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Kyrie Irving has always been known as an elite shooter and scorer. But on Wednesday night, he had a rough go of it offensively in the Boston Celtics’ win over the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Celtics points guard only had 11 points on five-of-14 shots. And while Irving has taken thousands and thousands of shots throughout […]

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry looks like he is closer to adding more to his already growing business ventures in the form of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers. While walking down the streets of Beverly Hills with his wife, Ayesha, Curry told TMZ sports that he was inching closer to becoming a minority owner of […]

LaVar Ball’s concept of a new basketball league for nationally-ranked high school players that have graduated is making some noise. But perhaps the most intriguing thing that has come out of his announcement was the comments from his son, Lonzo. The Lakers point guard said if his father’s league would have existed before he attended […]

There are plenty of NBA hopefuls to have attend Kobe Bryant’s Nike Skills Academy in the past. Some of those players never make it to the league, and some carve out very serviceable careers and spend a lot of years there. But every now and then, a star emerges from those camps and takes the […]

New York Knicks center Enes Kanter just wants to play basketball. But the distractions are getting difficult for Kanter. The Turkish government wants to imprison him for four years for his political views, and he’s now having to answer questions about that rather than focusing on the game. Kanter again spoke out, this time addressing […]

Kobe Bryant’s jersey retirement was as over the top as many would expect from anything related to the former Los Angeles Laker star. The Lakers retired both of Bryant’s numbers — No. 8 and No. 24 — on Monday, closing a chapter in the team’s history. There was the ceremony, the Kobe Land outside of […]

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced its 2018 class today, and many great points guards were on the list. Among them were Jason Kidd and Steve Nash, two of the most premier players at that position in possibly all of NBA history. Their accomplishments almost speak for themselves, per Tim MacMahon of ESPN. […]

When people talk about the best players in NBA history, the debate always becomes more heated than Klay Thompson when he scored 37 points in a quarter. But usually, certain players always end up among a top five or 10 list. Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and others are staples on those types of lists. Other […]

Former Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant retired in a flash, scoring 60 points in his final game and leaving the franchise as its highest-scoring player of all time. In 20 years, Bryant epitomized the idea of competition, nicknaming himself the Black Mamba and giving other players stories for days about just how hard he […]

Vince Carter on Wednesday played against his former team, the Brooklyn Nets. And as a 20-year veteran who spent some of the best days of his career in a Nets uniform when the franchise was in New Jersey, Carter is very open to the idea of the franchise one day retiring his number, per Brian […]

NBA players and officials have long had tumultuous relationships at times. Certain players are said to get “superstar” treatment, while others develop a reputation for complaining and get technicals more than other players. This season, things seem to have escalated. There has already been a incident in which Shaun Livingston bumped heads with an official, […]

The Carmelo Anthony saga played out like a soap opera in the days and weeks before the was traded to Oklahoma City. So far, Anthony is slowly finding his way with the Thunder. But according to reports, Anthony may have wanted to find his way with another. Before Anthony was ultimately traded in the summer, […]

The New York Knicks and Kristaps Porzingis have had a shaky relationship to say the least. When Phil Jackson was at the helm of basketball operations and seemingly running the organization into the ground, Porzingis showed how unhappy he was with the current state of affairs by skipping the exit meeting with Jackson after the […]

Pat Riley and Erik Spoelstra have been partners for years. In the same year that Riley became president of the Miami Heat, Spoelstra was brought into the organization as a video coordinator. That was 1995. Since then, Riley coached the Heat a couple of times, racking up win after win with the team, and eventually […]

Friday night’s game between he Houston Rockets and the San Antonio Spurs was supposed to be great. Kawhi Leonard was in his second game back, the Houston Rockets were on a winning streak and everyone in the basketball world wanted to know how these two Western Conference powerhouses stacked up against each other. But instead […]

The Boston Celtics are going through a bit of a rough patch over the past couple of weeks. The Celtics have lost three of the past five games. Those losses came at the hands of the Utah Jazz, the Chicago Bulls and the San Antonio Spurs. Boston once held the best record in the NBA […]

Oklahoma City Thunder point guard has intensity for days. In the Thunder’s wild triple-overtime win over the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday, Westbrook notched yet another triple double, recording 27 points, 18 rebounds and 15 assists. But it took him 33 shots to get those 27, and he only made 10 of them. That’s less than […]

It looked scary when Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert went down with an injury in Friday’s game against the Celtics. But the team just got more bad news. Gobert is expected to be sidelined for one month with a strained PCL in his left knee and a bone bruise in his tibia, per Shams Charania […]

New Orleans Pelicans forward DeMarcus Cousins is leading the league in technical fouls, and he doesn’t’ understand why. Cousins has seven technicals to his name so far this season, which ties him with Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors for the most in the league. But to hear Cousins tell it, he has not […]

Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant didn’t get many star teammates running alongside him during his career, with the exception of Shaquille O’Neal and Pau Gasol. But when he thinks of who he would have liked to play with during his prime, one very familiar name came to his mind: LeBron James. Bryant spoke on […]

New York Knicks star Kristaps Porzingis is going to be OK. After injuring his knee in a recent game, there was some uncertainty about the severity of the injury and how long it would take for him to return to the floor. But it was revealed that his knee may just be sore, and he […]

San Antonio Spurs star Kawhi Leonard will play in just his second game today since returning from an injury that had kept him out for the entire season. That game will be against the Houston Rockets, the team with the best record in the NBA at 22-4. Not the best matchup for a player who […]

Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bogut doesn’t see the floor much anymore. So far this season, however, that hasn’t bothered him much. He seems perfectly happy being the elder statesman on the team and being a mentor to young players like Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram and Kyle Kuzma, per Nick Metallinos of ESPN. “I knew there wasn’t […]

New York Knicks star Kristaps Porzingis seems to respect what Carmelo Anthony did in New York. Anthony will make his return to New York on Saturday when the Oklahoma City Thunder are in town to play the Knicks. It will be Anthony’s first time in New York since asking for a trade from the franchise […]

Kevin Durant is good. Really good. Exactly how good, you ask? Oh, just basically as good as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Wait, don’t leave yet. The Golden State Warriors star is on pace for a statistical season that only Abdul-Jabbar ever achieved, per Liam on Twitter. Seasons with 25 PPG, 7 RPG, 5 APG, 2 BPG: 1976 […]

It appears that the Charlotte Hornets once attempted to make a big blockbuster trade last year, but fell short. The Hornets have struggled this year due to injuries, and their draft picks in recent years haven’t panned out. They once had hope to get better, but that hope seems all but lost, per Zach Lowe […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder and New York Knicks face off against each other and Saturday, and Carmelo Anthony has feelings. The former Knicks star will make his return to New York since forcing a trade to the Thunder over the summer. Boos will rain down, surely, when Anthony gets introduced in his former home arena, […]

New Orleans Pelicans star DeMarcus Cousins believes he’s staying put. In an interview with Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated, Cousins addressed his impending free agency, and even said that some of his teammates make jokes about it from time to time. But at the end of the day. Cousins thinks he is in New Orleans […]

When Golden State Warriors shooting guard Klay Thompson celebrates a win, he doesn’t just do it any old way. He drives home, opens the door to his place and proceeds to tell the story of the game to the most important creature in his life: his dog, Rocco. That’s right. Thompson, the soft-spoken, sharp-shooting basketball […]

Get ready for the start of NBA trade season. Today, Dec. 15, marks the first day that players who signed contracts in the offseason become eligible to be traded, per Luke Adams of Hoops Rumors. In total, 94 players fit that description. There are some notable names on that list of 94. They include Derrick Rose, […]

The Miami Heat can rest easy. Justise Winslow, who suffered a left knee strain in Wednesday’s loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, looks like he’ll be just fine. An MRI came back clean, and he may return in as early as just one week, per Shams Charania of The Vertical. Heat forward Justise Winslow's MRI returned clean on […]

Every New York Knicks fan collectively gasped in horror when Kristaps Porzingis appeared to hurt his knee in Thursday’s win over the Brooklyn Nets. The injury was of the non-contact variety, which is always scary when it’s a knee. Porzingis tried to come back and play on it, but eventually left the game for good. After […]

Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens may be angling for a job on the “Seinfield” reunion series. During a postgame press conference on Wednesday, Stevens spoke about Jaylen Brown and his having to wear goggles versus contacts after suffering an infection to one of his eyes. During his answer, Stevens stumbled into a pun that […]

Former Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino killed more dreams than just those associated with college basketball fans who thought he was on the up and up. Pitino, along with former Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich, reportedly blocked an attempt by the Charlotte Hornets to move to Louisville several years ago, per Joe Nocera, Eben Novy-Williams and Michael […]

It’s been a long time since Shaquille O’Neal has played in an NBA basketball game. Given that fact, it’s safe to assume that it’s been at least that long since he successfully performed a slam dunk. But that doesn’t matter because O’Neal wanted to celebrate the upcoming jersey retirement ceremony of Kobe Bryant by doing the […]

Boston Celtics star Gordon Hayward still has a soft spot for his former team, the Utah Jazz. But only its players. The Celtics and Jazz will face off for the first time this season on Friday, and Hayward had a message for his former team, per Chris Forsberg of ESPN. Gordon Hayward said that, with […]

Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson doesn’t care who is on the court. He stays the same no matter what. That sentiment has been evident ever since Stephen Curry has been out with an ankle injury. In the games that Curry has been out, Thompson has stayed the same, not saying much but leading by […]

Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball is quite the supportive brother. The Lakers point guard feels his two younger siblings, LiAngelo and LaMelo, did the right thing in signing contracts with a Lithuanian professional basketball team. The Balls discussed the decision as a group, Ball said, and everyone was on board, per Ohm Youngmisuk […]

Two Western Conference juggernauts are set to match up against each other on Friday, and James Harden weighed in. The Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs, two of the top three teams in the West, will face off for the first of four games this season. The Rockets have won their last five, while the […]