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In what was the most anticipated NBA Draft Lottery ever, the San Antonio Spurs came out as the ultimate victors on Tuesday night. For the third time in franchise history, the Spurs will own the first overall pick in the NBA Draft and will be taking French big man Victor Wembanyama.  The Spurs have had […]

Being one pick away from a generational talent in Victor Wembanyama does feel like a slap in the face. The San Antonio Spurs cashed out in the NBA Draft Lottery with the number one overall pick and everyone is well aware of who they will select. Meanwhile, Charlotte Hornets GM Mitch Kupchak and company have […]

The Portland Trail Blazers are currently at a crossroads; will they pursue a trade for another star to bolster the team’s chances of competing, or will they finally face the music and blow it up, beginning by trading away face of the franchise Damian Lillard? The results of the NBA Draft Lottery certainly clarified the […]

The Orlando Magic went 34-48 in the regular season, a 12-win improvement from the previous season. Still, the Magic were six games away from a Play-In Tournament bid, finishing with the No. 13 seed in the Eastern Conference and putting them in the No. 6 lottery slot. While the season ended early, the Magic had […]

The Charlotte Hornets entered the NBA Draft Lottery with 12.5 percent odds of winning the Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes. While they may have fallen short of that goal, losing out to the San Antonio Spurs, a team that will get yet another chance to draft a generational big man prospect, they still managed to nab the […]

At the conclusion of the 2023 NBA Draft Lottery on May 16, basketball fans across the world went to check out mock drafts and draft simulators in order to see how the chips may fall on Jun. 22., when the 2023 NBA Draft takes place. Even those that didn’t took the time to assess how […]

Will the Joel Embiid-led Philadelphia 76ers ever get over the hump? It definitely seemed like going up 3-2 against the Boston Celtics in the 2023 NBA playoffs was their best chance to do so, especially when they took a lead heading into fourth quarter of Game 6 while Jayson Tatum was in the middle of […]

When the Phoenix Suns traded the farm, along with Mikal Bridges and Cameron Johnson, for Kevin Durant, they surely expected to achieve more than a second-round exit. After all, that’s where their season came to an end in 2022, when they suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the Dallas Mavericks. But a year […]

The Boston Celtics managed to climb their way out of a 3-2 series deficit against the Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Conference semifinals to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. Their opponent will be a familiar one in the Miami Heat, as this will be the third time in the past four years that these […]

The Los Angeles Lakers ran into a Denver Nuggets buzzsaw at the outset of the 2023 Western Conference Finals. They adjusted and fought back, but it wasn’t quite enough. The Nuggets prevailed, 132-126. For the first time in the NBA Playoffs, the Lakers failed to steal Game 1 on the road. Seeding aside, the Lakers […]

Overtime Elite knew they were getting a special talent in 6-foot-7 point guard Amen Thompson. However, there’s still a lot of people who aren’t aware that he and his brother Ausar may be two of the most exhilarating NBA prospects that there’s ever been. Amen’s live-dribble passing is excellent, with his court vision and passing […]

The Detroit Pistons have been one of the most successful NBA teams on draft day according to many accounts. Detroit selected former Oklahoma State star Cade Cunningham with the number one overall pick in 2021, and followed it up with the selections of athletic, promising players Jaden Ivey and Jalen Duren last year. Unfortunately for […]

The River Walk has life again. After years of futility and aimlessness, the San Antonio Spurs instantly feel like a prominent sports franchise again. That is the power of Victor Wembanyama. The NBA Draft Lottery always presents hope to which ever team wins it, but this year’s felt extra special. Or perhaps dire is the […]

Barring any change of heart or bizarre decision-making from the San Antonio Spurs, Victor Wembanyama is going to be a Spur come June. The Spurs won the no. 1 pick in the 2023 NBA Draft lottery and the right to pick Wembanyama, and all signs point that they’ll do just that. After all, there’s no […]

As the dust settles on the 2023 NBA Draft Lottery, attention turns to the upcoming 2023 NBA Draft, where the San Antonio Spurs find themselves in a unique position. Keep in mind that they are coming off a campaign where they finished with the second-worst win-loss record in the league. Now, they have the No. […]

Doc Rivers is currently out of work in the NBA following his dismissal from his post as head coach of the Philadelphia 76ers. It was a decision by the Sixers not a few expected the team would make after it shockingly had a meltdown in the second round of the 2023 NBA Playoffs at the […]

For the third time in four seasons, the Boston Celtics are squaring off with the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals. While the matchup is the same, the seeding is very different. The Heat were the top seed last year but now find themselves as an eighth seed. And even though the C’s are […]

Victor Wembanyama is a truly generational prospect, but he’s not the only potential star poised to learn more about his forthcoming NBA journey during Tuesday night’s highly anticipated 2023 NBA Draft Lottery. Scoot Henderson is the consensus No. 2 prospect in this class, an ultra-athletic point guard with a body and court sense belying his […]

LeBron James and Stephen Curry are two of the best basketball players we’ve ever seen step on the NBA hardwood. Although these two players have ultimately different playing styles, both make a case to be in the GOAT conversation. In fact, during the latter part of the 2010s, both of these players were championship fixtures. […]

It’s virtually impossible to limit the scope of Nikola Jokic’s influence on offense. A historically efficient three-level scorer who runs either side of ball screens at an elite level and manipulates defenses with the pass like LeBron James, the Denver Nuggets superstar is on the way to cementing himself as one of the several best […]

Desmond Bane has been getting better and better for the Memphis Grizzlies and this past season, he really took a major step forward in terms of proving he can be one of their stars for years to come. He averaged career-highs in almost every category during his third NBA season, but he missed a handful […]

Ray Allen, one of the greatest shooters of all-time, and LeBron James, one of the greatest talents of all-time, won a championship together with the Miami Heat in 2013. A ten-time All-Star and now a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, Allen was recently asked about who he would put on his all-time […]

The Philadelphia 76ers made a drastic decision following another year of playoff embarrassment. They decided to fire head coach Doc Rivers after their drought of appearances in the conference finals reached 23 years. An eventful offseason for the Sixers begins. Following a Game 7 where Joel Embiid and James Harden completely stunk it up, firing […]

The New York Knicks did not inspire much confidence among fans and pundits entering the 2022-23 season. After all, they only added Jalen Brunson to the core of their 37-win team the past season. But Brunson, despite not having the longest track record of stellar play, proved to be a transformative force as the Knicks […]

Back in the Eastern Conference Finals for the fifth time since 2017, the Boston Celtics will face a very familiar foe in the Miami Heat, who they defeated in the conference finals a season ago. Playing around with his rotations lately, Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla recently made the move to have center Robert Williams […]

When the Lakers and Nuggets square off in the Western Conference Finals, the usual logic will be inverted. Somehow, the Nuggets are the high flying juggernaut led by a league-defining superstar at the peak of his powers. The Lakers are the plucky upstart who surged late in the season because of their chemistry and defense. […]

And then there were four. The conference finals are just around the corner, which means franchises are getting closer and closer to the Larry O’Brien Trophy. That is the case for the Boston Celtics, who are trying to win the title for the first time since 2008. With their series against the Miami Heat starting […]

Patrick Ewing is undeniably one of the greatest players to ever don a New York Knicks jersey. He spent 15 years with the Knicks in what was one of the most successful stints in franchise history. And yet, we’re about to discuss the 1985 NBA Draft Lottery conspiracy involving all aforementioned players and David Stern. […]

The NBA Playoffs continue as the Miami Heat (44-38) visit the Boston Celtics (57-25) for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals! Action tips off Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. ET. To get to the Eastern Conference Finals, Miami took down New York in six while Boston eliminated Philadelphia in seven. Below we continue our NBA […]

Memphis Grizzlies star guard Ja Morant landed himself in hot water over the weekend, once again brandishing a firearm on social media while promoting a menacing image. Though it’s nothing criminal, his behavior is unbecoming of the face of a franchise. While he may be young, it’s worth wondering if Morant needs to mature or […]

For most of the world, 2020 is a reminder of a painful and overly long wasted year, what with the rapid spread of COVID-19 forcing lockdowns all over the globe and effectively changing life as we know it. But fans of the Los Angeles Lakers, at the very least, have something to fondly look back […]

The 2023 NBA Draft Lottery is set to take place on Tuesday night, and the hype surrounding the lottery is a lot higher than it typically is, and for good reason. That’s because highly-touted prospect Victor Wembanyama is expected to unofficially find out who his new team will be in the NBA when the results […]

The Denver Nuggets have looked every bit the part of the Western Conference’s number-one seed. They’ve thoroughly dispatched the Minnesota Timberwolves and a depleted Phoenix Suns side with relative ease. Now, they face their biggest challenge yet in the Los Angeles Lakers, a rematch of the 2020 NBA Bubble Western Conference Finals. With Nuggets-Lakers set […]

The Miami Heat are back in the Eastern Conference Finals and preparing for a rematch with the Boston Celtics from the bubble in 2020. It should be a highly entertaining series between two fairly different teams, although both led by big names. As Game 1 tips off on Wednesday night, the Heat will be led […]

It was in October 2012 when the Houston Rockets, a franchise that’s always on the lookout for stars available on the trade market, swung a deal for James Harden that changed the course of the franchise. With Harden leading the way, the Rockets made the playoffs in every season from 2013 to 2020. In fact, […]

The Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets begin the Western Conference Finals on Tuesday at Ball Arena. As with the Miami Heat-Boston Celtics series, it’ll be a rematch of the 2020 conference finals in the bubble. The Lakers won in five, although LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and Michael Porter Jr. are […]

The 2023 NBA Draft Lottery is set to take place on Tuesday night, and it’s clear there is a lot on the line for the top teams looking to see how the ping-pong balls bounce. Everyone is expecting the team that lands the top pick in the draft to select Victor Wembanyama, and one such […]

While the NBA Playoffs continue on, teams outside the postseason have their eyes on another event: the NBA Draft Lottery. The reason why is a 7-2 French unicorn named Victor Wembanyama. The hype behind Wembenyama has been immense, as he’s possibly the most-hyped NBA prospect since LeBron James entered the league 20 years ago. The […]

The stakes are high in the NBA Playoffs with the championship up for grabs for the best teams in the NBA. But while teams and players are expected to shine the brightest in the playoffs, not everyone is capable of playing with the pressure of the postseason. Let’s take a look at the 10 biggest […]