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Do you want to spend a day hanging with Boris Diaw and Manu Ginobili? Of course you do. Especially now. Ginobili tweeted the following photo ahead of the Thursday night drubbing the San Antonio Spurs handed out to the Phoenix Suns: Foto con nuestros clones en Phoenix esta mañana. With our clones this AM in [...]

The reigning NBA champion, historically good Golden State Warriors are back. Because, apparently, they left. Which is effing absurd. Draymond Green offered some pointed words following the Warriors’ shellacking of the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night that should terrify the rest of the NBA. From the Washington Post‘s Tim Bontemps: “We kind of have that [...]

Mike Conley will have no shortage of suitors when he hits the free agency market in July. And I’m only talking about NBA teams located in New York, not even the Memphis Grizzlies or the rest of the league. Sources told the New York Post‘s Marc Berman and Fred Kerber that both the Brooklyn Nets [...]

Most NBA players don’t sweat it if they’re not named as an All-Star starter. Anthony Davis may be among the select few who strongly lament their fan-vote slight. Here’s Eddie Scarito of Hoops Rumors: Davis needed a starting nod to trigger the Derrick Rose rule, which would have given him a salary of a projected [...]

According to recent reports from Steve Kyler of Yahoo Sports and Marc Stein of ESPN, the Lakers and Nuggets are actively trying to shop Roy Hibbert and J.J. Hickson. Roy Hibbert waived some of his trade kicker to land in LA… I was told Lakers trying to find him a playoff team. https://t.co/f0ulO2TqJB — Steve [...]

ESPN Reporter Nick Friedell caught up with some members of the 1995-96 Bulls team that won 72 games this week, interviewing Toni Kukoc, Bill Wennington and Randy Brown about whether they thought this year’s Warriors team could break their record or compete with the 95-96 Bulls in a hypothetical series. Kukoc had no doubts that [...]

Courtney Lee seems like a good guy—insofar as supplying much of the Memphis Grizzlies organization with Chipotle makes you a good guy. From Ronald Tillery of the Commercial Appeal: There’s at least one thing Courtney Lee loves more than making a 3-point shot. Chipotle. So it should come as no surprise that the shooting guard [...]

The Rockets-Pistons battle last night was not only highly entertaining and featured some classic performances but was also very bizarre. The Rockets trailed the Pistons by nine at halftime and employed the highly controversial “Hack-A-(insert player name)” strategy to new levels when fouling Drummond during the third quarter. They started seldom used second-year small forward [...]

Utah Jazz sophomore Dante Exum is progressing toward next season’s return. The operative words being “next” and “season’s.” Though the rangy guard, whom the Jazz selected fifth overall in 2014, still isn’t expected to play at all during the 2015-16 campaign after tearing his left ACL, he’s resuming some surface-level basketball activities. Here’s Aaron Falk [...]

Boris Diaw is a role model…for Manu Ginobili. Ever the energetic contributor, Diaw needs to get regular caffeine fixes. Jeff McDonald of the San Antonio Express-News recently relayed the story of how Biaw was rescued from drinking pre-game sludge the AT&T Center, the San Antonio Spurs’ home court, passed off as coffee. He now has [...]