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When the Golden State Warriors take the court against the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 2 of their first-round playoff matchup, they may be without Kevin Durant. After injuring his left calf in Game 1, Durant is officially questionable, per ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes and NBC Sports’ Rosalyn Gold-Onwude: [tweet https://twitter.com/ChrisBHaynes/status/854416333286461441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbssports.com%2Fnba%2Fnews%2Fwarriors-blazers-nba-playoffs-kevin-durant-questionable-for-game-2-with-calf-strain%2F] [tweet https://twitter.com/ROSGO21/status/854416255498854400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbssports.com%2Fnba%2Fnews%2Fwarriors-blazers-nba-playoffs-kevin-durant-questionable-for-game-2-with-calf-strain%2F] It feels weird [...]

It feels like Ray Allen retired too soon in many ways. His final season, in 2013-14 with the Miami Heat, saw him play more than 26 minutes per game and drain 37.5 percent of his threes. When LeBron James left for the Cleveland Cavaliers, it seemed like only a matter of time before Allen followed [...]

The Miami Heat were very fun this season. After starting 11-30, they went 30-11 the rest of the way, posting the second-best record in the damn league for half the freaking season. They missed the playoffs, but whatever. They were entertaining to watch, even when Dion Waiters went down with an ankle injury. But will [...]

The Los Angeles Clippers, it would seem, are reaching a natural pivot point this summer. Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and J.J. Redick are all free agents. Throw in Luc Mbah a Moute, and four of their five starting-lineup members are ready to reach the open market. If they were going to move away from this [...]

Soon-to-be NBA free agents get recruited by other players from other teams well in advance of the offseason. This is one of the Association’s worst-kept secrets. So if you’re dealing with a free agent worth a damn, you better believe they’re hearing from rival players. Unless, apparently, they’re Blake Griffin. He told HoopsHype’s Alex Kennedy [...]

Carmelo Anthony doesn’t sound like someone who plans on being with the New York Knicks much longer. The All-Star forward, who owns a no-trade clause, admitted on Thursday the team “might” trade him, and he also expressed that it became difficult to trust Phil Jackson after all the extracurricular storylines that plagued him through the [...]

Well, this isn’t news you want to get right before the NBA playoffs start—particularly when you’re slated to play the San Antonio Spurs. Tony Allen will be out indefinitely for the Memphis Grizzlies with a strained calf injury, according to ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon and Michael C. Wright: The Memphis Grizzlies announced Thursday that guard Tony [...]

Imagine, for a second, the Golden State Warriors lose in the NBA Finals. Might Kevin Durant, who owns a player option for next season, want to leave? Eh, no. The expectation has always been that he’ll return to Golden State no matter what. That hasn’t changed. He said so himself during the Warriors Plus/Minus podcast [...]

In the midst of seemingly endless stream of stories surrounding the 2016-17 NBA season, the sudden and unexpected revival of the Miami Heat franchise mid-season may have been the most surprising. The phrase “a tale of two seasons” may have never rang more true than it does for the Miami Heat this season, they started [...]

While it is always a difficult and unfortunate decision for an organization to fire their general manager and move forward in a different direction, it was time for the Magic to move on from Rob Hennigan. [tweet https://twitter.com/TheVertical/status/852537451268722688] The Magic never made the postseason in Hennigan’s five seasons and are currently on their 3rd head [...]