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The 2017-18 season has not been good to the Cleveland Cavaliers thus far. Losers of four straight and currently sporting a 3-5 record, the 29th rated defense in the NBA thus far just lost their best defender for a month. According to The Vertical, the Cavs expect center Tristan Thompson to miss a month of [...]

Gorgui Dieng is struggling to find his place with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Head coach and president Tom Thibodeau moved him to the bench in favor of free-agent acquisition Taj Gibson, and the returns have not been great. Dieng is still shooting a ridiculously high percentage on long twos, even though his three-point clip dropped, according [...]

Sitting at 3-5, the losers of four straight, with a bottom-two defense to their name, the Cleveland Cavaliers aren’t doing well. Most people in and around the NBA aren’t too worried. The Eastern Conference is still a wide-open pit of mediocrity. The Cavaliers have LeBron James. They have a bunch of new faces. Isaiah Thomas [...]

Larry Nance Jr. is a freakishly athletic and exciting young player in the NBA who was seemingly becoming more skilled and developed by the day. Unfortunately that development will have to be put on hold as Nance Jr. fractured his left hand in the 3rd quarter of the Lakers game in Portland Thursday night and [...]

Paul George knows what it’s like to lose an entire season to a leg injury. He also knows what it takes to regain form after the fact. George suffered a broken leg while playing with Team USA in 2014. Since his injury occurred over the offseason, he was able to return at the tail end [...]

Are you ready for some kind-of-good Kawhi Leonard news that really isn’t all that good? Okay, here it goes: The San Antonio Spurs still haven’t provided a definitive timetable for his return from a quad injury, but head coach Gregg Popovich is optimistic he could be back on the court in three weeks or so, [...]

We no longer need to wonder whether the Indiana Pacers are placing stock in Victor Oladipo’s hot start. They are. Here’s what head coach Nate McMillan, Domantas Sabonis and Myles Turner all had to say on the matter, per the Indianapolis Star‘s Gregg Doyel: Said Pacers coach Nate McMillan: “No, I think this can be Victor. [...]

While the writing has been on the wall in bright red ink for some time now, the rocky marriage between the 76ers and former No. 3 pick Jahlil Okafor is officially headed to a foreseeable end. The 76ers have officially decided not to pick up the option for the final year of Jahlil Okafor’s rookie [...]

Tanking makes so much sense for the New York Knicks, even after their recent three-game winning streak. They own their own draft pick. They have kiddies, including rookie Frank Ntilikina, they can play. They aren’t trying to win, necessarily, even though they are trying. Just imagine going into next season with a core of Ntilkina, [...]

Riding a four-game losing streak when you’re supposed to run away with the Eastern Conference is bad enough. Seeing Tristan Thompson go down with a leg injury and leave the arena on crutches in the process makes the situation worse. Alas, the Cleveland Cavaliers are now at this point. Thompson was ruled out of returning [...]