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Seven games as the Houston Rockets’ official point guard is all James Harden needs to declare himself the best floor general in the NBA. No, seriously, that’s it. As he told The Vertical’s Michael Lee: New Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni has worked with great scorers and great playmakers at his various stops around the league, [...]

Don’t let Donald Trump winning the presidential election over Hilary Clinton distract you from the fact that Joel Embiid is the greatest peddler of snark ever. Late Tuesday night, as it became clear Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States, Joel Embiid took to Twitter with some thoughts: He also tweeted [...]

Certain people (me) have been bemoaning (me) the New York Knicks’ inconsistent use (me) of Kristaps Porzingis (me) on the offensive end (me) this season (me). Why isn’t he more of a focal point? Why isn’t he finishing games? Why doesn’t Derrick Rose pass to him more? All these questions have a simple answer: He’s [...]

Cameron Payne underwent surgery to repair a Jones fracture in his foot this past July and has thus spent the first part of 2016-17 on the sidelines. As for how much longer he’ll be there, the Oklahoma City Thunder don’t seem to know. From Brett Dawson of The Oklahoman: Owners of the second-highest winning percentage [...]

Stephen Curry shot an unreal 13-of-17 from beyond the arc during the Golden State Warriors’ victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night. It was a shockingly efficient effort even by his own unprecedented standards. Well, maybe not. His head coach, Steve Kerr, sure didn’t think so anyway, per ESPN.com’s Ethan Sherwood Strauss: In [...]

What was that about the Indiana Pacers being a legitimate threat in the Eastern Conference? Oh, yeah: They aren’t one. Lots of people, including team president Larry Bird, tried to spin the Pacers as an above-average squad leading into this season—as a team that might be able to reinvent its offensive identity without losing too [...]

So I guess it’s safe to say the Los Angeles Lakers prefer Luke Walton to Byron Scott. Bold, I know. But it’s the truth. The Lakers are above .500, at 4-3, with one of the 12 best net ratings in the NBA. And while it’s still early, Jordan Clarkson says the team wants to continue [...]

Al Horford suffered a concussion while practicing with the Boston Celtics on October 30, and he hasn’t played since. For now, the Celtics don’t know when he’ll play again, per Mass Live’s Jay King: Horford’s safety and long-term health is the primary concern here, but the Celtics, quite clearly, need him back as soon as [...]

Our life consists of little victories and failures. And there is no way to say that something is truly bad unless you’ve experienced something extremely great. Everything is learned by comparison to past experiences. So to know that your team is truly a contender, you need to have played for either a contender or a [...]

Even in injury, it doesn’t appear Nerlens Noel wants for trade suitors. With the Philadelphia 76ers’ frontcourt logjam alive as ever, we can expect Jahlil Okafor’s and Noel’s names to be bandied about the rumor mill until one or both of them is moved. Though the Sixers have already moved Jerami Grant, they’ve never once [...]