NBA Draft 2010 News

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Xavier Henry Learns What Grizzlies Are All About

It's difficult to call Michael Heisley and his Memphis Grizzlies cheap just weeks after the franchise forked over more than $80 million for the next five years of Rudy Gay's career. That ended up as the sixth most lucrative NBA contract signed this summer, for a player who wasn't the sixth best free agent available. But...

Orlando Summer League Begins Monday

ORLANDO, Fla. -- It won't come with the glitz and the hype of Las Vegas -- that arrives July 9-18 -- but the AirTran Airways Pro Summer League in Orlando starting Monday will provide the first glimpse of NBA basketball this summer. The Bobcats, Jazz, Pacers, Magic, Celtics, Thunder, Nets and 76ers each have entered...

Wizards Trade Is About Them, Not You

It's now been a full four days since the Bulls traded Kirk Hinrich and the 17th pick to the Wizards for a future second-rounder. With that, Chicago cleared enough cap space to sign LeBron James and another max player. That makes them the putative front-runner in the Bron-stakes, except for maybe the Heat's dream of, as Tom...

Wolves May Keep Nemanja Bjelica in Minnesota

You know how the joke goes: The Timberwolves, replete with point guards and power forwards, decide the settle in on small forwards on draft day, and ended up with four of them. And, to get a little more mileage out of the ha-ha, one of them happens to be a European prospect who could pull a Rubio and stay in the Old World...

DeMarcus Cousins Ready to Be Great

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- DeMarcus Cousins is ready this time. The red-flag leader is ready for the scrutiny, the expectations, the double-edged adulation that will come with being the No. 5 pick and newest center for the Sacramento Kings. He wasn't ready before. "When Nike named him No. 1 (in the country) in the ninth...