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Manu Ginobili isn’t sure when he’ll be ready to follow Tim Duncan into retirement. Maybe you thought this season would be it for the 39-year-old guard, that his one-year $14 million contract with the San Antonio Spurs would be his last. He would play out the season, his 15th, then call it a career, just [...]

Blake Griffin is ready to take his game beyond the three-point line. Shooting threes isn’t an especially new concept for the Los Angeles Clippers superstar. In recent years, it has become a slightly bigger part of his game. He has jacked up 87 triples over the last three seasons after tossing up 68 through his [...]

Somewhere, 11 years ago, in parts unknown, a 37-year-old Gary Payton is pissed. Goran Dragic probably isn’t too happy, either. Dwyane Wade has already called Rajon Rondo, his teammate with the Chicago Bulls for roughly one minute, the best point guard he’s had the pleasure of playing beside, per CSN Chicago’s Chuck Garfien: [tweet https://twitter.com/ChuckGarfien/status/781192426333626368] [...]

Paul Pierce thinks his Los Angeles Clippers are a superteam. Most likely. The 38-year-old forward, who will retire at the end of 2016-17, basically talked himself into calling the Clippers a superteam at their media day, per the Los Angeles Times‘s Jesse Dougherty: “To me, I think we have a super team here,” Pierce stated [...]

Steph Curry has recovered from his previous chronic ankle issues in recent years and has established himself as a mega star and quite possibly the best player in the NBA over the past three seasons. He has won two league MVPs and an NBA championship while being the alpha dog for a 73 win team. [...]

The 31-year-old, 14 year NBA veteran and savior of the city of Cleveland, LeBron James is becoming much more introspective as many of us do as we begin to age. LeBron James has seen a lot of miles on his championship winning legs as he will reach the 1,000 regular season games mark within the [...]

As the New York Knicks inevitably struggle to meet the unreasonably high expectations that have been set before them, both internally and externally, remember this: They still have Kristaps Porzingis. Even if he suffers a sophomore slump or sees his role in the offense marginalized by the ball-dominant Derrick Rose, Porzingis, still just 21, is [...]

Stephen Curry will be a free agent next summer, which, for the purpose of 29 NBA teams, means absolutely nothing. He isn’t leaving the Golden State Warriors. The reigning two-time MVP got ahead of any potential free-agency rumblings on Tuesday, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/780872772654276608] Shocker. Curry has become one of the two best [...]

What’s Will Barton worth to the Denver Nuggets? A lot. At least a first-round pick. Probably more, though. As if you needed any other evidence that the Nuggets won the Arron Afflalo trade from 2014-15, here’s Christopher Dempsey of the Denver Post (h/t ProBasketballTalk): Now he’s being praised after a breakout season that landed him [...]

Serge Ibaka is committed to the Orlando Magic. How committed? Really committed, per Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel: The biggest acquisition of the Orlando Magic’s 2016 offseason indicated on Monday that he has no plans to go elsewhere when he becomes an unrestricted free agent in 2017. “I’m looking to stay here to play [...]