The Cleveland Cavaliers are going Hollywood. Sources confirmed to Cleveland.com’s Joe Vardon that LeBron James will host his usual pre-training camp workouts from Los Angeles some time in September: LeBron James will host his annual pre-training camp workouts for his Cavaliers teammates in Los Angeles in September, multiple sources told cleveland.com. Since James returned to [...]
August 16, 2016
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Joakim Noah’s relationship with the Chicago Bulls is forever. It doesn’t matter that he’s now a member of the New York Knicks, or that he typically views anyone who doesn’t share his jersey color scheme as an arch enemy. It doesn’t even matter that his tenure in The Windy City ended in complete implosion, amid [...]
August 16, 2016
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LeBron James has possibly had the best first 13 seasons to a career in NBA history. He has won four NBA MVP Awards, 3 NBA titles, 3 NBA Finals MVP awards, 10 All-NBA 1st Teams and has scored more points in the NBA than anyone since he entered in 2003. Despite all of this success, [...]
August 12, 2016
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Carmelo Anthony said some things to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein that people will crucify him for. Let’s start there: “Most athletes don’t have an opportunity to say that they won a gold medal, better yet three gold medals,” Anthony said. “I would be very happy walking away from the game knowing that I’ve given the game [...]
August 12, 2016
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The Nerlens Noel saga continues. Okay, to be honest, it’s not really a saga. The Philadelphia 76ers just have too many damn bigs and need to move one. Jahlil Okafor is the easy pick, but interest must not have been high on him in recent months, otherwise he’d be gone already. Dealing Nerlens Noel is [...]
August 12, 2016
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Carmelo Anthony has been as synonymous with Team USA and the Olympics as any other NBA player over the past decade plus. Whenever the Olympics roll around, you can be ‘Melo will be interested. He was a part of the 2004 bronze team following his rookie season (along with Wade and LeBron), and hasn’t missed [...]
August 11, 2016
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Now I love Kevin Durant as much as the next person, but KD’s choice to sign with the defending Western Conference Champion Golden State Warriors and leave OKC got me wondering. When I open my internet browser, turn on the T.V., or listen to the radio, all I hear are journalists like Stephen A. Smith [...]
August 11, 2016
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Matthew Dellavedova, now a member of the Milwaukee Bucks, and Kyrie Irving, still with the Cleveland Cavaliers, are good friends. Unless they’re practicing against one another, per USA Today’s Jeff Zillgitt: In practices, Dellavedova – an undrafted rookie scrapping to make the 15-man roster – went after Irving. “I would pick him up full court [...]
August 11, 2016
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Paul George had some thoughtz and feelz about the way Australia played following their near upset of Team USA in Rio on Wednesday night. None of them were particularly good. From Fox Sports’ Tony Harper: “It was an adjustment for us. The game kind of got out of hand early with the physical play. “We [...]
August 11, 2016
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Coming into the Rio Olympics, the only team that was viewed as having any real shot to put a scare into the U.S. Men’s Olympic team was the Spanish National Team. Boasting an abundance of NBA talent and high level European experience and having lost to the Americans in the gold medal game in 2008 [...]
August 10, 2016
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