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Tristan Thompson on Coming Off Bench for Cleveland Cavaliers: ‘I’m Going to Go for Sixth Man of the Year’

Tristan Thompson on Coming Off Bench for Cleveland Cavaliers: ‘I’m Going to Go for Sixth Man of the Year’

Tristan Thompson appears to be taking the news that Kevin Love will replace him as the Cleveland Cavaliers’ starting center really well. Like, really, really, really ridiculously well. His response to the move, per ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin: “I’m going to go for Sixth Man of the Year, put myself in position to do that,” Thompson [...]

October 3, 2017 admin Blogs 0

Draymond Green Explains Why Golden State Warriors Didn’t Hold Protest Before National Anthem

Draymond Green Explains Why Golden State Warriors Didn’t Hold Protest Before National Anthem

Everyone entered the NBA preseason wondering how the league’s teams and players would handle the national anthem. The Association is explicitly against kneeling or sitting during it, but the NBA is the most progressive professional sporting entity in North America. Surely its players would do something. And some did. The Denver Nuggets, for instance, locked [...]

October 2, 2017 admin Blogs 0

Tim Hardaway Jr.’s ‘Expectation’ for the New York Knicks? Playoffs, Baby

Tim Hardaway Jr.’s ‘Expectation’ for the New York Knicks? Playoffs, Baby

The New York Knicks’ $71 million man has high hopes for this season. And he might be the only one. From the New York Daily News‘ Justin Tasch: Returning Knick Tim Hardaway Jr.’s intentions are pure, but this comment immediately conjures up images of former Indianapolis Colts coach Jim Mora’s famous playoffs rant from 2001. “My [...]

October 2, 2017 admin Blogs 0

Cleveland Cavaliers Head Coach Tyronn Lue May Use Kevin Love as Full-Time Center

Cleveland Cavaliers Head Coach Tyronn Lue May Use Kevin Love as Full-Time Center

Tristan Thompson may want to get himself used to the idea of coming off the bench. In the aftermath of a wonky offseason, which ended, basically, with the arrival of Dwyane Wade, Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue is considering using Kevin Love as the starting center, per ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin: Kevin Love could be named [...]

October 2, 2017 admin Blogs 0

Paul George Says Russell Westbrook’s Extension with Thunder Makes His Own Free-Agent Decision ‘Easier’

Paul George Says Russell Westbrook’s Extension with Thunder Makes His Own Free-Agent Decision ‘Easier’

Maybe we’ll get to see more than one season’s worth of this Oklahoma City Thunder squad after all. General manager Sam Presti has been rightfully lauded for piecing together a Big Three of Paul George, Carmelo Anthony and Russell Westbrook, seemingly on the fly. But this troika is viewed by many as a one-year placeholder. [...]

October 2, 2017 admin Blogs 0

Kawhi Leonard to Miss Spurs’ Entire Preseason Slate While Rehabbing Quad Injury

Kawhi Leonard to Miss Spurs’ Entire Preseason Slate While Rehabbing Quad Injury

Kawhi Leonard will not take the floor with the San Antonio Spurs until the start of the regular season…at the earliest. The NBA’s preseason slate tipped off accompanied by some bad news coming out of Texas this past weekend, with the Spurs announcing their superstar forward would not participate in the team’s exhibition lineup as [...]

October 2, 2017 admin Blogs 0

NBA Sets Salary Cap for 2018-19, 2019-20 Season

NBA Sets Salary Cap for 2018-19, 2019-20 Season

The reason why the NBA free agency market can be steaming hot like it was in 2016 when players like Timofey Mozgov were getting $16 million per season contracts, or frost bite inducing cold like it was in the 2017 off-season when Nerlens Noel could garner nothing more than the qualifying offer is pretty simple: [...]

September 29, 2017 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

The Rest of the NBA Can Have Their Superteams; John Wall is Fine Rolling with Bradley Beal

The Rest of the NBA Can Have Their Superteams; John Wall is Fine Rolling with Bradley Beal

Have fun with your Big Four of Steven Adams, Carmelo Anthony, Paul George and Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma City Thunder. Enjoy whatever a LeBron James-Kevin Love-Dwyane Wade-Isaiah Thomas foursome should be called, Cleveland Cavaliers. Keep on keeping on with your collection of four All-NBA players, Golden State Warriors. John Wall doesn’t care. He doesn’t need that [...]

September 29, 2017 admin Blogs 0

NBA Passes Lottery Reform for 2019

NBA Passes Lottery Reform for 2019

While it has been rumored and ballyhooed about for quite some time now, it appears some NBA lottery has officially passed starting with the 2018-19 NBA season according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. [tweet https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/913478283387215872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] The reform is put in place to discourage tanking and evens the playing for the No.1 pick for the top three [...]

September 29, 2017 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0

Tim Duncan Has Raised $3 Million in Hurricane Irma Relief for the U.S. Virgin Islands

Tim Duncan Has Raised $3 Million in Hurricane Irma Relief for the U.S. Virgin Islands

Tim Duncan has always been a highly effective and quiet leader behind the scenes and out of the public eye as he was not only the Spurs best player for almost 15 years on the court, but the heart and soul of the organization as a whole. He is leading and making a difference behind [...]

September 29, 2017 Anou Enright Ryan Bawek 0