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Roughly four seconds (okay, four games), into his time with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Lance Stephenson suffered an ankle injury that forced him onto the shelf and out of the team’s immediate plans. He was on a 10-day contract, and there would not be a second one coming, at least not then. But it’s coming now, [...]

Joel Embiid is done for the season after suffering a torn meniscus. Ben Simmons, who has yet to make his NBA regular-season debut, joins him on the sidelines with a broken foot. When will we see them play again, preferably together? The summer league, perhaps? The Philadelphia 76ers aren’t sure. From Calkins Media’s Tom Moore: [...]

Shoutout to Washington Wizards head coach Scott Brooks for wanting Bradley Beal to shoot all the three-pointers. Yes, this is apparently a thing. Beal revealed on BradleyBeal.net that his head honcho has basically encouraged him to launch 20 treys in single game: He’s really encouraging, too. We played against Cleveland back in early February and lost [...]

Intrigued? You should be. Even worse than Donald Trump’s +2,500 odds to win the election posted back in August, the Houston Rockets entered the new year as +3,500 underdogs. How did the odds makers give Trump more credit than Harden? We may never know. Perhaps they know something we don’t. Just the same though, some [...]

The Suns Gorilla is one of the longest standing professional sports mascots, a true legend in the world of mascots. He is a high-energy, motorcycle riding, trampoline dunking, ball of energy that has been a pioneer for mascots. Apparently after being a huge part of the Suns in-game experience and the local Phoenix community, the [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers moved swiftly in their decision to higher powerhouse agent Rob Pelinka as general manager following their February front office purge, which claimed the roles of Jim Buss and Mitch Kupchak. And yet, after all that midseason ado, Pelinka’s role was never made official. Until now. The Lakers confirmed the Pelinka hire on [...]

Dirk Nowitzki cares not for Father Time’s undefeated record. On Tuesday night, with the Dallas Mavericks hosting the Los Angeles Lakers, the 38-year-old found himself 20 points shy of joining the 30,000-point club. Not only did he score 25 points, but he came out of the gate on fire, hitting his first six shots while dropping [...]

Has an MVP talent ever flown under the radar quite like Kawhi Leonard? Yes, he’s the reigning two-time Defensive Player of the Year. And sure, it was him who finished as a runner-up in MVP voting last season, to Stephen Curry, who had just wrapped up one of the best individual campaigns the NBA has [...]

Larry Bird and Magic Johnson are considered the two greatest rivals in NBA history, from their classic showdown in the final of the 1979 NCAA Tournament as members of Indiana State and Michigan State respectively, to their east coast, west coast rivalry that overtook the NBA in the 1980s and resurrected the league from a [...]

How close were the Indiana Pacers to moving Paul George at February’s trade deadline? Not very. At least not to the Los Angeles Lakers. From the Los Angeles Times‘ Tania Ganguli: Bird planned to call Johnson after the NBA trade deadline, just to congratulate his old friend on becoming the Lakers’ president of basketball operations. It’s [...]