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Five years later, the truth has come out about Blake Griffin’s decision to jump over a Kia during the 2011 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. The skinny? It wasn’t his idea at all. While making an appearance on Barstool Sports’ Pardon My Take podcast, Griffin revealed that he actually wanted to jump over a convertible (h/t [...]

Phil Jackson isn’t putting any pressure on the New York Knicks to win next season. Psych! From ESPN.com’s Ian Begley: Phil Jackson sounds bullish about the Knicks’ playoff chances. In an interview with WNBC-TV, Jackson was asked if he still felt optimistic that New York could make the playoffs and “go even further.” “Why not?” [...]

With Jeff Hornacek now ambling up and down the New York Knicks’ sidelines, the team will need an actual point guard who can run his presumably uptempo, drive-heavy offense. Jerian Grant, Jose Calderon and Tony Wroten Jr. are on the books for next season, but neither is an ideal option. Calderon gets killed defensively and [...]

Imagine Joakim Noah in a Minnesota Timberwolves jersey. You can’t, right? Well, new Timberwolves coach and president Tom Thibodeau already is, according to the Sporting News’ Mitch Lawrence: League sources tell Sporting News that Thibodeau has targeted Joakim Noah, who is an unrestricted free agent and has interest in leaving Chicago and re-joining Thibodeau. When [...]

How good are the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors? Best regular-season team in NBA history good. Two wins away from their second straight NBA title good. Better than the Showtime Los Angeles Lakers good…according to Klay Thompson: [tweet https://twitter.com/Mike_Bresnahan/status/739660395502141440] This is quite clearly Klay throwing sarcastic shade at his father, Mychal Thompson, who played for the [...]

Isaiah Thomas wants the world to know he stands by a since-deleted tweet that indicated he would try recruiting Kevin Durant to the Boston Celtics this summer. From Adam Himmelsbach of the Boston Globe: As Isaiah Thomas sat on his porch at home in Tacoma, Wash., last Monday after watching the Thunder lose Game 7 [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers have bigger problems than their 2-0 NBA Finals hole. Like Kevin Love’s health, for instance. Love left Cleveland’s Game 2 loss to the Golden State Warriors with concussion-like symptoms after taking an elbow to the head from Harrison Barnes. He wasn’t immediately removed from the game, since he didn’t exhibit the symptoms [...]

Carmelo Anthony isn’t the only member of the New York Knicks excited to play for Jeff Hornacek. There are more. A lot more, from the sounds of it. From Ian Begley of ESPN.com: One of the more intriguing early storylines in the Hornacek tenure is how he changes the triangle offense. The general expectation is [...]

The Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers will not be the only teams making headlines during the NBA Finals. The Philadelphia 76ers and Atlanta Hawks are making sure of it. According to The Vertical’s Shams Charania, the two sides are talking about a potential Nerlens Noel-for-Jeff Teague swap: Atlanta and Philadelphia are discussing a possible [...]

Back in May, the Washington Wizards announced that All-Star point guard John Wall underwent a pair of procedures on both his left and right knees. It was weird and unsettling. But, fortunately for Wizards fans, they needn’t worry anymore. Well, they needn’t worry as much. Owner Ted Leonsis says that Washington’s floor general will be [...]