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Goran Dragic is not for sale. Yet. According to Basketball Insiders’ Steve Kyler, the Miami Heat are not entertaining offers for their franchise point guard, but there’s a chance that changes before the February deadline: Miami’s Goran Dragic continues to surface as possibly the biggest fish to be had, but sources with the HEAT continue [...]

With Nerlens Noel basically out of the Philadelphia 76ers’ rotation, it’s only a matter of time before he gets shipped elsewhere. At least we think it’s only a matter of time. You never really know with the Sixers. But Noel serves no purpose if they aren’t going to play him, and they need to move [...]

Chandler Parsons has appeared in six games for the Memphis Grizzlies. Outing No. 7 is coming soon. Parsons missed the team’s first six games while recovering from right knee surgery he underwent last season. Then, six contests into his return, he suffered a bone bruise in his left knee and hasn’t played since Nov. 18. [...]

The Golden State Warriors are chugging along at the top of the western conference and NBA standings as we head toward the NBA’s Christmas day spectacular. When you ask most fans or prognosticators who the Warriors’ biggest threat in the western conference is, the majority will say the Spurs, followed by the Clippers, and maybe [...]

Well, the Houston Rockets could certainly use Donatas Motiejunas now. Starting center Clint Capela, a 22-year-old on the rise under head coach Mike D’Antoni, will miss the next six weeks after suffering a broken fibula, per Fox 26’s Mark Berman: Capela expanded on his injury, also per Berman: The Houston Rockets have surprised just about [...]

Hassan Whiteside isn’t a three-point shooter…in actual games. Pretty much all of his shot attempts come from inside 10 feet of the basket, according to Basketball-Reference, and he has never launched a triple during regulation in an NBA game. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t chuck treys in practice. He does. He just doesn’t have [...]

The already faltering Los Angeles Clippers got some unfortunate news Monday morning as their star forward Blake Griffin will undergo a minor knee procedure and miss several weeks. According to The Vertical, the Clippers expect Griffin to return at some point in January. This is a huge blow to a 20-8 Clippers team. The Clippers [...]

At 13-16, clinging to the Western Conference’s eighth and final playoff seed, the Portland Trail Blazers are this season’s biggest disappointment thus far. And Damian Lillard, naturally, isn’t happy. As he told ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes following the Blazers’ 135-90 loss to the Golden State Warriors: Damian Lillard didn’t mince words in criticizing his team, telling [...]

This is fine. Okay, really, it’s not. The Philadelphia 76ers have officially moved Nerlens Noel out of their big-man rotation, per Bob Cooney of the Philadelphia Daily News: Well, that didn’t take long. Noel has appeared in two games for the Sixers this season, totaling eight minutes of action. After his second outing in a [...]

At 18-10 despite dealing with a bunch of injuries, the Memphis Grizzlies are one of the NBA’s biggest early-season feel-good stories. For a minute, though, they’re making headlines for other reasons—specifically their willingness to make Tony Allen available, per Ronald Tillery of The Commercial Appeal: This isn’t terribly surprising. Allen will turn 35 in January [...]