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Jason Terry has never wanted for confidence. The Houston Rockets are down 3-1 in their first-round series against the Golden State Warriors, so they enter Wednesday’s Game 5, at Oracle Arena, in win-or-go-home-for-good mode. Terry, per Calvin Watkins, has guaranteed a win: [tweet https://twitter.com/calvinwatkins/status/725075096268722177] Okay then. All NBA players are this confident—or close to it. [...]

Hello again, from the Kevin Durant free-agency rumor mill! Though the Oklahoma City Thunder have yet to be eliminated from the postseason, speculation on Durant’s free agency won’t wait for the offseason. Apparently, if he leaves the Oklahoma City Thunder, he already has a few other places in mind, according to Frank Isola of the [...]

It’s been a rough couple days for elite point guards in the NBA’s postseason, Steph Curry sprained his right MCL and Chris Paul broke his right hand (beware Russell Westbrook and Damian Lillard). It appears the NBA postseason and the chase for the Larry O’Brien trophy will be greatly affected once again by not only [...]

The Sacramento Kings are moving into a new building for the 2016-17 season and are using that as an opportunity to distance themselves from all of the embarrassment and loss they suffered throughout the past decade, a new start and a slightly re-branded image and look. Behold the new logos and look for the Sacramento [...]

News broke Tuesday morning that Golden State Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr has been voted as the NBA Coach of the Year for the 2015-16 season. [tweet https://twitter.com/CBSSportsNBA/status/725000646730997760] Upon initial review it seems obvious that the head coach of a record-breaking 73 win would have to win the ward, but when you consider Kerr didn’t [...]

No one expected the Portland Trail Blazers to make the NBA playoffs after losing four of last season’s five starters. And yet, here they are, in the postseason, all notched up with the Los Angeles Clippers in their best-of-seven series, at two games apiece, with a real chance to be more than a low-level steppingstone. [...]

Take that, Mark Cuban. Ahead of the Dallas Mavericks’ Game 5 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night, a letdown that bounced them from the first round of the playoffs, Cuban had a not-so-nice, totally out-of-touch thing to say about Russell Westbrook, per ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon: [tweet https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon/status/724732258670649345] Westbrook responded with a 36-point, [...]

Derek Fisher’s disastrous end to his tenure with the New York Knicks has not turned him off from coaching. Or from big markets. Or from the idea that he, not even two years removed from retiring as a player, can coach in big markets. Per Ramona Shelburne of ESPN.com (h/t CBS Sports): Sources indicate Derek [...]

When Pau Gasol exercises his player option and explores free agency this summer, he will have an opportunity to ditch the Chicago Bulls in an effort to latch onto a championship contender. That championship contender could be the San Antonio Spurs. Or so says his brother, Marc Gasol. From John Martin of 92.9 ESPN in [...]

The first round of the NBA playoffs has claimed another superstar. During the second half of the Los Angeles Clippers’ Game 4 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, Chris Paul exited after getting his hand caught in a jersey with what turned out to be a fractured right hand. He will most definitely need to [...]