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You know Myles Turner is important to the Indiana Pacers’ future. You know he’s already an offensive monster, with a work-in-progress defensive repertoire that, even now, includes flashes of high-end switching and solid rim protection. You know that he’s oft-mentioned in the same breath as some of the NBA’s other top unicorns. But did you [...]

Coming into the 2017-18 season, there were a number of rookies who arrived in the NBA with plenty of hype as potential stars of the future: Ben Simmons (didn’t play last year), Lonzo Ball, Markelle Fultz, Jayson Tatum and Josh Jackson to name a few. Some have looked like stars in the making (Simmons and [...]

Back in February, LeBron James said that the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors were not a rivalry. It didn’t matter that they had faced each other in each of the last two NBA Finals, with each side winning on each other’s court. They were not a rivalry. Fast forward to the end of May, [...]

Teams which continually fail to make the playoffs and/or contend for the CHIP, year over year, tend to turn to using draft lotteries to get ahead. This gives them a chance to choose players that are slam dunk to turn the franchise fortunes. This is a much preferred way because those players who are at [...]

The NBA has suspended Darren Collison of the Sacremento Kings eight games without pay after he plead guilty to domestic violence. Collison plead guilty to a charge of misdemeanor battery for an incident that occurred with his wife back in May. He was sentenced to 20 days in jail and three years of informal probation. [...]

The NBA’s referees from Monday night’s Game 2 matchup between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference semifinals have a message to deliver: Oops. In the closing seconds of Oklahoma City’s 98-97 win over San Antonio, Dion Waiters was inbounding the ball and elbowed Manu Ginobili from the sidelines. Nothing [...]

The Pistons’ summer break has officially started as result of a 4-0 series sweep at the hands of the Cavs. But credit Detroit. In a few of those games, they played Cleveland very tough and gave them all they could handle. That was the case in game 4, as Cleveland barely won by 2. At [...]

When previewing the 2015-16 NBA season, all of us basketball fans had a terrific handle on what to expect from the Eastern Conference. Nine teams were reasonable playoff contenders and anyone else would be a stretch. Seven games into the campaign, Andre Drummond and the Detroit Pistons have demanded a place in the discussion. It’s [...]

So as it turns out, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban isn’t over this whole “Doc Rivers and the Los Angeles Clippers stole DeAndre Jordan back from us” thing. And, really, who could blame him? I mean, to put it simply, the Mavericks had Jordan, one of the top free agents available, and then, quite suddenly, [...]

James Harden has been a pseudo-signature athlete for Nike for the last two seasons. After starting the 2013-14 NBA season in the Nike Run The One, Harden made the transition into the current Nike Hyperchase. Despite none of those silhouettes having his name attached, all official Nike media surrounding last season’s Run The One and [...]