Here’s the best news in a long time for the New York Knicks and their beat writers Alan Hahn, Frank Isola, Marc Berman and my boy Tommy Dee of SNY.tv.
Per the Cleveland Plain Dealer, LeBron plans to become an unrestricted free agent next summer.
In his strongest comments on the subject to date, the reigning NBA [...]

The Dallas Mavericks traded for Tim Thomas on Tuesday but you have to wonder if the Paterson, N.J. native will stay there for long.
The 6-foot-10, 250-pound Thomas, 32, signed a one-year deal for $1.3 million with the Mavs, his fourth team since last November.
The deal is low-risk for Dallas, which didn’t use any of its [...]

Jordan Crawford’s dunk on LeBron James has finally surfaced on video.
And it’s disappointing.
The initial video was confiscated by Nike officials and reports out of the LeBron James Skills Academy were that Crawford, a guard at Xavier, threw one down so hard on King James, that the superstar was sent reeling backward.
It was an urban legend [...]

PHILLY — Jordan Crawford’s dunk on LeBron James earlier this week in Akron, Ohio was so loud, folks are still talking about it here at the Reebok All-American Camp.
‘It was fresh, it was kind of crazy,” said Villanova-bound big man Markus Kennedy, who attended the LeBron James Nike Skills Camp and says he may attend [...]

Here are few interesting updates from the guys at the LeBron James Skills Academy in Akron, Ohio…
**Xavier’s Jordan Crawford, a 6-foot-4, 195-pound guard, dunked on King James during a pickup game Monday night involving LeBron and the college players in attendance.
“I was on the right wing and went down the middle. I got past Danny [...]

Jason Kidd will remain with the Dallas Mavericks instead of coming to Broadway.
Kidd, 36, has agreed to a three-year deal worth more than $25 million to remain in Dallas, according to ESPN.com
The Knicks could only offer the midlevel exception — about $5.8 million per year — or about $19 million total.
“We are excited to have [...]

Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose issued a statement about the photo circulating of him allegedly making gang signs.
“Recently, a photo has been circulating on the Internet which appears to depict me flashing a gang sign. This photo of me was taken at a party I attended in Memphis while I was in school there, and [...]

Carmelo Anthony has fired agent Calvin Andrews and will sign with Creative Artists Agency, according to an industry source.
Bill Duffy, Andrews’ boss at Bill Duffy Associates, and Leon Rose, CAA’s renowned basketball agent, were not immediately available for comment.
Rose is a close friend and business associate of William Wesley, aka “Worldwide Wes,” the basketball power [...]

Memphis freshman Tyreke Evans will test the NBA waters.
He hasn’t signed with an agent, meaning he can return for his sophomore season.
But don’t bet on it.
DraftExpress.com has Evans going at No. 7 to the Golden State Warriors.
“I am pursuing what has been a dream of mine for a long time, and that is to play [...]

If you haven’t seen Nate Robinson’s dunk over Dwight Howard in last night’s NBA Slam Dunk contest, you should check it out.