PAUL PIERCE RUMORS & GOSSIP

Chris Paul’s departure from the Los Angeles Clippers came as a shock publicly, but if one report is true, it wouldn’t have been a surprise privately.ESPN’s Michael Eaves shared several alleged reasons that Paul left the Clippers, generally boiling it down to CP3 having a fallout with coach and team president Doc Rivers over the treatment of son Austin Rivers.According to Eaves...

Though the Big 3 has all the tools and components for an exciting summer diversion are there, important tweaks and adjustments are necessary for the venture to become a successful, viable and lasting league and sports entertainment operation.The atmosphere was there. The positive optics were there, including a strong nostalgia factor. The crowd, listed as 15,177 at Brooklyn’s Barclays...

The Boston Celtics opted not to make any big splash moves at the draft. Teams seemed to demand too much of Ainge and he never saw a trade that suited the Celtics. Now, he and the rest of the C’s front office will set their sights on free agency. Here’s how the Celtics can make the most out of their free agency experience this offseason. Don’t offer max money to a potentially...

Paul Pierce has reiterated and expanded upon his opinion that Kevin Durant “right now” is the NBA's best player, not LeBron James.The newly retired Pierce, serving as an analyst for ESPN during the NBA Finals, said that Durant “may be the best player in the world today."Pierce’s assertion not surprisingly spawned much debate, given James typically is hailed unquestionably...

Seemingly as soon as the Finals ended, the NBA dove right into silly season, with rumors, breaking news, and questions popping up all over the basketball landscape. With the draft quickly so close, the entire league feels in flux, grasping at ways to compete with the Warriors or make a leap for the future.Big names like Jimmy Butler and Paul George are rumored to be available, the...

Future NBA Hall of Famer Paul Pierce has made headlines recently as a guest analyst on ESPN, most notably for proclaiming Kevin Durant better than LeBron James. Now it appears that The Truth, who retired from the NBA when his Clippers were eliminated from the playoffs last month, might soon bring those hot takes, as well as all his more reasonable ones, to ESPN on a full-time...

LeBron James may have surpassed Michael Jordan on Thursday as the NBA’s all-time leading playoff scorer, but Paul Pierce apparently feels that means very little in the grand scheme of things.Pierce was watching “Undisputed” on FS1 Friday morning, and he was stunned to hear host Nick Wright talking about LeBron’s legacy being comparable to — or even surpassing — Jordan’s...

Paul Pierce has a recommendation for what the Boston Celtics should do with the pick that he helped them land.In an appearance on ESPN’s “The Jump” on Wednesday, the 10-time All-Star expressed his belief that the Celtics should trade the No. 1 overall pick.“You trade this pick, because he [Markelle Fultz] cannot help the Celtics get over the top,” said Pierce, per Chris...

How much more heartbreak can the Brooklyn Nets take? Despite finishing with the best record in the Eastern Conference, the Boston Celtics walked away with the No. 1 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft because the Nets handed it to them in a God-awful trade from 2013. Former Celtics legend Paul Pierce was part of that trade, going from Boston to Brooklyn. He jokingly took credit on Tuesday...

The day after Paul Pierce played his final NBA game, Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck confirmed to Toucher and Rich, a local Boston radio show, that The Truth will have his No. 34 hanging in the rafters of TD Garden. This news isn’t surprising in any way. Pierce was the face of the franchise for an entire era and was named the NBA Finals MVP in 2008, Boston’s lone title since...