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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 [...]

Carmelo Anthony and the Knicks have been playing great of late and seem to have found their mojo. Melo had another great game at Madison Square Garden last night with 30 points, nine assists and seven rebounds on 13-for-20 shooting and 4-for-4 shooting from the free throw line. It was the Knicks second straight overtime [...]

“The Beard” has been known to fill up a stat sheet with his elite scoring ability and rebounding ability for a player at his position. He sets up teammates with his penetration and vision (when he wants to pass) and put on a historic performance in the Rockets 123-114 overtime loss to the Pistons last [...]

The Milwaukee Bucks? Trade Greg Monroe? Less than a season into his two-plus-one-year deal? Keep dreaming, dreamers. That’s the Bucks’ reaction to the notion they should deal the big man, anyway. Zach Lowe of ESPN.com floated the idea in a column last Friday, noting that Milwaukee isn’t actually shopping him: Parker will find NBA identity [...]

Kobe Bryant may be 37 years old, and he may be on his way out of the NBA, and he may be at least three seasons removed from playing at All-Star form, but he nevertheless has a message for his superstar peers, specifically in the Eastern Conference, who will join him in Toronto for the [...]

Ryan Anderson and Stan Van Gundy, together again? Yes, please. The Detroit Pistons have positioned themselves to be big spenders this summer. They delayed an extension for Andre Drummond, used the stretch provision on Josh Smith in 2014-15 and have a number of non-guaranteed and expiring contracts that will allow them to create max-contract space. [...]