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One game, one measly game, versus the Utah Jazz, on Wednesday night. This is all that’s left of Kobe Bryant’s NBA career. One game. One stinking game. And while it’s unlikely that the sinking Lakers upend a Jazz team that will be desperately trying to save its playoff life, head coach Byron Scott wants to [...]

Hassan Whiteside is back in the Miami Heat’s starting lineup. The big man made his return to the starting five for the first time since Jan. 20 in the Heat’s Sunday night drubbing of the Orlando Magic. And, per Manny Navvaro of the Miami Herald, the change is expected to be a permanent one: He [...]

Stop asking Jimmy Butler about his relationship with Derrick Rose. The Chicago Bulls’ duo has faced plenty of questions over the last year. Their ties have been painted as less than cordial in the past—fodder for the rumor mill and evidence of why the Bulls are so far from where they’re expected to be. But [...]

Jrue Holiday’s road back to the basketball court is officially underway. Again. The New Orleans Pelicans announced on Monday that their point guard underwent successful surgery on his right eye, per Brett Dawson of The Advocate: [tweet https://twitter.com/BDawsonWrites/status/719673130013356032] Holiday, a former Eastern Conference All-Star, has battled a ton of injuries since arriving in New Orleans. [...]

Heads will roll once the Washington Wizards officially wrap up a disastrous 2015-16 season. And it looks like head coach Randy Wittman will be the first form of collateral damage. Brian Windhorst of ESPN.com made an appearance on ESPN 980’s The Tony Kornheiser Show (h/t CBS Sports’ James Herbert), during which he painted Wittman’s exit [...]

James Harden has asked Kobe Bryant for a favor. Following the Houston Rockets’ 130-110 shellacking of the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday, Harden and Kobe shared a private a moment, per Mark Berman of Fox 26 in Houston: [tweet https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/status/719301215532613632] All of us are always wondering what happens during these postgame confabs between stars, especially [...]

With the New York Knicks’ 2015-16 regular season winding down, Carmelo Anthony has been given many opportunities to distance himself from the organization’s rebuilding process—to provide a shadow of a doubt that he wishes to remain in the Big Apple. He hasn’t seized any of those opportunities. And that didn’t change following the Knicks’ loss [...]

The last night of the NBA season can either be an extreme bore, if all playoff berths and seedings are locked up and the majority of teams decided to rest their players, or the final night can be special. Usually a special closing night of the regular season is a result of a division crown [...]

Think Michael Jordan would be salty about the idea of the Golden State Warriors tying and then breaking the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record of 72 regular season victories? Think again. On the heels of Golden State’s Sunday night win over the San Antonio Spurs, Draymond Green revealed that Michael Jordan, now the owner of the [...]

Pau Gasol’s roller coaster relationship with the Chicago Bulls is intact. First, he was trade fodder at the deadline. Then, he was a pivotal part of this team’s immediate future. Now, he’s not sure what he is to the Bulls, or what the Bulls are to him. From ESPN.com’s Nick Friedell: After the Bulls’ 106-98 [...]