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Everyone who thinks the Los Angeles Lakers are too young or topsy-turvy to not make the playoffs next year should know this: Kyle Kuzma disagrees with you. From ESPN.com’s Ohm Youngmisuk: Kuzma said he has worked out with LeBron James and the two are looking forward to seeing what the Lakers can do with free-agent signings such [...]

Last year, small forward Paul Pierce called time on his NBA career after a two-year spell with the Los Angeles Clippers. The Clippers’ elimination from the NBA Playoffs after their defeat to the Utah Jazz saw the 10-time All-Star pro bid a fond farewell to the sport that has treated him so kindly through the [...]

Kobe Bryant was one of the more successful and accomplished basketball players on the court in NBA history (and a notoriously bad teammate most of his career) and he is proving to be one of the most successful athletes off of the court as well. He has already won an Oscar (seriously) for the animated [...]

If the Bovada oddsmakers are correct this early into the process, then LeBron James is in line to win his fifth MVP award next season. Here’s how the odds for the NBA’s MVP race in 2018-19 are shaking out at the moment: There aren’t any real surprises on this list. Joel Embiid feels a little [...]

Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers might not have landed DeMarcus Cousins if the big man’s agent took his first response at face value. True story. Speaking on 95.7 The Game’s The Greg Papa Show with Bonta Hill, Myers recounted how he at first basically said the Warriors couldn’t afford the All-Star center (h/t NBC [...]

Well, that didn’t last long. Though it initially appeared Carmelo Anthony might be open to coming off the Houston Rockets’ bench, he pumped the brakes on that talk while speaking with TMZ Sports: Carmelo Anthony wants all the talk of him coming off the bench for the Houston Rockets to slooooow down … with the NBA superstar telling TMZ [...]

Basketball became a truly international game after the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, and while the love for the game has spread throughout Europe and some Asian countries, there is one Asian country and culture the NBA is trying to establish itself in: India. The league has been trying to present the game of professional basketball [...]

Almost everyone has a complaint about the NBA’s schedule whenever it comes out. These issues can range from something simple, like the Christmas Day slate, or something more major, such as the number of back-to-backs a team is playing. But Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr has zero qualms with the 2018-19 slate. In [...]

Carmelo Anthony is an official member of the Houston Rockets. Finally. And it seems as if his role could be different than most would’ve initially envisioned. Pretty much everyone and their third cousin twice removed by divorce assumed Anthony would join the Rockets’ starting five, and he still might. But there seems to be at [...]

Writing thank you notes to an NBA city and its fans after your playing days are over have been common practice in the NBA for star-caliber players for some time. Especially when that player starred for a franchise for a half a decade or more. Carmelo Anthony felt the need to thank Oklahoma City fans [...]