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Back in July, Toronto Raptors star guard Kyle Lowry was rewarded by the team with a three-year contract worth $100 million. He continues to be extremely valuable to the Raptors for his dynamic scoring ability, playmaking skills and toughness on the court. However, according to a tweet today from Ryan Wolstat of the Toronto Sun, […]

Through the last four seasons, the Toronto Raptors have developed into a constant in the playoff picture as one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference. This effort has been led by their All-Star backcourt duo of point guard Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, who have developed a close relationship over the years. Their brotherly-like […]

After losing Gordon Hayward to the Boston Celtics in free agency, the Utah Jazz started the 2017-18 NBA season with a solid 5-3 record. Unfortunately, they have lost seven out of their last eight games as Rudy Gobert is expected to miss 4-6 weeks with a bone bruise in his right knee suffered against the […]

In an interview with Steve Serby of the New York Post recently, New York Knicks small forward Doug McDermott answered questions about his first year with the team, his future goals and what some of his teammates are like. When asked about Knicks teammate and star power forward Kristaps Porzingis, McDermott spoke very highly of […]

The lowly Chicago Bulls finally managed to snap their five-game losing streak with a thrilling 123-120 win over the Charlotte Hornets on Friday night. The Bulls have carried a largely depleted roster all year long thanks to tensions within the team, as well as the injury to guard Zach LaVine. LaVine is still recovering from a […]

With the Dallas Mavericks currently 2-14 to begin the 2017-18 NBA season, it will be another long year during the team’s rebuilding process. However, basketball fans can continue to watch and enjoy the final chapters of Dirk Nowitzki’s career. In his 20th season, the 39-year-old is still averaging 10.5 points and 5.4 rebounds in 24.3 […]

To say the Boston Celtics have been playing great basketball is an understatement. The Celtics have now won 14-straight after an impressive 92-88 victory over the defending champion Golden State Warriors. Boston was expected to be a strong contender in the Eastern Conference prior to the 2017-18 NBA season, however, their sustained high level of […]

It has been an inauspicious start to the career of Philadelphia 76ers guard Markelle Fultz. After playing in just the first four games of the 2017-18 NBA season, Fultz was shut down by the Sixers indefinitely with a shoulder injury. That said, there has been plenty of uncertainty surrounding the first pick in the 2017 […]

For the third time in as many games, the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns got into an altercation late in the fourth quarter. While there was a shoving match between Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Tyler Ulis, all the attention was on Lonzo Ball walking away. While there have been debates about Ball’s reaction to the […]

After finishing second in the 2016-17 NBA Most Valuable Player award voting, James Harden has started the 2017-18 NBA season with a vengeance. Without Chris Paul for all but two games, Harden is averaging 31.8 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 10.1 assists in 16 appearances. Along with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kyrie Irving being early season candidates […]

In just one week, the Golden State Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers are set to face each other for the second and final time of the 2017-18 NBA season on Nov. 18. While the Warriors limited Joel Embiid in their first matchup (12 points and seven rebounds in 25 minutes), he destroyed the Los Angeles Clippers […]

After appearing in the first four games of the 2017-18 NBA season, the Philadelphia 76ers announced Markelle Fultz would be out indefinitely with a shoulder injury and re-evaluated in three weeks. As it has been close to three weeks, the Sixers are expected to provide an injury update on the first overall pick in the […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have met the Phoenix Suns three times through the first month of the season. Three times have both teams come into a skirmish on the court. The Lakers and Suns have played three times in a month. In all of those games the teams have scuffled and needed to be separated. […]

Western conference teams such as the Thunder, Rockets,  and Timberwolves (just to name a few) added All-Star talent during the offseason. The Lakers were rumored to be luring some big-time talent during, yet nothing happened. The franchise has since been boldly regarded as a potential destination for players such as LeBron James and Paul George […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves needed a quick turnaround after falling into a 55-43 deficit at the half of Friday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks. Jimmy Butler and company turned it all around, limiting the Mavs to 17 points in the third quarter and 15 on the fourth, playing the best Tom Thibodeau defense they have all […]

LaVar Ball is having none of President Donald Trump’s comments as he called out all three of the UCLA players including his son, LiAngelo Ball, after they were arrested for shoplifting during a tour of China for not thanking him for intervening through President Xi Jinping to streamline a resolution. “Who?” Ball asked ESPN’s Arash Markazi. […]

Carmelo Anthony was one decision away from becoming the hero for his Oklahoma City Thunder during Friday night’s 104-101 loss against the San Antonio Spurs. Anthony hugged a Steven Adams screen and drilled a jumper from the top of the key, nearly tying the game at 102 with 5.6 seconds left, as the Spurs have […]

Klay Thompson’s start to the season has seen him dialed in from all area codes, already showing signs of being in mid-season shape shooting the ball and defending with a new-found vigor — most recently admitting to aiming at averaging a block per game. But his backcourt mate Stephen Curry has been mostly impressed with […]

Many interpreted Lonzo Ball’s pre-game haircut to be a cleanse of the juju, a ridding of the evil ghosts, and a new, fresh start to end to his shooting struggles. Not for Lonzo. “It’s just a haircut, man,” said Ball prior to his Lakers taking a second straight loss in a 122-113 defeat on their home […]

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich went into one of the best sideline tirade of his 20-plus-year coaching career in the league, going off on the officiating crew during the third quarter of Friday’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Pop was upset about a ball out of bounds given to the Thunder after […]

Kyle Kuzma’s Friday night matchup against the Phoenix Suns didn’t start looking like his best day. The Los Angeles Lakers rookie started a woeful 0-for-5 from the field, finding his range in time to explode for a career-high 30 points and collecting 10 rebounds to boot in a 122-113 loss to the Suns. Kuzma’s line […]

New Orleans Pelicans talisman Anthony Davis suffered a concussion only a minute into the third quarter against of Friday night’s outing against the Denver Nuggets, according to the team. Davis was inadvertently hit in the face, clashing with center Nikola Jokic’s head, as the Nuggets center was backing him down with his back to the […]

The season is 2007-2008. The last time the Detroit Pistons were seen as relevant in the NBA for championship contention. A decade later after making the Eastern Conference Finals for the sixth time in as many years, the Pistons now have surprisingly put themselves in the forefront of NBA relevancy once again in the early […]

The Golden State Warriors are the best team in the NBA, by a wide margin. Even before they added Kevin Durant last summer they were considered one of the best teams of all-time. All good things must come to an end however, so which team will be up next once the Warriors run is over? […]

The Los Angeles Lakers continue to see a star in the making when it comes to rookie Kyle Kuzma. The first-round draft pick has become one of the team’s best players in a very short time as he seemingly fits Luke Walton’s system perfectly. On Friday night, Kuzma had another solid performance with the Utah product […]

An odd moment arose during the game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns Friday night at Staples Center. Prior to the Suns’ 123-113 victory, there was an altercation on the floor that resulted in all but one of the players on the floor getting in each other’s faces and exchanging some shoves. Lonzo […]

The Phoenix Suns got the best of the Los Angeles Lakers tonight, 123-113, in Staples Center. Before the final buzzer, the two teams were involved in somewhat of a heated altercation. The Suns called a timeout and Kantavious Caldwell-Pope got in the way of Tyler Ulis leaving the floor. Neither budged and some shoving started, […]

The San Antonio Spurs continue to prove why they are still one of the NBA’s elite teams after a thrilling 104-101 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Spurs came out flat to start the game and ultimately found themselves down by 23 at one point. However, after a responding with a few rallies of […]

The Washington Wizards were looking to complete their back-to-back against the Miami Heat with on a high note after winning their first matchup on Wednesday. However, the Wizards offense came out flat tonight and were unable to pull out the victory, dropping their second match with the Heat 91-88. Contrary to most of the 2017-18 […]

The Charlotte Hornets were still looking for a way out of their funk after dropping five straight entering their matchup versus the lowly Chicago Bulls. Despite their struggles, they have largely kept up with every team they have come across, losing four of the last five games by single digits. They found themselves in position to […]

Superstar Kevin Durant flipped the NBA upside down when he decided to leave the Oklahoma City Thunder to join the Golden State Warriors. Durant rightfully took plenty of flak for the decision and still does to this day for joining a team that had just ousted him from the Western Conference Finals months before. Aside from […]

New Orleans Pelicans guard Jameer Nelson has been around the NBA long enough to know that part of the hazards of his job is getting your feelings hurt whenever you’re suddenly cut by your team. Nelson, however, isn’t taking it personally that the Denver Nuggets abruptly cut him back in October, per Gina Mizell of […]

It has been a rough stretch for New York Knicks center Joakim Noah. In what was supposed to be a revitalization in his hometown has instead become an endless battle with injuries and league violations. Now that he is finally set to hit the court for the first time in the 2017-18 NBA season, it is […]

The Dallas Mavericks aren’t enjoying a particularly smooth 2017-18 campaign, as they are currently scraping the bottom of the Western Conference standings with a 2-13 record through their first 15 games. Nevertheless, the Mavericks are still trying. That much was evident when Dallas decided to give Antonius Cleveland a two-way contract, per Shams Charania of […]

Philadelphia 76ers head coach Brett Brown will have to make minor adjustments with the way he shuffles his players on the floor, as it has been reported by Jeff Zilgitt of USA Today that 76ers shooting guard Justin Anderson is going to be sidelined for up to three weeks because of shin splints. Sixers' Justin […]

On Friday morning’s edition of the CBS Sports Flagrant Two, Minnesota Timberwolves veteran shooting guard Jamal Crawford joined the podcast and opened up about Los Angeles Lakers rising star point guard Lonzo Ball. Ball, who is off to a slow start in his rookie year in terms of shooting percentage, continues to be subject to massive […]

Miami Heat guard Dion Waiters will always shoot as if his life depended on how many shots he’ll chuck up on any given night and while his shot selection isn’t exactly one of his strong suits, it doesn’t look like Waiters is going to change his ways — especially now that he has a larger […]

Since taking over as the NBA commissioner, Adam Silver has been on the forefront of looking ways to better the product on the floor. One of which has been his efforts in looking to possibly change the format to the one-and-done draft rule that has been in place for the last several years. According to […]

Current NBA Commissioner Adam Silver as the next head honcho of the NFL? We say, don’t bet on it. According to a report by ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham, Silver himself shut down the idea of him inheriting the office of incumbent NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The owners, though, have considered other […]