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Jason Kidd’s postgame comments after Monday’s loss to the Houston Rockets offered a revealing look into both the Dallas Mavericks’ early-season struggles and their long-term plans centered around rookie Cooper Flagg. Kidd said Flagg played through shoulder soreness sustained after a second-quarter collision and praised the No. 1 overall pick for showing toughness. Flagg finished […]

Denver Nuggets superstar big man Nikola Jokic can be pretty unfair to deal with on the court for opposing teams. Despite his utter lack of athleticism and speed, Jokic makes up for those with the many other brilliant things he does with the basketball — perhaps none better than his ability to find his teammates. […]

The short-handed Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 123-115 on Monday night, and center Deandre Ayton provided some insight into how head coach JJ Redick’s intensity has helped guide the team through early-season injuries. “JJ’s not giving a crap who’s out there, you know, he wants to play Laker basketball,” Ayton told reporters […]

The 2026 NBA Draft cycle began with a burst of energy as college basketball tipped off this week, and several freshmen made powerful first impressions that echoed across Sam Vecenie’s inaugural mock draft. The early headline? BYU’s AJ Dybantsa and Arizona’s Koa Peat wasted no time proving why scouts see them as potential lottery locks. […]

Stephen Curry’s guest appearance on the podcast Mind The Game with LeBron James and Steve Nash was catharsis. That was especially true because the Warriors legend got to rehash some old memories with both guys. For instance, Nash brought up the time when he felt that Curry had ended his career during a preseason game, […]

The Sacramento Kings are making a roster shake-up in their frontcourt. As Brett Siegel of ClutchPoints reported, the Kings are expected to waive rookie forward Isaac Jones if they can finalize an agreement with free-agent big man Precious Achiuwa. Shortly after that initial report, ESPN’s Shams Charania confirmed that Achiuwa has agreed to a deal […]

The New Orleans Pelicans continue to search for their first victory of the 2025-26 NBA season, but their uphill battle may get even tougher as Zion Williamson has been listed as questionable ahead of Tuesday night’s matchup against the Charlotte Hornets. According to the NBA’s official injury report, Williamson is dealing with soreness in his […]

The Los Angeles Lakers bested the Portland Trail Blazers 123-115 on Monday despite being without Luka Doncic, LeBron James, and Austin Reaves. Los Angeles head coach JJ Redick offered a simple explanation as to how his short-handed squad was able to prevail. “Confidence. Belief. Connectivity,” Redick told Spectrum SportsNet after the game. The Lakers received […]

Recently, Steph Curry made a special guest appearance on the podcast Mind The Game, hosted by LeBron James and Steve Nash. During the episode, they reflected on their epic duel in the 2016 NBA Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors, per Mind The Game. Not only that, but they looked back […]

The Charlotte Hornets are set to play the New Orleans Pelicans at 8 PM EST on Tuesday night. Charlotte is monitoring multiple injuries ahead of the contest, however. LaMelo Ball and Brandon Miller are among the Hornets dealing with injury concerns. Miller is expected to miss multiple weeks with a shoulder injury, so he is […]

Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers did not mince words after watching Indiana Pacers fans relentlessly boo former franchise cornerstone Myles Turner during his first game back at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Monday night. Rivers called the fan reaction “disappointing” after Turner, who spent 10 seasons with the Pacers before joining Milwaukee last summer, was jeered […]

It appears that Oklahoma City Thunder star big man Chet Holmgren is on his way to making his return to action this Tuesday night, as the reigning and defending NBA champions start a four-game road trip. Holmgren has missed the last three Thunder games with a back issue, but his name is no longer on […]

The Boston Celtics sank deeper below .500 on Monday after they got stunned by the Utah Jazz via a 105-103 score. The lead-up to the finish was a frenetic one. The Celtics had a one-point lead with under a minute left in the fourth quarter when Boston star forward Jaylen Brown appeared to have been […]

The New Orleans Pelicans’ start to the 2025-26 NBA season is nothing short of catastrophic. At 0-6, with the league’s worst point differential (-18.1), the team has looked lifeless on both ends of the floor, and the clock is ticking loudly on head coach Willie Green’s tenure. Green, now in his fifth season at the […]

Myles Turner enjoyed a victory during an emotional return to Gainbridge Fieldhouse as the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Indiana Pacers 117-115. Giannis Antetokounmpo scored a contested 17-foot jumper at the buzzer and finished with 33 points, 13 rebounds and five assists, shooting 14-for-21 from the floor. Regardless, he jumped to the defense of Turner post-game, […]

Monday night’s 114-106 final score for the Detroit Pistons over the Memphis Grizzlies marked their third straight win. After a competitive back-and-forth matchup, the Pistons pulled away courtesy of the late-game heroics of their All-Star point guard Cade Cunningham. Detroit’s franchise player finished the night with 33 points, eight assists, and five rebounds. However, he […]

Russell Westbrook didn’t mince words when explaining his departure from Denver following Monday night’s return to Ball Arena as a member of the Sacramento Kings. What was once thought to be mutual may actually have been the complete opposite. “The truth is they didn’t want me back,” Westbrook said via Bennett Durando of the Denver […]

It feels like déjà vu for the Memphis Grizzlies. The same script that once defined their young, electrifying superstar has come back with a new twist. This time, the story isn’t about suspensions for off-court behavior, but about frustration, mistrust, and leadership friction. When the Grizzlies suspended Ja Morant for “conduct detrimental to the team” […]

A good subset of Los Angeles Lakers fans are also fans of the recently-crowned back-to-back World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. Jaxson Hayes is certainly one of them. He was rocking a Dodgers jersey after he played a huge role in the Lakers’ 130-120 win over the Miami Heat on Sunday night, as he was […]

Monday night was Karl-Anthony Towns’ breakout game of the 2025-26 season; after a bit of a slow start to life under new head coach Mike Brown, Towns finally erupted for the New York Knicks this season in a 119-102 win over the Washington Wizards. He put up 33 points, 13 rebounds, and five assists, putting […]

The Memphis Grizzlies are in a bit of a pickle at the moment; they have lost three consecutive games and Ja Morant is terribly displeased with how everything is going for his team. Morant, coming off a one-game suspension after he put his coaches on blast following their loss to the Los Angeles Lakers this […]

LOS ANGELES – During the Los Angeles Lakers’ 116-115 win against the Minnesota Timberwolves last week, Jake LaRavia found himself caught up in a major viral moment. Amid one of his best games of the season, a bewildered Wolves fan questioned out loud who LaRavia was. Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards, sidelined due to a hamstring […]

The Los Angeles Lakers’ current win streak reached four games on Monday following their 123-115 win against the Portland Trail Blazers, and the win was arguably their most impressive of this recent stretch considering who was sidelined. With Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves both ruled out, it was players such as Bronny James who stepped […]

Milwaukee Bucks center Myles Turner was serenaded by boos in his first return to Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Monday, as they faced off against his former team, the Indiana Pacers. Like their past battles, the game went down to the wire. The Bucks escaped with the win, 117-115, after Giannis Antetokounmpo sank the walk-off game-winner. Turner […]

The Los Angeles Lakers grabbed an impressive, 123-115 win on the road against the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday, despite being extremely short-handed. The Lakers were without both Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves who sat out on the second night of a back-to-back, but it was Nick Smith Jr. who rose to the occasion, dropping […]

Even the return of Ja Morant wasn’t enough for the Memphis Grizzlies to avoid their straight loss after losing to the Detroit Pistons, 114-106, at FedExForum on Monday. Morant sat out their game against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday after he was slapped with a one-game suspension by the Grizzlies for his pointed remarks at […]

Teams need a lot of luck on their way to making it to the NBA Finals. The Indiana Pacers were certainly last season’s team of fate — only for everything to come undone in Game 7 of the NBA Finals after Tyrese Haliburton tore his Achilles in the first quarter of their eventual defeat to […]

Ja Morant returned to the Memphis Grizzlies lineup for their Monday night contest against the Detroit Pistons after serving a one-game suspension for conduct detrimental to the team. Morant was handed that suspension after he put his coaches on blast following their loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night. And it looks like […]

On Monday night, the Sacramento Kings made the trip to Ball Arena to face the Denver Nuggets. This marked Russell Westbrook’s first visit in Ball Arena as a Kings player, and it’s clear that he remains beloved among Nuggets fans even though he only spent one year with the team. Westbrook came back to Denver […]

The 2025-26 Indiana Pacers roster has nowhere near the quality they had to end the 2024-25 campaign. Tyrese Haliburton was already out to begin the year, making it rather difficult for them to pose much of a threat to begin with, but the Pacers have endured a deluge of injury woes that may already kill […]

The Philadelphia 76ers were a mystery box heading into the 2025-26 season, but they have come out of the gates firing, having won five of their first six games to start the new campaign. Tyrese Maxey has been brilliant, VJ Edgecombe has been phenomenal, and the rest of the team is following suit. Even Joel […]

One could hear the collective groan at Gainbridge Fieldhouse after Giannis Antetokounmpo buried the game-winning jumper as time expired to lift the Milwaukee Bucks past the Indiana Pacers, 117-115, on Monday. A rivalry has been simmering between the two teams in recent years, and the Bucks avenged their first-round defeats to the Pacers in back-to-back […]

The Utah Jazz snapped a two-game losing streak following their 105-103 win on the road against the Boston Celtics on Monday. The Jazz sealed the win against the Celtics following a clutch bucket by Jusuf Nurkic with less than one second remaining on the game clock. Jaylen Brown was called for an offensive foul on […]

A day after Jalen Brunson reached the 9,000-point mark for his career, another New York Knicks star reached a scoring milestone for his career. On Monday night, in a 119-102 win for the Knicks over the Washington Wizards, Towns finished with 33 points and 13 rebounds for what was his best effort yet this season, […]

Federal prosecutors have charged a former Atlanta Hawks executive with embezzling millions from the franchise in one of the most shocking front-office scandals in recent NBA memory. The case centers around Lester Jones, the team’s former Senior Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis, who allegedly stole approximately $3.8 million over nearly a decade from […]

On Monday night, the Milwaukee Bucks visited Gainbridge Fieldhouse to square off against the Indiana Pacers for the first timme in the new campaign. This was Myles Turner’s first game back in Indianapolis since he signed with the Bucks this past offseason, and suffice to say, the reception from fans wasn’t very pretty. But in […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves made history during the 1995 NBA draft when they selected the first player to be drafted right out of high school in about 20 years. When Darryl Dawkins and Bill Willoughby were drafted in 1975, they were the first players ever to be selected in the NBA Draft out of high school. […]

Many tagged the Minnesota Timberwolves as one of the top contenders in the Western Conference after back-to-back trips to the conference finals. But so far, they have yet to find a consistent rhythm. They visited the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center on Monday, looking to notch back-to-back wins after beating the Charlotte Hornets, 122-105, on […]

The Milwaukee Bucks shocked the NBA world in the offseason when they made not one, but two surprising moves. The first was choosing to waive Damian Lillard, and the second was signing big man Myles Turner in free agency. The Myles Turner move was probably most shocking considering how the former lottery pick had endeared […]