

ESPN.com "Monta Ellis has informed the Milwaukee Bucks that he will opt out of the last year of his deal, according to league sources. Ellis, who had one year, $11 million left on his contract, will become one of the most coveted free agents on the market this summer. Sources say the Atlanta Hawks,..." June 17