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Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra has so much respect for David Fizdale, his former assistant, that he hopes the 43-year-old takes a job with a Western Conference team this summer. Here’s the full context of Spo’s sentiments, per ESPN.com’s Ian Begley: This is quite the endorsement. Spo is one of the best coaches in [...]

So it turns out certain NBA owners are pretty invested in tanking. During a recent, pre-playoff episode of The Woj Pod, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski relayed an uber-interesting anecdote about the owner of a team laying into his head coach for failing to lose enough games down the stretch of the season. Here’s what Woj said (h/t [...]

The New York Knicks wasted little time in firing head coach Jeff Hornacek following their final game of the season. And they wasted even less time coming up with a list of potential replacements. According to ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Knicks canned Hornacek almost immediately after they returned from their road victory over the Cleveland [...]

Mike D’Antoni has been around the block as an NBA head coach, with stints with the Phoenix Suns, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and now the Houston Rockets. He has coached some of the greatest players of the past 15 years in the NBA including Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Dwight Howard, Carmelo Anthony, Amar’e [...]

With March Madness in full swing (UMBC anyone?) and the 2018 NBA Draft fast approaching, I thought it was a good time to unveil our first mock draft for 2018, but this version will be lottery only. The order is based on NBA standings as of March 17. Where will the stars of tomorrow land [...]

Things are about as ugly in Memphis as they have ever been for the Grizzlies franchise. They have $54 million in salary for this season and their two highest paid players are out with injuries, as they have been for the majority of the season, they also have one remaining survivor of the Grit and [...]

Things went south for the Phoenix Suns season long ago (or have they? Lottery balls..) and they found themselves in a similar position on Thursday night in Utah being down big late in the game. This time they let their frustration get the best of them and they took it out on Jazz point guard [...]

Get ready for Trae Young to slip down NBA draft boards everywhere, apparently. Shortly after Oklahoma fell to Rhode Island in overtime during the first round of NCAA Tournament, Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman relayed some quotes from executives and scouts that bring the point guard’s future under question. The most damning take of all? At [...]

With the way the current system is set up, if you are a team that is hovering in the middle of the NBA hierarchy and don’t have a transcendent star to become a contender, the best course of action is usually to blow up your roster and start to rebuild. In order to do that [...]

The NBA news cycle never takes any days off. Not even during the Oscars. And not even when the subject matter is more than a half-year old. Enter Kyrie Irving’s trade to the Boston Celtics last August. According to actor Lil Rel Howery, the All-Star point guard found out about the deal while filming the [...]