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Having confidence is a good thing, and it is absolutely essential when attempting to succeed as a professional athlete when you are playing against the very best competition in the world. Willie Cauley-Stein, the No. 8 pick of the Sacramento Kings in the 2015 NBA Draft and their starting center, has confidence, apparently to the [...]

Houston Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni has high hopes for Clint Capela. Really high hopes. Speaking with ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon, D’Antoni indicated that the 23-year-old from Switzerland has the chance to be the best center in the league, bar none: “To me, it’s just a matter of time,” Houston coach Mike D’Antoni said. “I’ll be [...]

Eric Bledsoe has only been a member of the Milwaukee Bucks for, like, a half-second, and he’s already underrated Giannis Antetokounmpo. Speaking with ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes after his trade from the Phoenix Suns, the point guard referred to Antetokounmpo as a top-10 player: “You’ve seen him,” Bledsoe said of Antetokounmpo. “I’ve watched him play like [...]

Things are looking up for the New Orleans Pelicans. Anthony Davis says so. From The Times-Picayune‘s William Guillory: “We’re going to be a special team, we feel it,” said Pelicans forward Anthony Davis, before correcting himself. “We don’t feel it, we know it. “We’ve just got to keep playing the way we have–playing hard on defense [...]

No. No, no. No, no, no. Not Anthony Davis. Not another marque injury. Not again. Not this season. Please, no. Er, sorry. But injuries stink. And now Davis is dealing with a knee injury. He left the New Orleans Pelicans’ loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, and the situation was serious enough that he needed [...]

Rajon Rondo will miss the first month-plus of the 2017-18 regular season following surgery to repair a sports hernia injury, which basically just means he’s completed his New Orleans Pelicans initiation. Here’s The Vertical’s Shams Charania with the details: New Orleans Pelicans guard Rajon Rondo underwent surgery Tuesday for a sports hernia injury and will miss [...]

Every year since 2002, the NBA has anonymously surveyed all 30 NBA general managers to get the consensus prediction on things such as which team will win the NBA championship in the coming season, who will win MVP ,top four teams in each conference, who you would start a franchise with and more. Overall general [...]

Behind the scenes in the doldrums of the NBA in September, a bidding war was taking place between the T’Wolves and the Pelicans for the services of Dante Cunningham (that is NBA life in September, not the glitz and glam of July for free agents). Cunningham had a definite role as a reserve for the [...]

Clint Capela and the Houston Rockets have until Oct. 16 to hammer out a contract extension, otherwise he’ll enter restricted free agency next summer. As of now, according to what league executives have told The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor, it doesn’t sound like a deal is close to getting done: The Rockets have three other young, [...]

To answer a question many of you had and many of you didn’t: No, the Cleveland Cavaliers don’t currently have a desire to deal Kevin Love in the aftermath of the Kyrie Irving trade. From ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe: The Cavs have contemplated trading Love off and on almost since that series, though they have no [...]