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Kenny Atkinson is in Brooklyn. Tom Thibodeau is in Minnesota. Scott Brooks is in Washington…if he wants to be. With other teams scooping up available coaching candidates like crazy, the Wizards have apparently offered Brooks their head coaching gig, according to The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski: Washington Wizards general manager Ernie Grunfeld met with Scott Brooks [...]

The world was a much different place in 1986. Gas cost $.89 a gallon, the average cost of a new home was $89,000, Madonna and Tom Cruise were on the top of their games, Larry Bird was on top of the basketball world and Michael Jordan wasn’t quite Michael Jordan yet. Jordan had yet to [...]

Tuesday night was a rough night to be an NBA fan. There were two playoff games on the docket, game 2 of the Hawks and Celtics in Atlanta and Game 2 of the Spurs and Grizzlies in San Antonio, neither offered much in the way of drama or entertainment. The Hawks beat the Celtics 89-72 [...]

Tim Duncan has played 19 seasons in the NBA and has made the postseason in all of those 19 seasons, winning five NBA titles and making six NBA Finals appearances in that time period. That means The Big Fundamental has played in a lot of playoff games, 243 to be exact. Something happened in the [...]

Looking for a cryptic update on the ankle injury that prevented Stephen Curry from participating in the Golden State Warriors’ Game 2 victory over the Houston Rockets? Look no further. Per Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated: [tweet https://twitter.com/MarcJSpearsESPN/status/722539196900974592] This is slightly comforting, yet still concerning. Concrete updates aren’t being given, which, despite these pleasantly [...]

Now that the shimmer from the Dallas Mavericks’ Game 2 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder has partially faded, we can return to reality and admit to truths that remain evident. The Dallas Mavericks are screwed. Yes, Game 2 was fun. It was glorious. But the Mavericks cannot bank on repeat performances of that nature. [...]

Two NBA head coaching vacancies have now been filled. The Brooklyn Nets already hired Atlanta Hawks assistant Kenny Atkinson, a sneaky-great choice, and the Phoenix Suns have now named interim head coach Earl Watson their indefinite head honcho, per a team release that, by normal standards, went nearly unnoticed: The Phoenix Suns have reached an [...]

Mike Woodson may be coming to an NBA sideline near you…as a head coach…provided you live in Sacramento. As the Sacramento Kings begin their search for George Karl’s replacement, sources told The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski that Woodson looms as a serious candidate for the position: As part of a broad search process for a head [...]

If you want the inside scoop on what Kevin Durant is planning to do in NBA free agency this summer, don’t ask his mom. She doesn’t appear to know much more than we do. From CSN Mid-Atlantic’s Ben Standig (h/t The Oklahoman): Wanda Pratt, known by most as Kevin Durant’s mother, stopped by NBC4’s headquarters [...]

So much for Golden State Warriors assistant Luke Walton already turning down the New York Knicks’ head coaching gig. Various reports have been floating around over the last couple of days, most of them alleging some version of the same thing: The Knicks talked to Walton about or flat-out offered him their head coaching job [...]