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It appears the Eric Bledsoe saga in Phoenix has come to a merciful end. According to Adrian Wojnarowski and Zach Lowe of ESPN, the Suns have agreed to trade Bledsoe to the Milwaukee Bucks for Greg Monroe and the Bucks 2018 1st Round Pick. [tweet https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/927920904037916672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] This is an incredible deal for the Bucks as [...]

James Harden is about to get his superstar partner. Or so Mike D’Antoni thinks. As the Houston Rockets’ head coach told USA Today‘s Sam Amick: “Now he’s getting back on the floor, where he’s now shooting foul shots, shooting a little bit. He’s been working his butt off. He’s been boxing all the time, and doing [...]

There was a time when it seemed like Joel Embiid may never have an actual NBA career and tensions were high between the No. 3 pick of the 2014 NBA Draft and the 76ers as Embiid sat out his first two seasons with foot issues and was away from the team for long periods. While [...]

Usually when there is an international player who makes it to the NBA from a country not known to have many NBA players, that player is universally revered in his home country and treat as somehwat of a conquering hero. That is not the case currently with New York Knicks power forward Enes Kanter, one [...]

Giannis Antetokounmpo has quickly become one of the very best players in the NBA and quite possibly the best young superstar in the league under the age of 25. He could end up being the best player the Milwaukee Bucks organization has had since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the late 60s and early 70s and that [...]

Eric Bledsoe trade watch is getting pretty boring. The Phoenix Suns have made it clear they have no plans to rush a trade, but most thought they still might hammer something out by now, if only to distance themselves from this public relations wart altogether. Bledsoe himself seems to have believed this would all be [...]

Nothing gets the frustration juices flowing quite like a loss to the Atlanta Hawks. Hence Dwyane Wade and Channing Frye (basically) calling out the Cleveland Cavaliers’ starters on Sunday, per ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin: “It’s no secret we’re starting games off awful,” Dwyane Wade said after scoring a season-high 25 points as a reserve. “Terrible. And [Atlanta] got [...]

Welcome to another edition of “LaVar Ball said what about Lonzo Ball?!?!?” The latest, per Complex Sports, has Pops saying that social media can make his son “bigger” than Kobe Bryant: [tweet https://twitter.com/Complex/status/926959350215667712] So, like, on the LaVar scale of talking points, this take is pretty tame. Lonzo has about a half-million followers on Twitter to [...]

James Harden destroyed the Utah Jazz on Sunday night. In 35 minutes of action, The Beard dropped 56 points and 13 assists on a scintillating 19-of-25 shooting. He was 7-of-8 from downtown and 11-of-12 at the charity stripe. His 56-burger, it turns out, left him one point shy of the Houston Rockets’ scoring record, which [...]

Isaiah Thomas isn’t supposed to make his Cleveland Cavaliers debut before 2018 as he recovers from a hip injury, but his timetable might be moving up. From Cleveland.com’s Joe Vardon: Isaiah Thomas’ timetable for return seems to be accelerating from the original target of January 1. . . . Though there has been no official [...]