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Due to a Cinderella season in 2022-23, the Sacramento Kings transformed themselves from a bottom-of-the-rung and can’t-get-right franchise into one with a riveting team led by hard-nosed players. However, if the Kings want to keep up their success — let alone build off of it — then they may need to upgrade their roster. After […]

Shaquille O’Neal is a large man. He is listed at 7-foot-1 and reportedly weighed around 350 pounds during the prime of his NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers. Earlier this week in Hawaii, O’Neal was in a pool at a resort in Honolulu. He acted like he fell in and could not get out […]

Keegan Murray burst onto the scene as a rookie for the Sacramento Kings last season. Ahead of his second year, Kings GM Monte McNair issues Murray a challenge to step up his game, reports The Athletic’s Anthony Slater and Sam Amick. “We know we need Keegan [Murray] to take another step. And one of the […]

Many people forget how great of a player Moses Malone was. The legendary big man, who had his best days in the NBA with the Houston Rockets and the Philadelphia 76ers, died in 2015, but many of the players who played with and against him have plenty of stories to tell to remind us just […]

Youth and potential are the two building blocks of the Oklahoma City Thunder franchise and suddenly, this is a team on the rise in the NBA. Led by their All-NBA First Team guard in Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the Thunder reached the Western Conference Play-In Tournament this past season with a 40-42 record after two consecutive seasons […]

In many ways, today’s version of the NBA is unrecognizable compared to how the game was played when Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls were winning championships year after year. The 3-point shooting around the league is at the top of the list. While teams in 2023 are looking to attempt as many 3-pointers as possible, Bulls […]

The Miami Heat became the second 8-seed ever to reach the NBA Finals when they got there this past season. The first? That would be the New York Knicks back in 1999. ClutchPoints had a chance to sit down with former Knicks guard Charlie Ward at Vegas Summer League to talk about the team’s run […]

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James has been on quite the global tour ever since the NBA season ended. His most recent stop was in Puerto Rico, and he made a fan’s day by giving her a kiss on the hand. This young fan from Puerto Rico couldn't believe she got a kiss on the […]

Former Los Angeles Lakers star guard Archie Clark was one of the best players in the league at one point, earning an All-Star selection in his second career season and an All-NBA selection in 1972 with the Baltimore Bullets. Playing 10 seasons in the NBA despite entering the league at 25 years old (a byproduct […]

Jarace Walker and the Indiana Pacers are now done with 2023 NBA Summer League, and we’ve learned some things. The former Houston freshman showed off many of the skills that made him the No. 8 pick in the NBA Draft. However, while his stat line was mostly good, he was inefficient on the offensive side […]

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green claimed “less than 60 percent” of NBA players have a basketball IQ in an appearance on the “Pat Bev Pod” with Patrick Beverley. Beverley said Green was being generous with that number. “Knowing the game of basketball, in this league, is like one of the biggest skills you can have,” […]

One of the best remaining free agents this NBA offseason is Christian Wood. Turning 28 in September, Wood has gone from a player in the G League that nobody knew about to being a real, key contributor for his teams. Following the two best seasons of his career with the Houston Rockets, Wood was traded […]

When healthy, Anthony Davis provides the Los Angeles Lakers with superstar performances and creates a killer duo with LeBron James. The problem is he hasn’t exactly been healthy over the last couple of seasons. That’s led to questions as to whether the Lakers will or should trade Davis, a decision that appears to have an […]

The Golden State Warriors re-signed Draymond Green at the start of 2023 NBA free agency, keeping the core of its dynasty together for at least one more year. Warriors coach Steve Kerr has been a key part of that core, leading the group to its first of four rings in the season that he joined […]

His take on Kevin Durant makes it easy to assume we know which side of the debate Scott Williams lands on between Michael Jordan and LeBron James as the greatest basketball player ever. A teammate of Jordan’s during the Chicago Bulls’ first three-peat in the early 1990s, Williams told ClutchPoints’ Tomer Azarly at NBA Summer […]

Nikola Jokic, the Denver Nuggets’ main man, is walking proof that Europeans are some of the heaviest in the world in terms of drinking — just ask Bruce Brown about it. Brown, who recently signed with the Indiana Pacers, recalled a time when he partied along with Jokic following the Nuggets’ championship conquest. Brown and […]

The Golden State Warriors didn’t have the 2022-23 season they were hoping for, and a big reason why their title defense didn’t go the way they were hoping for was probably because of Draymond Green clocking Jordan Poole in the face at a team practice before the campaign even started. For the most part, punching […]

The Detroit Pistons have a lot of guards in their rotation like Cade Cunningham, Monte Morris, and Jaden Ivey among others. Ausar Thompson and Marcus Sasser’s addition because of the NBA Draft only clutters their rotation more. Monty Williams is going to have to figure out which player they will bench or send to the […]

The city of New York attracts a lot of stars during the summer who are there for vacation and a little bit of retail therapy. NBA players find themselves on the turf of the Julius Randle-led New York Knicks because of this. Fans go wild and follow these private individuals for pictures which can often […]

The Golden State Warriors were already full of guards and developing wings. It made sense for Mike Dunleavy Jr. to trade Patrick Baldwin Jr. away along with Jordan Poole in order to get Chris Paul. His stint with the Washington Wizards will need to prove a lot of things if he plans on staying in […]

The Miami Heat may have made it all the way to the NBA Finals in the 2022-23 season, but former NBA big man Kendrick Perkins doesn’t think it changes anything about them for the 2023-24 campaign. In fact, even if Miami ends up acquiring Damian Lillard, Big Perk doesn’t see the franchise becoming favorites in […]

The San Antonio Spurs are building a nice young core around Victor Wembanyama, the first overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft and a player many believe to be once in a generation. But one player does not a team make. Wembanyama will need players who can grow alongside him to return the team to […]

There’s currently a lot of buzz surrounding San Antonio Spurs phenom Victor Wembanyama heading into the new season — and for good reason. So much so, that it’s easy to overlook another rookie that is expected to take the league by storm when he finally takes the court. This is none other than Oklahoma City […]

LeBron James has been keeping busy in the offseason. Just last week, the Los Angeles Lakers superstar announced his decision to play on for at least one more year during his award acceptance speech in the ESPYs. This time around, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer has headed to South America to watch the Finals game of […]

The Golden State Warriors finished last season in disappointing fashion, though they started it in controversial fashion as well with Draymond Green’s practice attack on Jordan Poole. Poole has since been traded to the Washington Wizards, which caused him to open up on the move recently. On the other hand, Green signed a massive $100 […]

Fresh off of his American Century Championship golf tournament win in Lake Tahoe, Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry decided to travel across the country to attend Drake’s concert in Brooklyn. Naturally, the greatest shooter of all time was honored during the show as Curry and the rest of his entourage got a special spot […]

There is just one ball that teams have to share in most sports. What a player does with that ball, affects the whole team. Whether they lose their handle on it or miss a shot, those are a reflection of the team’s schematics. This is why most spectators of the game love efficiency. The minimal […]

Back in 1971, the United States Supreme Court ruled that any player would only be eligible to enter the NBA four years after graduating from high school. This whole controversy was brought about by Spencer Haywood and the fact that the ABA allowed him to play after his sophomore season at the University of Detroit […]

While many fellow NBA players often use his age to mock him, it sure looks like LeBron James has no problem being old. In fact, it seems the Los Angeles Lakers star takes pride in it. So imagine his disappointment when he learned that he’s not the oldest active player in the NBA currently. James […]

One-time NBA champion Spencer Haywood sees the renaissance of NBA big men with Nikola Jokic and Victor Wembanyama leading the way, though he can’t help but be sad about the sad state of the position when looking at players like DeMarcus Cousins and Dwight Howard. When asked if he see the center position becoming relevant […]

The Los Angeles Lakers did not fare too well in the NBA Summer League. They did go 3-2, but LA did not exactly send shockwaves throughout the NBA with their overly impressive performances in the summer tournament. What this stint did for them, however, is that it allowed them to have a look at their […]

Former Dallas Mavericks star Shawn Marion is giving himself credit for the rise of positionless basketball and small ball in the NBA. Both positionless basketball and small ball have risen over the last decade as an increasing amount of players have the versatility to play different roles on the court and as teams like the […]

Nikola Jokic looked like a man on a mission in the Denver Nuggets’ recently concluded championship run. Well, it was mission accomplished for the former back-to-back MVP as he majestically led Denver to its first-ever title in the history of the franchise. One of the highlights of the Nuggets’ historic run has got to be […]

Germany did well in last year’s EuroBasket tournament, finishing third behind France and champions Spain. However, Toronto Raptors guard Dennis Schroder seems to believe that the team would have fared even better had it not been for Dallas Mavericks veteran Maxi Kleber opting to back out of the tournament. In a recent podcast, Schroder revealed […]

Toronto Raptors forward OG Anunoby has been in trade rumors for virtually all of 2023. That doesn’t mean the Raptors are going to trade him. The latest update suggests that OG Anunoby will start the 2023-2024 NBA season in Toronto, at the very least. The Raptors are not seriously listening to trade offers for Anunoby, […]

Once the new season begins, all eyes will be on San Antonio Spurs phenom Victor Wembanyama. To a certain extent, the same can be said for Scoot Henderson of the Portland Trail Blazers. However, one young stud who’s looking to spoil the party is Houston Rockets small forward Cam Whitmore. Fresh off his NBA Summer […]

Sixers president of basketball operations Daryl Morey is renowned for finding value picks in the NBA Draft, and perhaps there was no greater value than Villanova forward Cam Whitmore. Unfortunately for the Sixers, the team didn’t have its first-round pick, and the team’s two second-round picks in the 2023 NBA Draft were rescinded by the […]

When an NBA team plays a second-year player at Summer League, you want to see them dominate. They should look like they’re literally and figuratively in a league beyond their competition. Dyson Daniels of the New Orleans Pelicans, unfortunately, fell somewhere in between. Jalen Williams proved too good for Summer League in the one game […]

The Brooklyn Nets requested waivers on forward RaiQuan Gray Tuesday. Gray, the 59th overall pick in the 2021 draft, signed a two-way deal with the Nets in the final week of last year’s regular season. The Florida State product played one game with the Nets, tallying 16 points, nine rebounds and seven assists in Brooklyn’s […]