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With the Cavaliers most recent drubbing in San Antonio Monday night, losing 103-74, they are now in 2nd place in the eastern conference. This is the first time they haven’t been at the top of the eastern conference since November 8th, 2015. [tweet https://twitter.com/CelticsJunkies/status/846551852921602049] The Celtics are currently in 1st place, a half game ahead [...]

The 2016-17 season has been somewhat of a lost season for Reggie Jackson. After having the best year and a half of his career after being dealt to the Pistons before the 2015 NBA trade deadline, Jackson missed the first 20 games of the 2016-17 season with chronic knee pain and has been unable to [...]

Sam Hinkie, the author of the Philadelphia 76ers’ Process, may be coming to an NBA team near you—provided, of course, your NBA team is the Sacramento Kings. According to ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe and Marc Stein, Sacramento has been granted permission to speak with the Sixers’ former general manager: The Sacramento Kings have expressed exploratory interest [...]

So much for Joakim Noah being done for the season. Well, technically, Noah is done for the season. Even if he’s healthy enough to play, he has to serve a 20-game suspension for violating the NBA’s list of banned substances—an over-the-counter infraction, for what it’s worth. He wouldn’t see the court this year; however many [...]

Rudy Gobert must really want the Utah Jazz to finish with a top-four playoff seed in the Western Conference. Following a loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday, the Jazz’s third such loss to their likely first-round opponent, Gobert questioned his squad’s competitiveness. Those remarks, per Aaron Falk of The Salt Lake Tribune, prompted a [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers no longer have a Buss family power struggle on their hands. Jeanie Buss is the controlling owner, and her brothers, Jim and Johnny, are ditching their hopes of changing that. From the Los Angeles Times‘ Tania Ganguli: The monthlong fight between Jeanie Buss and her brothers, Jim and Johnny, to control the Lakers is over. [...]

Do you want the good news or the bad news first, Atlanta Hawks fans? Let’s start with the bad news. Paul Millsap has missed each of the last five games with a knee injury, and it doesn’t look like he’ll be returning too soon, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s Chris Vivlamore: Paul Millsap will be out at [...]

Most players in Dwyane Wade’s situation probably wouldn’t think twice about their upcoming player option. He’s 35. He just suffered a season-ending elbow injury. He’s not getting the $23.8 million he’s slated to earn anywhere else. It might take him more than two, or even three, years to recoup that cash. Exercise the option, and [...]

As we all know, the race for league MVP this season has been an epic two-horse race almost from the very beginning, as Russell Westbrook and James Harden have each been having all-time great seasons. That makes the decision for who should be honored as the league’s most valuable player extremely difficult, and former league [...]

The Rockets have already done more than enough to protect their playoff positioning and establish themselves as the surprise (at least in my opinion) team in the NBA this season, currently at 51-22 and 3rd in the western conference. While all of the attention has been on the incredible season by James Harden, one of [...]