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It would be understandable if the Portland Trail Blazers were relieved that they made the NBA playoffs. For a while, it looked like they wouldn’t. Even after they got hot, Jusuf Nurkic went down, and it kind of seemed like they might be done, too. They’re weren’t. They’re in the playoffs, having clinched a spot [...]

If the Chicago Bulls are going to clinch a playoff berth, they’ll have to do it without Rajon Rondo. Shoot, from what head coach Fred Hoiberg says, it seems like they’d have to play through the postseason without him, per ESPN.com’s Nick Friedell: Fred Hoiberg says Rajon Rondo has ‘significant’ wrist injury. Rondo had visit [...]

Achilles injuries alter NBA careers. They can even ruin them. So when Rudy Gay suffered his in the middle of January, the outlook seemed bleak. He’s on the wrong side of 30, and so much of his game is predicated on creating his own offense, something he might struggle to do upon return. Neither he [...]

When the Cleveland Cavaliers take on the Toronto Raptors in their regular-season finale, they will do so without LeBron James. From Cleveland.com’s Joe Vardon: LeBron James’ regular season is over, and the Cavs can’t wait to say the same. A team source said James would not play in Cleveland’s finale Wednesday at home against the [...]

Carmelo Anthony may have played his last game as a member of the New York Knicks. Yes, the Knicks have one tilt left to go, on Wednesday, against the Washington Wizards, but head coach Jeff Hornacek said Anthony will not be a participant, per Newsday‘s Al Iannazzone: Jeff Hornacek said Anthony probably wouldn’t play in the Knicks’ [...]

Although he may not be getting the sort of pomp and circumstance as some of his recent peers (ahem Kobe Bryant) during their rides off into the sunset, with the exception of that beautiful moment in his last game in Boston, Paul Pierce is one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history and his [...]

My how the center position has changed in the NBA in the last few years. What was once like seeing a solar eclipse, an NBA center shooting a three-pointer, is now encouraged, expected and in some cases demanded by many teams of their centers across the NBA. I am not exactly sure when the trend [...]

The much-anticipated NBA playoffs are all set to kick off on Saturday, April 15th. Even though the regular season is about to conclude on April 12, there is still a significant amount of movement. For example, the Cleveland Cavaliers may not come into the playoffs as the top seed from the East. Even then, they [...]

Thus far the title defense of the Cavaliers during the 2016-17 season has been a rocky road with a lot of highs and seemingly just as many lows. There were times when Kevin Love was playing his best basketball since becoming a Cavalier and LeBron was playing at another level for him, and there were [...]

The 2016-17 season has truly been Russell Westbrook’s masterpiece. He is still only 28 and this is only his first season as the alpha dog for the Oklahoma City Thunder. He has plenty more success in front of him, one would assume, but he will never recapture the magic or the wonder and bewilderment of [...]