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From winning an Eastern Conference best 60 games last season, to considering a miniature teardown this season, the Atlanta Hawks have come a long way. The wrong way. According to ESPN.com’s Kevin Arnovitz and Brian Windhorst, the Hawks are weighing whether they should sell off three of last year’s four All-Stars: The Atlanta Hawks are [...]

According to rumors that surfaced just over a week ago, the Hawks seem to be willing to move their longest tenured player and leader Al Horford if the right deal presents itself. [tweet https://twitter.com/CBSSportsNBA/status/694392460080844800] According to other reports, the Celtics have been aggressive in pursuing Horford and have inquired about point guard Jeff Teague as [...]

Does Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers still think the Golden State Warriors are lucky? Insofar as employing Stephen Curry is lucky, yes. So, yes. ESPN.com picked the brains of Rivers, New York Knicks legend Walt Clyde Frazier, Milwaukee Bucks head coach Jason Kidd, Philadelphia 76ers head coach Brett Brown and Miami Heat big [...]

February 9, 1992 is a memorable and important day in NBA and pop culture history. Magic Johnson came out of retirement three months after testing positive for HIV and won the MVP award of the 1992 NBA All-Star Game. This was an important moment in history. Magic Johnson was the first superstar athlete to come [...]

In hindsight, Phil Jackson’s decision to fire New York Knicks head coach Derek Fisher seemed to be a long time coming. It didn’t feel that way at first. Fisher is a Jackson disciple. He was Phil’s second choice to man the Knicks after Steve Kerr committed to the Golden State Warriors. The Knicks were a [...]

Kevin Durant signing with the New York Knicks in 2016 free agency is a pipe dream. Russell Westbrook joining New York as a free agent in 2017? Now that’s possible. Supposedly. Here’s Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports: The Knicks have a real chance to sell Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook in 2017 – New York and [...]

Plenty of NBA fans will miss Kobe Bryant when he hangs up his kicks for good after this season. And LeBron James is among them. Ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Wednesday night tilt with the Los Angeles Lakers, James described his respect for the Black Mamba and admitted that seeing him go at the end [...]

David Blatt could hate Tyronn Lue. He could see him as part of the reason why he lost his job with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He could resent him, despise him, ignore him, wholly refusing to acknowledge his existence, save for the occasionally subtle swipe at his character. Lue, after all, was Blatt’s assistant, and one [...]

What, you didn’t think the Sacramento Kings were going to let the New York Knicks have all the fun, did you? Head coach George Karl has been on the hot seat for a while and, apparently, won’t have to wait much longer for a decision to be made on his future. The Kings have already [...]

Kevin Durant hasn’t entertained many questions pertaining to this summer’s foray into free agency. But he readily admits he’s thinking about it—or rather, that he’s trying really, really hard not to think about it. From Michael Singer of USA Today: “It’s hard for it not to enter your mind,” he said. “There’s a lot of [...]