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LeBron James agrees with Tyronn Lue. On the heels of a 112-107 loss to the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday, Lue joked that New York’s best basketball team wouldn’t want their pick back from the Cleveland Cavaliers, which they acquired from the Boston Celtics as part of the Kyrie Irving trade. By Thursday, James made it [...]

Brandon Ingram has become a fairly divisive player in NBA circles. Some think he’ll eventually be a superstar or occasional All-Star. They think he sees the floor well with the ball in his hands, tries super hard to make the right reads out of the pick-and-roll and that he’ll inevitably develop into a more efficient [...]

Paul George isn’t sorry he’s with the Oklahoma City Thunder. He is, however, sorry for how things ended with the Indiana Pacers. As he told Clifton Brown of the Indianapolis Star in Oklahoma City this week: “First and foremost, I want to give thanks to Indiana as a state, for embracing me and my family for seven [...]

Welcome to Day 5 of Eric Bledsoe trade watch. If you weren’t paying attention during Day 4, don’t worry about it. Nothing really happened—though the Denver Nuggets certainly have more of an incentive to go all-in on a potential deal following their loss to the Detroit Pistons. Oh, and actually, the “nothing really happened” message [...]

Kawhi Leonard has yet to play this season while recovering from a quad injury, but he might be ready to make his 2017-18 debut very soon. Or maybe not. San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich doesn’t really know, nor does he seem particularly concerned with attaching any sort of timetable to the All-Star’s return, [...]

Losing to the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday night did not bilk Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue of his sense of humor. On the contrary, he was in stand-up form while riffing about the letdown. Consider this quip about draft picks, via The Athletic’s Jason Lloyd: [tweet https://twitter.com/JasonLloydNBA/status/923374060112957440] DUH-AMN. In case you don’t remember—though, how [...]

Could the fallout from the Bobby Portis-Nikola Mirotic dustup push one of them out of a Chicago Bulls uniform? No. Yes. Maybe. Mirotic will miss four to six weeks after suffering a concussion and facial fractures following a scuffle with Portis that ended with him being punched in the face. A few days ago, Portis [...]

It’s about damn time. Markelle Fultz has been playing through a shoulder injury, a setback that has also, it seems, caused him to adjust his shooting motion. The returns, naturally, have not been good, which left many people to wonder why the Philadelphia 76ers didn’t see a problem with playing him. Crap hit the fan [...]

So, um, Courtney Lee and Tim Hardaway Jr. were not happy following the New York Knicks’ drubbing at the hands of the Boston Celtics. The root of their problems? A lack of concentration and synergy. Here’s what Lee said after the loss, per Newsday‘s Al Iannazzone: [tweet https://twitter.com/Al_Iannazzone/status/923019997479407616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fclutchpoints.com%2Fknicks-news-courtney-lee-tim-hardaway-jr-lack-rhythm%2F] And here’s Hardaway, via the Record‘s Steve Popper: [tweet [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers may not be done tinkering with their starting lineup. Although they began the year running out both Derrick Rose and Dwyane Wade in the backcourt with Kevin Love at center, head coach Tyronn Lue elected to pivot fewer than five games into the season. Ahead of Tuesday night’s win over the Chicago [...]