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LeBron James is not yet ready to take permanent leave from Team USA basketball. Shame on you for thinking he was. Just kidding. It makes sense that you would feel that way. LeBron is 31 and turned down an opportunity to play for Team USA this summer in Rio. He will be halfway toward his [...]

What, you didn’t think Derrick Rose was kidding about the New York Knicks being a superteam, did you? Rose ruffled a lot of feathers and shattered the boundaries of conventional wisdom when he identified the Knicks and the Golden State Warriors as the most talked-about superteams. We all got a good laugh out of it. [...]

DeAndre Jordan shared a pretty interesting opinion while being interviewed by the media in Rio on Wednesday. He said that in his view, winning a an Olympic gold medal is a bigger accomplishment than winning an NBA championship ring. [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNNBA/status/765924634701271040] When you take a step back and analyze the statement at a base level [...]

Popular, ESPN affiliated statistical analysis website Fivethirtyeight posted some interesting numbers about the affect an Olympic basketball experience has on NBA stars in their regular season. Many assume, and understandably so, that players who add in the grind of a month long Olympic experience to shorten their already brief offseason would end up hampered by [...]

Nick Young has, apparently, found a way to forgive Los Angeles Lakers teammate D’Angelo Russell. The two made headlines last season when Russell secretly recorded Young talking about cheating on then-fiancee Iggy Azalea. The couple, amid rumors and anecdotes of further infidelity from Young, are no longer together. Young appeared unreceptive at best when Russell [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]