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Giannis Antetokounmpo has quickly become one of the very best players in the NBA and quite possibly the best young superstar in the league under the age of 25. He could end up being the best player the Milwaukee Bucks organization has had since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the late 60s and early 70s and that [...]

Eric Bledsoe trade watch is getting pretty boring. The Phoenix Suns have made it clear they have no plans to rush a trade, but most thought they still might hammer something out by now, if only to distance themselves from this public relations wart altogether. Bledsoe himself seems to have believed this would all be [...]

Nothing gets the frustration juices flowing quite like a loss to the Atlanta Hawks. Hence Dwyane Wade and Channing Frye (basically) calling out the Cleveland Cavaliers’ starters on Sunday, per ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin: “It’s no secret we’re starting games off awful,” Dwyane Wade said after scoring a season-high 25 points as a reserve. “Terrible. And [Atlanta] got [...]

Welcome to another edition of “LaVar Ball said what about Lonzo Ball?!?!?” The latest, per Complex Sports, has Pops saying that social media can make his son “bigger” than Kobe Bryant: So, like, on the LaVar scale of talking points, this take is pretty tame. Lonzo has about a half-million followers on Twitter to Kobe’s 13 [...]

James Harden destroyed the Utah Jazz on Sunday night. In 35 minutes of action, The Beard dropped 56 points and 13 assists on a scintillating 19-of-25 shooting. He was 7-of-8 from downtown and 11-of-12 at the charity stripe. His 56-burger, it turns out, left him one point shy of the Houston Rockets’ scoring record, which [...]

Isaiah Thomas isn’t supposed to make his Cleveland Cavaliers debut before 2018 as he recovers from a hip injury, but his timetable might be moving up. From Cleveland.com’s Joe Vardon: Isaiah Thomas’ timetable for return seems to be accelerating from the original target of January 1. . . . Though there has been no official [...]

John Wall is one of the three best all-around point guards in the NBA with his ability to score, direct an offense and defend his position, losing him for any extended period of time could be devastating for the Washington Wizards. Luckily, they won’t have to worry about that for now. Wall left Friday night’s [...]

14 seasons into his NBA career and with 1,300 games under his belt, LeBron James is still chugging along and looking as good as ever. On Friday night versus Washington, LeBron James became the 7th member of the 29k point club. He is now the fastest player to ever reach the milestone, breaking the previous [...]

To say that the Cavaliers are struggling to find their way this season with a much different core is an understatement, and one of their new pieces that they are trying to incorporate is current starting point guard Derrick Rose. With Isaiah Thomas recovering from his hip injury and not set to return until 2018, [...]

It doesn’t look like Jahlil Okafor will be getting the buy out he seeks. Not before the February trade deadline anyway. Though the Philadelphia 76ers declined Okafor’s fourth-year option, suggesting they’re willing to move on from him without any compensation, ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojanrowski is hearing that general manager Bryan Colangelo still wants to trade him: [...]