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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

How will Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban replace the bond he shared with Chandler Parsons now that the latter is a member of the Memphis Grizzlies? By texting and emailing his new center, Andrew Bogut, of course. Michael Lee of The Vertical spoke with Bogut about his summer—mostly about how he needed to represent the [...]

Ray Allen hasn’t played in the NBA for two seasons and now wants back in. And why? Apparently, because of Stephen Curry. Here’s what Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe, via CSNNE.com (thanks to ProBasketballTalk for the transcript): Ray wants to play again. I’m sure about that. I don’t think he particularly enjoys watching Stephen [...]

We have a Christmas present for you…in the middle of August…more than four months before actual Christmas: The New York Knicks and Boston Celtics will square off in the Big Apple on December 25. This news comes via The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor: [tweet https://twitter.com/KevinOConnorNBA/status/763194534050222080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] This marks a triumphant return to the Christmas Day slate for [...]

Will the Oklahoma City Thunder fans boo or cheer Kevin Durant when he returns to the Chesapeake Energy Arena for the first time as a member of the Golden State Warriors? We’ll have to wait until February to find out. From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: The Oklahoma City Thunder are tentatively scheduled to play host to [...]

J.R. Smith doesn’t need a new contract from the Cleveland Cavaliers. He has his own retail venture to fall back on. Okay, only half of that is true. Smith does have his own retail venture to help build his nest egg, but he could most definitely use the likely eight-figures-per-year contract the Cavaliers will inevitably [...]

If paying the luxury tax is what it takes to keep the Detroit Pistons’ core together, then that’s what owner Tom Gores is prepared to do. No, seriously, that’s what he told the Detroit Free Press’ Vince Ellis: Q: With a possible KCP extension, you could threaten the luxury tax line (an NBA mechanism to [...]

His airness has been a little more outspoken lately with his stance on the police shooting issue currently affecting our country and his opinions on the current NBA product. With that in mind, Michael Jordan has named which player reminds him most of himself in the NBA today and it is not who you would [...]