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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, but Sacramento Kings head coach George Karl is begging you to disregard the effusive exhaust emanating from his slacks. Things have reportedly soured between DeMarcus Cousins and the Kings, at least in the sense that Karl apparently doesn’t want him and would prefer to trade him. On Tuesday, though, Karl [...]

Draft season rumor-mill frenzy sequence, Take 1,268. The Los Angeles Lakers, owners of the No. 2 pick in Thursday’s NBA draft, are trying to poach DeMarcus Cousins from the Sacramento Kings. No, seriously. They are. From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: The Los Angeles Lakers have emerged as one of the most determined trade suitors for Sacramento [...]

Sit down, because this might come as a shock: The Boston Celtics are in the market for good basketball players. I know, right? It’s so crazy, it almost makes sense. On the heels of the their first-round exit against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Celtics are thinking big. They made the playoffs in just the second [...]

This time of year, if a team has nothing to play for, the product can become unwatchable. Teams sense this to a degree and realize it’s in the best interest of the club to shut down star players with nagging injuries. No need risking a serious injury to a guy who is playing in meaningless [...]

On paper, the Sacramento Kings don’t have a terrible roster, but it will be tough for them to even make the playoffs out west. Couple the struggles in the West with a coaching change mid-way through the season and you have a tumultuous year. DeMarcus Cousins agrees, as he thinks this season has been nothing [...]

When George Karl took over for for Tyrone Corbin as Kings head coach, he also assumed some personnel responsibilities as well. Karl was the coach of the Nuggets team that won 57 games a few years ago, and he’s apparently very fond of the floor general of that team: Ty Lawson. Karl is reportedly willing [...]

It’ll still be a long while before we witness the resurgence of the Boston Celtics—as a lot of major changes and key acquisitions are necessary for them to rebuild. But the question on everyone’s mind in Boston is, ‘where do we start’? Who should be the first target? Obviously, an established, but young star is [...]

The big man they call ‘Boogie’ was showing his guard skills early against the Dallas Mavericks last night when he grabbed a board and surprised everyone on both teams by dribbling coast to coast for a huge tomahawk dunk. Although it looked awkward, it was no worse than Shaq in his early days with Orlando. [...]

Every year when the All-Star teams have been announced, there are outcry’s over players that were ‘snubbed’. This year DeMarcus Cousins and Damian Lillard lead that group of players most fans and even experts would say deserved a spot. Well for DeMarcus Cousins at least, the problem has been solved, as the NBA just announced [...]

Bank on DeMarcus Cousins being named to the Western Conference’s 2015 NBA All-Star roster. It feels good to write those words in that particular order. Statistically speaking, Cousins should have been All-Star last season. He’s become a 20-point, 12-rebound, three-assist, one-steal, one-block guy. Those players make All-Star teams, even if they play center, which has [...]