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By Chad Ford and Marc Stein ESPN.com For the past several years, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey has been trying to package assets together to make a big deal on draft night. The 2012 draft is no different. Sources say that Houston...

Glenn James/NBAE/Getty Images With his son in the draft, it's not hard to guess who he'd like the Celtics to pick. Chad Ford's first 2012 mock draft came out the other day (Insider), and it projected the Celtics to pick Kentucky power forward Terre...

Chad Ford and Marc Stein have done a lot of hard work looking at how different teams are likely to deploy the upcoming, agreed-to-in-principle amnesty clause. The clause gives every owner the right to pay off one player to go away. Owners won't wr...

By Ramona Shelburne and Chad Ford The Los Angeles Clippers and Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed in principle to a trade that would send Baron Davis and the Clippers' 2011 first-round draft pick to Cleveland in exchange for Mo Williams and Jamario M...

By Chris Sheridan My ESPN colleague Chad Ford has broken the news that Chris Bosh has given the Toronto Raptors a list of four teams to which he would accept a sign-and-trade deal, and the New York Knicks are on it (along with the Bulls, Lakers an...

Marc Stein and Chad Ford The Miami Heat have spent the final hour-plus before the NBA's 3 p.m. ET trading deadline trying to convince the Utah Jazz to surrender Carlos Boozer, according to NBA front-office sources. One source with knowledge of...

By Marc Stein and Chad Ford Boozer The Miami Heat have opened discussions with the Utah Jazz on a Carlos Boozer deal in advance of Thursday's 3 p.m. deadline, according to NBA front-office sources. Sources told ESPN.com that Miami, with ...

The Milwaukee Bucks have agreed to a trade that will send Jodie Meeks, Francisco Elson and a second-round draft pick to the Philadelphia 76ers for Primoz Brezec and Royal Ivey, two league sources told ESPN.com NBA Insider Chad Ford. The teams are ...

By Henry Abbott Maybe Brandon Roy was never as good as we thought. John Hollinger and Chad Ford have dropped the Blazers from first to sixth in their future rankings (Insider), and here's why: "Although the Blazers' roster still appears formidabl...

By Henry Abbott Chad Ford and John Hollinger have worked up ratings (Insider) of teams in terms of how well they are positioned for the future. They picked my favorite team, the Portland Trail Blazers, first overall -- so clearly they know exac...

by Chad Ford Golden State Warriors swingman Stephen Jackson has been openly pining for a trade for weeks. He's tried to force the Warriors to dump him by publicly demanding a trade to a contender, skirmishing with coach Don Nelson (and being suspe...

by Chad Ford Is Allen Iverson's career in Memphis over after just three games? On Saturday, Iverson was granted permission to leave the Grizzlies to deal with a personal matter a Grizzlies spokesperson confirmed. The question is, will he be ...

by Chad Ford Milwaukee Bucks rookie Brandon Jennings is off to a torrid start, prompting the inevitable "What the heck were the [insert your lottery team here] thinking on draft night?" questions. Considering that Jennings was ranked in the top...

By Chad Ford A week ago it began looking like just three first-rounders from the 2006 NBA Draft were going to get contract extensions from their teams. Brandon Roy got a max deal. LaMarcus Aldridge landed a sweet $65 million extension. And And...

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 ...

by Chad Ford Andrea Bargnani got a $50 million extension from the Raptors in July. Brandon Roy followed with a max $80 million extension in August. And his teammate, LaMarcus Aldridge, just agreed to a $65 million extension on Wednesday evening. ...