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The 2nd round series between the San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder has lived up to its billing through 5 games as we had another nail biter with the Thunder pulling off the upset on the road in Game 5 to take a 3-2 series lead. Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook are showing why [...]

The Miami Heat are limping through the NBA postseason at this point, with all-star forward/center Chris Bosh and double-double machine Hassan Whiteside currently sidelined. Despite all of that and poor shooting as a team they are still tied 2-2 in the eastern conference semi-finals because of the heart and grit of their leader Dwyane Wade. [...]

Dennis Schroder doesn’t want to remain a reserve for much longer. We already knew that, but just in case some of us forgot about it, the 22-year-old served up a reminder, per ESPN.com’s Ohm Youngmisuk: The Atlanta Hawks and Mike Budenholzer have an interesting dilemma this summer: They have two starting-caliber point guards and Budenholzer [...]

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 [...]