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The style of NBA basketball has changed dramatically over the past five years as virtually every team in the NBA shoots a lot higher percentage of three-pointers per game and other than the teams with incredibly skilled traditional big men like DeMarcus Cousins, Anthony Davis and Kristaps Porzingis who can do it all, most teams [...]

There has been a shift (an enlightened shift) on the use of marijuana for professional sports players in recent years as more and more research shows that the use of marijuana in a medical sense is far less harmful and more natural than prescription pain killers for athletes who are dealing with chronic pain (no [...]

Joakim Noah has served the 20-game suspension levied by the NBA for using Androgen to help his recovery. He is officially back with the New York Knicks. But he’s not actually back with them. Though the Knicks waived Mindaugas Kuzminskas to make room for their $72.6 million man, he has yet to dress for a [...]

Chris Paul isn’t shy about his opinion of the Houston Rockets. The point guard is expected to be in the team’s starting lineup when it faces the Phoenix Suns on Thursday, marking just the second time he will suit up for his new digs all season. He hasn’t played since a bruised left knee forced [...]

LeBron James is ready for Isaiah Thomas to take the court. That’s not happening anytime soon, of course—at least not for a few weeks. The point guard has missed every game so far this season after joining the Cleveland Cavaliers as part of the Kyrie Irving trade with the Boston Celtics. He needs to get [...]

Here’s hoping you didn’t expect the beef between LeBron James and Enes Kanter to subside anytime soon. Because it’s not going to. What started as LeBron taking jabs at Phil Jackson while indirectly marginalizing Frank Ntilikina has since evolved into an on-court scuffle and full-out war of words and Instagram posts and responses to those [...]

Does Paul George get annoyed when people pester him or speculate about his future—or lack thereof—with the Oklahoma City Thunder? Nope. Well, actually, he probably does get aggravated and frustrated and pissed off and exhausted and all that stuff. But he doesn’t let it get to him. After all, as he notes, per ESPN.com’s Royce [...]

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is so impressed with the Boston Celtics thus far that he might be prepping his team to face them in the NBA Finals this June. Okay, fine. Probably not. Even he has to be feeling that the Cleveland Cavaliers’ struggles, on some level, will work themselves out. They’re [...]

Gregg Popovich and LaMarcus Aldridge really are on the same page nowadays. Speaking with reporters ahead of the San Antonio Spurs’ close-but-not-really-close-but-kind-of-actually-close win over the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday, the head honcho went out of his way to compliment his All-Star big man, per Tom Osborn of the San Antonio Express-News: Aldridge has no doubt been [...]

Kyrie Irving suffered a facial fracture in the first quarter of the Boston Celtics’ Friday night victory over the Charlotte Hornets. The injury forced him to miss the team’s Sunday night tilt (and win) against the Toronto Raptors. But that’s all the time it will cost him. Irving is slated to return when the Celtics [...]