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Kurt Rambis is now the face of the New York Knicks defense. If you’re getting deja vu, you won’t be the only one. The Knicks named Rambis interim head coach last season after firing Derek Fisher, and now, under Jeff Hornacek, he’s being given more responsibility yet again. ESPN.com’s Marc Stein was the first with [...]

At 3-3, with the league’s best offense and its second-worst defense, the Boston Celtics are not who we thought they would be. We thought they would be a two-way powerhouse that challenges the Cleveland Cavaliers for Eastern Conference supremacy. But, as of now, they seem unsettlingly mediocre and overwhelmingly flawed on the defensive end—which doesn’t [...]

Last month, apparently, it looked like Festus Ezeli was tracking toward his Portland Trail Blazers debut. But then his left knee injury started acting up, and everything unraveled. From CSNNW.com’s Jason Quick: Ezeli suffered swelling in his left knee after he took part in two Blazers practices on Oct. 17 and Oct. 18, after which [...]

In Saturday night’s game in Philadelphia against the 76ers, LeBron James passed Hakeem Olajuwon to become a top 10 scorer in NBA history. [tweet https://twitter.com/NBA/status/795294787112992768] [tweet https://twitter.com/NBA_Skits/status/795045308073988096] After scoring 23 points in the Cavaliers first loss of the season to the Hawks last night, LeBron now has 26, 993 career points. So at 31 years [...]

Seven games as the Houston Rockets’ official point guard is all James Harden needs to declare himself the best floor general in the NBA. No, seriously, that’s it. As he told The Vertical’s Michael Lee: New Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni has worked with great scorers and great playmakers at his various stops around the league, [...]

Don’t let Donald Trump winning the presidential election over Hilary Clinton distract you from the fact that Joel Embiid is the greatest peddler of snark ever. Late Tuesday night, as it became clear Donald Trump would be the next president of the United States, Joel Embiid took to Twitter with some thoughts: [tweet https://twitter.com/joelembiid/status/796258910617370624] He [...]

Certain people (me) have been bemoaning (me) the New York Knicks’ inconsistent use (me) of Kristaps Porzingis (me) on the offensive end (me) this season (me). Why isn’t he more of a focal point? Why isn’t he finishing games? Why doesn’t Derrick Rose pass to him more? All these questions have a simple answer: He’s [...]

Cameron Payne underwent surgery to repair a Jones fracture in his foot this past July and has thus spent the first part of 2016-17 on the sidelines. As for how much longer he’ll be there, the Oklahoma City Thunder don’t seem to know. From Brett Dawson of The Oklahoman: [tweet https://twitter.com/BDawsonWrites/status/795769034113515521] Owners of the second-highest [...]

Stephen Curry shot an unreal 13-of-17 from beyond the arc during the Golden State Warriors’ victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night. It was a shockingly efficient effort even by his own unprecedented standards. Well, maybe not. His head coach, Steve Kerr, sure didn’t think so anyway, per ESPN.com’s Ethan Sherwood Strauss: In [...]

What was that about the Indiana Pacers being a legitimate threat in the Eastern Conference? Oh, yeah: They aren’t one. Lots of people, including team president Larry Bird, tried to spin the Pacers as an above-average squad leading into this season—as a team that might be able to reinvent its offensive identity without losing too [...]