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Brad Townsend of The Dallas Morning News: The revamping Mavericks agreed to contract terms Monday night with free agent guard O.J. Mayo, the third pick of the 2008 draft. Mayo, 24, tweeted the news at about 10:30 p.m., saying "I will be signing with ...

By Chris Sheridan Yes, he really said he has a Plan Z. And the president of the New York Knicks said a bunch of other stuff in a radio interview on ESPN 1050 Radio in New York that you can listen to by clicking over to the Knicks blog on the ES...

Barry Gossage/NBAE/Getty Images This season has wholly reversed Goran Dragic's reputation as a wasted 2008 pick. I was lucky enough to have a great seat for Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals in Phoenix, which inspired, believe it or not, a po...

By Chad Ford Knicks GM Donnie Walsh said something to me this summer that I haven't been able to get out of my head. Walsh said that the future of the Knicks lies with Danilo Gallinari ... not a certain free-agent-to-be superstar in Cleveland ...

Remember back when Derrick Rose was in high school, and there were all those articles about how Derrick was so lucky to have his brothers keeping him away from all the scum of recruiting? Now it's time to start asking how well that worked out. Of...

If you follow basketball closely, then you have probably heard or read a hundred stories about this or that guy doing this or that corrupt thing to recruit this or that player. But a year later, the details are all pretty hazy, right? Louis Johnson&#...

Michael Wilbon of The Washington Post: "We see all-court brilliance like this every 25 years or so, when a player is extraordinary in basketball's primary skills: scoring, rebounding and passing. Only Oscar Robertson, in 1962, has averaged d...

You know when people talk about rookies learning the league? Getting their routines down? I assume when he's 30, Derrick Rose won't roll around in bed with a knife. But right now, he's 20, and he has a knife wound. K.C. Johnson of the Chicago T...

Every season has its story. Last year, there was Kevin Garnett's trade, and Kobe Bryant's will, driving a resurgence of one of basketball's great rivalries. Other years have witnessed the rise of Michael Jordan, or the fall of Magic Johnson. Bigwigs,...

Beno Udrih makes Kobe Bryant fall over, which gets him almost enough good karma to overcome the play later in the game when he gave the Lakers a layup while taking some time to yell at Jason Thompson.Layoffs at the NBA.Links to some of the best sport...

What's better than a maximum contract? A max-plus contract. Welcome to the world of up-front cash, adjustments for future increases in the salary cap, and trade kickers.It's not like everything is perfect in Europe. One of the greatest coaches not in...

Mike Bresnahan of the Los Angeles Time: "Assistant coach Kurt Rambis said Odom's game was 'fair to middling, maybe poor,' and that Odom 'didn't seem focused out there.' Jackson took it a step further. 'I just got through telling him that this is real...

You ever feel like ditching your humdrum life to see if you can catch on with a semi-pro team in the Czech Republic? This guy did it, and wrote a book about it.For years, the question has been: How can you keep Rasheed Wallace from mixing it up with ...

Mike McGraw of the Arlington Heights Daily Herald: "General manager John Paxson has said he will not use a strategy of creating cap room in 2010. That sounds like a smart decision, since the Bulls demonstrated in 2000 what can happen when a team puts...

The first Josh Childress highlights from Europe, from an exhibition game in which he scored 14 points. Olympiacos won. One block-run-dunk play was really special.Amare Stoudemire reportedly might be resting his ankle a little.Jared Reiner will be in ...

Ray Ratto of the San Francisco Chronicle: "A moped. Monta Ellis put $66 million on a moped. Of course he did. Ellis blew up his ankle and will be lost to America's Favorite Ninth-Place Team for between two and four months, depending on whose diagnosi...