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Much like the 2017 off-season, the 2017-18 NBA season has been a roller coaster for the Cavaliers. A 5-7 start led to mass hysteria around the league as talking heads and basketball fans around the country wondered if the Cavaliers and the second LeBron era in Cleveland were toast. Fast forward to a 19 wins [...]

Some NBA players are vibing the new All-Star Game format, in which two captains are tasked with assembling rosters irrespective of conference affiliation. Other players, though? Not so much. The Golden State Warriors find themselves adequately represented in both departments by Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry—two players who not only share opposing views, but who [...]

LeBron James is not a happy camper. Nor should he be. His Cleveland Cavaliers are a ghastly 2-6 since Christmas, with four of those losses coming by at least 14 points. Now, following two straight blowout letdowns at the hands of the Minnesota Timberwolves (127-99) and Toronto Raptors (133-99), the four-time MVP is fed up. [...]

How did LaMarcus Aldridge go from unsatisfied and out of place with the San Antonio Spurs to happily extended, all in the span of one offseason? By asking Gregg Popovich to trade him, of course. No, that’s not a joke. It’s serious. As the Spurs’ head coach told reporters, Aldridge is not only still in [...]

In what may be the NBA’s biggest upset of the season thus far, the Los Angeles Clippers finally overcame their nemesis, the Golden State Warriors, in dominant fashion Wednesday night in Oakland with a 125-106 road victory. They were led by their new star having the greatest season of his NBA career, Lou Williams. Williams [...]

Kevin Durant reached another historical milestone Wednesday night in his increasingly historic career: 20,000 points. [tweet https://twitter.com/NBA/status/951313265480687616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Durant became the 44th player in NBA history to reach the milestone with his 40 point performance (albeit in a losing effort) against the Clippers. He got his 20,000th point with a jumper with 1:41 left in the [...]

The Bucks should be getting a big boost in the next month. Former No. 2 pick of the 2014 NBA Draft Jabari Parker could return to the floor for Milwaukee before All-Star weekend. [tweet https://twitter.com/Matt_Velazquez/status/951234219065380868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] This is pretty exciting news for a Bucks team trying to enter the top half of the eastern conference this [...]

Dion Waiters has missed the past nine games for the Miami Heat with a nagging left ankle injury. Waiters has struggled to recover from the injury and an unenviable option is seemingly becoming more likely by the day: season-ending surgery. [tweet https://twitter.com/flasportsbuzz/status/951200777036419072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Waiters would receive a $1.1 million contract bonus if he was able to [...]

If you’re expecting the Miami Heat to pivot into a rebuild this season, keep dreaming. Any real reset starts with the team realizing it won’t have meaningful cap flexibility until 2020 at the earliest. From there, the Heat cannot be totally serious about rebuilding unless they move Goran Dragic. And according to ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe, [...]

The Houston Rockets don’t have to worry about soldiering on without James Harden for much longer. He’s nearing a return from his Grade 2 left hamstring strain. From ESPN 97.5 in Houston’s Kelly Iko: James Harden is nearing a return to the court and “should be back soon, anytime next week”, according to a member [...]