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Hoops Rumors passes along the latest news and rumors on NBA player movement 365 days a year, but those aren’t the only updates you’ll see on the site. On our right sidebar, you’ll find a number of additional features and featured posts. Here’s a rundown of a few of them:

• You can follow all of our updates about your favorite teams or players on your iPhone or iPad using the Hoops Rumors app.
• We’re still keeping a close eye on free agency with the help of our list of 2013 free agents. If you want to look ahead to the summer of 2014 or 2015, we’ve rounded up those free agents as well. These lists be continually updated.
• Our list of 2013/14 roster counts is a convenient tool for keeping tabs on how many players your favorite NBA team is carrying and how many guaranteed contracts are on each club’s books.
• It’s trade season in the NBA, so we’re tracking this season’s deals and profiling players we consider trade candidates.
• If your favorite team has a better chance at Joel Embiid, Andrew Wiggins or Jabari Parker than a playoff berth, be sure to follow our reverse standings, which are updated daily to reflect the projected 2014 draft order.
• We’re keeping tabs on this season’s D-League assignments right here.
• Our agency database is a handy reference point for determining the representation for virtually every NBA player.
• Using our 10-day contract tracker, you can find any 10-day contract signed since the 2006/07 season, and you can sort by player, team, year and other variables.
• On Mondays at 4:00pm CT, I answer reader questions in a live chat. You can check out transcripts of our past live discussions here.
• Our list of outstanding traded player exceptions is updated whenever a trade exception is created, used or expires.
• We’re tracking each team’s use of the amnesty clause. Our complete table shows which clubs have used the amnesty clause and which will have it available next summer.
• The Hoops Rumors glossary helps explain some of the more complex concepts in the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement.
• Zach Links rounds up the best of the blogosphere every Sunday in his weekly Hoops Links feature.
• If you’re looking to catch up, our Week in Review posts compile the top news and rumors from the past seven days, while our Hoops Rumors Originals posts recap the site’s original content for the week. Both roundups are published every Sunday.
• Be sure to check out the Featured Posts section on the right sidebar for more original pieces from the Hoops Rumors writing team. Recently, we detailed how January’s three-way trade between the Warriors, Celtics and Heat worked financially, explained how proximity to the luxury tax line could affect the moves the Bulls make the rest of this season, and listed the teams unable to trade first-round picks at this year’s deadline.

The trade deadline is just 16 days away, and uncertainty surrounds the Cavs and Kyrie Irving as they approach extension negotiations in the offseason ahead, so there will be plenty of notable stories to track on Hoops Rumors in the weeks to come, and beyond. There are a handful of ways you can follow us to keep tabs on the latest NBA news and rumors as the chatter intensifies.

You can Like us on Facebook, and receive headlines and links for all our posts via your Facebook account. You can also follow us on Twitter to have all our posts and updates sent directly to your Twitter feed. Our RSS feed is located here if you’d like to follow us using your reader of choice.

If you prefer to receive updates only on roster moves such as signings, cuts, and trades, you can follow our transactions-only feeds via RSS and Twitter.

Adam Silver has officially assumed the role of NBA commissioner, replacing David Stern, who steps down 30 years to the day after he inherited the position from Larry O’Brien. The move was first announced in October 2012, giving Silver ample time to transition from his post as deputy commissioner, which he’s held since 2006. That job now goes to Mark Tatum, who had been serving as the NBA’s vice president of global marketing partnerships.

Stern, 71, oversaw a period of remarkable growth, inheriting the NBA just as Larry Bird and Magic Johnson were entering their primes and a few months before Michael Jordan would enter the league. The game has continued to grow since their retirements, despite a pair of lockouts and four franchise relocations. The league’s annual revenue has risen from $165MM to $5.5 billion during Stern’s tenure, while the average player salary has gone from $290K to an estimated $5.565MM. He served longer than any other commissioner in the history of the NBA, National Football League and Major League Baseball.

Silver joined the NBA in 1992 and held numerous executive roles within the league until his appointment as deputy commissioner. There’s widespread uncertainty about just how Silver will govern, as Ken Berger of CBSSports.com notes, but his track record suggests he’ll focus on the business and marketing side of the game in an attempt to continue revenue growth. Silver was involved in negotiations with the players union during the 2011 lockout, and the next battle on that front will likely come after the 2016/17 season, when the NBA and the union both possess options to terminate the current collective bargaining agreement.

NBA news can break anytime, but you can keep up to date, even on the go. The Hoops Rumors iPhone/iPad app is available for download from the iTunes store. For just a one-time fee of $2.99, less than the price of a cup of coffee, here’s what you get:

• Custom push notifications: pick your favorite players and teams and receive alerts when they are involved in rumors, trades, or signings.
• Read Hoops Rumors posts in an ad-free, iPhone/iPad-friendly format.
• Filter headlines to show rumors for a specific team.
• Read and create comments through Disqus.

Check out the Hoops Rumors iPhone/iPad app today!

Hoops Rumors is proud to announce the arrival of its latest partner, Pro Football Rumors! Luke Adams, the former lead writer at Hoops Rumors, and his team of NFL fanatics are covering rumors, transactions, and the draft 365 days a year with the style, timeliness, and analysis you’ve come to love on Hoops Rumors and MLB Trade Rumors.  The team has been quietly covering all the latest for the past several days, so there is already plenty for you to catch up on.

Once the Super Bowl is over Sunday night, NFL teams and players will turn their attention to the start of free agency in March, and we’ll have the latest on big names like Jimmy Graham, Greg Hardy, and Eric Decker. If you like what you see at Pro Football Rumors, please bookmark the site, follow us on Twitter @PFRumors, and like our Facebook page.