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Finally, an optimistic Joel Embiid update. Sort of. The Philadelphia 76ers’ superstud hasn’t played in a game since January after suffering a torn left meniscus, and he’s already been ruled out of the team’s first few preseason games. No one’s quite sure when he’s going to return, or how long he’ll be able to play [...]

Taj Gibson is one of the key veteran additions for the Minnesota Timberwolves that the organization hopes will help them reach the postseason for the first time since 2004. Gibson isn’t really a standout on the court or in the box score per se to the average NBA fan as nothing jumps off the page [...]

The NBA Finals may be eight months away, but according to Jae Crowder, that hasn’t stopped Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue from preparing his troops for the probably inevitable showdown with the Golden State Warriors. From ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin: Jae Crowder says that Ty Lue already is prepping the Cavs with the Warriors in [...]

Every year since 2002, the NBA has anonymously surveyed all 30 NBA general managers to get the consensus prediction on things such as which team will win the NBA championship in the coming season, who will win MVP ,top four teams in each conference, who you would start a franchise with and more. Overall general [...]

Although the Oklahoma City Thunder are deploying more than their fair share of new members, the locker room does not, apparently, bear resemblance to a team trying to feel itself out. On the contrary, Paul George says everyone already feels like family, per ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon: Maybe this surprises some of you, but the vast [...]

So much for Chris Paul struggling to adjust as a member of the Houston Rockets, mainly as a sidekick to James Harden. This isn’t to say the transition will be entirely wrinkle-free. Pairings of this magnitude are always subject to taking a little bit of time. But anyone who thought it’d take Paul a while, [...]

The Morris brothers, Marcus and Markieff, and the Washington Wizards and Boston Celtics organizations will not have to worry about any fallout from the assault charges filed against them stemming from an incident in Phoenix in 2015 as they were acquitted of all charges according to a Maricopa County Superior Court. As alluded to previously, [...]

The 2017-18 Boston Celtics will look a lot different than the 2016-17 Boston Celtics that were the No. 1 seed in the eastern conference and made the eastern conference finals. 11 of the 15 players on the Celtics roster will be new, including four of their five starters. One of the few players that was [...]

At 21 years old (soon to be 22) Karl Anthony Towns is already one of the top 20 players in the NBA and shows all of the ability, work ethic and mentality to be one of the truly special players in this league. He was the player that received the most All-NBA votes last season [...]

As the No.1 pick in what was, one would project, a very deep NBA Draft class, the 76ers have invested a lot in Markelle Fultz and are counting on him to be a cornerstone of their franchise. Fultz is known for his effortless ability to score in a variety of ways including from deep as [...]