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John Wall has yet to play a single minute this season for the Houston Rockets. According to reports, the five-time All-Star could end up sitting out the entire year amid his current stalemate with the Rockets. Unsurprisingly, several teams from around the NBA are monitoring Wall’s situation, and as it turns out, the Miami Heat […]

The Philadelphia 76ers have found themselves in a bit of a rough patch. After starting the season on a high note, health and safety protocols took out a portion of the roster, leaving Doc Rivers heavily undermanned. Between playing shorthanded and guys having to play longer stretches, they have struggled to get back in the […]

The Los Angeles Lakers were “gifted” 12 of their first 15 games at the supposedly-friendly confines of the Staples Center (er, Crypto.com Arena). The schedule looked relatively light: only four games against teams who qualified for the 2020-21 playoffs. They came out of that stretch 8-7 and, seemingly, without having figured anything out. Alas. Now, […]

Stephen A. Smith is not one to shy away from his feelings. He went in on Kevin Durant in his latest appearance on ESPN’s First Take on Wednesday after the Brooklyn Nets got stomped by the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night. He didn’t pull any punches against Kyrie Irving, James Harden or the Nets faithful either. Even […]

All offseason long, rumors were running rampant about the Portland Trail Blazers and the future of franchise star Damian Lillard. Many thought he would end up being traded, but the Blazers were able to keep him in town. Since then, Lillard has made it very clear that he is still loyal to Portland, but that […]

Boston Celtics star shooting guard Jaylen Brown may be back on the court sooner rather than later. NBA reporter Keith Smith tweeted positive news regarding the status of Brown’s recent hamstring injury. Robert Williams is out tonight, but he met with the media at shootaround. That's a sign his injury isn't a long-term or serious […]

The NBA season continues with games on Wednesday. The Chicago Bulls will continue their road trip and take on the Portland Trail Blazers. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Bulls-Trail Blazers prediction and pick. These two teams have had different starts to the seasons. The Bulls are one of the hottest […]

The Golden State Warriors arguably have the best defensive team in the NBA, and a ton of credit deservingly goes to Draymond Green. On Tuesday, they traveled to Brooklyn to face the Nets. It was one of the Warriors’ biggest tests of the season. They had the task of slowing down a high-powered offense led […]

The NBA season will continue on Wednesday. The Dallas Mavericks will hit the road and face off against the Phoenix Suns in a Western Conference battle. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Mavericks-Suns prediction and pick. Both of these teams have had strong starts to the season. The Dallas Mavericks […]

The Washington Wizards have gotten off to an excellent, 10-3 start, the best record in the Eastern Conference, this season. Paramount to their success is star Bradley Beal, who has evolved into one of the elite shooting guards in the NBA out of the shadow of former Wizard John Wall. Beal has sometimes expressed frustration […]

The Phoenix are officially the hottest team in the NBA right now, riding a 9-game winning streak. Devin Booker, Chris Paul, Deandre Ayton, and the rest of the crew heard the chatter all summer. “If Anthony Davis wasn’t hurt, Phoenix wouldn’t have made it past the first round.” “They just swept a Jamal Murray-less Nuggets.” […]

After 22 years, the home of the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers, the Staples Center, will undergo a name change. The historic venue will now be known as Crypto.com Arena starting Christmas Day. However, Staples Center has long been known as “The House That Kobe Built.” Vanessa Bryant, the Lakers legend’s widow, […]

The Brooklyn Nets were humbled on their home floor by the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night. The Nets fell to 10-5 and third place in the East behind the first-place Washington Wizards and second-place Chicago Bulls. They currently have the sixth-best chances of winning the NBA title based on FiveThirtyEight’s prediction model. It would appear […]

It’s a jam-packed schedule across the NBA on Wednesday, with 11 games. The Cleveland Cavaliers will hit the road and take on the Brooklyn Nets in an Eastern Conference battle. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Cavaliers-Nets prediction and pick. Both of these teams have been having very good seasons. […]

The NBA will continue with regular season games on Wednesday. The Boston Celtics will hit the road and face off against the Atlanta Hawks. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Celtics-Hawks prediction and pick. Both of these teams have had underwhelming starts to the season. The Boston Celtics are 7-7 […]

The Golden State Warriors’ early-season dominance continued on Tuesday. They defeated Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets in an impressive 117-99 win. Stephen Curry led all scorers with 37 points, but a group effort pulled off this satisfying victory. 13 players played, and nobody played for over 30 minutes. That was possible because of the […]

The NBA season continues on Wednesday. The Los Angeles Lakers will hit the road and take on the Milwaukee Bucks. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Lakers-Bucks prediction and pick. Both of these teams have had a decent start to the season. The Los Angeles Lakers are 8-7 but are […]

The legendary Staples Center will be undergoing a name change in just over a month. On Christmas Day, the home of the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers will go by a new name: Crypto.com Arena. Reportedly the largest U.S. venue naming rights deal, the deal has been rumored to be around $700 million. According to […]

The Ben Simmons debacle with the Philadelphia Sixers happened to be the biggest form of entertainment in the league for quite some time, and it hasn’t stopped. After a humiliating playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks where the basketball world saw Simmons’ historically poor free throw percentage, the guard’s future in Philadelphia was in serious […]

Shaquille O’Neal isn’t the biggest fan of Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, which is something the Stifle Tower is very much aware of. While Shaq has taken quite some shots at Gobert in the past, it doesn’t mean that Gobert hasn’t tried to get back at the Hall of Famer. Just take for example the […]

The Milwaukee Bucks are off to rough start in their bid to defend their throne. After dismantling Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets on ring night in front of a capacity crowd at Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee is now at 6-8 on the season and has lost seven of their last 10 outings. Through 14 games […]

The Philadelphia 76ers are on a free fall, having lost all of their last five games, a stretch that coincides exactly with Sixers big man Joel Embiid’s absence. Embiid has been sidelined for the fifth game in a row during the Sixers’ 120-85 road loss to the Utah Jazz on Tuesday after getting entering the […]

LOS ANGELES — It was just announced that the famous Staples Center, which has housed some absolutely historic moments in Downtown LA, will soon have a new name. Starting Dec. 25, the arena will be called Crypto.com Arena, and Los Angeles Clippers star Paul George has some reservations about the name change. The arena, which […]

The Philadelphia 76ers kicked off a season-long six-game road trip Tuesday night with a matchup against the Utah Jazz. Despite players slowly returning from health and safety protocols, they still find themselves without multiple key players. Utah took advantage of the depleted squad and won the game in blowout fashion, extending the Sixers’ losing streak […]

When the Houston Rockets selected Jalen Green with the second overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, they may not have placed expectations on him through the media, but they didn’t have to. The number two overall pick comes with massive expectations and when the draft class is as talented as it was, the hope […]

Tuesday was a battle between two of the top teams in the NBA. It featured two of the world’s best players. Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant battled it out on the hardwood, but only one could be victorious. The one who came out on top was Curry, and he left fans speechless. But Durant wasn’t […]

Now that the Trail Blazers are currently sitting at ninth place in the Western Conference with Damian Lillard having a slow start to the 2021-22 NBA season, it’s safe to say that things haven’t exactly gone as planned for Rip City. As Lillard has started to get his groove back and lead the Blazers back […]

Kyle Kuzma is playing in only his first season for the Washington Wizards, so it’s still easy for NBA fans to associate him with the Los Angeles Lakers. After all, the young forward had plenty of highs and lows while donning the purple and gold. He won a championship in 2020 with the Lakers. Also, […]

Draymond Green is always expressive when he’s on the basketball court. The Golden State Warriors forward definitely showed it in their win against the Brooklyn Nets and former teammate Kevin Durant. As the Warriors were going on their patented third-quarter run, Draymond sank a three right in the grill of Durant. He made sure to […]

Los Angeles Lakers fans will receive a huge gift this Christmas. But it’s something that may be of an acquired taste. According to reports, the Lakers’ home arena, Staples Center, will be renamed as Crypto.com Arena on December 25. The Lakers moved to Staples Center in 1999 after spending memorable years at The Forum. While […]

As it is, Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James is already considered as one of the greatest players to have ever picked up a basketball. He also isn’t bad when it comes to his business ventures outside the basketball court. Cara Lombardo and Laine Higgins of the Wall Street Journal report that Fenway Sports Group […]

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr on Tuesday revealed that Klay Thompson and James Wiseman “will not be stepping on an NBA court next week.” Thompson has missed 29 months after tearing his left ACL in Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals and tearing his right Achilles on November 18, 2020. Speaking to […]

After Peyton Manning’s desperate plea to break the ManningCast Curse, Draymond Green and his Golden State Warriors obliged. The ManningCast Curse had been the talk of several fans and conspiracy theorists as of late because of several instances of its alleged effect. For those not in the know, the said curse has it that players […]

Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball has shared his interesting thought about shooting long three-point bombs. In the dying seconds of the third quarter during the Bulls‘ Monday night match against the Los Angeles Lakers, Lonzo Ball took an inbounds pass and did not hesitate to take 76-foot haymaker. There was a very slim chance of […]

The iconic Staples Center will be no more in a little over a month’s time. The home arena for the Los Angeles Lakers and L.A. Clippers is getting a name change for the first time in 22 years. According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, the building will soon be called Crypto.com Arena starting on Christmas […]

Stephen A. Smith has always been known for his hot takes about anything and everything sports-related. On a recent episode of ESPN’s First Take, the renowned broadcaster came out with arguably one of his biggest (and hottest) takes early in the NBA season. Unfortunately for Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James, he’s definitely not going to […]

The Miami Heat are off to a strong start this season, and a big part of that is the emergence of Tyler Herro. The high-scoring guard has been having a revenge tour after he got slammed in his sophomore year for a mediocre showing. Herro’s numbers across the board have been impressive, even contributing in […]

The Brooklyn Nets came into their Tuesday night tilt against the Golden State Warriors white-hot. They had won eight of their last nine games and had eyes on another against Stephen Curry and co. But the game was lopsided in the other direction as the Nets were ran out of their own building, 117-99. Steve […]

The Brooklyn Nets were completely outplayed by the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday with Stephen Curry and Co. coming away with a 117-99 blowout win at the Barclays Center. After the game, Nets superstar Kevin Durant got brutally honest about his thoughts on the Dubs and their dominant display. KD had nothing but praise for […]