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Stephen Curry is tough. He has played through injuries, worked his way back from injuries, withstood blows at the rim and, most notably, reinvented the game of basketball despite constant push-back from old heads who don’t consider him an all-time great. Not everyone thinks Curry is tough, though. And why not? Golden State Warriors head [...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder’s 2015-16 season is over, expectedly, in unexpected fashion. No, that’s not supposed to make any sense. But the Thunder’s postseason run didn’t make much sense. They weren’t supposed to beat the San Antonio Spurs, and they did. They weren’t supposed to jump out to a 3-1 series lead over the Golden [...]

DeMar DeRozan is going to get a max contract when he hits free agency this summer. And after much speculation, it seems like the Toronto Raptors are prepared to be the team footing such a bill. General manager Masai Ujiri, at least, sounds like a guy ready to pay his All-Star shooting guard, per James [...]

Viva la Philadelphia 76ers frontcourt logjam. Just kidding. The Sixers need to do something about their overcrowded frontcourt. Joel Embiid, Nerlens Noel and Jahlil Okafor are all best suited center. Playing any one of them at power forward doesn’t make much sense, not even if Embiid, who is expected to make his NBA debut sometime [...]

Karl-Anthony Towns doesn’t mess around. The 2016 unanimous NBA Rookie of the Year has big plans for his Minnesota Timberwolves next season—ambitions they may not yet be ready to actualize. He wants a playoff berth. From Alysha Tsuji of For The Win: For me, it’s all about team goals. We want to make the playoffs, [...]

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Markieff Morris is once again making headlines for the wrong reasons. According to Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia’s John Gonzalez, the Washington Wizards forward was detained at Philadelphia International Airport after ‘suspected marijuana’ was apparently uncovered in his bag: [tweet https://twitter.com/gonzoCSN/status/735943108031041537] Here’s Gonzalez with more details: Morris, who was with a party that included his mother, checked [...]

Is Stephen Curry a good defender? He’s certainly not a terrible one. And there are times when he’s underrated, because criticism is so unnecessarily prevalent. Take the Golden State Warriors’ Game 5 Western Conference Finals win over the Oklahoma City on Thursday night. Curry didn’t see a ton of time on Russell Westbrook, but on [...]

The Houston Rockets’ coaching search is over. After a weeks-long search that spanned numerous candidates and scores of rumors, the Rockets have settled on Mike D’Antoni to be their next head coach, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical: The Houston Rockets are finalizing a four-year, $16 million-plus deal to hire Mike D’Antoni as head [...]

After a long drawn out five-week process to name all of the NBA’s awards and honors for the 2015-16 regular season, the All-NBA teams has been announced. The All-NBA 1st Team features league MVP Steph Curry, the guy who is outplaying him in the conference finals in Russell Westbrook, Kawhi Lenoard, LeBron James and DeAndre [...]