Good news Los Angeles Lakers fans: A bunch of rival NBA executives think your favorite team has a future star on its hands. Ken Berger of CBS Sports’ polled 12 league execs on the Lakers’ future, and many of them arrived at a similar consensus: Among about a dozen rival executives informally polled about the [...]
March 15, 2016
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If you mess with Stephen Curry, you mess with LeBron James. Apparently. Curry, as well as today’s NBA at large, has endured a lot of criticism in recent weeks. Stars of decades past are playing the “back in the day” card, and some people are buying it. LeBron James isn’t. From USA Today‘s Sam Amick: [...]
March 10, 2016
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The Minnesota Timberwolves are apparently prepared to move on from Ricky Rubio. According to Frank Isola of the New York Daily News, the Timberwolves are not only willing to take calls on their point guard but have made him “readily available” for the taking (h/t ProBasketballTalk): Zach LaVine was nothing short of spectacular in winning [...]
February 15, 2016
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Kevin Durant signing with the New York Knicks in 2016 free agency is a pipe dream. Russell Westbrook joining New York as a free agent in 2017? Now that’s possible. Supposedly. Here’s Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports: The Knicks have a real chance to sell Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook in 2017 – New York and [...]
February 9, 2016
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Plenty of NBA fans will miss Kobe Bryant when he hangs up his kicks for good after this season. And LeBron James is among them. Ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Wednesday night tilt with the Los Angeles Lakers, James described his respect for the Black Mamba and admitted that seeing him go at the end [...]
February 9, 2016
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Historically great NBA teams tend to downplay being historically great or having a shot to be historically great. Not the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors. It didn’t take long for people to start talking about them surpassing the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record of 72 wins. The Warriors won 67 tilts last year, were talking about winning [...]
February 2, 2016
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Watching the Los Angeles Lakers just became a lot less fun. It’s hard enough to watch them as it is, what with Kobe Bryant’s swan song dictating the ebbs and flow of the NBA’s second-worst offense. But it’s going to be nigh unbearable now without the super explosive Larry Nance Jr. to provide the occasional [...]
February 2, 2016
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Damian Lillard is a veteran at being snubbed from the NBA All-Star Game. In 2013-14, as a sophomore, he was playing with found money. Second-year players are seldom All-Star locks. Last year, he only made the Western Conference All-Star squad as an injury replacement. He didn’t take that too well. He took it personally. But [...]
January 29, 2016
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D’Angelo Russell is not on the Los Angeles Lakers’ list of players to trade. Because, um, duh? Well, maybe not “duh.” According to Hoops Critic’s Brian Geltzeiler, Russell’s name has, in fact, come up in negotiations: In taking to people around the league on who has been made available in trade talks a very surprising [...]
January 29, 2016
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First Dirk Nowitzki, now Derrick Rose. The NBA’s superstars just won’t stop doling out the feel goodz to Kobe Bryant. Ahead of the Chicago Bulls’ thorough drubbing of the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night, Rose, like Nowitzki before him, showered Kobe with the utmost praise, per Nick Friedell of ESPN.com: “Kobe, he’s someone that [...]
January 29, 2016
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