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In the rush to figure out why, and how, the Cleveland Cavaliers began the 2017-18 season losing a bunch of games they should have won, fans and analysts have been quick to cite a relative lack of interest. The Cavaliers are Eastern Conference favorites! They’re locks to make a fourth straight NBA Finals! They have [...]

LeBron James wants New York Knicks rookie Frank Ntilikina to know his infatuation with Dennis Smith Jr. is nothing personal. Well, okay, it’s personal. But it’s personal with former Knicks president Phil Jackson, not The Big Apple’s rookie point guard. James said the following about Smith, the Dallas Mavericks newbie, over the weekend (via SLAM): The [...]

Kevin Durant and Draymond Green have no qualms with Joel Embiid’s trash talking. They like it. From the Mercury News‘ Mark Medina: With a simple jab move and pump fake, Warriors forward Kevin Durant blew by Sixers center Joel Embiid for an easy dunk. But Embiid is a rising NBA star and has plenty of [...]

The Brooklyn Nets finally look to be trending upward after dealing with the repercussions of one of the worst trades in NBA history over the past few seasons. One of the biggest reasons is the fact that they were able to utilize their cap space to take on the contract of Timofey Mozgov (taking advantage [...]

There have been mixed reviews on the Lonzo Ball experiment thus far in Tinseltown, but one thing that is very apparent though is that Ball is a special talent at passing the basketball and utilizes his height and instincts to already be one of the best rebounding point guards in the NBA. He used those [...]

Things aren’t going to well for the Utah Jazz thus far this season. The Jazz have lost four of their past five games as they have struggled mightily on the offensive end, and now they will be without their best player and the best defensive player in the NBA for at least a month. Rudy [...]

Will Ferrell is one of many celebrities who doesn’t appear to be the biggest supporter of the current commander-in-chief. Ferrell apparently is a big fan of LeBron James on and off the court and told Seth Meyers on his show, Late Night With Seth Meyers that he ran into James during the 2017 postseason and [...]

Ever since Lonzo Ball came on to the scene as a highly-touted basketball recruit (and LaVar entered our lives) his combination of size and special play-making ability has led to a number of comparisons to hall of fame point guard and current Milwaukee Bucks Head Coach Jason Kidd. Ball has looked the part as a [...]

One benefit of being around the cap floor in the NBA is you have the flexibility and rare ability to re-negotiate a player’s salary for the current season. This appears to be the case with the 76ers and Robert Covington. Covington signed a four-year, $50 million extension with the 76ers this off-season that was set [...]

In the early 2000s Post-Jordan era of the NBA (a dark period for the NBA in retrospect) there were few more electrifying players or exciting synonymous images of period than Vince Carter in a Raptors jersey. Vinsanity helped establish NBA basketball north of the U.S. border and averaged 23-5-4 in seven seasons as a Raptor, [...]