Andrew Wiggins is a party pooper…if you’re an Oklahoma City Thunder fan. The Minnesota Timberwolves’ 22-year-old ruined a magnificent fourth quarter from Russell Westbrook on Sunday night, as well as what should have been a game-winner by Carmelo Anthony. And how: by sinking an actual game-winner just inside half-court. Here’s a video of the play: [...]
October 23, 2017
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As if blowing a 17-point lead against the Houston Rockets on opening night wasn’t enough, the Golden State Warriors also lost Draymond Green. It’s unclear how much time he’ll miss, or whether he’ll sit out at all, but he suffered a knee injury at the end of the third quarter that prevented him from playing [...]
October 18, 2017
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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 [...]
October 5, 2017
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By the time Klay Thompson signs his next contract, he may be ready to follow Kevin Durant’s lead. Durant, last season’s NBA Finals MVP, accepted almost $10 million less than he was eligible to earn in 2017-18 so that the Golden State Warriors wouldn’t blink at bringing back their entire core. And it seems Thompson, [...]
October 3, 2017
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The Golden State Warriors are still trying to figure out Kevin Durant. Sure, they know this partnership is going to yield lucrative returns. It already has. The Warriors won 67 games last season, went 16-1 during the playoffs en route to a title and saw Durant nab the NBA Finals’ MVP award. And yet, his [...]
September 20, 2017
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We live in a world driven by social media and an insatiable desire for sports content around the clock. Sports fanatics are scanning every blog they can to soak in as much knowledge as they can about their favorite sport, team or player. This sort of coverage can lead to hyper-focused coverage of one team, [...]
September 19, 2017
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The Golden State Warriors are NBA champions. They won 67 games during the regular season. The went 16-1 through playoffs, mutilating pretty much everyone in their path. They have four All-NBA talents on their roster, all of them in their prime. They might be, and probably are, the best team in NBA history. The thought [...]
September 18, 2017
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Ben Simmons doesn’t care about being the NBA’s best rookie. He has his sights set on something bigger. Like the league’s (unofficial) best-player crown. As he told ESPN.com’s Niall Sewang: “My goal is to be the best in the league,” he told ESPN. “I’m not worried about other rookies — I’m worried about the guys [...]
August 29, 2017
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Things aren’t always what they seem in the NBA. The pay cut Kevin Durant accepted in his new two-year deal with the Golden State Warriors is not one of them. He took the discount for the exact reason you think he did—to keep the reigning champs together. Here’s what Durant told The Athletic‘s Anthony Slater of [...]
August 11, 2017
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While according to most sources, the entire NBA schedule for 2017-18 will be released on Monday, August 14 or Tuesday August 15, the NBA decided to provide a tasy appetizer to fans with the release of the national TV schedule for the opening week and the Christmas Day slate of games. As you can expect(and [...]
August 11, 2017
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Ryan Bawek