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For those Los Angeles Clippers fans who assumed the worst after Chris Paul left the team’s victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder with a left thumb injury on Monday, your fears have been confirmed. According to Dan Woike of the Orange County Register, Paul will miss the next six to eight weeks with a torn ligament in [...]

The Los Angeles Clippers are holding their breath, sort of. Chris Paul left late in the second quarter of the Los Angeles Clippers’ Tuesday night victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder with a sprained right thumb. He did not return, and though X-rays came back negative, the team is awaiting further news, per ESPN.com’s Andrew Han: [...]

The Carmelo Anthony-Phil Jackson saga is soldiering on. In the aftermath of a scathing column written by Jackson confidant Charley Rosen,  the prevailing sentiments call for Anthony to waive his no-trade clause so that the New York Knicks can begin rebuilding around Kristaps Porzingis without him. Though Jackson has yet to confirm Rosen is not an [...]

Rajon Rondo doesn’t think highly of last season’s Sacramento Kings. But he still has complete faith in himself. Some don’t think a player of Rondo’s ilk can be valuable in today’s NBA. He needs the ball in his hands to be effective, doesn’t shoot threes, can eat up the shot clock by over-dribbling, and no longer [...]

Anthony Davis has only missed four games this season, but it feels like so much more—perhaps because he keeps being forced out of contests early with various injuries. During the New Orleans Pelicans’ loss to the Indiana Pacers, for instance, Davis left the floor in the third quarter following a scary fall and didn’t return [...]

There has been a trend in recent seasons of the NBA for the most outstanding performers in their role to be voted on and chosen by their peers. In recent years the NBA Executive of the Year has been voted on and decided by NBA executives and the players have staged their own awards show [...]

Russell Westbrook has been having a magical season as the lone alpha dog in Oklahoma City and has managed to do the unthinkable thus far by averaging a triple-double through the first half of the 2016-17 NBA season. In 42 games he is averaging 30.9 points, 10.7 rebounds and 10.5 assists per game for the [...]

Surprise, surprise: The always-aggressive Houston Rockets are expected to be aggressive ahead of NBA’s Feb. 23 trade deadline. In other words: Houston has no plans to change. Here’s ESPN.com’s Marc Stein on Rockets-related rumblings—past, present and future: The Rockets, according to league sources, were among the teams that looked into acquiring Mike Dunleavy last week when [...]

In case you’re still wondering whether the Detroit Pistons will match whatever offer sheet Kentavious Caldwell-Pope signs in restricted free agency this summer, the answer is yes. Caldwell-Pope has become their best player, and Stan Van Gundy, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, knows it: Stan Van Gundy has openly scoffed at the suggestion that Detroit is [...]

In a column for the FanRag sports network, Charley Rosen, a known Phil Jackson confidant, blasted New York Knicks superstar Carmelo Anthony. The line that left everyone questioning the article’s intentions? The only sure thing is that Carmelo Anthony has outlived his usefulness in New York. Rosen, it must be noted, is not Jackson. But [...]