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Dwight Howard has no plans to call it a season just yet. Following a Game 4 loss to the Golden State Warriors, the Houston Rockets are now on the brink, trailing the best regular season team in NBA history 3-1, a grave from which very few squads have ever escaped. But Howard doesn’t care. He [...]

Well, it finally happened: The Los Angeles Lakers fired Byron Scott. This move was inevitable. The timing, however, was a bit bizarre. The news came late Sunday night, long after top head coaching candidates Tom Thibodeau and Scott Brooks signed new deals with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Washington Wizards, respectively. If the Lakers were going [...]

Charles Barkley, the ever entertaining and unabashedly outspoken person that he is, is not a fan of the Houston Rockets. Barkley reacted to the news that Curry would miss Game 3 on TNT, by saying “it’s the Rockets, the Warriors don’t need Curry.” Even when the Rockets had a seven point halftime lead over the [...]

Is there a possibility that Avery Bradley returns from a right hamstring injury sooner than expected? In between his ears, maybe. In real life, no. The Boston Celtics won’t let him if it comes to that—specifically, president Danny Ainge won’t let him, per Chris Forsberg of ESPN.com: Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge [...]

If Shaun Livingston gets his way, he’ll be with the Golden State Warriors next season. And beyond. From Diamond Leung of the Bay Area News Group: “I want to stay here as long as I can,” Livingston said. “It’s a unique and special situation. A lot of guys including myself, I want to here for [...]

It was announced by the NBA Friday morning that third-year Blazers shooting guard C.J. McCollum has been named the NBA Most Improved Player for the 2015-16 season. [tweet https://twitter.com/excelsm/status/723517122358464512] McCollum basically tripled his output from the previous season in 20 more minutes per game, averaging 20.8 points, 4.3 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 1.2 steals in [...]

It wasn’t long ago that Scott Brooks was being criticized for his uninventive offensive sets with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now he’s wrapped up a brief, yet poignant tenure as one of the NBA’s top head coaching candidates. Taking one year off sure changes a lot, doesn’t it? In Brooks’ case, absolutely. He was always [...]

Paul Pierce is not pulling a Kobe Bryant and announcing his retirement. Not yet, anyway. Chris Mannix provided the following tidbit for The Vertical: One more run for Paul Pierce, and maybe that will be the end of it. Pierce won’t reveal much about his future – “The last few years it has been an [...]

Say goodbye to Hack-a-Shaq. It’s all but gone. From Tim Bontemps of The Washington Post: After years of debate over whether the strategy of fouling a weak free throw shooter in order to force him to take foul shots has a place in the NBA, it appears the league will find a way to eliminate [...]

Through two games in the Miami Heat’s first round series with the Charlotte Hornets they are averaging 119 points per game, shooting 57.8 percent from the field and 52.9 percent from the three point range. Although those numbers are a bit of an aberration and can’t be maintained over a larger sample size, it should [...]