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LeBron James has now gone from defending Dwyane Wade’s addition to the Cleveland Cavaliers roster, to campaigning for his best buddy to win the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award. Seriously. From ESPN.com’s Arash Markazi: LeBron believes that Dwyane Wade is the leading candidate for the Sixth Man of the Year Award right now [...]

For Mike Conley to confirm that David Fizdale and Marc Gasol weren’t the best of friends, you know the relationship between player and coach must’ve been bad. During an extensive interview with the Commercial Appeal‘s Ronald Tillery, the point guard didn’t sidestep the string of rumors emanating from the Memphis Grizzlies organization. He told Tillery that [...]

Good news, Milwaukee Bucks fans: Jabari Parker is practicing with the team. Slightly bad news, though: His timetable for a return from his second ACL injury isn’t being moved up. You’re still on track to see him sometime in February. As head coach Jason Kidd told The Undefeated’s Marc J. Spears: What is the latest [...]

After a pretty rough stretch of basketball for the Utah Jazz in recent weeks and a deflating injury to their star center, things have turned around as the Jazz are back over .500 at 12-11 and are winners of five straight games. There is even more good news on the way for Jazz fans though, [...]

Sorry, Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins, Al Horford, Karl-Anthony Towns, Kristaps Porzingis, Nikola Jokic, LaMarcus Aldridge and so many others. Joel Embiid doesn’t think any of y’all are the NBA’s best big man. That honor, according to him, belongs to him. Consider Embiid’s recent appearance on NBA TV: Caron Butler: Who’s the best big man in [...]

At long last, we have some good news on the NBA’s injury front. Okay, actually, we have kind-of, sort-of good news. Real good news would include the abolition of injuries altogether. But following this season’s spate of onset absences and serious setbacks from marquee names, we’ll take what we can get—especially as it pertains to [...]

James Harden has been second on the NBA’s MVP ballot in each of the last two seasons. Right now, he’s playing like someone determined to turn his runner-up status into a first-place finish. And that makes sense. Who wouldn’t want to prioritize winning the Maurice Podoloff Trophy when they’ve come so very close to snagging [...]

You know how you know we’re int 2017?  Well, in lots of ways. Donald Trump is the goddamn President of the United States, so you know the world is batshit crazy. On the sports front, Colin Kaepernick does’t have a job, but Geno Smith does. People are still uncomfortable calling Stephen Curry a top-five player [...]

Injuries keep rolling in for the San Antonio Spurs, but in pure Spurs fashion they are 15-8 and on pace for yet another 50 win season in spite of it. The Spurs were already even more short-handed than usual Sunday night in Oklahoma City after choosing to rest LaMarcus Aldridge and Tony Parker during their [...]

The Derrick Rose saga continues to be somewhat of a bizarre one. Having to rehab yet another injury has taken its toll on Rose and while attempting to recover from a sprained ankle Rose has questioned once again as he did as a member of the Knicks last season if he wants to continue his [...]