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After losing Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals to the Oklahoma City Thunder, forfeiting home-court advantage in the process, the Golden State Warriors could be discouraged and down on themselves. But then they wouldn’t be the Golden State Warriors. Draymond Green, in fact, is almost happy that the Warriors are here, trailing 1-0, their [...]

Well, that didn’t take long. Kelly Olynyk was weighing the option of whether to have shoulder surgery as soon as possible or rest up, play for the Canadian national team and then get surgery sometime after. Either way, he was going to have surgery. Update: The Boston Celtics officially announced that he had surgery: The [...]

At the heart of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ unstoppable postseason play style, there is head coach Tyronn Lue, the man responsible for reinventing a team that lacked unity under former head honcho David Blatt. What’s Lue’s secret? Well, one of his secrets includes a willingness to put LeBron James in his place, not only behind the [...]

The Philadelphia 76ers won Tuesday night’s draft lottery, which isn’t surprising. They had the best odds of securing the No. 1 pick. Plus, you know, Dikembe Mutombo, told us they had won hours beforehand: [tweet https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/732676479256006657] There are only four possible explanations for this. Scenario No. 1: this could have been accident. Maybe Mutombo, or [...]

Today Nike launches the 3rd and final piece of the Kobe 11 Muse Pack designed by Mark Parker. Both Mark Parker and Kobe Bryant share mutual respect for each other and frequently communicate – this dates back to 2003 when Mark worked with Eric Avar and Tinker Hatfield on the Huarache 2K4, the first Nike [...]

The Houston Rockets’ head coaching search is starting to…pretty much run in place. According to Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle, TNT analyst Kenny “The Jet” Smith is out of the running, as the team prefers to hire someone with sideline experience—a requirement that has led them to Ettore Messina, Jeff Van Gundy and Frank [...]

Channing Frye is busy draining threes and contending for a championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers. And that could have been Ryan Anderson. Speaking on the “Vertical Pod with J.J. Redick,” Anderson revealed to his former Orlando Magic teammate that the New Orleans Pelicans nearly traded his expiring contract to the Cavaliers at the trade deadline. [...]

Game 1 was everything we could have asked for and more in the Western Conference Finals as the stars came out to shine and the Oklahoma City Thunder came back from a 13-point halftime deficit to beat the Golden State Warriors and steal home court. As always there was a little controversy (the Westbrook travel) [...]

Jeff Hornacek will have a job by the start of the 2016-17 NBA regular season. What that job will be, we don’t know. But he is most definitely going to have one. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/732287028218335232] Oh? The New York Knicks? That’s surprising, in a long-shot kind of way. No one really expects [...]

The concept of NBA players taking pay cuts in free agency to sign with certain teams is drastically overblown. Most players won’t willingly take less to re-sign with their incumbent team or to join new digs. When they do, it’s typically marginal (a la Carmelo Anthony with the New York Knicks in 2014 or the [...]