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C.J. McCollum is officially big time. According to Cleveland.com’s Chris Haynes, the Portland Trail Blazers combo guard has a received an invitation to join the USA Select Team: #Blazers C.J. McCollum to be invited to USA Select Team, league source tells @clevelanddotcom. Canton native won Most Improved Player honor. — Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) May 10, [...]

Dwight Howard isn’t ready to admit that he and James Harden are not the ideal superstar pairing. Not yet, anyway. While making an appearance on TNT’s Inside The NBA, Howard, who can opt out of his contract and become a free agent this summer, wouldn’t doom his partnership with Harden to utter futility, per Jonathan [...]

The NBA MVP voting results were released for the 2015-16 season today and now the two-time MVP Steph Curry has made history as the 1st NBA player to ever win the award unanimously with no other player registering a 1st place vote. [tweet https://twitter.com/espn/status/730066345048576000] Curry is the 1st player in the 61 year history of [...]

If Phil Jackson is really looking for Carmelo Anthony to waive his no-trade clause, all he needs to do is what he’s planned on doing all along: keep Kurt Rambis as the New York Knicks’ head coach. Seriously? Seriously. Appearing on CBS Sports Radio’s Brown and Scoop” podcast, former writer/still-well-connected Peter Vecsey, painted a pretty [...]

The Sacramento Kings won’t be trading DeMarcus Cousins anytime soon—depending, of course, on how you define “soon.” Here’s the team’s general manager Vlade Divac on the DeMarcus Cousins situation, per Sean Cunningham of ABC 10 in Sacramento: [tweet https://twitter.com/SeanCunningham/status/730113997589065728] “This year” is pretty ambiguous terminology. Does Divac mean he won’t be traded at all during [...]

For the select few New York Knicks fans holding out hope that team president Phil Jackson won’t be hiring Kurt Rambis as the team’s next coach, Zen Master disciple and former Denver Nuggets head honcho Brian Shaw has some bad news: He’s almost positive your wishes are futile. Here’s what he told ESPN’s Hannah Storm, [...]

Dario Saric, the NBA’s 12th overall pick in 2014, has spent the last two seasons playing in Croatia. But he may soon be coming to a team near you—insofar as you’re within reasonable proximity of the Philadelphia 76ers. From Keith Pompey of philly.com: A Croatian newspaper reported that Saric, a Croatia native, said he’ll play [...]

Rick Carlisle, head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, is ready for owner Mark Cuban to break open the piggy bank on Dirk Nowitzki’s behalf. The 37-year-old superhuman has made just over $16 million through each of the last two seasons, accepting a pay cut of epic proportions so that the Mavericks could afford to pay [...]

San Antonio Spurs general manager R.C. Buford has laid claim to the NBA’s 2015-16 Executive of the Year award. It is the second time he’s earned the honor, and it is most definitely well deserved. Just ask head coach Gregg Popovich, per Melissa Rohlin of the San Antonio Express-News: [tweet https://twitter.com/melissarohlin/status/729770654145204224] [tweet https://twitter.com/melissarohlin/status/729770818373177344] Coach Pop [...]

Stephen Curry returned from a sprained left MCL on Monday night, coming off the Golden State Warriors’ bench. And for a little while, he looked human. Then all of a sudden, he didn’t. Through the first three quarters of the Warriors’ overtime win against the Portland Trail Blazers, Curry wasn’t good. And then the fourth [...]