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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 [...]

News came down Thursday afternoon that the Washington Wizards have officially hired their top candidate to fill their head coaching vacancy, Scott Brooks. [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/723266137807552513] Brooks signed a five-year, $35 million contract with the Wizards. Scott Brooks was 338-207 in 7 seasons coaching the Oklahoma City Thunder, including three trips to the western conference finals [...]

Stanley Johnson made it his goal leading up to and during Game 2 to poke the proverbial bear that is LeBron James. All it has led to thus far is an angry and more amped up LeBron. King James visibly roared after dunking on Reggie Bullock in Game 2 and made a point to give [...]

The Charlotte Hornets now trail the Miami Heat 2-0 in their first-round playoff series. Things shouldn’t be able to get much worse. And yet, they did. Nicolas Batum suffered an ankle injury midway through the fourth quarter of Wednesday night’s loss and was unable to return. Afterward, per ESPN.com’s Justin Verrier, it sounded like he [...]

If the Houston Rockets get their way, Jeff Van Gundy will be their next head coach. We think. Problem is, we won’t know for a while, since Van Gundy won’t interview while a current head coach is in place. From The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski: Jeff Van Gundy has been the Houston Rockets’ No. 1 choice, [...]

Jimmy Butler and Derrick Rose are hardly considered one of the NBA’s dynamic duos. And, for their part, they’re trying to make sure that changes. As Jimmy Butler said, per The Chicago Tribune‘s Teddy Greenstein: Butler said he plans to workout with Derrick Rose in the offseason. “I think we will,” he said. “When we [...]

Chandler Parsons will not participate in the Dallas Mavericks’ 2016 postseason push as he recovers from right knee surgery. He is, however, hoping to partake in their next one. The 27-year-old Parsons holds a player option for next season, which he is expected to decline in order to reach free agency and capitalize on the [...]

We have been hearing rumors for months that the Timberwolves were honing in on their number one target to become the new coach of their franchise: Tom Thibodeau. In recent weeks it had been reported that Thibs also wanted some control over the front office and team in addition to leading the T’Wolves on the [...]