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This year’s Utah Jazz team is in an intriguing situation. They’ve been one of the top teams in the NBA throughout the regular season the last several years, but they can’t seem to win in the postseason. This year, they’re not finding that same dominance that they usually do in the regular season. Utah’s postseason […]

Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra was in an understandably jolly mood during his All-Star weekend press conference on Saturday. The 51-year-old shot caller was asked several questions about his team and how they’ve dominated the East for the first half of the season. One discussion that stood out, however, was about one of his […]

Oklahoma City Thunder GM Sam Presti is well-known around the NBA for his ability to rack up the draft picks and build this franchise for the future. Aside from that, Presti has also drafted numerous talented players over the years who have turned into legitimate superstars including Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. On Saturday at […]

The Denver Nuggets are in the midst of a playoff chase in the Western Conference. At 33-25, they are sixth in the conference. Their odds of being a playoff team are solid. But despite having one of the vest best players in the game, their championship odds are not very solid. Nikola Jokic is enjoying […]

Chicago Bulls star Zach LaVine has been dealing with knee soreness for most of the season and missed the final three games of the first half prior to the All-Star Break. The high-flying guard took that time to travel to Los Angeles and get some treatment on his knee and on Saturday at All-Star Weekend, […]

The Milwaukee Bucks head into the All-Star break having lost three of their last four games. The defending NBA champions currently sit at fifth in the Eastern Conference with a 36-24 record. The East is incredibly loaded this season. Only two-and-a-half games separate Milwaukee from the top-seeded Miami Heat and seventh-place Toronto Raptors in the […]

LeBron James’ latest All-Star nomination is the 18th of his career. The Los Angeles Lakers star has been tremendous for his entire career. He now has a historic amount of All-Star games to his name and is still going strong. It’s almost unimaginable that any player will approach  If there is any current player who […]

The Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic is doing things that this league has never seen before. People prefer to belittle what he’s accomplishing for whatever reason, claiming that he’s not nearly as skilled as Giannis Antetokounmpo and Joel Embiid, who are likely his two biggest MVP contenders. Regardless of whether or not people like to say […]

The NBA has made it to the All-Star break. Players who have dominated in the first half of the season are recognized as the best of the best, while other players are using this time to vacation with family or enjoy the festivities as a spectator. This weekend is all about the hard work players […]

The Phoenix Suns are flying high with the best record in basketball 48-10. They’re a clear title favorite and that has a lot to do with the brilliance of veteran guard Chris Paul, who is such a key figure on and off the court. But prior to the All-Star break, CP3 suffered a thumb injury […]

Ja Morant’s leadership and spectacular talent have led the Memphis Grizzlies beyond their preseason expectations. They own the third-best record in the NBA and are in a position to land one of the highest playoff seedings in the top-heavy Western Conference. Morant has burst onto the scene as a certified star, averaging 26.8 points, 6.9 […]

The NBA All-Star festivities are in full swing, and the All-Stars took the court in Cleveland on Saturday. The game doesn’t take place until Sunday night, but Cleveland Cavaliers fans made sure to get their boos into Draymond Green as soon as possible. NBA TV tweeted a video of fans sending boos towards Green, who […]

The Golden State Warriors have two active players suiting up for the NBA All-Star game. While Dub Nation is always excited to see Stephen Curry in the game, the buzz surrounding Andrew Wiggins was arguably the biggest among all selections this season. That level of excitement is clearly shared by his fellow All-Stars as well. […]

Ja Morant and the Memphis Grizzlies are thriving this season. The young point guard is playing excellent and is leading one of the best and most fun teams in the NBA. As the NBA All-Star weekend rolled along, a video of Morant drinking and dancing on the plane to the All-Star game made the rounds […]

The Philadelphia 76ers have worked all season to prove that they are a playoff-contending team, but no player has proved this more than Joel Embiid. The star center is already known in Philadelphia as the MVP, and fans are calling him “MVPIID.” He seems to embrace his new nickname and explained himself why he deserves […]

All-Star Weekend is underway and tonight is where all the real fun starts. The NBA Three-Point contest will feature eight elite shooters as always to see who can make the most threes. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series with a Three-Point contest prediction and pick. This year’s three-point contest will be no different […]

The Atlanta Hawks haven’t exactly played the style of basketball that everyone expected them to this season, as they sit in the Eastern Conference’s number 10 seed with a 28-30 record. They’re in a bad spot right now, since they’re only one game clear of 11th place, which would eliminate them from the play-in game. […]

The Charlotte Hornets haven’t been playing their best basketball as of late, going 1-9 in their last ten games as they go into the All-Star break. It’s not the strangest thing that the Hornets are having trouble considering how young they are; when a team is this young, it’s common to struggle for parts of […]

Minnesota Timberwolves sophomore Anthony Edwards was one of the headliners of the NBA Rising Stars competition during All-Star weekend. But he wasn’t much of a factor in Friday night’s festivities. Ant-Man finished his first contest with just four points as Team Isiah beat Team Worthy by the skin of their teeth. But those hoping that […]

Tyrese Maxey represented the Philadelphia 76ers in Friday night’s NBA All-Star festivities. The young point guard was on Team Worthy for the Rising Stars Tournament, but he didn’t contribute much to his team. In fact, in Team Worthy’s 50-49 loss to Team Isiah, Maxey had zero points. He was the only one to put up […]

Karl-Anthony Towns has spent his entire career with the Minnesota Timberwolves and has been through all the struggles. Now, they’re finally on the brink of actually making the playoffs this season if all goes well in the second half, which is certainly to the liking of KAT. At All-Star Weekend in Cleveland, the Timberwolves star […]

Juan Toscano Anderson is the lone player repping the Golden State Warriors on NBA All-Star Saturday night. With both Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson sitting out the three-point contest this year, there’s arguably nobody more fitting to represent the franchise given how much he bleeds blue and gold. “I thought he was trolling,” the Warriors […]

Without Bradley Beal, who is out for the remainder of the season due to wrist surgery, the Washington Wizards seem dead in the water. They are in 11th place in the Eastern Conference at 27-31. There’s not much intrigue around the team, especially with their star player out. It has been hard to find what […]

The Miami Heat entered the All-Star break with the no. 1 seed and in a tie for the best record (38-21) in the Eastern Conference. With much of the attention on the Brooklyn Nets and the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks, the Heat have sneakily shifted from dark horse to legitimate contenders in the East. Still, […]

Golden State Warriors veteran Draymond Green still remains sidelined with a back injury, but he was enjoying himself at Super Bowl 56 at SoFi Stadium. Unfortunately, when he returned to his LA home, it had been ransacked. Per TMZ Sports, Green’s mansion in Southern California was broken into and over $1 million in jewelry was […]

Philadelphia 76ers general manager Daryl Morey has always been willing to go against the status quo. If he were to have his way, the NBA would look totally different in terms of its games structure going forward. In a recent sit down with on The Colin Cowherd Podcast, Morey was vocal on how he would alter […]

Nothing has gone right for the New York Knicks this season. They have gotten much worse after seemingly figuring out how to win again. From the Eastern Conference’s fourth seed last season to 12th place, it’s clear that this team isn’t ready for the big time. The playoffs are likely well out of reach at […]

The NBA All-Star festivities continue on Saturday night with the Dunk Contest, 3-Point Contest, and Skills Challenge. DJ Khaled, an avid basketball fan, was in attendance on Friday though for the Rising Stars Game and even tried his luck at the skills course prior. Honestly, it could’ve been one of the funniest moments of the […]

The event portion of NBA All-Star weekend is one of the most exciting parts of the season. Players showing their dunks, shooting, and skills in a series of fun events have created numerous legendary moments throughout the years. This year, the league is mixing up the format for the NBA All-Star Taco Bell Skills Challenge. Rather […]

Bradley Beal is expected to miss the rest of the season as he recovers from wrist surgery. Beyond that is anybody’s guess. But despite Beal’s murky future, one man excited to play with him is newest Washington Wizards teammate Kristaps Porzingis. In a recent sit down with NBC Sports Washington’s Chris Miller, the Latvian big […]

The Mavs decided to let go of Kristaps Porzingis before the NBA trade deadline in lieu of two terrific scorers in Spencer Dinwiddie and Davis Bertans. President of Basketball Operations for the Dallas Mavericks Nico Harrison may have decided to have Dinwiddie and Bertans on his roster because Porzingis would fail to even be healthy […]

Even though they’re still in second place in the Western Conference, the Golden State Warriors’ play has been wildly inconsistent during the month of February and they haven’t seemed like their usual selves of late. Granted they’ve been dealt a difficult hand during this recent stretch, but they’ve lost their edge and haven’t looked as […]

Richard Jefferson has always been one of the funniest NBA analysts out there. He flexed his comedic muscles once more during the NBA All-Star Weekend celebrity game as he flamed Kendrick Perkins to perfection. While on the NBA All-Star broadcast, Perkins was told that Jefferson hadn’t played in a basketball game ever since he retired […]

When the NBA’s official Top 75 list was announced for their 75th anniversary fans, many Houston Rockets fans were shocked that Tracy McGrady did not make the list. One of the greatest scorers of the 2000s, McGrady’s exclusion wasn’t was egregious as others like Dwight Howard, but it was still significant nonetheless. During the 2022 […]

Isiah Thomas and the Detroit Pistons infamously walked out on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls nearly 30 years ago. The Hall of Famer hilariously tried to pull off the same stunt on Tyrese Maxey during the Rising Stars competition on the first day of NBA All-Star weekend. Check out the awesome scene between the […]

After last year’s incredible showing, many New Yorkers hoped that the Knicks would be back to relevance. Behind an emerging Julius Randle and RJ Barrett turning into a star, everyone was hailing the return of New York. Getting swept in the first round by newly-crowned enemy of NYC Trae Young and the Hawks was seen […]

For the Utah Jazz, this is already their sixth straight season of being a legitimate playoff contender, but they still have not reached the Western Conference Finals. In the first quarter of this current campaign, they were on a tear as the best offense in the association as they would rain a ton of threes […]

Allen Iverson is arguably one of the most influential players in NBA history. The legendary Philadelphia 76ers guard lit up the league in the early 2000s with his insane ball-handling skills, paving the way for high-scoring guards like Kyrie Irving and Stephen Curry in the future. He was a basketball icon in every sense of […]

The Los Angeles Lakers haven’t exactly had the season they were expecting to have after they traded for Russell Westbrook. A lot of the heat from things not working out has fallen squarely on the shoulders of the coaching staff. Lakers coach Frank Vogel has seemingly been on a hot seat for weeks now, which […]