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Finally, some good news for the New Orleans Pelicans. Jrue Holiday, the team’s starting point guard, hasn’t been with the team all year while dealing with a family situation. His wife, Laura, was pregnant with the couple’s first child and needed to have a brain tumor surgically removed, which she wasn’t able to do until [...]

Blake Griffin will be a free agent this summer if he, as expected, terminates the final year of his contract. He was born in Oklahoma City. He attended the University of Oklahoma. His Los Angeles Clippers are playing the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday. You know where this is going. Asked about his connection to [...]

When Andrew Bogut was asked about his departure from the Warriors prior to Wednesday’s game against the Mavs in which they were trounced 116-95, he had a bone to pick. He told USA Today that anonymous comments questioning his durability came from the many “shallow personalities” in the NBA. “But that’s how it is,” Bogut [...]

Insofar as job stability exists in NBA front offices, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey has long seemed secure in his position. Over the years, he has had carte blanche to conjure cap space through salary dumps to chase free agents. He has enjoyed the freedom to be hyper-aggressive on the trade market. He has [...]

Bradley Beal is injured again. The Washington Wizards’ shooting guard left in the third quarter of the team’s blowout win over the shorthanded Boston Celtics on Wednesday night with a right hamstring injury. His legs almost did a full split while he had the ball in his hands, so upon first glance at the play, [...]

When the reigning NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers visit the White House on Thursday, they may be the last team to do so for quite some time. Per Sports Illustrated‘s Lee Jenkins: Personally, I don’t doubt this. The NBA is more progressive than any other professional sports league in the United States, and the transfer of [...]

Kurt Rambis is now the face of the New York Knicks defense. If you’re getting deja vu, you won’t be the only one. The Knicks named Rambis interim head coach last season after firing Derek Fisher, and now, under Jeff Hornacek, he’s being given more responsibility yet again. ESPN.com’s Marc Stein was the first with [...]

At 3-3, with the league’s best offense and its second-worst defense, the Boston Celtics are not who we thought they would be. We thought they would be a two-way powerhouse that challenges the Cleveland Cavaliers for Eastern Conference supremacy. But, as of now, they seem unsettlingly mediocre and overwhelmingly flawed on the defensive end—which doesn’t [...]

Last month, apparently, it looked like Festus Ezeli was tracking toward his Portland Trail Blazers debut. But then his left knee injury started acting up, and everything unraveled. From CSNNW.com’s Jason Quick: Ezeli suffered swelling in his left knee after he took part in two Blazers practices on Oct. 17 and Oct. 18, after which [...]

In Saturday night’s game in Philadelphia against the 76ers, LeBron James passed Hakeem Olajuwon to become a top 10 scorer in NBA history. After scoring 23 points in the Cavaliers first loss of the season to the Hawks last night, LeBron now has 26, 993 career points. So at 31 years and 11 months old [...]