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Derrick Rose is something. The New York Knicks point guard talked with NBA.com’s Lang Whitaker for what amounted to a spectacular question and answer session. Seriously, check out the whole thing, especially Rose’s response about his ability to play off the ball. But, by the end of the article, it did become clear that Rose [...]

After an incredible seven-game NBA Finals series between the league’s two biggest stars that captured the attention and imagination of the nation and another wild free agency period that kept the NBA at the top of the sports news cycle for a month, it is becoming exceedingly clear that the NBA may be as popular [...]

There have been rumblings for months that the NBA would pull the 2017 All-Star Game and festivities out of Charlotte if North Carolina legislators don’t change their recently enacted laws that discriminate against the LGBT community. According to The Vertical Reporter and Editor Adrian Wojnarowski, the NBA made good on their word and has decided [...]

There is a reason why the Houston Rockets renounced the rights to Terrence Jones, now of the New Orleans Pelicans, but not Donatas Motiejunas, who remains unsigned. He is a pretty hot commodity. Don’t let his current status fool you. D-Mo is a wanted man, per Fox 26’s Mark Berman: Forward Donatas Motiejunas would be [...]

With Tim Duncan retiring from the NBA, it’s only natural our attention start shifting to San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich. Sure, Manu Ginobili probably won’t play beyond next season. But Popovich and Duncan were synonymous with one another. It’s tough, in turn, to imagine one without the other. Maybe Pop will soon follow [...]

Jeremy Lin has been going through somewhat of a mid-career crisis, as once a subdued Harvard graduate with a short and clean cut haircut in the his early NBA days and during the great Lin-sanity of 2012, Lin has cycled through a number of crazy hairstyles in the past year or so. Now it appears [...]

Ty Lawson sounds like a guy ready for a return to stardom. It’s difficult to believe that barely a year has passed since he played like one of the NBA’s top point guards, as a member of the Denver Nuggets, in 2014-15. Two DUI arrests between January and June 2015 have altered his image drastically, [...]

Upon choosing to leave the Oklahoma City Thunder for the Golden State Warriors, Kevin Durant did what any self-respecting NBA free agent who just broke the hearts of millions of basketball fans would do: lay low. True story. Per Newsday‘s Al Iannazzone: The two days after I didn’t leave my bed because if I walk [...]

The New York Knicks were almost the Chicago Bulls: epically imbalanced. Chicago has achieved such status by throwing Jimmy Butler, Rajon Rondo and Dwyane Wade, three high-profile ball dominators, on the same roster. But New York, apparently, almost did the same—or so says Carmelo Anthony, per the New York Daily News‘ Frank Isola: [tweet https://twitter.com/FisolaNYDN/status/755894693691396096] [...]

How much does Team USA/Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski like Klay Thompson? A whole lot. Okay, that’s a lie. He likes him more than a whole lot–so much so that he believes the Golden State Warriors Splash Brother is one of the best players on Earth, per NBC Sports’ Kurt Helin: “Klay is one of [...]