Atlanta Hawks guard Jamal Crawford tallied up 18 points, 2.5 rebounds, and three assists per game last year in his first season with the team. He and his agent would like an extension past this season when his contract is due to run out, according to the Boston Globe. His agent is meeting with general manager Rick Sund this week to discuss the possibility of an extension, the paper reports, in hopes of having him securely on a payroll when next season is scheduled to begin and the collective bargaining agreement is still in question

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Swingman Kelenna Azubuike played only nine games for the Golden State Warriors last season due to tearing the patellar tendon in his left knee last November. He spent the summer working with a private trainer to be ready for his new team, the New York Knicks , but it appears his work hasn’t paid off

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There’s only one roster spot left on the Boston Celtics bench, and president of basketball operations Danny Ainge is looking to fill it with a trade, according to the Boston Globe. "We’re just continuing to explore available players and trade possibilities and see what sort of options are there,” Ainge told the paper.

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There’s only one roster spot left on the Boston Celtics bench, and president of basketball operations Danny Ainge is looking to fill it with a shooter via a trade, according to the Boston Globe. "We’re just continuing to explore available players and trade possibilities and see what sort of options are there,” Ainge told the paper.

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Carmelo Anthony hasn’t exactly made it clear that he wants to stay with the Denver Nuggets recently, but the team would love to hang onto him. So Nuggets exec Josh Kroenke met up with Carmelo Anthony this past weekend in Baltimore, according to Yahoo! Sports Adrian Wojnarowski to try to sell the player on sticking with the franchise. The 30-year-old Kroenke, who also happens to be the owner’s son, will likely take over the team someday and got a firsthand test this past weekend while trying to show Anthony that it would totally be worth his while to take the three-year, $65 million contract extension that is on the table from the team rather than becoming a free agent next summer and moving to another team.

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Carmelo Anthony hasn’t made it clear that he wants to stay with the Denver Nuggets , but the team certainly wants him to stay. So Nuggets exec Josh Kroenke met with Anthony last weekend to try to sell him on staying, according to Yahoo! Sports Adrian Wojnarowski . The 30-year-old Kroenke, who is the owner’s son and is likely to take over the team someday, got a taste of the responsibility over the weekend as he presumably tried to convince Anthony to take the three-year, $65 million contract extension rather than become a free agent next summer. Wojnarowski notes that nothing final came out of the conversation.

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Carmelo Anthony (notes) seems destined now to leave the Denver Nuggets when he becomes a free agent next summer. And the Nuggets may try to send him packing earlier than that via trade, according to CBSSports.com

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It doesn’t look like Carmelo Anthony is considering the Denver Nuggets ‘ three-year, $65 million contract extension, if sources of ESPN are accurate. According to ESPN, league sources say it is now a matter of when, not if , Anthony and the Nuggets will go their separate ways. One source told the site, "He’s going to make it real clear that he’s not coming back." Don’t go burning any bridges, Carmelo. Nuggets owner Stan Kroenke knows the situation, the site reports, and the concept of his team without Anthony after next season started to become real at the player’s New York wedding in June, where New Orleans Hornets Chris Paul (notes) , New York Knicks forward Amar’e Stoudemire (notes) and Anthony’s brother, Robert, publicly laid pressure on Anthony to leave Denver for New York.

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When the NBA free-agent period kicked off on July 1, it was incredibly hard to predict where Chris Bosh (notes) , Dwyane Wade (notes) , and LeBron James (notes) would end up due to the mixed messages they were giving off.

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When the NBA free-agent period began July 1, it was hard to predict where Chris Bosh (notes) , Dwyane Wade (notes) and LeBron James (notes) would end up due to the mixed messages they were giving off. Turns out that was partially by design

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Denver Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony (notes) is a free agent next summer and he has told friends that he’s "eager to explore playing" for the New York Knicks when his contract is up, according to CBSSports.com. However, the site reports that Anthony is also a little confused about what’s going to happen with the next collective bargaining agreement and that could lead to him signing the three-year, $65 million extension the Nuggets have offered him. Sources to CBSSports.com say that team owners are determined to "clamp down" on player salaries and player movement in the next CBA after all the free-agent nuttiness this summer.

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Employees of NBA teams are strictly forbidden from recruiting high school basketball players. That’s something Isiah Thomas, a recent rehire by the New York Knicks as a consultant, does all the time in his job as head coach of Florida International University.

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Smush Parker (notes) hasn’t been in the NBA since 2007-08 when he played or the Los Angeles Clippers .

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Forward Jared Jeffries (notes) had been with the New York Knicks since the start of the 2006 season but got shipped out to the Houston Rockets in February as part of the Tracy McGrady (notes) transaction. Now the Knicks may be trying to get the 6-11, 30-year-old Jeffries back onto its roster, according to Yahoo! Sports’ Marc J

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New Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau is looking for an assistant coach and a name on his list, according to the Daily Herald, is Larry Johnson, who was taken with the No. 1 overall pick in the 1991 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets.

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New Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau is looking for an assistant coach and Larry Johnson was rumored to be on a list of candidates. But Johnson, the No.

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Now that Shaquille O’Neal (notes) is moving to New England to fill the big-man role the Boston Celtics needed in order to replace the injured Kendrick Perkins (notes) , there is one other open spot left. Yahoo! Sports’ Marc J. Spears is reporting that the swingman slot behind Paul Pierce (notes) and Ray Allen (notes) could be filled by free-agent Larry Hughes (notes) .

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