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Larry Coon groups the NBA teams according to their salary-cap situation. The Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers will likely have to pay quite a luxury tax next season.

Story | Conversation | April 02, 2013

Bradford Doolittle rates all the trades of the offseason, offering a thumbs up or thumbs down.

Story | Conversation | August 07, 2012

Marc Stein's latest Weekend Dime

The teams involved in the three-team Chris Paul trade blocked Thursday by NBA commissioner David Stern are lobbying the league for Stern to reverse the decision, according to sources close to the process.

Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak knows that the particulars of the post-lockout world will present new challenges for him to continue to field a championship-caliber team.

How the NBA's new system will impact all 30 teams? Our insiders have the breakdown.

Story | Conversation | November 30, 2011

The amnesty provision of the new CBA could push Baron Davis out of Cleveland.

NBA players confident new deal will pass.

Surprise, relief, joy and even some caution. Such was the reaction of many NBA players and fans Saturday, amid news that the labor dispute which led to the cancellation of hundreds of games and threatened the entire season was nearing an end.

While the NBA Players Association's executive committee is staunchly against accepting the league's recent offer, it is not a certainty that the player reps who will meet Tuesday will feel the same way, a source said Monday.

Chad Ford breaks down how much long-term cash and cap room each team would save by using the amnesty clause on its top candidate.

Story | Conversation | October 31, 2011

Give them credit, they have been consistent. The NBA owners have always said that they want two things from a new CBA: To adjust player salaries so that owners stop losing money, and to change some other aspects of the league's financial underpinn...

After two years of mostly fruitless labor talks, league officials and union leaders will reconvene Friday in New York on the 92nd day of the NBA lockout for what is being widely regarded as a now-or-never weekend of negotiations

Chad Ford examines the implications of a potential lost season and how it could affect the 2012 NBA draft, including one potential scenario in which the Miami Heat, L.A. Lakers and other powerhouses could get the No. 1 pick.

Blog | Conversation | September 20, 2011

Players who were on NBA rosters last season have been told by the players' union that checks worth a total of nearly $190 million will be coming their way this month, a source said.

Every day we'll have First Take's questions from the First and Ten segment featuring Skip Bayless.