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Yesterday State Farm launched “The Hoopers,” a new campaign that will run throughout the 2015-16 NBA season. The campaign brings together an array of notable NBA stars, including Chris Paul, DeAndre Jordan, Kevin Love, Kevin Garnett, and Damian Lillard in a :60 commercial spot that debuted yesterday during the New Orleans Pelicans vs. Miami Heat [...]

In the fourth quarter of the Hawks 106-97 win over the Blazers in Atlanta Monday night, Dennis Schroeder took a nasty hit slipping and falling head first into Meyers Leonard’s knee, knocking out one of his teeth in the process. Schroeder understandably sat there in pain for a little while before deciding to check himself [...]

With the highly anticipated and critically acclaimed newest installment of the Star Wars series having been released last night I thought it would be a fun time to share some NBA Star Wars related puns, let the bad jokes be with you! Luke Sky-Walton Luke Skywalton wants to hear your best #NBAStarWars puns. Fire away; [...]

Yes that may be one of the most confusing and ridiculous headlines you’ve read in quite some time, but it is entirely true. According to Iman Shumpert’s fiancée Teyana Taylor, their first born decided she was ready to make her entrance into the world very early and very unbeknownst to Shumpert and Taylor. The baby [...]

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The Nets will give away a free Brook Lopez Jedi Stars Wars inspired bobblehead Monday night in the Barclays Center for their game with the Orlando Magic. Brook seems pretty pumped about it and early reports indicate that his brother Robin is extremely jealous, mascots of the world beware. ? Brook Lopez feels the Force: [...]

The coaching situation going on in Golden State is tricky for many reasons. For starters, the switch from Kerr to Walton demonstrates that this team can run on auto-pilot. Also, it adds murkiness around coaching awards. Should they go to Kerr or Walton? This situation is unprecedented, so a lot of things are going to [...]

As expected, Metta World Peace hasn’t played much this season, but he’s reportedly been a strong influence so some of the Lakers’ young player. That type of mentoring is something he hopes to do long tern. MWP says he would like to get into coaching one day. The fact that he played the game with [...]

With every great scorer, there’s always somebody who is perceived as being the best at shutting him down. Or, at least coming close to it. Now that Kobe has decided to call it career at season’s end, he sat down with TNT’s Ernie Johnson to reflect on certain aspects of his career. Among the many [...]