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The Denver Nuggets haven’t sent anyone to the NBA’s All-Star game since Carmelo Anthony was traded to the New York Knicks midway through the 2010-11 season. Current head coach Mike Malone thinks that should change this year, or next year, or sometime in the near future Danilo Gallinari has entered man-alive mode during the month [...]

Jimmy Butler has been playing out of his mind as of late and keeps showing how high his ceiling actually is, as he is a bonafide NBA superstar these days. Butler scored 53 points in the Bulls 115-11 comeback victory over the 76ers Thursday night. Butler shot 15 of the 30 from the field, including [...]

By now you know the San Antonio Spurs are kind of good at this whole basketball thing. Though the Golden State Warriors’ pursuit of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record 72 victories has justifiably earned much of the spotlight, the Spurs themselves are on pace to win 70 games, mostly because they’re the freaking Spurs, but [...]

Nicolas Batum seems pretty excited about hitting the NBA’s free agent market this summer. This is not to say he’s plotting his escape from the Charlotte Hornets, who acquired him from the Portland Trail Blazers over the summer, presumably with every intention of investing in him long term. But that investment is going to cost [...]

Michael Jordan is going to be pissed. Kobe Bryant, Jordan’s surrogate little brother, gave some encouragement to Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors following the Los Angeles Lakers’ 116-98 loss to the NBA’s best, per ESPN.com’s Baxter Holmes: “You guys have got to go ahead and make history,” Bryant told Curry. “I got to [...]

Gary Vitti, the Los Angeles Lakers’ head athletic trainer, wants Kobe Bryant to take a couple of weeks off. Clearly, he should know better. Vitti has worked with the Lakers since before Bryant, so he has been with the Black Mamba for his entire career. He knows by now that convincing Kobe to sit is [...]

J.J. Redick and Chris Paul are cool. But it wasn’t always like this. Paul played for Wake Forest in college, while Redick spent his time at Duke. Their collegiate careers overlapped for two seasons, so it’s only natural that they were arch rivals, because their schools are notorious enemies. “Arch rivals” might be putting it [...]

Next time you think about tweeting or writing something pertaining to any specific athlete, remember this piece of advice: Some of them are watching, perhaps ready to respond. A select few of those serial watchers are also ready to passive aggressively let you know they’re watching. Which brings us to C.J. McCollum, who recently liked [...]

David Blatt is at it again. No, the Cleveland Cavaliers head honcho isn’t spouting fighter-pilot analogies. He is, however, comparing San Antonio Spurs jack of all tradesman Boris Diaw to English singer and songwriter David Bowie, who just passed away on Jan. 10. From Fran Blinebury of NBA.com: David Blatt just compared Boris Diaw to [...]

Is Tom Thibodeau a glutton for punishment? We’re about to find out. After canning Lionel Hollins and reassigning general manager Billy King, the Brooklyn Nets’ search for replacements are underway. And while Kentucky head coach John Calipari has been haphazardly thrown into the mix by any writer with a platform, the Nets appear to have [...]