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LaVar Ball’s candor may be more detrimental to the Los Angeles Lakers than we initially thought. Players around the league are apparently taking stock of his antics, as one Eastern Conference executive told Bleacher Report’s Ric Bucher: There are also indications that players around the league have taken note, souring their view of the Lakers [...]

Draymond Green, the NBA’s leader in total technical fouls, thinks something needs to be done about the relationship between players and officials. No need to read between the lines here. Green told as much to The Athletic’s Anthony Slater (h/t NBC Sports for first pointing this out): “It’s bad,” Green told The Athletic. “It’s horrible. It’s really bad. [...]

Joel Embiid didn’t play in the Philadelphia 76ers’ Monday night loss to the Chicago Bulls. Nor did he play in their Tuesday night loss to the Sacramento Kings. He probably isn’t going to play when they face the Toronto Raptors on Thursday. He also may be out when they square off with Toronto again on [...]

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar doesn’t have a good feeling about the future of the NFL. The NBA, on the other hand, is a different story. In a column for The Guardian, the basketball legend and Hall of Famer laid out why he believes the NBA is set to overtake the NFL as, in essence, America’s league: Although football [...]

James Harden has been second on the NBA’s MVP ballot in each of the last two seasons. Right now, he’s playing like someone determined to turn his runner-up status into a first-place finish. And that makes sense. Who wouldn’t want to prioritize winning the Maurice Podoloff Trophy when they’ve come so very close to snagging [...]

You know how you know we’re int 2017?  Well, in lots of ways. Donald Trump is the goddamn President of the United States, so you know the world is batshit crazy. On the sports front, Colin Kaepernick does’t have a job, but Geno Smith does. People are still uncomfortable calling Stephen Curry a top-five player [...]

Steve Kerr wasn’t happy following the Golden State Warriors’ matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday night. Sure, the Dubs won. But it took them an overtime period to do it. And had Brandon Ingram not have missed a couple times down the stretch, or had the Lakers successfully boxed out on a rare [...]

James Harden destroyed the Utah Jazz on Sunday night. In 35 minutes of action, The Beard dropped 56 points and 13 assists on a scintillating 19-of-25 shooting. He was 7-of-8 from downtown and 11-of-12 at the charity stripe. His 56-burger, it turns out, left him one point shy of the Houston Rockets’ scoring record, which [...]

What happens when you average 36.8 points, 10.8 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 2.3 steals and 1.0 blocks on 65.9 percent shooting through the first four games of the NBA season? You become the odds-on favorite to win the league’s MVP award. From SportsInsights Marky Mark: Antetokounmpo has moved from +1000 to +250 in this short stretch—close [...]

Get ready for a different spin on LaVar Ball’s outspoken demeanor. Plenty of people have criticized his bravado—particularly his serial sentiments on how his son, Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball, is already a star and already better than incumbent superstars such as Stephen Curry. Washington Wizards head coach Scott Brooks is not one of [...]