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The 2022-23 NBA season is officially underway. After two weeks of basketball, some players are already standing out among the others. That includes Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo and other players who are recording some impressive stat lines. This means it is time for a very early 2022-23 NBA MVP Power Rankings. While Antetokounmpo and Nikola Jokić have […]

The Golden State Warriors lost their third straight game on Tuesday night, crumbling in crunch-time against the Miami Heat. The defending champions are winless on their five-game road trip, with its biggest test—a back-to-back against the Orlando Magic and surging New Orleans Pelicans—still to come before returning to the friendly confines of Chase Center. Now […]

The Charlotte Hornets (3-4) visit the Windy City to take on the Chicago Bulls (4-4) on Wednesday. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:40 pm ET. Below we continue our NBA odds series with a Hornets-Bulls prediction. Charlotte sits at 3-4 following their loss to the Kings on Monday. The Hornets are 4-3 against the spread (ATS) […]

The Atlanta Hawks (4-3) visit Big Apple to take on the New York Knicks (3-3) on Wednesday. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:40 pm ET. Below we continue our NBA odds series with a Hawks-Knicks prediction and pick. The Hawks put together a solid start but have lost two consecutive games to the Bucks and Raptors. […]

Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks said Tuesday that head coach Steve Nash told him Brooklyn’s players were “not responding to him” in the opening weeks of the regular season. The Nets subsequently fired Nash and are expected to hire Ime Udoka as their next head coach. Brooklyn opened the season 2-5 under Nash and […]

The Sacramento Kings (2-4) travel east to take on the Miami Heat (3-5) in a non-conference affair on Wednesday. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:40 pm ET. Below we continue our NBA odds series with a Kings-Heat prediction and pick. After starting 0-4, Sacramento has won two straight games including a victory over the Heat last […]

When it comes to the New Orleans Pelicans, everything revolves around Zion Williamson. How far they’ll go this season rests largely on his very broad shoulders. But one player alone does not a championship team make. LeBron James and Michael Jordan both learned that the hard way during the early portions of their career, as […]

The Boston Celtics (4-2) travel to take on the Cleveland Cavaliers (5-1) on Wednesday. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 pm ET. Below we continue our NBA odds series with a Celtics-Cavaliers prediction and pick. Boston is 4-2 coming off a resounding victory over Washington. The Celtics are just 3-3 against the spread (ATS) after covering […]

The first month of the 2022-23 season for the Philadelphia 76ers was a bumpy ride. An 0-3 start that featured three brutal defeats has now been masked by a solid stretch of basketball, some of which has come amid Joel Embiid absences from the roster. The Sixers are 4-4 heading into November. They will have […]

The Washington Wizards will travel to take on the Philadelphia 76ers in a Wednesday night NBA matchup at the Wells Fargo Center. With that said, it’s a good time to check out our NBA odds series, which includes a Wizards-76ers prediction and pick, laid out below. Washington has struggled to a 3-4 record this season, including […]

Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant’s world is burning down around him. The 2-6 Nets agreed to part ways with Steve Nash Tuesday, and they seem locked in on poaching suspended Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka for the position, though general manager Sean Marks claims no decision has been made. Amidst all the drama, Kyrie Irving […]

The NBA has been ripe with surprises through the first week of the season. Tanking teams are rising to the top of their respective conferences, stars are adjusting to positionless basketball, and some young rookies look like seasoned vets. Lets take a look at some of the most shocking developments from the season’s start. 1. […]

On a day when Brooklyn lost head coach Steve Nash, Kevin Durant and the Nets had an opportunity for a morale-boosting victory. The Nets led by as many as 12 points in the second half Tuesday against the Chicago Bulls. But as has been the case to start the season, Chicago stormed back to claim […]

Several reports have said the Brooklyn Nets plan to hire former Celtics Head Coach Ime Udoka following the firing of Steve Nash. Despite this, Nets General Manager Sean Marks said Tuesday that Brooklyn has “absolutely not” decided on its next head coach. The Brooklyn Nets plan to hire Ime Udoka as their new head coach, […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves (4-3) take on the Phoenix Suns (5-1) on Tuesday. Tipoff is scheduled for 10 pm ET. Below we continue our NBA odds series with a Timberwolves-Suns prediction and pick. Minnesota has started strong this season with their 4-3 record. They’ve been slightly below average against the spread (ATS) sitting at 3-4 after […]

The Brooklyn Nets shocked the NBA on Tuesday when they announced they were firing their head coach Steve Nash and replacing him with suspended Boston Celtics head coach Ime Udoka. This ends what had become a fairly contentious relationship between Nash and the Nets over the past few months, and shows that Brooklyn isn’t content […]

The Brooklyn Nets plan to hire former Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka as head coach after the team announced Tuesday they had mutually agreed to part ways with Steve Nash. Shams Charania reported the move: “The Brooklyn Nets plan to hire Ime Udoka as their new head coach, sources tell The Athletic and Stadium. Boston granted […]

The Orlando Magic (1-6) face the Oklahoma City Thunder (3-3) in a matchup of two of the NBA’s youngest teams. Tipoff is scheduled for 8:10 pm ET. Below we continue our NBA odds series with a Magic-Thunder prediction and pick. Orlando has had a rough start to the 2022-23 season with a 1-6 record. They’ve […]

The Golden State Warriors (3-4) travel to the opposite coast to play the Miami Heat (2-5) on Tuesday. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 pm ET. Below we continue our NBA odds series with a Warriors-Heat prediction and pick. Golden State is 3-4 coming off of a two-game losing streak. The Warriors are just 2-5 against […]

The Chicago Bulls (3-4) visit the Brooklyn Nets (2-5) on Tuesday night. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 pm ET. Below we continue our NBA odds series with a Bulls-Nets prediction and pick. The Bulls are 3-4 coming off two consecutive losses to the Spurs and 76ers. Chicago is 3-3-1 against the spread (ATS) – on […]

On Sunday afternoon, Paul George said he needed to be better in order for the Los Angeles Clippers to win. Over four straight losses, George had struggled by averaging just 13.3 points on 31 percent shooting from the field. A day later, he came through and delivered when they needed him most. George finished Monday […]

The 2022-23 NBA season is officially underway. While there have been only two weeks of basketball, some players are already making big impacts across the league. That includes Orlando Magic youngster Paolo Banchero and other rookies who are already looking like veterans and the best players on their respective teams, so it’s time to look […]

The stars turned into spooks in the NBA as trick-or-treat season descended upon us. This is undoubtedly one of the more exciting periods in the basketball calendar, as many players channel the NBA Halloween spirit and dress up in costumes! Of course, given we’re talking about multi-millionaire NBA players here, their outfits are usually pretty […]

LOS ANGELES — Following a fourth straight loss Sunday afternoon, a sickly Paul George took ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers’ bad start to their season. “It starts with me,” he said. George didn’t take long to live up to his words. George’s monster Halloween night against the Houston Rockets was capped by both the […]

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Clippers will be without Kawhi Leonard for least the next two games. This according to head coach Tyronn Lue, who on Monday night revealed that the Clippers star will not travel to Houston or San Antonio as part of the two-game trip. Instead, he’ll stay in Los Angeles to […]

On Sunday, the Los Angeles Lakers — and their fans — fell back in love with Russell Westbrook. The feeling seemed mutual. At least for one night. Westbrook came off the bench for the second game in a row and helped lead the Lakers to their first win of the season;  a spirited and balanced […]

The Philadelphia 76ers have not gotten off to a great start to the 2022-23 season. At 3-4, they played some dismal basketball to start the year but at least seem to now be getting on the right track. Still, they could use a little more firepower and have a clear option to add some. Although […]

The Brooklyn Nets held a players-only meeting Saturday after an embarrassing 125-116 loss to the Indiana Pacers. The loss, Brooklyn’s fourth in a row, came with Indiana on the back end of a back-to-back without one of their best players in Myles Turner. At 1-5, the Nets are one of five teams in the league […]

His best days are way behind him now, but that does not mean Derrick Rose can’t contribute meaningful numbers for the New York Knicks. The former NBA MVP is even getting high praise from Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau for his contributions to the team, albeit in limited minutes. Thibodeau is particularly amazed by the […]

We have started our musical chairs of teams rising and sinking in our weekly NBA Power Rankings for the 2022-23 season. Here, we’ll look at our NBA Power Rankings entering Week 3. Some of the early risers have leveled off, while we see marquee squads like the Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Phoenix Suns moving […]

The Brooklyn Nets have stumbled out of the gates in the 2022-23 NBA season. Their chemistry has been messy, and their on-court play has been even messier. To make matters worse, Kyrie Irving is once again at the center of a social media storm. His Thursday afternoon posting of a four-year-old anti-Semitic video and a […]

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Clippers head coach Tyronn Lue has often talked about giving his teams a 10-15 game sample size before making changes to lineups and rotations. An unexpected four-game losing streak before Halloween, however, is forcing Lue to re-evaluate his options. The Clippers fell to the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday afternoon, […]

LOS ANGELES – Most of the Los Angeles Clippers’ locker room had cleared out by the time media was allowed in postgame. Players were understandably down. It wasn’t just that Sunday’s 112-91 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans marked the Clippers’ fourth in a row, but it was the way in which it happened: without […]

The Los Angeles Clippers will be without star Kawhi Leonard for the next couple of games, but the team maintains his situation is game-to-game with no timetable for his return. Speaking with members of media on Sunday morning before the Clippers’ matchup against the New Orleans Pelicans, Lue ruled Leonard out for both the matinee […]

Kyrie Irving said Saturday that he doesn’t believe he did anything wrong after posting the link to a film on social media that many have labeled antisemitic. Irving spoke following the Brooklyn Nets’ 125-116 loss to the Indiana Pacers, standing by his posts of the film Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America, which led […]

The Denver Nuggets travel to Southern California to face off with the winless Los Angeles Lakers at Crypto.com arena. It is time to check our glitzy NBA odds series and deliver a Nuggets-Lakers prediction and pick. The Nuggets are coming off a 117-101 victory over the Utah Jazz. Michael Porter Jr. led the Nuggets with 32 points […]

The Houston Rockets will head to the desert to take on the Phoenix Suns at the Footprint Center. It’s time to check out our exciting NBA odds series as we make a Rockets-Suns prediction and pick. The Rockets lost 125-111 to the Portland Trailblazers on Friday. Eric Gordon led the team with 18 points by shooting 6 […]

There’s lazy, there’s lackadaisical, there’s uninspired, and then there’s whatever the Brooklyn Nets put out on the court Saturday against the Indiana Pacers. The Nets put forth as disappointing an effort as you could imagine in a 125-116 loss to a Pacers team on the back end of a back-to-back without Myles Turner. Brooklyn’s non-existent […]

The Charlotte Hornets defeated the Golden State Warriors in a nail bitter to secure their first home win, 120-113. It may have taken overtime to get the job done against a team led by the greatest shooter ever in Steph Curry, but it was an impressive win by this young group. The Hornets are now […]