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The NBA tends to be pretty predictable. The same teams rule the regular season, earn top seeds and cruise to the NBA Finals. Golden State has been playing for a championship for each of the last four seasons and it’s doubtful that crazy run ends this year. As it stands, betting on the NBA Finals [...]

According to Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports, the Chicago Bulls will not negotiate a buyout with Robin Lopez despite the player’s representatives engaging the front office about an exit strategy since December. The Bulls are exploring trade options for Lopez’s expiring $14.4-million contract, as opposed to losing the 7-footer for nothing. Haynes reports that Lopez [...]

Let’s get this out of the way: You’ve probably stayed on top of the Minnesota Timberwolves’ preseason drama. Jimmy Butler wants a trade. He probably wants out at least in part because of Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins. Coach-president Tom Thibodeau has yet to strike a deal despite Butler’s impending free agency. The whole thing [...]

Perhaps Jimmy Butler’s desire to leave the Minnesota Timberwolves has more to do with Karl-Anthony Towns—and, by extension, Andrew Wiggins—than we were led to believe. At the very least, it seems like Towns may have a problem with the way Butler goes about his business. Here’s Darren Wolfson of 1500 ESPN speaking on the Mackey & [...]

The 2019 NBA off-season projects to be even more wild than the 2018 off-season as a third of the league will have max cap space and multiple stars will be available including Kawhi Leonard and Klay Thompson. The rumor mill has already started where these high caliber players could/should choose to take their talents elsewhere, [...]

Stephen Curry is ready to face LeBron James four times during the regular season instead of two. From the Associated Press (via NBA.com): After four straight NBA Finals against James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, two-time defending champion Golden State will get four matchups against James during the regular season. “And a whole new-look Laker team [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers are the largest NBA Finals underdog since the 2001 Philadelphia 76ers. The year that Philadelphia made the NBA Finals was my first year with the team, I went from intern to Scouting Coordinator that season. One question that was, and still is, often asked of me – “Did you guys really believe [...]

LeBron James isn’t the only NBA superstar getting into the television and movie production game. Steph Curry just signed the largest production and development deal for a professional athlete ever. Curry’s newly formed production company, Unanimous Media, signed a multi-year deal with Sony Pictures to produce television and film projects based on faith, family and [...]

While it took a little while to develop, the last few hours of the NBA trade deadline were eventful to say the least. One major outcome of most of the deals that occurred on Thursday is that the destination of many veterans in trades will lead to a very busy buy out market, possibly the [...]

Joakim Noah’s issues with the New York Knicks and head coach Jeff Hornacek are apparently beyond repair. After leaving the team following a reported altercation with Hornacek, the 32-year-old center is now on the chopping block, so to speak, according to Yahoo Sports’ Shams Charania: After Joakim Noah was sent home because of a heated [...]