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DALLAS - Let's take a quick look at the Mavericks' financial forecast this summer, with an assist from renowned salary cap expert Larry Coon. The Mavs have the following eight seven players under contract next season: Dirk Nowitzki ($22,721,381...

In a previous post, we talked about how the Lakers' earlier trades affected the team's first round draft pick this June. Today we'll wrap-up the discussion by looking at this year's second round and their picks in future years. First a primer on t...

As L.A. contemplates the decline and fall of the Lakers Empire, some fans are starting to look past this disastrous season and toward the offseason -- something nearly unheard of in Lakerland in January. Nervous questions like "how can the Lakers...

ESPN's Larry Coon (Insider) compares each player's NBA Rank with his salary and discovers the following: "Just four teams were underpaid in 2011-12, according to the #NBArank scores of the top 12 players on each team. Leading the way was Oklahoma Cit...

Signing Jeremy Lin to a big contract after just 26 productive NBA games represents a significant risk to the Knicks. Depending on New York's total payroll in 2014-2015, Lin could cost the Knicks about $15 million in salary, plus an additional $47.5 m...

If you've been paying attention over the past few days, there's no doubt you've heard all of the arguments to both keep and get rid of Jeremy Lin. There's the camp out there that says there's no way you can pay a player like Lin $14.8 million in ...

Larry Coon investigates whether the Big Three formula can survive under the NBA's new Collective Bargaining Agreement (Insider): "Though the NBA announced late Tuesday night that the salary cap will remain the same as it was in 2011-12, the luxury ta...

The Dallas Mavericks have interest in bidding for Philadelphia power forward Elton Brand, whom the 76ers have chosen to amnesty when the NBA resumes business operations Wednesday. Teams under the salary cap have first crack to bid on amnestied pla...

As Dwight Howard and the Magic play out the end game of the trade deadline, they are charting a course through the eight different options the collective bargaining agreement creates: Howard can play out the season with the Magic, become a free a...

From our TrueHoop blog, this is very valuable information: As Dwight Howard and the Magic play out the end game of the trade deadline, they are charting a course through the eight different options the collective bargaining agreement creates: ...

Jeremy Lin unlikely to slip through New York Knicks' hands in free agency this NBA offseason.

I've been getting this question a lot lately on Twitter. Can the Nets go into next season with a lineup of Deron Williams, MarShon Brooks, their likely lottery pick, Brook Lopez and Dwight Howard? ESPN.com's capologist Larry Coon was kind eno...

Larry Coon breaks down the potential scenarios for Dwight Howard.

The first beneficiary of the new Derrick Rose Rule is ... Kevin Durant.

With many trade exceptions expiring today, we could see some deals.

A closer look at Dan Gilbert's letter to David Stern reveals some flimsy logic.