Wojnarowski On the protection of picks in a Rockets-Wolves trade: "You can only give a pick every other year, you can't give up picks in consecutive years. The protections would be pretty limited in any deal they would do if there's 4 of them."

Conference Disparity 11 seed Wolves are 4 games behind 1 seed Pels out West while the 3 seed Cavs are 45 games behind 1 seed Celtics in the East

Wojnarowski Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke has agreed on a four-year 52 million contract extension his agents Mark Bartelstein and Andy Shiffman of PrioritySports tell ESPN

Kevin Durant's trash talk to Gary Payton last night You up here I'm at the ceiling By the time you was my age you was the 8th man on the bench