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Miami Heat star veteran Dwyane Wade turned back the clock on Tuesday night with a savage game-winning jumpshot to beat the Philadelphia 76ers. In a moment where Father Time decided to take a nap while Wade broke the backs of the 76ers, Wade showed that he still has plenty of basketball left, even if he’s […]

Dwyane Wade hasn’t even been back with the Miami Heat for that long, and he’s already reminding the NBA that he still has some left in the tank. The Heat played the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night, and Wade turned back the clock Father Time with a step-back jumper over Ben Simmons to win the […]

Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has taken “The Process” to a new low. After practice on Tuesday, Embiid changed his footwear. But it wasn’t the usual slides that many NBA players wear, which has their last names and team logos on them. Embiid, the NBA’s resident social media master, brought out what may be new […]

We are all Kevin Durant’s emoji. In an Instagram post by Golden State Warriors guard Nick Young showed some shoes he wore during a recent game. His teammate Durant, however, had one of the best responses to that photo, and he didn’t even have to type any letters into his phone’s keyboard. Per Young’s official […]

Players and coaches from all around the NBA are chiming in on the NCAA scandal, and whether or not college athletes should be paid to play sports for schools that rake in millions of dollars off their likenesses and jerseys sales. Recently, Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green added his two cents to the discussion. […]

The New York Knicks failed to trade Joakim Noah and his burdensome contract away at the trade deadline earlier this month, but now they have another chance to shed his salary before March 1. That’s the deadline for players to get waived from a team in order to be eligible to play in the playoffs. […]

The Philadelphia 76ers are looking to make a strong push into to the playoffs. But to do so, they may have to let go of veteran Jerryd Bayless. It has been reordered that Esran Ilyasova is on the verge of finalizing a buyout with the Atlanta Hawks, and that the 76ers are likely to sign […]

There are seven NBA teams that are in a race for the worst record in the league — a process called tanking — in order to get the top pick in the draft this summer. Because of that, the last six weeks of the season are bound to be an exhibition of extreme losing. But […]

The discussion about whether or not the NCAA should pay elite college athletes has been a discussion that has soldiered on for years. And in the wake of the Yahoo! report that alleged many high-level college students — including some that currently play in the NBA — took money while in school, the conversation has […]

As all 30 teams in the NBA play the last six weeks of the season, there is something very interesting developing in the bottom for the standings for both conferences. Two of those teams — the Chicago Bulls and Brooklyn Nets — will play tonight. They are considered two of several teams that are tanking […]

The NBA G League is starting to gain some traction as a destination for high school players who may not want to go to college and be subject to the NBA’s one-and-done rule. One of the advocates of high school graduates joining the G League if they go undrafted is Oklahoma City Thunder head coach […]

The school shooting in Parkland was a tragic event to say the least, one that left 17 innocent people dead and affected the entire United States on the deepest of levels. The affect has reached the NBA, specifically Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade. One of the victims of the tragedy was Joaquin Oliver, a 17-year-old who […]

The L.A. Clippers made a move for the future in trading Blake Griffin to the Detroit Pistons before the deadline. Many Clippers fans were upset at the move and didn’t understand why the franchise would give away their best player and the one person that made the team relevant in a city that has always […]

Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star Russell Westbrook is known for not liking to talk to the media. His answers have often been often short and semi-combative, and there have been times this season where he has left media waiting to speak with him after the game, only to leave without talking. He’ll often attack a reporter […]

Damian Lillard did it again. In a tight game on Saturday against the Phoenix Suns, the Portland Trail Blazers looked to their best player to make a play in the final seconds of the fourth quarter. Lillard did a lot of dribbling, but eventually found a way into the paint and scored with just 0.9 […]

The Golden State Warriors were right in the middle of trouncing the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night when Nick Young made a 3-pointer late in the third quarter. Russell Westbrook wasn’t happy seconds later. Young, ever the showman, stood in front of the Thunder bench after he made the shot and let out a […]

Boston Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving can do a lot of things well. He’s perhaps best known for his crafty finishing around the basket and his shooting prowess. But one of his biggest claims to fame claims to fame — both on the basketball court and in pop culture — is the way he can […]

The San Antonio Spurs and their star, Kawhi Leonard, are at odds over how his injury has been handled. It was reported that Leonard has been cleared to play, but he wanted to get a second opinion. The bad news is that he seems to have chosen to stay out. Gregg Popovich recently came out […]

The All-Star Weekend is an event that media members attend where they get to inquire about the thoughts of several NBA players on a host of topics. So when they got a hold of Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson, he couldn’t help but mention Draymond Green and DeMarcus Cousins. Thompson was asked which players he […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder were playing quite well before the All-Star break, and it appears that the team has continued that stellar performance when it came back for the stretch run of the season. In their first game back from the break on Thursday, the Thunder were facing off against the Sacramento Kings. During the […]

After the explosive Sports Illustrated report on the Dallas Mavericks, many are wondering what went wrong and what owner Mark Cuban had to do with it. To this point, Cuban has taken responsibility for keeping a former beat writer on staff even though he knew of the writer’s prior instincts of domestic abuse. He said […]

Amid the comments by Mark Cuban in which he said he advocated tanking to his Dallas Mavericks, some previous comments from Stan Van Gundy regarding the issue have resurfaced. Some time ago, before Van Gundy became the head coach of the Orlando Magic, he proposed a fix to tanking by addressing the various issues that […]

Now that the All-Star break is over and teams around the NBA are gearing up for their respective stretch runs, the San Antonio Spurs, Phoenix Suns and Washington Wizards have their work cut out for them. Those three teams in descending order have the three most difficult schedules for the remainder of the season, per […]

The news reported by Sports Illustrated on the corrosive workplace culture in the Dallas Mavericks organization rocked the NBA world on Tuesday. As a result of the investigation, a beat reporter was fired and questions have arisen regarding how much owner Mark Cuban knew about what was going on. The report centered around inappropriate sexual […]

Philadelphia 76ers guard J.J. Redick again addressed the racial slur he appeared to utter during a video to meant for Chinese fans of the NBA. In the video, he appears to slip up on his words and say what is considered to be a highly offensive word to describe Chinese people. At a 76ers practice, Redick […]

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban took full responsibility for keeping a former team beat writer employed after fully knowing about his past issues with violence toward women, per a report by Tim MacMahon of ESPN. This comes just a day after an explosive story from Sports Illustrated detailed the corrosive work environment within the Mavs […]

Washington Wizards All-Star Bradley Beal got to spend some time over the weekend watching LeBron James and getting an up-close-and-person look at how the best player in the NBA goes about his business. Beal was on Team LeBron for the All-Star Game, so he got to see James work out, prepare for a game, and […]

Steve Nash, a former NBA player and two-time back-to-back MVP with the Phoenix Suns, will finally get his chance to give some analysis on television. But there’s a catch: It won’t be about basketball. Nash and Turner are close on a deal that would make him an analyst in soccer, according to a report by […]

Houston Rockets guard James Harden is having himself an incredible 2017-18 season. He’s averaging 31.3 points per game, which leads the NBA in that category. It’s the highest scoring average of his career. He’s also putting up nine assists and five rebounds per game, according to Basketball-Reference. Harden is doing all this on a team that […]

The NBA apparently has a secret wine club, and Jimmy Butler is the treasurer. Butler, the Minnesota Timberwolves star, takes his love of wine to one of the deepest levels, per Baxter Holmes of ESPN. Timberwolves guard Jimmy Butler travels with a wine case, one he toted to the 2016 Rio Olympics, bringing along bottles […]

A former NBA champion will not be in the league this year after all. Boris Diaw, an NBA veteran who won a title with the San Antonio Spurs in 2014, decided to stay with his French team rather than go back to the league for the stretch run of the season, per Sportando relaying a story […]

The New York Knicks franchise and their fans collectively gasped when Kristaps Porzingis went down with a knee injury after that emphatic dunk against the Bucks. When the MRI revealed Porzingis had a torn ACL and would be out for the season, the rest of the NBA world gasped along with them. It was just […]

Jordan Clarkson spent two years on the same Los Angeles Lakers team that featured Kobe Bryant. Clarkson would learn a lot from the Lakers legend, and share plenty of minutes on the basketball floor with him either in practice or in games. But even though Clarkson has since been traded away to the Cleveland Cavaliers, […]

Timberwolves guard Jimmy Butler is not here for the All-Star Game. Butler was named an All-Star reserve along with his teammate Karl-Anthony Towns and is slated to play on Team Stephen Curry. But if Butler had things his way, he wouldn’t participate in the game at all, per John Meyer of Canis Hoopus. https://twitter.com/thedailywolf/status/962917823268970496 For most […]

Former Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant has never shied away from any topic regarding social justice. So in a way, it was a shame that Bryant was already retired when NFL players were kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality. NBA players did not end up kneeling for anthem, perhaps because NBA […]

There was a small sliver of hope that two of the Orlando Magic’s key players would go in tonight’s road game against the Chicago Bulls. But Aaron Gordon and Nikola Vucevic appear to be farther away from a return to action. Gordon and Vucevic’s status was updated Monday morning, and they are now listed as out […]

The jersey retirement of Paul Pierce was something to behold, even if it came after a horrendous loss by the Boston Celtics to the Cleveland Cavaliers. There were video tributes, various interviews, and kind words said all around about Pierce and what he meant to the Celtics franchise. During one of the speeches, general manager […]

The world of the Twitter beef has now spread to L.A. Clippers point guard Patrick Beverley and ESPN Insider Amin Elhassan. Elhassan was once in the front office of the Phoenix Suns before he became an ESPN personality, appearing on several shows including SportsNation. He is also is a member of Leverage The Chat network […]

The New York Knicks are looking into bringing back one of its former point guards, but it’s not for the reason you may think. Pablo Prigioni, who made the playoffs with the Knicks in the 2012-13 season, has been a head coach overseas for a while. But the Knicks organization may try to bring him […]