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You know what the Denver Nuggets’ bottom-eight offense could really use? A healthy Gary Harris. Too bad the Nuggets won’t be getting a healthy Harris for around four weeks, per The Denver Post‘s Christopher Dempsey: Harris already missed time this season with a partially torn groin muscle. His shooting percentages and scoring averages are down [...]

Vince Carter is the oldest player in the NBA at 39 years old (he will turn 40 in January) and is experiencing what many consider his swan song in his 19th season in the league. A likely hall of fame player as a member of the prestigious 24,000 point club and quite possibly the best [...]

Independence Day 2016 will always live in infamy for the NBA and especially the Oklahoma City Thunder. That’s the day their leader, hero and face of their franchise exercised his independence as a free agent to join the rival Golden State Warriors, leaving his partner in crime Russell Westbrook and the organization he had called [...]

Patrick Beverley is on course to make his regular-season debut for the Houston Rockets, which means the team is finally whole again! Well, almost whole. Head coach Mike D’Antoni was quick to point out that the Rockets won’t be whole until they bring back Donatas Motiejunas—assuming they bring him back at all, per Jonathan Feigen [...]

Here is your latest “There won’t be an NBA lockout in 2017” update. The latest is brought to you by The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor: The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association expect to finalize terms on a new collective bargaining agreement “just after Thanksgiving” or in “early December,” a source familiar with the negotiations [...]

DeAndre Jordan is shooting 45.8 percent from the free-throw line this season. Pretty terrible, right? Well, it’s also the second-best mark of his career. With a career charity-stripe clip of 42.2 percent, you have to figure Jordan has tried almost everything to tweak his shot and efficiency. Thus far, that hasn’t included trying to take [...]

Welcome to the NBA feud you never saw coming. New York Knicks president Phil Jackson recently sat down with ESPN.com’s Jackie MacMullan for a question-and-answer session. At one point, MacMullan asks Jackson about Riley, and he kind of goes out of his way to criticize LeBron James: JM: It all started when LeBron left, right? [...]

Is there anything a 38-year-old Dirk Nowitzki can teach a 21-year-old Kirstaps Porzingis? We may soon find out. Following the New York Knicks’ victory over the slumping Dallas Mavericks on Monday night, Nowitzki divulged that he and Porzingis have contact outside of basketball, and that there’s a chance, at least to him, the two will [...]

As if playing without Reggie Jackson isn’t enough of a headache, the Detroit Pistons now have Andre Drummond’s ankle to worry about. It was announced last minute that the 23-year-old seven-footer wouldn’t be facing off against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night. He has a sprained ankle that is serious enough to keep him [...]

Phil Jackson is prepared to see through his rebuilding project with the New York Knicks. We’ll let you decide whether that’s a good thing. The Zen Master sat down to talk with ESPN.com’s Jackie MacMullan, and when asked about the opt-out clause in his contract with the Knicks, he made it clear he isn’t going [...]