Houston Rockets point guard Jonny Flynn is only 23 years old, but he is a wanted man. The word from ESPN is that both the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers have asked the Rockets about trading for him.

Flynn, who was picked sixth overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2009 draft, was traded during last summer's draft to the Rockets along with Donatas Motiejunas for Brad Miller and the number 23 and 38 picks along with a future first-round pick.

In the seven games he's played for Houston, he's averaged 3.1 points, 2.4 assists, and 1.1 rebounds per game. In his rookie season, Flynn averaged 13.4 points, 4.4 assists, and 2.4 rebounds per game.

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Los Angeles Clippers power forward Blake Griffin won the Slam Dunk Contest during last year's All-Star Weekend, but he's said that he isn't planning on going for a second title this year.

But now the big weekend, which will run from Feb. 24-26 in Orlando, is getting close and the Orlando Sentinel reports that Griffin is now not saying so definitively that he won't do it.

When approached after Monday's shootaround before the Clippers topped the Orlando Magic 107-102, Griffin said, "I haven't been approached yet, so we'll see what happens with that. We'll see what they're going to do, and I'll guess I'll make a decision."

Griffin is averaging 21.2 points, 10.9 rebounds, and 3.1 assists per game.

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The New York Knicks finally have a point guard that is getting the job done this season. Second-year man Jeremy Lin delivered 28 points and eight assists in Monday night's 99-88 victory over the Utah Jazz.

The victory came without the services of forward Amar'e Stoudemire, who left the team indefinitely because of the sudden death of his brother, and without much help from Carmelo Anthony, who left the game with a strained right groin.

Having played less than six minutes and scored only two points, Anthony headed to the locker room to deal with his groin and was in street clothes before the game ended, the New York Post reports. Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said Anthony is now "day-to-day," the paper notes.

"He'll be revaluated [Tuesday],'' D'Antoni said, according to the Post. "It's usually a day or two [to see] does it swell up or is there blood? We'll find out [Tuesday]. But it'll be a couple days before we know the extent of it."

Anthony is averaging 22.3 points, 6 rebounds, and 4.2 assists per game.

The next game for the 10-15 Knicks is Wednesday against the Washington Wizards. New York is currently in tenth place in the Eastern Conference, a game out of playoff contention.

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Veteran Dallas Mavericks point guard Jason Kidd may be out of commission "for awhile" due to a strained right calf, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

His injury occurred on Jan. 27 and he's been out for five games since then, missing practice again Monday, the paper notes.

"His status is we'll let you know,'' head coach Rick Carlisle said Monday, the Star-Telegram reports. "Do we miss him? Yeah. All you guys were asking me about bringing him off the bench last week. This is why he's an all-time great player, why he's the best point guard in Mavs' history, and it's why we need him in our starting lineup. But first we need him healthy.''

The 38-year-old Kidd, a 10-time All-Star, doesn't have a return timetable at this point, the paper reports. "We're getting closer, but we'll let you know,'' Carlisle said.

The 14-11 Mavs have gone 2-3 without Kidd.

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Last year's NBA MVP, Derrick Rose, played less than 11 minutes and didn't even appear in the second half of the team's 108-87 blowout of the New Jersey Nets Monday. His disappearance wasn't because his services weren't needed, but because he was suffering from back spasms, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

The tightness in his back has been there for the last five games, the Sun-Times reports, and, as Rose said, "probably even before that."

The Sun-Times notes that trainers have been working on Rose during recent games, "but the situation appears to be getting worse."

''Tonight was pretty tough,'' Rose said, according to the paper. ''It was tight the whole game. It's just something where I've got to get a massage and stretched right away and hopefully it'll be gone.''

Rose is averaging 22.7 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 7.9 assists per game for the league-leading Bulls.

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After no NBA team made an offer that interested him, 11-time All-Star Allen Iverson headed to Turkey last season to play basketball, though that didn't turn out so well. Now it's looking like he could be taking his sneakers to Puerto Rico.

Sources tell Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski that "Iverson and Puerto Rico's professional basketball league are engaged in exploratory talks about a possible deal."

At about $20,000 a month plus living expenses, the Puerto Rican league wouldn't exactly be a massive payday for the 36-year-old, but "the league's commissioner is selling Iverson on the chance to work his way back to a possible return to the NBA," Wojnarowski reports.

Two other former NBA players that recently signed with the league, which starts its season in March, include Rashad McCants and Ike Diogu.

Iverson, who is working out in Atlanta in hopes of landing a deal, was the first overall pick in the 1995 draft out of Georgetown, but he hasn't played in the NBA since 2010. Over his career, the guard has averaged 26.7 points, 3.7 rebounds, and 6.2 assists per game over 914 contests.

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Since 6-10 Al Horford is out for three months with a torn left pectoral muscle, the Atlanta Hawks are looking to sign a center, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But the team would like to sign him for a 10-day contract rather than on a per meant deal, the paper reports.

Three of the names that have been discussed, the paper reports, are Kyrylo Fesenko, Erick Dampier, and Dan Gadzuric.

Fesenko played 53 games for the Utah Jazz last season, averaging two points and two rebounds per game.  Gadzuric spent parts of last season with the New Jersey Nets and Golden State Warriors, averaging 2.8 points, and 3.2 rebounds per game. Dampier appeared in 51 games for the Miami Heat last season, averaging 2.6 points and 3.5 rebounds per game.

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Memphis Grizzlies guard O.J. Mayo is a restricted free agent this summer and he appears more than willing to listen to other teams, though insists that Memphis is his No. 1 priority right now.

CelticsHub.com hears from Mayo that he'd be open to joining the Boston Celtics.

"I'd be happy to play there," Mayo told the site Sunday before his team got pummeled by Boston 98-80. "But right now my main goal is to play for Memphis and hopefully help get them their first NBA Championship." Of course, that's looking pretty tough right now since the Grizzlies are currently a game and a half out of playoff contention in the Western Conference.

The 24-year-old Mayo, who was selected third overall in the 2008 draft out of USC, is averaging 12.6 points, 3 rebounds, and 1.9 assists per game.

He tells CelticsHub that he isn't aware of any stigma against the Celtics that keeps players from signing there:

"I've never heard of that," Mayo said.  "It's always been one of the top organizations in basketball.  Ever since you were a little boy start playing basketball, you always heard about the Boston Celtics and Larry Bird, all the great players, it's always been a great organization."

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With a front line of Carmelo Anthony, Amar'e Stoudemire, and Tyson Chandler, the New York Knicks were expected to roll through the competition this season. But the team is third in the Atlantic Division, eight games behind the division-leading Philadelphia 76ers. Worse for Knicks fans is that the team is currently 10^th in the Eastern Conference, a game and a half out of the playoffs if the season ended today.

The team's guards have struggled and the inability of Baron Davis to return from his injury when expected has hurt the Knicks. Now word comes that head coach Mike D'Antoni is ready to put his team's fate in the hands of second-year point guard Jeremy Lin.

The Harvard grad scored 25 points on Saturday night against the rival New Jersey Nets and the New York Daily News reports that this performance has D'Antoni "leaning toward making him the Knicks' fourth starting point guard this season" when New York takes on the Utah Jazz Monday, the paper reports.

Lin was released by the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets before signing with the Knicks on Dec. 27. Since then, he has averaged 5.7 points, 1.5 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game.

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It's been four years since Kevin Durant and the Seattle SuperSonics left town and became the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now the Emerald City is looking to bring another team to the Northwest.

The Associated Press reports that "the city of Seattle has been working behind the scenes the past eight months with a hedge-fund manager to bring an NBA team back to town." This could happen next fall if the Sacramento Kings don't like the deal offered for a new arena in that city, the AP notes.

The man behind all this is 44-year-old Christopher Hansen, a hedge-fund manager and Seattle native who now lives in San Francisco, the wire service reports. He "approached the city about his desire to buy an NBA team and build an arena south of Safeco Field," where the Seattle Mariners play, the AP notes.

"I really appreciate it and look forward to making this happen in Seattle. I genuinely mean that and am confident that with a little effort and creativity we can find a solution that meets our needs and the City's/State's desire to get a team back to Seattle without a large public outlay," Hansen wrote in an email last June to the chief of staff of Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn as well as the mayor's director of policy and operations, the AP notes.

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