Mavs owner Mark Cuban alleged that Rockets GM Daryl Morey relies heavily on math and cares very little about team chemistry. Morey quickly fired back at Cuban’s comments and added that he’ll “never trade” his core of Dwight Howard and James Harden. Here’s more from the week that was..
- Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov and Guggenheim (Dodgers) are in talks to merge forces, which would form a sports empire worth $8 billion.
- The Magic want extensions with Nikola Vucevic and Tobias Harris and the interest is reciprocal.
- The Bulls and Jimmy Butler have talked about a new deal.
- The Jazz opened extension talks with both Enes Kanter and Alec Burks.
- No surprise here, the Blazers have exercised their option on Damian Lillard for the 2015/16 season.
- The Suns signed the Morris twins to four-year extensions. President of basketball operations Lon Babby negotiated a total figure for Markieff Morris and Marcus Morris with agent Leon Rose, letting the twins decide how to split what turned out to be a $52MM pot.
- The Rockets plan to exercise their fourth-year team options on the rookie scale contracts of both Terrence Jones and Donatas Motiejunas.
- The league will likely vote on changes to the lottery and the proposal is gaining support.
- The Hawks are up for sale and commissioner Adam Silver says they’ll stay in Atlanta.
- The Wizards waived Vander Blue and David Stockton. Among the new signings still in camp are Xavier Silas, Rasual Butler, Damion James, and Daniel Orton.
- Josh Howard is attempting an NBA comeback.
- Rookie K.J. McDaniels has an unusual arrangement with the Sixers.
- Pops Mensah-Bonsu signed on with the Nuggets but left training camp for personal reasons.
- The Pelicans signed D.J. Stephens for camp.
- The 76ers waived Pierre Jackson.
- Shawn Marion says that he turned down more lucrative offers from other clubs to sign with Cleveland because they landed Kevin Love.
- Finally, the Rockets inked Francisco Garcia to a new deal.
- The Nuggets and Alonzo Gee struck agreement on a deal.
- The Nuggets called off their deal with Joe Alexander.
- The Thunder signed power forwards Richard Solomon and Talib Zanna.
- The Celtics re-signed Christian Watford.
- Earl Watson is calling it quits.
- Jason Kapono‘s deal with the Warriors is done.