Blogs

If new Houston Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni has his way, he and James Harden will be best friends. Alright, maybe not. But, should he get his way, they’ll most definitely be making sweet basketball music together. Houston’s successor to Kevin McHale’s (and J.B. Bickerstaff’s) throne spoke briefly on how ecstatic he is to be [...]

First Dwane Casey. Then DeMar DeRozan. And then Bismack Biyombo. Okay, we’re not sure about the other two, even though the Toronto Raptors are expected to retain DeRozan (player option) once he enters free agency. But they don’t need to worry about losing head coach Dwane Casey anytime soon. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/737826987675246592] [...]

Does Ben Simmons, the consensus top prospect in this year’s NBA draft, know something we don’t? Strike that. Does Ben Simmons know something we already suspect to be true? Though the Philadelphia 76ers have a ton of frontcourt players on their books—Joel Embiid, Nerlens Noel, Jahlil Okafor, Dario Saric—most are operating under the assumption they’ll [...]

Sacramento Kings point guard Darren Collison was arrested on Monday somewhere in Northern California for a domestic violence incident. Here is the full report from CBS Sacramento: Sacramento Kings point guard Darren Collison was arrested on a domestic violence charge. Collison, 29, was booked into Placer County Jail on one count of inflicting corporal injury [...]

Some NBA players shy away from giving compliments to their opponents. LeBron James is not one of those players—not even when the players in question represent the Golden State Warriors, the team the four-time MVP’s Cleveland Cavaliers will face in the NBA Finals. From USA Today‘s AJ Neuharth-Keusch: “They shoot the ball extremely well,” James [...]

Memorial Day weekend 2016 is one that will live in infamy for Oklahoma City fans as it was the weekend their NBA Finals dreams died and their savior may have played his final games in a Thunder uniform. The Thunder fumbled away a golden opportunity to eliminate the Warriors once and for all Saturday night [...]

Well, this didn’t take long. Minutes removed from the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Game 7 loss in the Western Conference Finals to the Golden State Warriors, as well as Kevin Durant’s steadfast insistence that he has no idea what he will do in free agency this summer, the race for his services unofficially began. Durant won’t [...]

Have you heard the one where New York Knicks president Phil Jackson spurns the Big Apple to reunite with the Los Angeles Lakers and his fiance, and team co-owner, Jeanie Buss? Of course you have. Well, Buss wants you to know that this conspiracy theory, sensible thought it sounds at times, is complete crap. As [...]

Jason Kidd and the Milwaukee Bucks apparently won’t be saying goodbye to one another anytime soon. According to Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, Milwaukee is working on a contract extension for Kidd, who is entering the last season of his current deal: Zanik’s hiring is another in a sequence of significant franchise moves that co-owners Wesley [...]

Chris Bosh and the Miami Heat are finally on the same page regarding his health. We think. Maybe. The latter part of Bosh’s season was cut short this year due to another blood clot issue. He missed the end of the 2014-15 campaign for a similar issue. For a while, it wasn’t clear if he [...]