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Now that we are a mere 10 days away from the 2017 NBA trade deadline, a very active trade market behind the scenes will finally materialize into some player and asset movement as teams try to improve their rosters and prepare themselves for a postseason run, the 2017 off-season and beyond. The second real trade [...]

The past three years Draymond Green has worked his way up and morphed into one of the most diversely skilled and valuable players in the NBA. He has an ability to defend multiple positions, be a rim protector, the conductor of the most beautiful offense the NBA has seen in years (with a kings ransom [...]

Does anyone believe the Atlanta Hawks? The answer to that question might have been a resounding no roughly one month ago, just after they shipped Kyle Korver to the Cleveland Cavaliers. But their preference not to trade Paul Millsap no longer feels like the most transparent of ploys. We are less than two weeks from the [...]

People, we have a trade. On the first Sunday of no football, The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski proved the NBA would do its best to replace the void left by the NFL, reporting that the Denver Nuggets would be sending Jusuf Nurkic and a first-round pick to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for Mason Plumlee [...]

Harrison Barnes has seen his scoring production almost double with increased opportunities and responsibility as the go-to player for the Dallas Mavericks. He has improved his shooting percentage while shooting twice as many shots per game and has had twice as many “clutch” points (points in the last five minutes of a game when the [...]

It was announced last week that quite possibly the great Los Angeles Laker and the most successful Laker of all-time was returning to the organization in an advisory role. Johnson played 13 seasons for the team, winning 5 NBA championships and 5 Regular Season MVP awards. He has also coached and been involved with the [...]

Oh, Phil. If you thought the New York Knicks president would apologize for not-so-subtly subtweeting Carmelo Anthony, I pity you. It was never going to happen. And sure enough, it didn’t happen. To recap: Bleacher Report’s Kevin Ding authored a piece on how Phil Jackson has expected Anthony to be a player he’s not. While the article was more [...]

Many players around the league and many New York sports fans have let their support of Charles Oakley be known after he was removed forcibly and very publicly from the Knicks-Clippers game Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden. LeBron has been one of the most vocal NBA players on the situation posting an Instragam photo [...]

With all the Serge Ibaka trade rumors floating around, it feels increasingly likely the Orlando Magic will move on from their prized offseason acquisition before he hits the free-agent market this summer. And you can add the Miami Heat to the list of teams showing interest in him, according to the Miami Herald‘s Barry Jackson: One name [...]

As soon as it happened we knew. We didn’t really know, but we knew: The non-contact knee injury Jabari Parker suffered in the Milwaukee Bucks’ Wednesday night loss to the Miami Heat was a torn ACL. It had to be. And, as ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe confirmed moments before the team itself, this is exactly what [...]