Kyrie Irving may not be happy with his current situation with the Cleveland Cavaliers, according to Stephen A. Smith.

Irving signed a five-year, max extension with the Cavaliers on July 1st of 2014 before the team signed LeBron James in free agency and later traded for Kevin Love.

“Dating back to last year, I’ve been told that Kyrie Irving ain’t too happy being in Cleveland,” Smith stated on First Take this morning. “The situation is not ideal for him. I don’t know the particulars, I haven’t spoken to him personally. It’s something that I’ve been hearing for months; that under ideal circumstances he would prefer to be someplace other than Cleveland.”

Doc Rivers was asked how he would evaluate the roster moves he has made as president of the Los Angeles Clippers.

“I don’t know. I don’t evaluate," said Rivers. "I have too many people evaluating for me. I let them do it and I keep doing my job. I don’t care about the evaluations. I care about the team. We’re a team that doesn’t have a lot of leverage. We don’t have a lot of assets. But to me, we keep ending up with the Jeff Greens of the world, Cole Aldrich is terrific, Wes Johnson. … We’re getting these guys at minimum contracts.

“Even Josh [Smith] was a good gamble. It didn’t work out for us. But when you are in that minimum contract deal, you’re going to have some hits and misses and we’re fine with it and you keep doing it.”

Rivers was also asked about how he would describe his relationship with Steve Ballmer.

“He’s been phenomenal. He’s so supportive. Wants to win, like we all do. Involved, but lets us do our job. He is a great spirit to have in our organization and he’s the smartest man in the room every time he walks in the room. I just listen to him. I love his business.”

Doc Rivers was asked what kept the Los Angeles Clippers from trading away Blake Griffin at the deadline.

“I love him. He’s a good player," said Rivers. "He was only having an MVP year before he got injured. I laugh at some of the stuff about moving him. I’ve said from Day One he is not going anywhere. Of course, every team should call. That’s their job. That doesn’t mean we have to listen and we didn’t.”

Rivers was also asked if the Clippers received a lot of inquiries on Griffin.

“There was some, but not a lot because we shot them down so quickly. Reading about some of these crazy rumors in the paper was comical to us. …

“You can take the call, but you don’t have to listen. We like our team. We’re in the job of trying to make our team better, but we like our team.”

The Houston Rockets have waived Marcus Thornton.

Thornton saw his role with the Rockets diminish and he was even traded at the deadline in a deal with the Detroit Pistons that was later rescinded.

Thornton had not returned to the Rockets' active roster after the trade.

Thornton signed a one-year deal with Houston with hopes of increasing his value in summer free agency. Thornton averaged 10 points in 18.8 minutes a game this season.

Several teams are expected to pursue Carmelo Anthony in the offseason.

Anthony will have control of the process as he has a no-trade clause with the New York Knicks.

Anthony would prefer to remain with the Knicks but that could change if they continue to be incapable of contending built around him.

The Knicks are 41-100 dating back to the start of the 14-15 season.

The CEO of the Houston Rockets denied a report that James Harden asked for Kevin McHale to be fired as head coach and that he also did not ask Daryl Morey to trade away Dwight Howard.

"I can tell you unequivocally, being part of that [front-office] team, those things have never happened," Tad Brown said prior to the Rockets' game against the Portland Trail Blazers. "That's frustrating, and, for whatever reason, it's been a constant throughout this season. As we struggle and as we continue to struggle a little bit on the court, trying to get things to where we want them to be, that people have continued to take shots at our guys, take shots at our team, with unnamed sources being the ones who routinely provide that information."

Brown also denied an NBA.com report stating Howard and Harden asked for each other to be traded two seasons ago after Morey told ESPN the same last week.

Ryan McDonough regrets his decision for the Phoenix Suns to trade Isaiah Thomas to the Boston Celtics during the 2015 trade deadline for a first round pick.

“I think in retrospect trading Isaiah Thomas when we did was a mistake,” McDonough said. “I think sometimes in the recruitment process things sound better in July (luring Thomas in free agency) than they do in November.

“He wanted more, he wanted a bigger role and I understand why: He’s a talented player,” McDonough added. “In retrospect, we should have carried him into the summer. If there’s one (decision) that stands out, if I could get a mulligan, that’d be it.”

Kristaps Porzingis was asked about the future of Carmelo Anthony.

"I wouldn't want to lose him," said Porzingis.

Anthony has been mentioned in trade rumors as the New York Knicks are in-between trying to contend around him and rebuilding around Porzingis.

The Boston Celtics expressed interest in trading for Carmelo Anthony before the deadline.

It's unclear if the talks ever reached an advanced stage, but the Celtics were told Anthony had no desire to leave the Knicks for Boston.

Anthony gave an interesting response recently when asked if another season without a berth in the playoffs would cause him to reconsider his future with the New York Knicks.

“Not yet. Not yet. Not yet," Anthony said. “I’m pretty sure I’ll have that conversation with myself, my family, my team [agents]. That’s not a conversation right now."

Several teams could be in position to trade for Anthony in the offseason due to the rising cap.

The Philadelphia 76ers offered Ish Smith, Nik Stauskas, an expiring contract and a 2016 first round pick to the Atlanta Hawks for Dennis Schroder. 

Smith couldn't have been included in a multi-player deal since he had been acquired fewer than 60 days before the deadline, but he could have been moved in a second deal.

Smith is expected to have significant interest in free agency.

The Sixers and Hawks could revisit their trade talks in June.