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If Joel Embiid isn’t going to win Rookie of the Year, he prefers it go to Philadelphia 76ers teammate Dario Saric. Actually, strike that. He believes the hardware should go to Saric no matter what, per Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press (via NBA.com): “He’s the rookie of the year,” Embiid emphatically said on CSN [...]

If the injury bugs have their way, we may never know how good this Utah Jazz team can be. Sure, they have the fourth-best record in the Western Conference, but they could be even better. They rank in the top five of the league in value lost to injuries this season, according to NBA Man [...]

Imagine being so oblivious that even when you’re so obviously wrong, you believe you’re right. This is where New York Knicks president Phil Jackson is at. According to the New York Daily News‘ Frank Isola, he doesn’t believe he’s failed as an executive; he simply believes the Knicks have underachieved: Can Jackson, a Hall of Fame coach, honestly [...]

As the final month of the NBA season winds down, prognosticators around the league and every grouping of NBA fans around the country will participate in the debate: Who should win the 2016-17 NBA MVP award Russell Westbrook or James Harden? The reigning two-time MVP has already given his opinion/prediction on the matter and his [...]

Larry Sanders is officially a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Though his name was tossed around the rumor mill a few weeks back, the Cavaliers ultimately landed Andrew Bogut, who had been traded from the Dallas Mavericks to the Philadelphia 76ers, then was bought out. But, 58 seconds into tenure with Cleveland, Bogut suffered a season-ending [...]

The Chicago Bulls are not in a good place. They are now outside the Eastern Conference’s playoff picture, with a rotation that continues to lack shooting and consistency. Dwyane Wade, who signed with the Bulls for the money and a chance to make some noise in the East, is naturally not happy. Well, actually, we can’t [...]

Chandler Parsons’ first season with the Memphis Grizzlies has been one to forget, and it’s unlikely we’ll remember it any more than we do now. Because he’ll hardly played. The Grizzlies announced on Monday night that Parsons has a partial meniscus tear in his left knee and would be out indefinitely. According to Tim MacMahon [...]

By the end of the 2015-16 regular season, just after Stephen Curry was named the first unanimous MVP in NBA history, it seemed like we had a legitimate, and pertinent, question on our hands: If we were to start an NBA team from scratch, with the sole aim of winning immediately, who would we rather [...]

Ever since Kevin Durant went down with a sprained MCL on February 28 (thanks a lot Marcin Gortat) the Warriors have experienced something they haven’t in a long time save for the final three games of the 2016 NBA Finals (sorry couldn’t help myself), a stretch of losing basketball. They have gone 2-4 in their [...]

Despite losing Jabari Parker for the season with a torn ACL and revelation Michael Beasley for weeks with a knee injury, the Bucks have been surging of late and have found themselves in the No. 8 seed in the eastern conference. That is exactly where any NBA fan outside of Chicago or Miami should want [...]