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Kyrie Irving is just as surprised as you are that Golden State Warriors blew a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals. Okay, really, he’s just surprised that the Cleveland Cavaliers won a championship before his 25th birthday at all. As the 24-year-old told Cleveland.com’s Joe Vardon: “I never thought I’d be an NBA champion when [...]

Nerlens Noel thinks the Philadelphia 76ers’ center rotation is funny—in a very un-funny sort of way. Just prior to the team opening for training camp, Noel expressed high-key disgust for a frontcourt logjam that features himself, Jahlil Okafor and Joel Embiid at center, in addition to Richaun Holmes, Dario Saric and Ben Simmons at power [...]

The long, unfortunate and bizarre saga between Chris Bosh and the Heat and whether he would be cleared to return to the team has finally come to an end. [tweet https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/780411446719045632] Team president, master recruiter and smooth-talker Pat Riley announced that Bosh was all but done with the organization on Sunday. It appears the Heat [...]

Michael Beasley is now a member of the Milwaukee Bucks. With Khris Middleton sidelined for six months due to a torn hamstring, general manager John Hammond announced that the team acquired Beasley from the Houston Rockets in exchange for point guard Tyler Ennis. Beasley has one-year and $1.4 million left on his current deal, and [...]

Paul George has not signed his last contract with the Indiana Pacers, apparently. Currently slated for free agency in 2019 (player option), George has already talked shopped with the Pacers about a max extension, a la James Harden with the Houston Rockets and Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder. These types of deals not [...]

Jeff Van Gundy is higher on the new-look New York Knicks than Las Vegas. Currently, the over/under on New York’s win total for this season is 38.5. The Knicks clearly won’t be happy if that proves accurate. Improving by only five or six wins after adding Derrick Rose, whose civil trial for sexual assault begins [...]

We are only a few weeks removed from the 2016 Naismith Hall of Fame Induction in which three of the most successful and culturally viable players of the past 20 years were inducted; Shaquille O’Neal, Allen Iverson and Yao Ming. This made the 2016 class one of the best in history for a number of [...]

Bucks fans woke up to some very disheartening news this morning as the first real big injury for the 2016-17 season has already taken place. Bucks highly underrated small forward Khris Middleton will be out for 6 months with a torn hamstring. [tweet https://twitter.com/espn/status/778751800086233088] Middleton led the Bucks in points (18.2), minutes (36.1) and steals [...]

If you thought the triumph and jubilation of signing Kevin Durant in free agency would erase the disappointment the Golden State Warriors felt when they lost Game 7 of the NBA Finals, you thought wrong. That loss, that letdown, is still fresh—especially for reigning two-time MVP Stephen Curry. As he told USA Today‘s Sam Amick: [...]

The Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas posted its annual season win totals on Tuesday, per ESPN.com’s David Purdum, and there weren’t many surprises. The Golden State Warriors are expected to win more games (66.5) than any other team, because duh. The Cleveland Cavaliers and San Antonio Spurs (56.5) are right behind them, because obviously. The [...]