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Don’t ever try feeding Evan Turner mayonaise. No, seriously, don’t. Joe Freeman penned a fantastic piece for The Oregonian in which he took a behind-the-scenes look at the game-day routines of the Portland Trail Blazers’ players. It’s fascinating stuff, so make sure you read the entire thing. But Turner’s pregame eating habits—demands?—make for an anecdote we [...]

If Rudy Gobert is even half as talented at recruiting free agents as he is at playing basketball, Gordon Hayward won’t be leaving the Utah Jazz. Gobert, one of the NBA’s foremost frontrunners for the Defensive Player of the Year award, plans to pull out all the stops to get his teammate, who owns a [...]

The Cavaliers experiment with Larry Sanders to see if he could be a useful rim protecting big man for them has appeared to end before it truly started. Sanders appeared in only five games, a total of 13 minutes of playing time, and mustered four points, four rebounds and one block before being waived by [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves, although a bit of a disappointment this season as many thought they would make the leap to playoff team (not me), still have one of the best accumulations of talent in the NBA under 25, a star in Karl-Anthony Towns, and presumably a very bright future. They have missed the NBA Playoffs [...]

So, um, it’s going to be a while before Joakim Noah takes the court again for the New York Knicks. The center, whom the Knicks signed to a four-year, $72.6 million deal last summer, has missed most of this season with injuries. Though he’s technically tending to an injury now, the Knicks scrapped to get [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers have been one of the hottest teams in the NBA over the past week, winning four straight games including beating a 60-win Spurs team and another playoff team in the Memphis Grizzlies. In most cases, finishing what has been a rough season strong would be a good if not great sign [...]

We may have to wait until the start of the NBA’s 2017-18 to see Ben Simmons play basketball again. The rookie has missed all of 2016-17 with a right foot injury, and the Philadelphia 76ers don’t yet know if he’ll be partaking in the summer-league festivities. Or maybe they do know, and they’re just not [...]

It would be understandable if the Portland Trail Blazers were relieved that they made the NBA playoffs. For a while, it looked like they wouldn’t. Even after they got hot, Jusuf Nurkic went down, and it kind of seemed like they might be done, too. They’re weren’t. They’re in the playoffs, having clinched a spot [...]

If the Chicago Bulls are going to clinch a playoff berth, they’ll have to do it without Rajon Rondo. Shoot, from what head coach Fred Hoiberg says, it seems like they’d have to play through the postseason without him, per ESPN.com’s Nick Friedell: Fred Hoiberg says Rajon Rondo has ‘significant’ wrist injury. Rondo had visit [...]

Achilles injuries alter NBA careers. They can even ruin them. So when Rudy Gay suffered his in the middle of January, the outlook seemed bleak. He’s on the wrong side of 30, and so much of his game is predicated on creating his own offense, something he might struggle to do upon return. Neither he [...]