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The Oklahoma City Thunder are not the Golden State Warriors or San Antonio Spurs, but they’re trying like hell to keep pace with them. And they’re doing a pretty good job. Oklahoma City has spent most of the season vacillating between being the third- and fourth-best team in the league. If and when the Thunder [...]

Kevin Garnett has no qualms with Minnesota Timberwolves interim head coach Sam Mitchell. He may be in the minority. Still, what the 39-year-old forward is saying matters. The Timberwolves essentially employ him as a player coach—that powerful voice and steadying presence who commands respect in the locker room and the ears of young stars. What [...]

When it comes to the Boston Celtics’ haircut game, head coach Brad Stevens doesn’t hesitate to give his stamp of approval. Talking with Brian Robb for Bleacher Report, Stevens refused to choose a player with whom he would trade hairdos. He did, however, indicate he was proud of his team for acing the barbershop test: [...]

Family first, basketball second. That’s the motto that most guys in the league live by. Tony Parker appears to be one of them. The Rio Olympics are right around the corner and guys love nothing better than to suit up for their homeland. That’s typically what the Spurs PG does every four years, but he [...]

With Peyton Manning more than likely playing in his last NFL game this Sunday it got me thinking about all of the great NBA superstars of the 2000s era whose careers are quickly coming to an end. Many of the players, people like myself grew up watching and competing for titles and NBA awards, may [...]

I know every single NBA fan just re-read that headline three of four times as their eyes got bigger and then they made the Home Alone face… According to a recent report from NBA information breaker extraordinaire Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports in his “The Vertical” podcast, the Warriors are not only in the mix [...]

According to Yahoo Sports, Suns second-year forward T.J. Warren will miss the remainder of the 2015-16 season with a broken foot. [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/694635996265193472] Things continue to spiral downward for the Phoenix Suns as they continue to suffer through its most tumultuous year in its franchise history. Warren joins Eric Bledsoe as important players from the [...]

It should be clear to anybody not too wrapped up in the Porzingis mania that Karl-Anthony Towns is living up to his billing as the number one draft pick. He is easily the best rookie in the NBA this season. Through 48 games Towns is averaging 16.6 points, 9.9 rebounds 1.8 blocks and 1.4 assists [...]

Al Horford likes what the Atlanta Hawks are doing. Does he like it enough to stick around this summer, when he enters free agency? We’ll just have to wait and see. Per Marc J. Spears of Yahoo Sports: “The city itself is a great city,” Horford told Yahoo Sports. “People are great. This Hawks’ organization [...]

Historically great NBA teams tend to downplay being historically great or having a shot to be historically great. Not the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors. It didn’t take long for people to start talking about them surpassing the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record of 72 wins. The Warriors won 67 tilts last year, were talking about winning [...]