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Blake Griffin is confident the Los Angeles Clippers didn’t just hand him a five-year, $173 million contract to begin next season on the bench. So, yay(?) Griffin’s 2016-17 campaign ended less than three games into the Clippers’ first-round playoff matchup with the Utah Jazz due to a right big toe injury. While the timetable for [...]

Though John Wall has yet to sign the designated player extension the Washington Wizards have placed in front of him, team owner Ted Leonsis isn’t worried. He believes the All-Star point guard will put pen to paper soon enough, per the Washington Post‘s Candace Buckner: [tweet https://twitter.com/CandaceDBuckner/status/887702013093531648] [tweet https://twitter.com/CandaceDBuckner/status/887732801923149824] It also helps, of course, that we’re [...]

As of now, right this moment, Anthony Davis ranks among the most untouchable players in the NBA. The Boston Celtics don’t care. People around the league believe the Celtics will be blowing up the New Orleans Pelicans’ phones if the Davis-DeMarcus Cousins pairing goes south in any way this season, according to The Vertical’s Chris [...]

Carmelo Anthony has officially had enough of the New York Knicks. With trade talks grinding to a halt following the arrival of new general manager Scott Perry, the Knicks, it seems, had hoped to possibly convince Anthony he belongs in New York, at least until the start of next season. But he isn’t having it. [...]

Many assumed when the Mavericks acquired Nerlens Noel in a trade before the 2017 NBA trade deadline that a quick and easy long-term extension was a mere formality as the Mavericks would pay big money to lock up their center of the future. That has not been the case. We are almost three weeks into [...]

Always at the forefront of technology and new ideas, the NBA is at it again. In addition to unveiling jersey patches for the 2017-18 season, the new partnership with Nike to create NBA team uniforms moving forward has come with another first, no more designated home and road uniforms. [tweet https://twitter.com/NBA/status/887346381089894402] Nike is creating four [...]

While many thought the hall of fame caliber (you can debate it but he will be inducted) career of Manu Ginobili came to an end in Game 4 of the western conference finals in May when Gregg Popovich paid his respects to Ginobili by starting him and the whole arena had the feel of a [...]

All basketball fans are aware that the 2004 Summer Olympic Games are the black mark on an otherwise perfect resume for Team USA Basketball since professional athletes were allowed to play in the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. The 2004 team was a train wreck from the beginning, a classic Greek tragedy if you [...]

Is there a team other than the Cleveland Cavaliers or Houston Rockets that can convince Carmelo Anthony to waive his no-trade clause? The New York Knicks sure hope so. And the Portland Trail Blazers are thinking it could be them. From ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski: One team that New York and Houston had hoped would facilitate [...]

Now that the race for LeBron James’ affections is once again on the come-up, it’s only right we wonder whether he’d consider returning to the Miami Heat. I mean, he left Cleveland for Miami only to rejoin the Cavaliers four years later. By that math, he’s due for a Heatles reunion in 2018 when he [...]