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LeBron James is vibing the NBA’s captain-centric tweaks to its All-Star game. Under the new format, which was announced last week, the Eastern and Western Conference will still send 12 representatives apiece, with the five starters being chosen through a weighted fan (50 percent), player (25 percent) and media (25 percent) voting process. Coaches will [...]

Joel Embiid just got PUH-AID…in apparently the most complicated manner imaginable. ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski first broke the news that the Philadelphia 76ers struck a five-year, $148 million extension with the skyscraper that could rise to as much as $178 million if he meets certain qualifications and incentives during it: Embiid, one of the NBA’s most [...]

No surprise here, the newest Cavalier signing and reunited second banana to LeBron James, Dwyane Wade will be starting at shooting guard for the Cavaliers this season. [tweet https://twitter.com/mcten/status/917464951526174720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] According to Joe Vardon of Cleveland.com, Rose will start at point guard with Thomas’s absence, but will leave the game early and come back in with [...]

It doesn’t sound like Marcus Smart will sign an extension with the Boston Celtics before the regular-season deadline. It also doesn’t sound like he has any intention of leaving Beantown. From ESPN.com’s Chris Forsberg: While league sources indicate the Celtics are interested in an extension, Smart confirmed a Yahoo! Sports report Monday that suggested that neither he [...]

Michael Jordan may be the most decorated and profitable athlete in the history of American sports. He is giving back part of that wealth in order to help his home community of Charlotte, North Carolina by donating $7 million to fund two medical clinics for at-risk communities in the Charlotte area. [tweet https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/917703761220562945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] This is [...]

Rajon Rondo will miss the first month-plus of the 2017-18 regular season following surgery to repair a sports hernia injury, which basically just means he’s completed his New Orleans Pelicans initiation. Here’s The Vertical’s Shams Charania with the details: New Orleans Pelicans guard Rajon Rondo underwent surgery Tuesday for a sports hernia injury and will miss [...]

The current version of the Warriors, in my opinion, are likely the greatest team in NBA history with their perfect storm of stars with the right attitudes and skill sets to compliment one another and mesh perfectly for an offensive and defensive juggernaut. While the Warriors have already won more games than any team in [...]

The New York Knicks do not employ Marc Gasol or Pau Gasol, but they have the next best thing: A 23-year-old big who spent the summer learning from both Gasol brothers. From Newsday’s Al Iannazzone: Playing for Spain in the European Championships, Hernangomez practiced with Pau and Marc Gasol every day. The Gasol brothers have [...]

It feels like virtually every season of this millennium there has been an imbalance between the western and eastern conference as the No. 5 through No. 8 seeds in the west seem to be far superior than in the east. Some years there are multiple teams who miss the postseason in the west that could [...]

Tom Thibodeau is done waiting on the Minnesota Timberwolves. Sure, they wrapped 2016-17 as the NBA’s youngest team. And yes, their two most important players, Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins, still get carded when buying scratch-off lotto tickets. And no, preseason letdowns aren’t supposed to send head coaches into a tizzy. But Thibs is mad [...]