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Why no, Isaiah Thomas did not purposely clothesline Andrew Wiggins across the throat during the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Monday night drubbing at the hands of the Minnesota Timberwolves. Not according to Isaiah Thomas, at least. Just three games into his return from a hip injury he suffered las season, Cleveland’s point man earned himself a Flagrant [...]

The Toronto Raptors are waiting to see whether they’ve dodged a bullet or been hit by one straight-on. Kyle Lowry left their Monday night win against the Brooklyn Nets during the overtime period after injuring his back while going up for a rebound. The sequence itself did not look pretty. Lowry landed square on his [...]

Zach LaVine’s Chicago Bulls debut is coming soon—or so it seems. The 22-year-old shooting guard, who was acquired as the centerpiece of the Jimmy Butler trade and is slated for restricted free agency this summer, has missed the first half of the year recovering from a torn ACL. But he’s currently traveling with the team, [...]

For the first time during his run as Houston Rockets general manager, Daryl Morey doesn’t expect to be making too many moves in advance of the NBA’s trade deadline. This is both shocking and not at all surprising. Idleness isn’t Morey’s bag. He’s proved that time and again. But the Rockets, even with their recent [...]

John Wall’s free agency has ended, shoe sponsorship free agency that is, as Wall has decided to sign a five-year endorsement deal with Adidas. [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/950066255809138688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] As mentioned by The Vertical, kind of a bizarre scenario for Wall to have left Adidas two years ago and mostly wear Air Jordan’s or Nike’s in the two [...]

Oh hey would you look at that, LaVar Ball is back in the news again and he is criticizing those around his son Lonzo when things aren’t going well. Much like the fact that the UCLA Bruins “Had too many slow white guys” when Lonzo Ball was playing there last season, he is now blaming [...]

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. [...]

It has been a rough month for Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. The Lakers swingman has spent the past three and a half weeks in a police detention center in Seal Beach, California, because of a DUI case in Michigan last March. He has been able to play and practice with the Lakers when they are in Los [...]

More bad news in what has been a rough season for Kawhi Leonard. The Spurs star small forward has only played in 8 games thus far this season and now is in line to miss more action because of an injury to his left shoulder in the Spurs victory over the Suns on Friday night. [...]

NBA players are prideful, narcissistic and petty creatures for the most part. Many players run on fellow players, coaches, front office and media slights for fuel and they all want the respect that they feel they deserve on a basketball court. One guy who deserves a great deal of admiration from Boston Celtics fans and [...]