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Congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks, Memphis Grizzlies and Milwaukee Bucks for being absolutely awesome. According to Zach Lowe and Marc Stein of ESPN.com, none of these teams are expected to stay in Trump-brand hotels, the commercial child of president-elect Donald Trump, when they play in Chicago and New York: At least three NBA teams have [...]

Given how thin the Dallas Mavericks are on proven NBA contributors, they really can’t afford to lose any of their most dependable names. Which is why J.J. Barea’s calf injury sucks. Losing him would have always sucked, make no mistake. But it especially sucks now, with the Mavericks sitting at 2-8, their postseason hopes fading [...]

The Toronto Raptors had another “Drake Night” at Air Canada Centre on Wednesday, and it just so happened that they were playing host to the Golden State Warriors, the new home of Kevin Durant, a noted Drake friend and fan. But Durant was no friend or fan or groupie of Drake’s on Wednesday. He dropped [...]

The San Antonio Spurs are now 11 games into the post Tim Duncan era, a world in which they had not known since the 1996-97 season. They are 8-3 and mostly doing Spursian things but it still doesn’t feel right to not have Number 21 patrolling the middle and showing very little emotion outside of [...]

You know what the Denver Nuggets’ bottom-eight offense could really use? A healthy Gary Harris. Too bad the Nuggets won’t be getting a healthy Harris for around four weeks, per The Denver Post‘s Christopher Dempsey: [tweet https://twitter.com/chrisadempsey/status/798615857731485696] Harris already missed time this season with a partially torn groin muscle. His shooting percentages and scoring averages [...]

Vince Carter is the oldest player in the NBA at 39 years old (he will turn 40 in January) and is experiencing what many consider his swan song in his 19th season in the league. A likely hall of fame player as a member of the prestigious 24,000 point club and quite possibly the best [...]

Independence Day 2016 will always live in infamy for the NBA and especially the Oklahoma City Thunder. That’s the day their leader, hero and face of their franchise exercised his independence as a free agent to join the rival Golden State Warriors, leaving his partner in crime Russell Westbrook and the organization he had called [...]

Patrick Beverley is on course to make his regular-season debut for the Houston Rockets, which means the team is finally whole again! Well, almost whole. Head coach Mike D’Antoni was quick to point out that the Rockets won’t be whole until they bring back Donatas Motiejunas—assuming they bring him back at all, per Jonathan Feigen [...]

Here is your latest “There won’t be an NBA lockout in 2017” update. The latest is brought to you by The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor: The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association expect to finalize terms on a new collective bargaining agreement “just after Thanksgiving” or in “early December,” a source familiar with the negotiations [...]

DeAndre Jordan is shooting 45.8 percent from the free-throw line this season. Pretty terrible, right? Well, it’s also the second-best mark of his career. With a career charity-stripe clip of 42.2 percent, you have to figure Jordan has tried almost everything to tweak his shot and efficiency. Thus far, that hasn’t included trying to take [...]