This week the league awards for 2012/13 were announced and there weren't any real surprises. The biggest controversy came when one of the 121 possible first place votes in the MVP race went to Carmelo Anthony rather than LeBron James. The Twitterverse went on a witchhunt to find the culprit and ultimately we learned that the intrepid voter was Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe, who penned a column to explain his rationale. Here's a look back at the rest of this week's news on Hoops Rumors..
- After firing P.J. Carlesimo, the Nets reached out to Phil Jackson to fill their coaching vacancy but he turned them down. They're also interested in Larry Brown and Brian Shaw.
- The Sixers hired Sam Hinkie as their new GM.
- The Suns officially have a new GM in place: Ryan McDonough. The former Celtics exec takes over for Lance Blanks, who was recently let go. There were rumblings that the Suns were holding out for Grant Hill to take the job.
- Vinny Del Negro's dismissal from the Clippers seems rather likely at this point.
- J.B. Bickerstaff is on the Pistons' radar.
- The Timberwolves are expected to go hard after O.J. Mayo.
- The Hawks like Stan Van Gundy. So do the Bucks.
- Lionel Hollins says the Grizzlies want him back.
- The Timberwolves cut ties with Brandon Roy.
- The Clippers are publicly confident that Chris Paul will return next season.
- The Hawks are convinced that the situation in L.A. will open the door for them to sign Dwight Howard.
- Things don't sound good for coach Larry Drew and his staff in Atlanta. The coaches have begun looking into other opportunities around the league.
- Nuggets GM Masai Ujiri is hopeful that Andre Iguodala will return to Denver.
- Omer Asik isn't paying attention to the Howard-to-Houston talk.
- The Wolves want to keep Nikola Pekovic.
- Zaza Pachulia and Kyle Korver are interested in returning to the Hawks.
- The Raptors are going to keep Bryan Colangelo.
- The Kings' new ownership has agreed to take in less from the league's revenue sharing program. Meanwhile, the drama continues.
- Andray Blatche wants to return to the Nets.
- No surprise here, Metta World Peace won't opt out.