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The Golden State Warriors and the Phoenix Suns will face off on Monday night in Oakland and it appears as if the defending champions will be short-handed in this game. According to the official Warriors public relations Twitter account: Injury report for tomorrow’s game vs. Phoenix: Draymond Green (sprained left index finger) is doubtful. Jordan Bell […]

The San Antonio Spurs, who are being led this season by LaMarcus Aldridge, have gotten used to playing short-handed over the years with injuries and coach Gregg Popovich’s regularly resting of his players. That looks to be the case again on Monday night when they take on the Utah Jazz. According to the San Antonio […]

The Golden State Warriors are still the best team in the NBA, but they haven’t been as crisp as of late, and in the last six games they are 3-3. There have been a lot of talk about what the Warriors issues might be, and Ben Falk of Cleaning The Glass might have found one […]

It’s jersey retirement day in Boston with Paul Pierce’s No.34 jersey going to the rafters. It was one of the toughest tickets to town, and people lucky enough to go were paying a hefty price. According to TicketIQ the average price to get into TD Garden for the game and the ceremony was $1,092 dollars. That is […]

Sunday afternoon basketball had a couple of weird things happen, but one of the oddest occurred near the end of the second quarter in the Atlanta Hawks and the Detroit Pistons game. After the Pistons were called for a foul, and both teams were back walking down the court, Blake Griffin decided to throw the […]

For the Boston Celtics organization, today is all about Paul Pierce, especially after the drubbing their team took at the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t questions about other former players that were in town for the ceremony. Former Celtics coach Doc Rivers was asked about another one of the […]

Josh McRoberts has been an NBA journeyman and it appears he will be on the move again. Mike Fisher of DallasBasketball.com has all the details. ALERT: Source tells DallasBasketball.com that #Mavs plan to give buyout candidate Josh McRoberts his release tonight. McRoberts was traded from the Miami Heat to the Dallas Mavericks during the offseason […]

The Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic faced off on Saturday night, which meant it was another opportunity for Giannis Antetokounmpo to give another NBA player a chance at their Kodak moment. Warning: Giannis Antetokounmpo is on a mission to destroy your favorite team's big man. Thoughts and prayers to Bismack Biyombo. pic.twitter.com/i2l42LquXV — The […]

Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic has quickly become known as one of the better centers in the NBA, and he also has some of the best handles for a big man. Those skills were on display on in the second quarter against the Phoenix Suns on Saturday night. Baller alert! @JokicNikola15 pic.twitter.com/nm5uA1WRpq — Eurohoops (@Eurohoopsnet) […]

The Denver Nuggets and the Phoenix Suns are facing off Saturday night, and the game got off to an exciting start. With 9:05 left in the first quarter Will Barton and Troy Daniels got into a little scuffle that resulted in both players getting a technical. There was trash talk between the two teams before […]

A year ago, New York Knicks great Charles Oakley was hauled out of Madison Square Garden after trying to fight team owner James Dolan in the lower bowl of the arena. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERE1Ycl2Ld4 He spent the night in jail before being released the next morning. Oakley was charged with misdemeanor assault but those charges were ultimately dropped […]

At the beginning of last season, the Minnesota Timberwolves looked like they had a new big three in Karl-Anthony Towns, Andrew Wiggins, and Zach LaVine. They were three rising stars and they held the keys in their hands to bring the Wolves back to the promised land. But then LaVine tore his ACL and he […]

Boston Celtics star Kyrie Irving has been asked all year about the Cleveland Cavaliers which should come as no surprise as that’s where he spent the first six years of his career. So when the Cavs made a flurry of moves hours before the trade deadline — most prominent of which was trading Isaiah Thomas, the […]

When Dwyane Wade was traded yesterday from the Cleveland Cavaliers back to the Miami Heat it sent shockwaves through the NBA landscape as many didn’t see such a trade happening. You can add Heat coach Eric Spoelstra to one of the guys who was surprised by the trade going down. According to Ira Winderman of the […]

The Timberwolves had their own big three last year with Andrew Wiggins, Zach LaVine, and Karl-Anthony Towns but when LaVine was traded away this off-season, that all seemed changed. Now the Timberwolves have a new big three with Wiggins, Towns, and Jimmy Butler.  On Friday night the Timberwolves will play their first game against the Bulls […]

There is some breaking news out of the NBA tonight as Brandan Wright looks like he is on his way out of Memphis and will be looking for a new team. Chris Haynes of ESPN has the details: Brandan Wright and Memphis Grizzlies are working toward a buyout, league sources tell ESPN. He’ll be coveted […]

With the trade deadline past, the one way that players can move is through a buyout and then signing with another team. One player the Toronto Raptors front office has considered is Vince Carter. According to Michael Grange of Sportnet the talks are very preliminary: Carter has been discussed internally by the Raptors, according to multiple sources, […]

We still have four months left in the NBA season but Bovada already seems to be looking forward to next season, specifically in terms of LeBron James future. According to Arash Markazi of ESPN Bovada has released odds for which team James will land on next year. The list goes like this: Houston Rockets: 5/2 Cleveland […]

The Golden State Warriors have had some struggles on the court and it has led to a lot of outbursts at the refs. Steve Kerr has seemed to have had enough of the childlike behavior and has voiced his displeasure. Draymond Green has been very vocal about his displeasure with the refs this season, and […]

Marcus Smart survived the trade deadline and is still part of the Boston Celtics, but it looks like the Celtics are going to have to wait a little while to get him back in the lineup. According to the Boston Celtics official Twitter account: “Stevens says Smart (hand) will be re-evaluated tonight but the anticipation is […]

Joe Johnson was involved in a trade yesterday that sent him from the Utah Jazz to the Sacramento Kings, but his time on the Kings didn’t last long. According to Chris Mannix of Yahoo! Sports: Joe Johnson is expected to seek–and receive–a buyout from Sacramento, per sources, and will be coveted: Golden State, Boston will […]

Players come and go through the NBA, and even though these are professional athletes and make millions of dollars to play basketball, sometimes people forget that the players are people too, and they have emotions just like everyone else. The trade deadline seems to be the time when a lot of those emotions come out […]

The trade deadline has come and gone, and Joakim Noah is still a New York Knick, even though you shouldn’t expect to see him around the team anytime soon. Steve Popper of The Record has all the details: Knicks GM Scott Perry said with no trade made for Joakim Noah there is still no plan […]

As Dirk Nowitzki nears the end of his career, he is still playing good basketball, and Friday night he joined some elite company. According to Tim MacMahon of ESPN: The basketball reference database (since 1983-84) has Robert Parish and Michael Jordan as only age 39+ dudes to get at least 5 steals and 2 blocks in […]

Joe Johnson was traded from the Utah Jazz to the Sacramento Kings and although he wasn’t a star for the Jazz, it did break a little girls heart. In the video below posted by young Skyler Kerwin’s dad, she was heartbroken when she found out that Johnson was traded. I understand it had to be done […]

Tony Allen has a busy couple of weeks and he looks like he is going to be on the move again. Last week Tony Allen was moved to the Chicago Bulls as part of the trade that sent Nikola Mirotic to the New Orleans Pelicans. He spent a little over the week on the Bulls roster […]

The Denver Nuggets finally decided to part ways with Emmanuel Mudiay, sending him to the New York Knicks on trade deadline day. In exchange, they received Devin Harris from the Dallas Mavericks and a second-round pick from the Knicks. Harris was a beloved part of the Mavericks organization and it sounds like it was a […]

The Los Angeles Lakers were one of the most active teams at the trade deadline moving Jordan Clarkson and Larry Nance Jr. to the Cavaliers and getting Isaiah Thomas and Channing Frye in return. There was some speculation about who would be the starting point guard after Rachel Nichols said on The Jump that Isaiah Thomas […]

The Miami Heat brought back one of their favorite sons on Thursday afternoon when they traded a second-round pick in 2024 and in return got back Dwyane Wade. It appears the fans of the Heat in Miami, and all over the world are really excited that Wade will be putting back on the red and […]

New York Knicks big man Enes Kanter seems to have gotten himself into a little trouble with the Turkish government again, this time for insulting a former NBA player in Hedo Turkoglu. Turkoglu is mostly known for his time with the Orlando Magic. Now, he is a senior adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a […]

All-Star Weekends always seem like a good time to trial run things that a league may introduce sometime down the road. Now is that what the NBA is doing with the introduction of the four-point line during the second half of the Celebrity game? Tom Haberstroh has all the details: THE 4-POINT ERA IN THE […]

The NBA made a series of changes to the All-Star game to try and get the players to compete a little harder for the sake of a more competitive and entertaining game. They took the top two vote-getters and they became the captains of their own teams, instead of the classic East and West format. […]

The Dallas Mavericks and Nerlens Noel have had a love/hate relationship and it has seemed to have more hate at times, but at this juncture, it appears Noel is at least going to stick around on the roster. According to Marc Stein of the New York Times: “The Mavericks have no current plans to buy […]

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green is going to be flashing some new metal in his mouth when his team takes on the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night at Oracle Arena. Green was elbowed near the end of the second quarter in Tuesday’s loss to the Oklahoma StateThunder by Jerami Grant. He was left with […]

It appears as Jeremy Lin will be staying in the Brooklyn for at least one more season after opting into his contract for next season. Zach Lowe of ESPN reports that Lin has opted into his $12.5 million player option with the Brooklyn Nets earlier today. Jeremy Lin has opted in to his $12.5M player […]

Every year there seem to be a few All-Star snubs whom people believe should have made the cut, and this year, Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid has made it clear he believes his Sixers teammate Ben Simmons is that guy. After Tuesday night’s game against the Wizards, Embiid stated who he believes should replace Kristaps Porzingis on […]

In one of the more surprising moves of the day the Cleveland Cavaliers traded Dwyane Wade back to the Miami Heat, the team he spent the first 13 years of his career with. The Cavaliers got back a second round pick in 2024, but it didn’t seem to be about the pick for the Cavs, […]

The Sacramento Kings will waive Georgios Papagiannis, their No. 13 draft pick from the 2016 NBA Draft, according to Shams Charania of The Vertical. Sources: The Kings are waiving center Georgios Papagiannis, who was their No. 13 overall selection in the 2016 draft. — Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 8, 2018 Although he had little success with […]

As the NBA postseason gets closer, the buyout market seems to really heat up. One of the more intriguing names that teams are keeping a close eye on though isn’t even in the NBA right now. According to Tim MacMahon of ESPN one of the guys to watch is Boris Diaw “Name to keep in mind […]