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What do you get when you guide a Portland Trail Blazers team that was supposed to finish in the bottom three of the Western Conference to the second round of the NBA playoffs? A fat three-year extension. Terry Stotts is, expectedly, sticking with Portland, per The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski: [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/732374381205291008] Kevin Arnovitz of ESPN.com [...]

Larry Bird’s unexpected and uneventful coaching search came to an end Monday morning as the Pacers have announced they are promoting assistant coach Nate McMillan to their head coaching position. [tweet https://twitter.com/NBATV/status/732262055399448576] McMillan had been a Pacers assistant for 3 seasons after being let go as the head coach of the Blazers after the 2012-13 [...]

Game 1 of the 2016 Western Conference Finals tips off tonight in Oakland, as the two most talented and fast-paced teams in the NBA square off in an epic showdown for the right to play for an NBA championship. The matchup is a slight surprise as almost everyone acknowledged that the Golden State Warriors and [...]

The Boston Celtics bowed out of their first-round playoff matchup with the Atlanta Hawks for many reasons. And the status of Kelly Olynyk was among the biggest ones. Yes, Jae Crowder wasn’t 100 percent. And sure, Avery Bradley’s absence killed the Celtics’ spacing. But Olynyk, when healthy, is Boston’s second-best two-way player, someone who stretches [...]

Not so fast, Kurt Rambis. Team president Phil Jackson isn’t ready to name you the New York Knicks’ permanent head coach just yet. As first reported by the New York Daily News‘ Frank Isola, Jackson met with former Indiana Pacers head coach to talk about the team’s coaching vacancy: Phil Jackson met face-to-face with with [...]

Karl-Anthony Towns just followed in Stephen Curry’s footsteps. Sort of. Just like the Golden State Warriors point guard unanimously won the NBA’s 2016 MVP award, the Minnesota Timberwolves neophyte wrapped up 2016 NBA Rookie of the Year honors without facing any real challenger: [tweet https://twitter.com/NBA/status/732210966893629445] Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated provided a snapshot of [...]

After missing the latter half of the 2015-16 season, like he did in 2014-15, with another blood clot issue, Chris Bosh’s future in the NBA appears to be in jeopardy. From ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst: Between now and this fall, Chris Bosh and the Heat are going to have to reach a decision about what to [...]

Los Angeles Clippers coach and president Doc Rivers has no plans to break up his team’s Big Three of Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan. It almost happened last summer, when DeAndre Jordan first agreed to join the Dallas Mavericks. And there will be questions about the long-term sustainability of this core next summer, [...]

The Indiana Pacers’ search for a new head is…not yet underway. Team president Larry Bird essentially canned Frank Vogel last week, when he didn’t renew his contract. When a decision like that is made, it feels premeditated, and you would think that Bird would have a replacement, or even a list of potential replacements, at [...]

The Houston Rockets’ coaching search plows on. As expected, the team interviewed former Rockets guard and current TNT analyst Kenny “The Jet” Smith. And their meeting with him apparently went really well, per Fox Sports’ Mark Berman: Former Rockets guard Kenny Smith, who is an NBA analyst with TNT and a candidate to become the [...]