At long last, some good news on the injury front for the Golden State Warriors. After missing the team’s past six games with an incomplete right ribs fracture, Kevin Durant plans to rejoin the rotation for Thursday’s game against the Milwaukee Bucks, per ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes: Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, ever the cautious prognosticator [...]
March 28, 2018
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Congratulations, New York Knicks fans! One of this year’s top NBA draft prospects wants to play for your team. Oklahoma’s Trae Young, who just recently declared for June’s prospect pageant, was asked by First Take‘s Stephen A. Smith whether he’d be interested in joining the Knicks. His answer, brought to us by Bycycle’s Thomas Duffy, will [...]
March 22, 2018
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Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob apparently isn’t married to the current roster. Not if they fail to win this year’s NBA title, at least. From Bay Area New Group’s Mark Medina: Lacob remains confident with the Warriors’ direction. Yet, he also expressed the need “to be relentless” with their roster building and innovation, citing [...]
March 20, 2018
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Klay Thompson is among the handful of superstar free agents the Los Angeles want to sign in 2019…according to his father. Speaking with KNBR’s Tolbert & Lund, Mychal Thompson, a Lakers broadcaster for Spectrum Sports, said team president Magic Johnson and general manager Rob Pelinka have their eyes on his son, in addition to Jimmy [...]
February 22, 2018
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Basketball fans rejoice. Be glad. Get pumped. All your dreams are about to come true. Actually, strike that. One of your dreams will come true…one of the minor ones…roughly one year now. After much ado about the NBA not televising the 2018 All-Star draft captained by Stephen Curry and LeBron James, the league appears likes [...]
February 20, 2018
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Jimmy Butler is one of the hardest working and most relied upon players in the NBA on a nightly basis. He currently leads the NBA in minutes per game at 37.3 and plays for a coach that is more notorious than almost any other in NBA history for playing his players an exorbitant amount of [...]
February 19, 2018
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Shaquille O’Neal has some thinly veiled advice for LeBron James: sign with the Golden State Warriors this summer. As The Big Aristotle said while making an appearance on ESPN’s First Take (via NBA on TNT): Okay, wow. This isn’t so much airtight advice as it is Shaq playing the “If I were you card,” but still, [...]
February 19, 2018
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Here’s to incandescent hypotheticals! Kobe Bryant never got the chance to partake in the NBA’s new All-Star Game format, which includes captains who build their team from a pool of 22 players, almost entirely irrespective of conference affiliation. It was only introduced this season, his second in retirement. But could you imagine if he were [...]
February 8, 2018
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With the Los Angeles Lakers reportedly open to punting on this year’s free-agency class in favor of a 2019 talent pool that includes Kawhi Leonard (player option), Jimmy Butler (player option) and Klay Thompson, fans of the Purple and Gold won’t want to here this: Mychal Thompson, Klay’s father, doesn’t see his son leaving the [...]
February 7, 2018
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Surely New York Knicks head coach Jeff Hornacek cannot already be on the hot seat less than two years into the job. Except for the fact he might be. And not only may he be coaching to save his job, but the New York Daily News‘ Frank Isola says the Knicks could already have their eyes [...]
January 19, 2018
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