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When the Cleveland Cavaliers take on the Toronto Raptors in their regular-season finale, they will do so without LeBron James. From Cleveland.com’s Joe Vardon: LeBron James’ regular season is over, and the Cavs can’t wait to say the same. A team source said James would not play in Cleveland’s finale Wednesday at home against the [...]

Carmelo Anthony may have played his last game as a member of the New York Knicks. Yes, the Knicks have one tilt left to go, on Wednesday, against the Washington Wizards, but head coach Jeff Hornacek said Anthony will not be a participant, per Newsday‘s Al Iannazzone: Jeff Hornacek said Anthony probably wouldn’t play in the Knicks’ [...]

Although he may not be getting the sort of pomp and circumstance as some of his recent peers (ahem Kobe Bryant) during their rides off into the sunset, with the exception of that beautiful moment in his last game in Boston, Paul Pierce is one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history and his [...]

My how the center position has changed in the NBA in the last few years. What was once like seeing a solar eclipse, an NBA center shooting a three-pointer, is now encouraged, expected and in some cases demanded by many teams of their centers across the NBA. I am not exactly sure when the trend [...]

The much-anticipated NBA playoffs are all set to kick off on Saturday, April 15th. Even though the regular season is about to conclude on April 12, there is still a significant amount of movement. For example, the Cleveland Cavaliers may not come into the playoffs as the top seed from the East. Even then, they [...]

Thus far the title defense of the Cavaliers during the 2016-17 season has been a rocky road with a lot of highs and seemingly just as many lows. There were times when Kevin Love was playing his best basketball since becoming a Cavalier and LeBron was playing at another level for him, and there were [...]

The 2016-17 season has truly been Russell Westbrook’s masterpiece. He is still only 28 and this is only his first season as the alpha dog for the Oklahoma City Thunder. He has plenty more success in front of him, one would assume, but he will never recapture the magic or the wonder and bewilderment of [...]

As you may have noticed, the increased occurrences of NBA teams resting players has become a very buzz-worthy topic of conversation in recent weeks. It has been discussed by every sports talk show and seemingly every former player wants to chime in with their two cents. Because of this and the fact that the NBA’s [...]

For those who don’t remember the circumstances surrounding and leading into the trade that landed the San Antonio Spurs the No. 15 pick of the 2011 NBA Draft where they selected current MVP candidate Kawhi Leonard, the headline of this story may be perplexing. Why would Coach Pop have said the decision to trade up [...]

Jimmy Butler is pumped for Dwyane Wade to make his return to the Chicago Bulls on Saturday night against the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center. But should he be? Butler, for his part, doesn’t appear to be equivocating. As he said after the Bulls’ Thursday night win over the Philadelphia 76ers, per CSN Chicago’s Vince Goodwill: [tweet [...]