With no more than two games left in the 2014-15 NBA season, league developments beyond those related to the Golden State Warriors' and Cleveland Cavaliers' championship bids are beginning to garner greater attention.
Fourteen NBA teams have been in offseason mode since mid-April, with another 14 joining them round-by-round as the playoffs whittled them out of title contention.
In this roundup of NBA rumors, we have injury developments, free-agency rumblings and draft machinations. Here's a look at some of the latest talk from around the league.
Joel Embiid
Philadelphia 76ers big man Joel Embiid missed his entire rookie season with a broken navicular bone in his right foot. The 76ers went 18-64 without him in the fold, but that wasn't considered an issue in general manager Sam Hinkie's analytics-driven plan, in which he hopes to convert short-term pain into long-term, championship-caliber gain by hoarding assets and young players until a path to title contention crystallizes.
Of course, he needs assets like Embiid to get on the court and develop, but a report from The Philadelphia Inquir ...
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