The Houston Rockets have gone 41 straight games without the services of Tracy McGrady(notes) and he's getting extremely peeved about it. In fact, he's so annoyed that he showed up at the Target Center in Minneapolis and dressed in his game uniform and went through all his pregrame rituals, according to Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski.

He and coach Rick Adelman then apparently had an "emotional and sometimes loud" meeting about what the plan is for McGrady. The meeting supposedly kicked off with McGrady slamming the door shut.

McGrady is apparently feeling recovered from the microfracture surgery on his left knee and wanted to hear straight from Adelman - not Rockets general manager Daryl Morey or trainer Keith Jones - about his plan for McGrady, who apparently has to wait to play till at least next week when he will get another MRI to see if everything looks healed up.

Source: Yahoo! Sports

It's looking like former Memphis Grizzlies guard Allen Iverson(notes) is getting extremely close to signing a deal with the New York Knicks, according to NBA.com.

Earlier this week, Knicks prez Donnie Walsh said it was a long shot but he must be liking what he's hearing and seeing of Iverson because a deal is supposedly imminent. There are other sources to NBA.com that are saying the deal isn't so close to happening and the 2-9 Knickerbockers are still looking at the plusses and minuses of signing Iverson.

But what do the Knicks have to lose? They've blown a lot more money on far worse players to try and inject some energy into this losing franchise. Then again, the last thing this team needs is another diva who is going to fill up gossip pages rather than the basket.

It certainly can't hurt Iverson's chances for a deal that Knicks head coach Mike D'Antoni seems to think that Iverson could help lure LeBron James(notes) to New York when he becomes a free agent from the Cleveland Cavaliers next summer, according to the New York Post. The pair share an agent, at least.

Source: NBA.comNew York Post

Allen Iverson(notes) becomes a free agent this evening and after New York Knicks president told reporters the other day that it was a long shot for the aging guard to join the Knickerbockers, it is now apparently a 50-50 chance, according to the New York Times.

Someone associated with the team apparently told the paper, "It's a given. They're going to make the biggest play for him." Who else would at this point? Iverson was a big distraction instead of a savior for his last two teams, the Detroit Pistons and Memphis Grizzlies, so not too many other teams are clamoring for his services, except apparently the Miami Heat. One of Iverson's pals told the New York Daily News that the team is "hot" after Iverson.

The struggling Knicks have no other way of injecting any talent into their team chemistry so might as well give it a shot and see what happens. What can it hurt? They can always do what the Grizzlies did and put him on waivers.

Source: New York TimesNew York Daily News

The tboubled Golden State Warriors just got guard Raja Bell(notes) from the Charlotte Bobcats on Monday and it's already looking like they might not even get to see him play at all this year. He's apparently planning to have wrist surgery and could mean he's out for the season, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

He reportedly has a partially torn ligament in his left wrist and only miss four or five weeks if the wrist isn't in terrible shape. But if he needs to have screws put in, his whole season is likely lost. "I'm going into it, assuming it will be a big surgery," Bell said. "If I wake up and it's not, it's icing on the cake."

Golden State apparently knew about Bell's scenario when it made the trade that finally cleared Stephen Jackson(notes) out of California.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

The struggling New York Knicks will definitely look into the possibility of signing Allen Iverson(notes) after he becomes a free agent today, but that doesn't mean he's ever going to be actually playing for the team. In fact, team president Donnie Walsh thinks that is a complete long shot, according to the New York Post.

Head coach Mike D'Antoni didn't seem overly excited about the prospect of signing the 34-year-old guard who has been put on waivers by the Memphis Grizzlies. "He's been a force in this league for God knows how long," D'Antoni said. "I'm not taking anything away from him. At the same time, there's a lot of organization stuff to talk about."

Still, the team will do pretty much anything to dig itself out of its 1-9 worst start of all time.

Isn't now the time to a few Greek teams to say they'd take Iverson in a heartbeat?

Source: New York Post

The word is that Don Nelson doesn't want to coach the Golden State Warriors anymore and will step down but it will take longer than most people expected, according to the Contra Costa Times.

Even with the disappearance of Stephen Jackson(notes) and Acie Law(notes) to the Charlotte Bobcats in exchange for Raja Bella and Vladimir Radmanovic(notes), Nelson is apparently not very excited about coaching Monta Ellis(notes) and all the other young guys on the team. But there is one big thing supposedly holding him back from calling it quits: Lenny Wilkens.

Nelson has to win 21 more games to break the NBA all-time wins record that Wilkens now holds. Once Nelson has that under his big belt, there's not much incentive to stay on board.

So the expectation is that if he can feel that he's getting closer to that goal on a consistent enough basis, Nelson will stay till he sets a new record and then go home.

Source: Contra Costa Times

The Philadelphia 76ers and Sacramento Kings were apparently discussing a deal that would send Samuel Dalembert(notes) out West in exchange for Kenny Thomas(notes) when they reportedly decided to open up the deal and try to include the Boston Celtics, according to ESPN.

The Celts would end up with Andres Nocioni(notes) out of the deal while Kenny Thomas, Tony Allen(notes), and Brian Scalabrine(notes) would be unpacking their bags in the City of Brotherly Love, and Dalembert and J.R. Giddens(notes) would be headed to the Sacramento Kings.

The conversations are supposedly "ongoing." This is at least keeping a few assistant general managers very busy.

Source: ESPN

The New York Knicks need a point guard and Allen Iverson(notes) needs a job. A match made in heaven, right? Apparently, Iverson is going to get an interview with the 1-9 Knicks once he's free from the Memphis Grizzlies contract he signed this summer, according to the New York Daily News.

The Grizzlies were unhappy with Iverson's griping and have waived Iverson and he is set to become a free agent on Wednesday. Iverson was displeased with his playing time once he finally came back from an injury. Meanwhile, the Knicks have been less than excited about the work of current point guard Chris Duhon(notes), who head coach Mike D'Antoni thought was going to help turn his team around before Duhon got to New York at the start of last season.

Knicks president Donnie Walsh is saying that the Knicks will at least look into signing Iverson. He remains doubtful but is at least leaving open the possibility: "Right now, I'd say probably not but we'll see," he said.

The rumor is, of course, that the 34-year-old Iverson would absolutely love to be playing for the Knicks, where he would likely get a lot of attention.

But when will Iverson learn that attention can be a bad thing sometimes, too?

Source: New York Daily News

The Toronto Sun has it that the Miami Heat are hoping to re-sign Dwyane Wade and have enough dough left over to snag both LeBron James and Chris Bosh. That little plan has apparently not just been a little fantasy in the team's front offices. The three players have supposedly been in on the concept and have talked about the possibility. James and Wade are certainly pals and would like to play together again if the Cavs somehow don't satisfy the wishes of James.

Still, it is very hard to imagine James leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers, though it is very easy to imagine Bosh leaving the Toronto Raptors.

Source: Toronto Sun

The Los Angeles Lakers have been waiting for a while now for Pau Gasol's(notes) hamstring to heal up and he supposedly will test it out this week again at practice, according to the Orange County Register.

Coach Phil Jackson is apparently saying that Gasol has gone five days without pain and that he's been out on the court for "light" workouts. The team is supposedly ready for him to try the hamstring out against some actual contact.

Lakers fans are surely thinking that it would be nice to have the 18.9 points per game he averaged last year back in the lineup.

Source: Orange County Register