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D’Angelo Russell doesn’t seem too excited that the Los Angeles Lakers will have the chance to draft UCLA’s Lonzo Ball with the second overall pick in this year’s draft. And he’s not afraid to show it. Sort of. Russell liked a tweet that said there was “no way in hell” the Lakers should draft Ball: [...]

Derrick Rose and Tom Thibodeau, together again? It’s a possibility. Rose and Gregg Popovich, an actual item? That might be one, too. According to ESPN.com’s Ian Begley, the Minnesota Timberwolves have interest in signing the free-agent point, and they may not be the only ones: The Minnesota Timberwolves view Derrick Rose as a potential free-agent [...]

So Scottie Pippen has some thoughts on the NBA’s greatest-of-all-time conversation. And they’re not particularly good. During a SportsCenter on Wednesday, Pippen told ESPN’s Cari Champion that he doesn’t believe LeBron James has usurped Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant in the pantheon of greats (h/t Chris Walder of theScore): “I don’t think he’s [LeBron] surpassed Kobe [Bryant] at all, no,” Pippen [...]

Gregg Popovich has high expectations every season for his San Antonio Spurs, but he’s also a realist. And so, he is anything except upset over the year ending in a Western Conference Finals sweep at the hands of the Golden State Warriors—especially when you consider it was the team’s first season without Tim Duncan being [...]

Derrick Favors has no illusions about his future with the Utah Jazz. He knows there might not be one. Per The Salt Lake Tribune‘s Tony Jones: Favors and [agent Wallace] Prather have done the math. They know the possibility of a trade exists this summer or at the trade deadline in February. … “Utah’s paid Rudy [...]

Kristaps Porzingis sent a message to the New York Knicks by ghosting his exit interview with team president Phil Jackson: This crap fest you call a culture is unacceptable. Was that message received? It’s hard to tell. If it was, it hasn’t angered the Knicks—as least not to the point they’ve fined or disciplined young [...]

Kyrie Irving left the masses entranced when he dropped 42 points during the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Game 4 victory over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night. Without him detonating, they don’t erase a 16-point lead. They aren’t able to weather LeBron James’ early foul trouble. They don’t remain within striking distance unless he’s firing on all [...]

At long last, the Miami Heat and Chris Bosh appear to be on the same page. Bosh’s career has been derailed due to blood clots, which has in turn created an awkward, overwhelmingly tenuous situation between himself and the Heat, who first deemed the All-Star big unfit to continue playing. Bosh resisted the prognosis pretty publicly [...]

Draymond Green basked in the Golden State Warriors’ third Western Conference title, because he and his teammates deserved to. But the celebration was neither extensive nor prolonged. Watching it, you seriously wouldn’t have known the Warriors became the first team to run through their conference’s bracket with a perfect 12-0 record. Which, it seems, is [...]

Shortly after the San Antonio Spurs’ season-ending 129-115 loss at the hands of the Golden State Warriors, a 39-year-old Manu Ginobili was asked about his future in the NBA, because of course he was. Head coach Gregg Popovich inserted him into the starting lineup, not only suggesting the Spurs had conceded to losing, but recognizing [...]