The Miami Heat’s playoff hopes have taken another blow: Dion Waiters suffered an ankle during Friday night’s win over the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the team has no idea when he’s going to return. X-rays were negative, per the Miami Herald‘s Manny Navarro, but head coach Erik Spoelstra said the team doesn’t have a timetable for his [...]
March 20, 2017
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Karl Malone is one of the most accomplished players in NBA history as the second leading scorer in league history and his durability over his 19 seasons was the stuff of legend. He played at least 80 games in 17 of his 19 seasons, and throughout his career he played in 95 percent of his [...]
March 20, 2017
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These next 13 games, or however many he plays in, may be Carmelo Anthony’s last with the New York Knicks. In a fantastically reported piece on Phil Jackson’s three-year tenure as team president, ESPN.com’s Ian Begley relayed that the organization plans to revisit its efforts to trade the All-Star, albeit ebbing, forward: The biggest issue surrounding [...]
March 20, 2017
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Kevin Durant won’t be suiting up for the Golden State Warriors when he makes his second return to Oklahoma City, but the tension between him and the city and organization still lingers. Or maybe there’s just tension between the Warriors and Thunder. According to ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes, Golden State wasn’t happy that Oklahoma City failed [...]
March 20, 2017
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If you want to know what was potentially the worst free agent signing this past summer with all of the funny money that was thrown around, you have to look no further than the Memphis Grizzlies and Chandler Parsons. The Grizzlies gave Parsons a massive four-year, $94 million contract this summer despite all of his [...]
March 20, 2017
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Not that long ago Carlos Boozer was one of the most coveted free agents on the market and a guy worthy of a $100 million NBA contract in 2010. Times have changed and the former two-time NBA All-Star has been out of the NBA since a forgettable stint with the Los Angeles Lakers ended in [...]
March 20, 2017
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LaVar Ball has made himself far and away more famous and in the news than his top NBA draft prospect son Lonzo Ball and his other two talented sons in high school LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball, with his controversial comments and let’s be honest, disassociation with reality. He has said that Lonzo is better than [...]
March 20, 2017
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Growing up in Phoenix as a Phoenix Suns fan there has always been one oddity that never really made sense…being a fan of a team located in one of the seven largest metropolitan areas in the United States, why was there such a the lack of hometown players to play for the team? In my [...]
March 17, 2017
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The MRI results came in and they weren’t good for 35-year-old Bulls star guard Dwyane Wade, he will miss the remainder of the season to recover from a broken elbow Wade’s homecoming hasn’t exactly been anything special as the Bulls are currently 10th in the east at 32-36. Wade has the ability to opt out [...]
March 17, 2017
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On the heels of the Los Angeles Lakers’ 139-100 loss to the Houston Rockets Wednesday night, there was much to talk about. There was also a lot of shade that needed to be thrown, apparently. Let’s start with head coach Luke Walton. He was irate, per the Los Angeles Daily News‘ Mark Medina: Okay, now let’s [...]
March 16, 2017
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