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The 2022 NBA trade deadline has been every bit as exciting as one may have hoped for. It’s not even Thursday yet and many of the major players have already been moved. To add even more gas to the fire, there are rumors of a potential Ben Simmons-James Harden trade being negotiated at the time […]

The Philadelphia 76ers are pushing hard to acquire Brooklyn Nets star James Harden by Thursday’s NBA Trade Deadline in exchange for Ben Simmons, but they do have a plan to lure him in if that doesn’t happen. The Sixers reportedly believe that offloading Tobias Harris to clear cap space this summer is a real solution […]

The NBA regular season continues with games on Wednesday. The Toronto Raptors will hit the road and take on the Oklahoma City Thunder. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Raptors-Thunder prediction and pick. Click here to Bet $5, Win $280 on either team in Super Bowl 56 (56-1 Odds)  *To […]

The Sacramento Kings kicked off the NBA trade deadline season with a massive trade for Indiana Pacers star Domantas Sabonis. Their willingness to part with Tyrese Haliburton shows that they are going all-in on making the playoffs as soon as possible. They aren’t done looking for reinforcements yet, either. Harrison Barnes has long been on […]

The Charlotte Hornets are wedged into the thick of the playoff hunt. Sitting at the ninth spot in the Eastern Conference right now, they control their own fate. They are a few games out of that all important six seed and are slotted into the play-in tournament. Unfortunately, Gordon Hayward will be out indefinitely and […]

The Utah Jazz were handed a serious blow recently as wing Joe Ingles suffered a season-ending ACL injury. In the wake of the bad news, the team is looking to bring in a replacement for him as they eye a deep playoff run. One of the names Utah is eyeing is Houston Rockets veteran Eric […]

The NBA regular season continues with games on Wednesday. The Chicago Bulls will hit the road and take on the Charlotte Hornets. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Bulls-Hornets prediction and pick. Click here to Bet $5, Win $280 on either team in Super Bowl 56 (56-1 Odds)  *To claim, […]

The Los Angeles Lakers got a rude awakening on Tuesday night as they were badly beaten by the defending champion, Milwaukee Bucks. LeBron James even admitted post-game that his team is nowhere near being a title contender and it appears LA has resorted to the fact that their Big 3 just isn’t working, with the […]

The Indiana Pacers continued to clean house on Tuesday as they traded Domantas Sabonis, Justin Holiday, and Jeremy Lamb to the Sacramento Kings. In return, they got Tristan Thompson, Buddy Hield, and Tyrese Haliburton. While the latter will absolutely be a part of their long-term plans, Hield could already be on the move again. Via […]

Although Luka Doncic has accomplished a lot in his first seasons with the Dallas Mavericks, he still has not checked off a playoff series win on his career checklist. This is no fault to the Mavs’ wunderkind, as he has shined during his two postseason experiences, both of which came against the LA Clippers. As […]

The 2022 NBA trade deadline is a little over 24 hours away, and the NBA landscape continues to change. We saw multiple big names get a change of scenery Tuesday, and there is likely still more to come. One team the basketball community has its eyes on, of course, is the Philadelphia 76ers. Daryl Morey finds […]

The NBA regular season continues with games on Wednesday. The San Antonio Spurs will hit the road and take on the Cleveland Cavaliers. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Spurs-Cavaliers prediction and pick. Click here to Bet $5, Win $280 on either team in Super Bowl 56 (56-1 Odds)  *To […]

Although the Brooklyn Nets recently said they’re not willing to part ways with James Harden before the trade deadline, it appears a deal with the Philadelphia 76ers could actually be trending in the direction of happening. ESPN insider Brian Windhorst made an appearance on GetUp on Wednesday morning and dropped a truth bomb on the […]

The Portland Trail Blazers lost their sixth straight game on Tuesday night, falling to the Orlando Magic 113-95. Another defeat pushes Portland to 21-34 on the season and 11th in the Western Conference, at real risk of tumbling even further down the standings with the San Antonio Spurs and Sacramento Kings nipping at their heels. […]

The Indiana Pacers pulled off a blockbuster trade days before the 2022 NBA trade deadline, sending out All-Star big man Domantas Sabonis to the Sacramento Kings in a six-player deal that brought back Tyrese Haliburton as the centerpiece. The deal finally ended the Sabonis-Myles Turner pairing after years of speculation about the frontcourt duo getting […]

The Sacramento Kings finally made the blockbuster trade they had hoped they could make. The franchise was desperate to get back to the playoffs. Two days before the NBA trade deadline, they pulled off a huge trade with the Indiana Pacers to try to make it happen. The Kings sent budding star Tyrese Haliburton, Buddy […]

Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard knew that the day he and CJ McCollum are no longer playing on the same team would come, and he reflected on it during an interview with Casey Holdahl. When asked by Holdahl about his thoughts on the reality that he and McCollum now play for different teams, Lillard […]

James Harden is still with the Brooklyn Nets and Ben Simmons is still under the control of the Philadelphia 76ers. Despite all the NBA trade rumors surrounding those two players, they have yet to switch places, and it doesn’t seem that neither team will be pulling the trigger on such a deal before the trade […]

The Portland Trail Blazers finally broke up the Damian Lillard-CJ McCollum duo, sending McCollum to the New Orleans Pelicans in a blockbuster deal. It ends a partnership that lasted eight-plus seasons, with plenty of great memories shared between the two guards. McCollum is now gone, but the Blazers have no plans to trade Lillard and […]

The New York Knicks headed into their Tuesday-night, road matchup with the Denver Nuggets after playing two away games in the previous three days. The workload was immense heading into one of the NBA’s toughest arenas. Barrett, who played over nearly 100 minutes in the Knicks’ prior two games, left the 132-115 loss to the […]

Not long ago, the Boston Celtics were trudging along in the midst of another disappointing season and appeared in need of a major shakeup. There was plenty of speculation about the future of the Jayson Tatum-Jaylen Brown duo, with other rumors suggesting the Celtics could finally unload Marcus Smart in a deal. But now with […]

The NBA trade deadline is tomorrow, which means it’s do-or-die time for the Philadelphia 76ers. A Ben Simmons trade may finally happen, releasing basketball fans from the drama and likely netting the Sixers James Harden in return. Even if that deal doesn’t go down, the Sixers are in the playoff race with Joel Embiid playing […]

First, let’s recap what happened between Russell Westbrook and the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday. The Lakers — whose only goal is to win a title — got trounced, 131-116, by the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks at Crypto.com Arena. It was never a remotely competitive affair unless you count a minor surge in the fourth […]

LeBron James does not believe the Los Angeles Lakers are anywhere near a championship team right now. After — and perhaps before — his team’s blowout loss to the Milwaukee Bucks at home on Tuesday, he acknowledged that he’s not sure if these Lakers can ever reach the level of the Bucks or Phoenix Suns […]

Russell Westbrook did not play in the fourth quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers’ loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday. The Lakers made a minor surge without him, though it was far from enough. They lost 131-116 to drop to 26-29. In 26 minutes, Westbrook scored 10 points on 3-of-11 shooting. He had 10 […]

Currently sitting two games out of the eighth spot out East, the Charlotte Hornets are in prime position to make their first playoff appearance since 2016. With the solid play of LaMelo Ball, Miles Bridges, Terry Rozier, Gordon Hayward, Kelly Oubre Jr., and Cody Martin, the Hornets have come a long way from last season […]

In a game that saw Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks dismantle the Los Angeles Lakers, 131-116, Russell Westbrook had to watch his teammates from the bench—again—for the entirety of the fourth quarter. Westbrook played 26 minutes, tallying 10 points, 10 rebounds, and five assists. He also had four turnovers and was atrocious from the […]

Miami Heat veteran Markieff Morris is now closing in on 50 missed games following his incident with Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic. In case you forgot, Jimmy Butler was one of the most heated players on the court after Jokic shoved Morris from behind following a hard foul. Right now, though, Butler appears to have […]

It’s officially a new era for the Portland Trail Blazers as the duo of Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum has been broken up. McCollum was sent to the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday, as the Trail Blazers are now more keen on building for the future. Lillard and McCollum made the Trail Blazers perennial contenders. […]

On Tuesday, the Sacramento Kings made a huge splash before the NBA trade deadline with the Indiana Pacers. The Kings acquired two-time All-Star Domantas Sabonis, Jeremy Lamb, Justin Holiday, and a 2023 second-round pick. They sent Tyrese Haliburton, Buddy Hield, and Tristan Thompson back to Indiana. A former Kings rising star, Haliburton shared his feelings […]

It remains to be seen whether Ben Simmons will find a new home by the trade deadline or stay with the Philadelphia 76ers. If it’s the latter that ends up happening and he wanted to play so as not to waste the season further, Joel Embiid has one condition. The Sixers big man is open […]

The Toronto Raptors are the East’s hottest team and are surging ahead of the 2022 NBA trade deadline. They have won six straight games, which is currently the second longest active winning in the league. Toronto has jumped into 6th place in the East and could still rise in the standings if they continue to […]

After productive stints with the Portland Trail Blazers, CJ McCollum can hit the reset button as he joins the New Orleans Pelicans. The high-scoring guard has been linked to trade rumors in the past few years, and finally, he will have a new zip code. The Pelicans gave up Josh Hart, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Tomas Satoransky, […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are fighting for dear life in the Western Conference at the moment. As of Wednesday afternoon, LA is 26-28 and is currently one game behind the eighth-seeded Clippers for the final playoff spot. Despite their struggles, though, it sounds like LeBron James and Co. already have a plan in motion. None […]

If there is someone Russell Westbrook can ask on how to thrive in a Big 3 with LeBron James, no one is more qualified than Dwyane Wade. Fortunately, the Los Angeles Lakers guard didn’t have to ask the Miami Heat icon for any advice as Wade gave it freely on Tuesday. In his latest appearance […]

Oh, look, it’s another impressive game from Luka Doncic. It seems the Dallas Mavericks star has spoiled us all with how he nonchalantly puts up notable numbers every night. Doncic led the Mavericks over the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday night, 116-86, posting a double-double of 33 points and 11 assists on top of seven rebounds […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are having a painful 2021-22 NBA season, to say the least. They have failed to come anywhere close to their preseason expectations and seem likely to have an early from the playoffs this year. On Tuesday night, though, during yet another excruciating loss for the Lakers–this one to the Milwaukee Bucks– […]

The Brooklyn Nets lost their ninth straight game against the Boston Celtics on Tuesday, which is why it didn’t come as a surprise Steve Nash was asked about his job status and whether or not he has received support from the front office. Nash didn’t sound worried about such stuff despite the Nets’ freefall, though. […]

The Sacramento Kings lit the NBA world on fire by trading for two-time All-Star Domantas Sabonis. The Kings have been linked to Sabonis for months, but a deal was not imminent. However, they felt he was too good to pass up, which led them to send Tyrese Haliburton, Buddy Hield, and Tristan Thompson to the […]