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Los Angeles will be playing host to next year’s NBA All-Star Game, and don’t think for a minute Lakers controlling owner Jeanie Buss isn’t pining for purple and gold to be repped on the floor, at Staples Center, when the 2018 superstar exhibition tips off. During an appearance on a podcast for Forbes Sports Money, Buss [...]

D’Angelo Russell and Karl-Anthony Towns are friends, in case you didn’t know. And they plan to train together this summer, ahead of their third season in the NBA. Per the Orange County Register‘s Mark Medina: Playing on different teams in different time zones, Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell and Minnesota center Karl-Anthony Towns often rely on phone [...]

LeBron James has accomplished quite a bit in his almost 14 seasons in the NBA, championships, league MVPs, 1st Team All-NBA nods, and he is still only 32. He added another notch to his belt Thursday night as he climbed one rung higher on the ladder that is the NBA’s all-time scoring list, passing Shaquille [...]

The TNT Chicago Bulls are for real. So, too, are the Cleveland Cavaliers’ problems. The Cavaliers fell to those Bulls on Thursday night, 99-93. They are yet again a half-game behind the Eastern Conference’s new first-place team, the Boston Celtics, and LeBron James is officially sounding the alarm. From ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst: LeBron James said the [...]

Not all of Phil Jackson’s former players will support him if asked for their input on the job he’s done with the New York Knicks. Take Scottie Pippen, who played under Jackson for 10 years and won five titles with him. He thinks the Zen Master has to go. Here’s what the Hall of Famer said [...]

As if registering as one of the NBA’s biggest disappointments wasn’t causing enough problems for the Detroit Pistons. Fourth-year wing Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was arrested early Wednesday morning following the team’s loss to the Miami Heat “on suspicion of drunken driving in Auburn Hills,” according to Derick Hutchinson of WDIV 4 Detroit. Here are the details: Police [...]

The 2016-17 season has been the most statistically illuminating and eye-popping season in NBA history, at least in the past 50 years or so. You have guys accomplishing triple-doubles at a rate that far exceeds any other year in NBA history, and numerous players around the league filling up a stat sheet to unprecedented levels. [...]

Before the Los Angeles Clippers took down the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night, Doc Rivers had some high praise for John Wall. He’s playing like an MVP candidate. Sort of. Per Candace Buckner of the Washington Post: [tweet https://twitter.com/CandaceDBuckner/status/847251451508269056] Rivers is correct. On both fronts. John Wall has been absolutely sensational this year. He’s posting career-high [...]

Fred Hoiberg’s job with the Chicago Bulls is apparently safe—insofar as a head coach’s gig can be safe after his team failed to meet internal expectations for the second consecutive season. While appearing on the Washington Post‘s Posting Up podcast with Tim Bontemps, K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune indicated that he thinks Hoiberg’s job will be safe until [...]

Did Gregg Popovich really relate what’s left of Manu Ginobili’s NBA career to a bar of soap? You bet he did. Per the San Antonio Express-News‘ Jeff McDonald: [tweet https://twitter.com/JMcDonald_SAEN/status/847235484011057152] Well, this is fantastic. It would have been more fantastic if the San Antonio Spurs didn’t blow a 22-point lead against the Golden State Warriors on [...]