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On Thursday, Paul Pierce criticized Kevin Durant for leaving the Thunder to join the Warriors. He said current NBA stars lack hunger and competitiveness, and he can’t imagine doing what Kevin Durant did this summer. “I could have left Boston years ago but I stuck it out. I just feel like when you’re that close [...]

Even preseason games can be exciting. Last night the Clippers faced the trail Blazers for the first time since their postseason matchup. The Clippers won the game, but not without some last minute drama. At the end of the game DeAndre Jordan was called for a second technical foul after running onto the court thinking [...]

Blake Griffin is going to become a free agent next summer. Why wouldn’t he, after all? He can terminate the final year of his deal, which is worth nearly $21.4 million, and hit the open market, amid another salary-cap boom, at the age of 28. It makes too much financial sense for him to test [...]

When Paul Pierce retires next summer, it will be as a member of the Boston Celtics. We here at The Hoop Doctors offer the sincerest condolences to Los Angeles Clippers, Brooklyn Nets and Washington Wizards fans who have been holding out hope he might pick their team to retire with. Pierce confirmed this not-at-all-shocking, totally [...]

If only the Cleveland Cavaliers had $20-plus million in cap space, then LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, now of the Chicago Bulls, would be teammates again. Never mind that the Cavaliers still haven’t re-signed J.R. Smith, who is a few million dollars cheaper and roughly four years younger. LeBron, it seems, would have pushed Cleveland [...]

Less than 12 hours after the NBA’s free agency bell rang this past summer, Jeremy Lin announced he would be signing with the Brooklyn Nets. It was a move lauded for both sides. The Nets needed a point guard, and syncing up with Brooklyn reunited Lin with Kenny Atkinson, who was an assistant with the [...]

The whole situation with Chris Bosh’s health and blood clotting issues is unfortunate. The Heat have been doing the right thing for Bosh and the risks involved with him playing NBA basketball at this point, until now. Reports are that the Heat are planning to wait to waive Bosh until after the March 1 deadline. [...]

Dwyane Wade did not join the Chicago Bulls to contend for an NBA title—at least not this year. Pressed about the expectations of his new team, the 34-year-old shooting guard brushed off talk of winning a championship this season, per Vincent Goodwill of CSN Chicago: [tweet https://twitter.com/vgoodwill/status/785921139105116160] [tweet https://twitter.com/vgoodwill/status/785921323742613504] Though our initial reaction might be [...]

Paul Millsap’s expected foray into free agency next summer may not actually take place. Though, to be sure, it probably will. Asked about his free-agency plans, around eight months in advance of any decision, the 31-year-old Paul Millsap gave no hint as to whether he’ll decline his $21.5 million player option for the 2017-18 campaign, [...]

Pelicans superstar power forward Anthony Davis has had a rough past year on the injury front and continues to prove to be an injury prone player in general, missing a number of games in every season since entering the NBA. The latest setback, although minor, is a sprained ankle suffered during Wednesday morning’s preseason game [...]