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When the Orlando Magic hired head coach Scott Skiles over the summer, it was under the guise that he would try to win as many games as possible, as soon as possible. The Magic have responded by putting themselves on pace to nearly double last season’s win total and flirting with a playoff birth. They [...]

Sweet mother of all that’s ridiculous. Markieff Morris has seemed like a lock to be traded at some point this season for a while. The relationship between himself and the Phoenix Suns imploded once the team dealt his brother, Marcus, to the Detroit Pistons, and the Suns have re-entered NBA purgatory after losing Eric Bledsoe [...]

Carmelo Anthony was named to his ninth NBA All-Star team on Thursday, which is pretty cool. That he’s grabbed this many All-Star selections without ever making an NBA Finals appearance is not. At the same time, the company he joins is pretty damn esteemed, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: Melo now tied with Gervin & Nique [...]

Four Western Conference frontcourt players received more votes than Draymond Green and Blake Griffin. Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard and, naturally, Zaza Pachulia. WUT. It’s true. A late voting push thrust Pachulia ahead of Green and Griffin and almost into the All-Star festivities. He finished a mere 14,227 votes behind Leonard. Yes, this is [...]

It took an 11th hour voting surge, but Kyle Lowry finally did it. He edged out Kyrie Irving for a starter’s spot on the Eastern Conference’s All-Star roster. And Irving is totally cool with that. From Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com: He deserves it, man,” Irving said of Kyle Lowry. “It was going to be either [...]

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 [...]