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Despite rumors that he might be active, Toronto Raptors forward OG Anunoby did not play in the Game 1 of the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors. Just ahead of Game 2 on Sunday night, Raptors head coach Nick Nurse said that he was unsure whether Anunoby would play despite being labeled as active […]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver has certainly been busy in recent weeks. With the 2018-19 season coming to a close and the offseason nearly underway, Silver has had a pretty frequent media presence, including appearances on ESPN’s “Get Up!” and AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds’ PodcastOne Sports Now. Silver told Reynolds on the latest episode that […]

Kyle Lowry has earned plenty of individual accolades since becoming a member of the Toronto Raptors prior to the 2012-13 season. Lowry has made five All-Star teams and was named to the 2015-16 All-NBA 3rd Team. He has averaged over 17 points, seven assists and close to five rebounds in seven seasons, and has been […]

There are a number of teams that will have multiple first-round picks in the 2019 NBA Draft. The Atlanta Hawks have picks No. 8 and No. 10, while the Celtics have three first rounders (No. 14, No. 20 and No. 22). The Cavaliers have both the No. 5 pick and the No. 26 pick. But […]

The Golden State Warriors may reign supreme as a modern NBA dynasty, but they are also well-versed in dealing with injuries to key players. After all, their future seemed to be in serious jeopardy when point guard and future two-time MVP Stephen Curry continued to suffer from frail ankles at the beginning of the decade. […]

Throughout the lifetime of his NBA career, Golden State Warriors center DeMarcus Cousins has been one of the most mercurial players in the league. And, unfortunately, his injury history has proven to be equally as volatile. Cousins ruptured his achilles in February of 2018, a gruesome injury that robbed one of the best centers in […]

Kawhi Leonard is the best player on the Toronto Raptors, but Kyle Lowry has been the heartbeat of the franchise since he arrived prior to the 2012-13 NBA season. In his seven years with the Raptors, Lowry has averaged 17.4 points, 7.1 assists and 4.9 rebounds, and has been selected to the All-Star team in […]

For all of the calamity that has surrounded the Los Angeles Lakers throughout the 2018-19 NBA season and heading into this summer, they are still in a somewhat ideal position as a franchise. The Lakers have a full year with LeBron James. They have a core of promising young players headlined by Brandon Ingram, Kyle […]

Since he was drafted by the Miami Heat in 2003, perhaps no professional sports player has become more synonymous with South Beach than Dwyane Wade. Wade spent all but 1 1/2 seasons with the Heat, winning three championships and making the All-Star team 13 times. He will go down as perhaps the best player in […]

The Golden State Warriors headed into the 2019 NBA Finals as the favorite to defeat the Toronto Raptors even without Kevin Durant. But after the Raptors took the series opener behind a magnificent performance from Pascal Siakam and another excellent showing from Marc Gasol, the question of whether or not the Warriors can really beat […]

The San Antonio Spurs have one of the greatest draft histories of any franchise in the NBA. Tim Duncan is arguably the greatest no. 1 pick in league history. Manu Ginobili was drafted at the end of the second round, only to become a predominant Sixth Man and one of the greatest international players ever. […]

While the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors continue to do battle in the NBA Finals, the rest of the teams in the league are beginning to prepare for what could be one of the busiest summers in NBA history. June is underway, and the offseason begins in earnest with the NBA Draft on June […]

Before he ever took the floor at Indiana University, Romeo Langford was projected as a top ten pick in the 2019 NBA Draft. And despite a tremendous freshman season in which Langford was named Second Team All-Big Ten and averaged over 16 points and five rebounds, his stock fell. For all of his scoring prowess […]

As the Golden State Warriors prepare for Game 1 of the NBA Finals, DeMarcus Cousins–who has not played a single game in the playoffs this year–has been activated. Kevin Durant, however, remains out of the rotation with a mild calf strain. Durant has still yet to practice since he went down with the injury in […]

The Washington Wizards find themselves in a very strange place heading into the summer of 2019. Having built around John Wall and Bradley Beal for the last few seasons, it feels as though Washington already missed their chance to make a run at an Eastern Conference title. While Beal had one of the best seasons […]

Although the Gonzaga Bulldogs have been one of the most successful college basketball programs over the course of this decade, they have not exactly pounded out lottery picks at the next level. This year, however, it is possible that both Rui Hachimura and Brandon Clarke could land in the lottery. Gonzaga’s star frontcourt duo helped […]

Would Cameron Reddish make sense for the Los Angeles Lakers? Perhaps no non-playoff team has been as newsworthy as the Lakers in the past couple of months. A whirlwind finish to the season included former team president and Laker legend Magic Johnson stepping down from his position as well as purging Luke Walton and his […]

Although the NBA Finals are set to get underway this evening, the Houston Rockets are still attempting to command the attention of the basketball world. Following their Western Conference semifinal loss to the Golden State Warriors, it was reported that general manager Daryl Morey would be given the green light to spend over the luxury […]

Former University of Michigan head coach John Beilein shocked the basketball world earlier this month by announcing that he was leaving Ann Arbor to become the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Beilein spent 12 seasons at Michigan, building Big Blue into one of the best basketball programs in the country and making a pair […]

The Golden State Warriors were not always the most reviled team in the league. When they won their first championship in 2015, the Dubs actually appeared to be the new darlings of the league. With MVP Stephen Curry and head coach Steve Kerr continuing to revolutionize the game of basketball by winning with a perimeter-oriented […]

It is safe to say that the 2018 Boston Red Sox will go down as one of the greatest teams in baseball history. After winning a franchise record 108 games in the regular season and watching Mookie Betts become the American League MVP, the Red Sox went 11-2 in the playoffs and romped their way […]

The Chicago Cubs got off to a rather inauspicious start to their 2019 campaign. Firstly, the team had one of the quietest winters in years while National League Central foes like the St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds all made improvements to their clubs. The Cubs–who made the biggest splashes of the winter […]

The Oklahoma City Thunder have two of the best players in the NBA: Paul George and Russell Westbrook. They have a legitimate All-Star candidate in the middle, with Steven Adams locking down the paint. Yet in the past three seasons, all they have to show for their talent is three straight first-round playoff exits. The […]

There were plenty of fantastic seasons from a number of bench players throughout the NBA this year. From a resurgent Derrick Rose to another excellent campaign from Spencer Dinwiddie, and Lou Williams once again proving why he is a perennial “Sixth Man” candidate, bench mobs across the league made vital contributions to playoff teams and […]

Marc Gasol, formerly of the Memphis Grizzlies, will certainly be thanking his lucky stars before he takes the floor in the NBA Finals on Thursday night for the Toronto Raptors. Gasol had spent all of his first 10 seasons in the NBA with the Memphis Grizzlies, making three All-Star teams and establishing himself as one […]

Kawhi Leonard has developed into one of the best players in the NBA, but the soft-spoken superstar did not get there without his share of hardships. Leonard’s backstory is an incredibly sad one. His father was shot to death in 2008, when Leonard was in high school and preparing to take his talents to San […]

The Toronto Raptors defeated the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night to advance to their first NBA Finals in franchise history. Their prize? A date with the two-time defending champions of the league, the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors will undoubtedly go into the series as massive favorites. Aside from the fact that they are the […]

The Milwaukee Bucks came within earshot of reaching the NBA Finals this year, but instead lost four straight games to the Toronto Raptors after grabbing a 2-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference Finals. Still, this was a transcendent year for a Bucks team that won 60 games — their highest total since the 1980-81 […]

After the Toronto Raptors defeated the Milwaukee Bucks to advance to their first NBA Finals berth on Saturday night, TNT’s Ernie Johnson asked team president Masai Ujiri about the trade that brought superstar forward Kawhi Leonard to “The Six.” Ujiri iterated that it was an obvious choice, because Leonard was the “best player in the […]

The Toronto Raptors had plenty of reasons to celebrate after the team defeated the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night to advance to their first NBA Finals in franchise history. And as the Raptors prepare to face the defending champions, the Golden State Warriors, they may be getting yet another lift to their bench unit. According […]

The 2019 NBA Draft promises to be one of the most intriguing in history. While much of the focus in the buildup continues to be around Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans, there are a number of players that have been projected all over multiple mock draft boards. One such player whose stock has […]

Over the course of the last two-plus decades, perhaps no NBA team has had a track record quite like the San Antonio Spurs in terms of drafting impact players and key contributors. Of course, part of this likely stems from the fact that Greg Popovich is one of the greatest coaches in league history, and […]

When the Atlanta Hawks traded the rights to international sensation Luka Doncic to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Oklahoma point guard Trae Young on draft night in 2018, there were tons of skeptics that believed Dallas had gotten the better end of the deal. While Doncic’s star continued to rise leading up to the […]

In a season where a number of up-and-coming teams in the Eastern Conference made surprise playoff appearances, the Brooklyn Nets were a true joy to watch. From the tremendous growth made by point guard D’Angelo Russell in making his first All-Star team, to the productiveness of journeymen like Joe Harris and Jared Dudley and the […]

The Boston Celtics had perhaps the most frustrating season of any team in the NBA. After coming within a single game of reaching the 2018 NBA Finals, the Celtics were preseason favorites to win the Eastern Conference with a healthy Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward returning to the mix. Instead, Irving seemed to struggle in […]

Despite turning in the best season of his career, Washington Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal did not make any of the three All-NBA teams, and is thus ineligible to sign a supermax extension this summer: Well. Wizards dodged a Bradley Beal supermax bullet with his career-year failing to yield a spot on one of the […]

After two consecutive losing seasons, the Detroit Pistons returned to the playoffs in 2019 behind new head coach Dwane Casey and a superstar performance from Blake Griffin. But the Pistons are fairly handicapped by the salaries of Griffin, Andre Drummond and Reggie Jackson. And their current roster does not look much more promising than their […]

Cam Reddish might just be the most fascinating prospect in the 2019 NBA Draft pool. Heading into his freshman season at Duke, Reddish was already projected as a top-three pick, right behind teammates R.J. Barrett and Zion Williamson. However, Reddish never quite found his groove at the collegiate level. Although he still managed to average […]

The Miami Heat have seemingly been a team in flux ever since the “Big 3” era officially ended when LeBron James left South Beach to return to Cleveland in the summer of 2014. Oh, hello there, Romeo Langford (more on him in a second). Since that summer, the Heat have made the playoffs in just […]