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Sitting one game under .500, with the NBA’s worst defense, it’s safe to say that the Portland Trail Blazers have been a huge disappointment to start the 2016-17 season. The problem, it seems, is that the Blazers aren’t playing with a desperate urgency. Watch their games, and it looks like they’re coasting. And they aren’t [...]

DeAndre Jordan has figured out why the Los Angeles Clippers are struggling of late. They like to sniff themselves too much. As he said after Tuesday night’s double-overtime loss to the Brooklyn Nets, per ESPN.com’s Ohm Youngmisuk: DeAndre Jordan on what has happened to the Clippers, who have lost three straight on the road, including [...]

Justise Winslow has, somewhat quietly, missed the Miami Heat’s last eight games while recovering from a left wrist injury he initially tried to play through. And kind of like the extent of his injury, his timetable for return remains unknown, per the Palm Beach Post‘s Anthony Chiang: We asked Erik Spoelstra this exact question before [...]

Kristaps Porzingis is already the New York Knicks’ best player. That’s a fact, and it’s not a shot at Carmelo Anthony, who remains one of the best scorers in the game. It’s just that Porzingis’ talent is harder, if impossible, to replicate. He is essentially a 7’3″ wing with post-up skills and the ability to, [...]

The New Orleans Pelicans are on a roll. First Jrue Holiday returned to the team. Then they started playing watchable basketball. Now they’re on a five-game home winning streak. What’s next? Possibly Tyreke Evans’ return, per Fox Sports’ Jennifer Hale: Evans has yet to play this season has he recovers from multiple right knee surgeries [...]

Derrick Rose seems happy to be playing in the Big Apple and to have a fresh start after a frustrating and disappointing last four seasons as a Bull. He had his best game as a Knick and maybe his best game in year’s on Monday when the Knicks loss to the Oklahoma City Russells, excuse [...]

It appears as though the dreaded injury bug has bitten the Memphis Grizzlies again and is putting a damper on their recent success and 11-7 record through 18 games. The Grizzlies are already dealing with injury issues to their big-time free-agent acquisition Chandler Parsons, and now their other big time free agent, floor general and [...]

Russell Westbrook is the realest. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that he’s averaging a triple-double. You read that correctly. He is Oscar Robertson-ing the the modern-day NBA. Or maybe Westbrook’s status as the realest is due to him not giving two craps about averaging said triple-double. As he said after the [...]

Seventeen games into last season, a clear rebuilding year, the Minnesota Timberwolves were 8-9. Seventeen games into this season, one that came with not-so-subtle playoff hopes, the Timberwolves are 5-12, their optimism fading fast. Frustration reached fever pitch within the Minnesota locker room following Monday night’s loss to the Utah Jazz. Everyone from head coach [...]

If given the opportunity to play on the same team again, as they did at Kentucky, DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall would jump at the chance. Or something. The Sacramento Kings and Washington Wizards squared off on Monday night, so naturally the topic came up. And Cousins, for his part, was relatively forthcoming, as far [...]