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Substantive change is on the horizon for the Charlotte Hornets. Though they elected not to make a major move at the trade deadline, owner Michael Jordan isn’t planning to bring back general manager Rich Cho next season. In fact, according to ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, he already has Cho’s successor in mind—Mitch Kupchak, former general manager [...]

Basketball fans rejoice. Be glad. Get pumped. All your dreams are about to come true. Actually, strike that. One of your dreams will come true…one of the minor ones…roughly one year now. After much ado about the NBA not televising the 2018 All-Star draft captained by Stephen Curry and LeBron James, the league appears likes [...]

Jimmy Butler requested to get some rest and not be depended upon for Team Curry in the 2018 NBA All-Star Game, as he told Head Coach Mike D’Antoni: “Rest,” Butler said when asked why he didn’t play. “I have to rest. I have to rest my body up. This Timberwolves season is very, very important [...]

Vince Carter is still incredibly building upon his hall of fame career at age 41, but as a player with a minimal role for one of the worst teams in the NBA, the Sacramento Kings, and on a one-year contract, the tea leaves seem to be reading that he will be bought out in the [...]

Seemingly since the new millennium, the western conference has predominately been the better and more competitive conference top to bottom in the NBA. While there are seasons in the eastern conference when a team with a record under 500. has made the postseason, there have also been years where a 48 win team has missed [...]

Jimmy Butler is one of the hardest working and most relied upon players in the NBA on a nightly basis. He currently leads the NBA in minutes per game at 37.3 and plays for a coach that is more notorious than almost any other in NBA history for playing his players an exorbitant amount of [...]

The 2018 NBA All-Star Game and the new format did not disappoint. Team LeBron beat Team Curry 148-145 in a highly entertaining spectacle of the best basketball players in the world, as team captain LeBron scored what would be the go ahead bucket in the final minute after a dish from his former teammate Kyrie [...]

Donovan Mitchell hears the Rookie of the Year buzz. He knows that he has become a legitimate challenger to unseat Ben Simmons’ once-irreversible claim to the award. He thinks it cool. He’s honored. He also doesn’t really care. As the Utah Jazz’s newbie told SLAM‘s Max Resetar, while he appreciates the Rookie of the Year love, [...]

Magic Johnson did not let LaVar Ball’s January criticism of Los Angeles Lakers head coach Luke Walton pass without consequence. He addressed the issues. Sort of. Indirectly. Or something. From ESPN.com’s Ramona Shelburne: According to sources close to the situation, Johnson called an associate of LaVar’s and strongly admonished him. Publicly, though, the Lakers said [...]

Shaquille O’Neal has some thinly veiled advice for LeBron James: sign with the Golden State Warriors this summer. As The Big Aristotle said while making an appearance on ESPN’s First Take (via NBA on TNT): Okay, wow. This isn’t so much airtight advice as it is Shaq playing the “If I were you card,” but still, [...]