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New Los Angeles Clippers guard James Harden is already feeling the heat after just two games with his new team, as ESPN’s Kendrick Perkins made it clear how things have changed since Harden’s latest trade saga drama on First Take. Molly Qerim: "Will Harden ever be a hero again?" Kendrick Perkins: "Absolutely not. I don't […]

After a couple of bumps in the road following their 3-1 start to the 2023-24 NBA season, the Oklahoma City Thunder are back on track with consecutive wins at home this week. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is playing out of his mind for Oklahoma City to begin the season and could very well bag another All-NBA nod […]

Since 2007, Kevin Durant has played for five (if you include the shift from Seattle to Oklahoma City) different teams over his career. He’s won an MVP, NBA championships, and bounced back from a gruesome injury all with different teams, but regardless of which team he plays for, he’s always been unstoppable on offense. Today, […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves have looked incredible to begin the 2023-24 season. Marred by injury woes and fit issues during the 2022-23 campaign, the Timberwolves have been a revelation, putting together the league’s best defense through eight games while slaying excellent teams such as the Denver Nuggets and Boston Celtics along the way. The Timberwolves, in […]

The Los Angeles Clippers haven’t exactly found integrating James Harden into a team with Kawhi Leonard and Paul George to be an easy task. Harden was supposed to elevate the Clippers’ offense into unstoppable mode, but instead, the Clippers’ scoring attack has devolved into a turnover party and an overall lack of cohesion, marked by […]

The Philadelphia 76ers are off to a blazing hot start to the 2023-24 NBA season. At 6-1, the Sixers are atop the Eastern Conference and only behind the 8-1 defending champions Denver Nuggets for the best record in the league. Sixers superstar Joel Embiid has a theory as to why his team is doing so […]

The James Harden era for the Los Angeles Clippers have started with a 0-2 record. After beginning the 2023-24 season 3-1, the Clippers have dropped three straight games, going from the top of the Western Conference standings to the bottom portion of the standings. While it’s still early in the season, Los Angeles has already […]

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers have one of the best offenses in the NBA in the early goings of the 2023-24 season, ranking third in offensive rating. But their defense has been a major point of emphasis this season as Nick Nurse has tuned his aggressive tactics beautifully so far. Philly ranks fifth in defensive […]

Bradley Beal finally made his much-anticipated regular season debut for the Phoenix Suns, immediately slotting into the starting lineup in place of Eric Gordon to give Kevin Durant a bonafide co-star in the midst of Devin Booker’s lower-body injury-related absence. Beal, however, did not have the best of nights in his return to the hardwood. […]

James Harden, over the years, has gotten accustomed to being the lead guy on his own team. And in the process of being the guy for the Houston Rockets from 2013 to 2020, Harden has built some habits that he’ll be having difficulties getting out of his system now that he’s a member of the […]

LaMelo Ball has had a rough start to the 2023-24 season, and as a result, the Charlotte Hornets have struggled a bit as well. Through his first seven games of the season, Ball is averaging under 20 points per game (19.6) while hitting just 38.7 percent of his shots from the floor. It certainly wasn’t […]

The Los Angeles Clippers, in one last-ditch effort to bolster the team’s championship hopes in the Kawhi Leonard and Paul George era, swung for the fences, trading away their few remaining draft assets, along with four versatile forwards, in exchange for James Harden. Harden, for all his shortcomings as a player, remains an All-Star caliber […]

Despite all the James Harden hullabaloo the Philadelphia 76ers went through in the offseason and into the new campaign, Joel Embiid and co. are off to a flying start to begin the 2023-24 NBA season. Philadelphia has won six straight games since losing to the new-look Milwaukee Bucks in its season opener. Embiid is playing […]

In the aftermath of the Miami Heat’s failed trade pursuit of Damian Lillard, Tyler Herro has assumed a bigger role in the team’s offense — to positive results. Entering the Heat’s Wednesday night game against the Memphis Grizzlies, Herro was averaging 25.3 points per game to go along with 5.3 rebounds and 5.6 assists, emerging […]

Another season, another slow start for the Los Angeles Lakers. After getting blown out 128-94 by the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night, the Lakers’ record through their first eight games sits at just 3-5, and their start to this campaign has been quite reminiscent of last season’s when they won just two of their first […]

The New Orleans Pelicans were off to a great start to the 2023-24 NBA season, winning four of their first five games. They have since lost three straight and are now back down to .500 following their 122-101 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night. Zion Williamson missed that game for the Pelicans due […]

The Los Angeles Lakers, after a strong finish to last season that ended with an unlikely trip to the Western Conference Finals, have endured some growing pains to begin the 2023-24 campaign. LeBron James even compared the Lakers to the Pittsburgh Steelers, which may be a rare self-burn. And after the Lakers’ unseemly 128-94 blowout […]

On Wednesday night, the Oklahoma City Thunder continued their winning ways, thanks in large part to yet another outstanding performance from 2023 First Team All-NBA member Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Gilgeous-Alexander, never in a hurry and ever in control of his movements on the court, simply had his way against an overmatched Cleveland Cavaliers defense, dropping 41 […]

Minnesota Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards, in addition to being an incredible two-way talent, seems to be such a joy to be around in the locker room, with his love for the game being extremely contagious not to mention the fact that he has such a positive outlook in life that he couldn’t help but lift […]

The Milwaukee Bucks squeaked out a tight 120-118 win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night, despite losing superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo for virtually the entire second half. The 28-year-old was hit with a technical foul in the second quarter, and was given another early in the third — along with an ejection — in front […]

Giannis Antetokounmpo was not able to finish Wednesday night’s showdown between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Detroit Pistons after he was ejected from the contest due to the accumulation of two technical fouls. Antetokounmpo was first called a technical foul late in the second quarter for using profanities in arguing a missed foul call while […]

Locked in a tightly-contested affair against the reigning champion Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night, the Golden State Warriors know the value of every point they put up on the board. Thus, it became all the more heartbreaking for them when referees failed to credit Stephen Curry for a made basket after a blatant goaltending violation […]

Chris Paul put a perfectly placed bounce pass out in front of Klay Thompson, with no one between he and the basket as the Golden State Warriors trailed by three with time running out. For a moment, it appeared the second-best shooter ever would get the chance to send his shorthanded team to overtime against […]

Victor Wembanyama has been as good as advertised for the San Antonio Spurs to begin his NBA career. Wembanyama has flashed some incredible shot-creation skill for someone who stands at 7’4, he can get a shot up anytime as he can simply shoot over the top of any defender, and he has also been a […]

The Milwaukee Bucks haven’t found integrating Damian Lillard into the team to be a seamless task. In the early goings of the 2023-24 season, the Bucks have posted the worst defensive rating in the league despite having two of the best defensive players in the league in Giannis Antetokounmpo and Brook Lopez. And on Wednesday […]

The Portland Trail Blazers have been bitten by the injury bug early. After one game, Anfernee Simons – the team’s best offensive player – tore a ligament in his thumb and will miss 4-6 weeks. Then four games later, Scoot Henderson, the third overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft and considered a future franchise […]

The Golden State Warriors’ trip to Mile High City on Wednesday did not bear great memories for Stephen Curry and company as the Denver Nuggets dealt them a 108-105 loss. That game also got them — and their fans — enraged over what they deemed to be a missed call on a potential goaltend violation […]

With Bradley Beal back from injury, the Phoenix Suns were better equipped to take care of business easily against the Chicago Bulls, especially when Kevin Durant has been playing at such a high level. However, in the NBA, there is no such thing as an easy game. The Bulls stuck the course for the entire […]

The Dallas Mavericks are starting to backslide after coming off a blazing start to the season. Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving did all they could but still could not close out Pascal Siakam’s Toronto Raptors. A lot of the battle was lost by the Mavs through rebounding. Their frontcourt looked thin without Dereck Lively II […]

A shorthanded New Orleans Pelicans team rolled into Target Center to take on the blazing Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night. The results… well, they were what you would expect. Minnesota set the tone early on and never let up in a convincing 122-101 win over a Western Conference foe. Karl-Anthony Towns sets the tone Postgame, […]

There appears to be no stopping the ascent of the young Oklahoma City Thunder squad. Entering the 2023-24 season with higher expectations brought forth by a better-than-expected 2022-23 season, the Thunder have looked scary to begin the year, especially with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander continuing to play at the All-NBA First-Team level he was at last year. […]

Toronto Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic has a message for the rest of the NBA: there’s no way you can stop the Dallas Mavericks’ Luka Doncic. Darko Rajakovic shared his thoughts on Luka Doncic after the Raptors’ 127-116 win over the Mavs on Wednesday, per Sportsnet’s Michael Grange. “You’re not going to hold Luka Doncic […]

The Brooklyn Nets were in danger of falling to 3-5 to open the year while down three starters in Nic Claxton, Cam Johnson and Ben Simmons Wednesday vs. the Los Angeles Clippers. That fate looked likely when Cam Thomas, Brooklyn’s top scorer to start the season, exited with an ankle sprain in the third quarter. […]

James Harden who? That will certainly be the war cry of the Philadelphia 76ers this point forward, especially when they’ve been exceptional to begin the year even after losing the services of the 10-time All-Star. Thanks to continued dominance from reigning league MVP Joel Embiid, the Sixers have been humming on both ends of the […]

The Milwaukee Bucks are giving the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers a run for their money. Giannis Antetokounmpo’s squad has gradually gotten into the groove of their late-game offense. This has led them to a five-win record after their recent win over Monty Williams’ Detroit Pistons. But, that win is not just the talk of […]

The Milwaukee Bucks almost slipped on a banana peel on Wednesday night against the Detroit Pistons when Giannis Antetokounmpo was ejected from the game early on in the third quarter of what ended up being a 120-118 win for them. Antetokounmpo was, at least in the eyes of many, unfairly penalized for a vicious staredown […]

With a chance to go above .500 for the first time in two years and nine months, the Houston Rockets faced no shortage of motivation heading into their Wednesday night matchup against the Los Angeles Lakers. However, head coach Ime Udoka saw it fit to light an even greater fire underneath third-year guard Jalen Green, […]

LeBron James is reserving judgment on the 2023-24 Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers dropped to 3-5 and 0-5 on the road thanks to a 128-94 loss to the Houston Rockets on Wednesday at the Toyota Center. Anthony Davis (adductor) was a last-minute scratch, and the Lakers’ “energy and effort” — a favorite Ham phrase — […]

Victor Wembanyama’s first-ever game at Madison Square Garden earned him a new admirer in New York Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson. The latter chimed in on the San Antonio Spurs’ rookie sensation after the Knicks’ 126-105 win on Wednesday, per Knicks Videos. Jalen Brunson was asked about being on the court with Victor Wembanyama for […]