Minnesota Timberwolves rookie Karl-Anthony Towns plans on rivaling New York Knicks newbie Kristaps Porzingis for years to come. Make that decades to come. Following the Knicks’ Tuesday night victory over the Timberwolves, a game the marked the first time these two Rookie of the Year candidates squared off, Towns waxed optimism at the thought of [...]
December 17, 2015
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It has been obvious for quite some time now to the rest of the NBA that Derrick Rose neither is or will ever be the player he once was before numerous knee injuries. The incredibly explosive guard who could get up and down the floor at breakneck pace and explode to the rim and finish [...]
December 17, 2015
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With six points in the Clippers 103-90 win over the Bucks in Los Angeles Wednesday night, Paul Pierce became the 16th player in NBA history to reach 26,000 points for their career. Earlier this season his former teammate Kevin Garnett became the 15th player in NBA history to reach the milestone. Congratulations to The Truth! [...]
December 17, 2015
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Greivis Vasquez may have already played his last game for the Milwaukee Bucks. The 28-year-old point guard, whom the Bucks acquired in an offseason trade with the Toronto Raptors, hasn’t played in a game since late November while nursing an ankle injury that, per Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe, officially required surgery: #Bucks announce [...]
December 17, 2015
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Brandan Wright has made seven appearances for the Memphis Grizzlies, and he won’t be making his eighth anytime soon. The 28-year-old forward-center, whom the Grizzlies signed over the offseason, has been on the sidelines tending to a knee injury. Rest and rehabilitation was the prescribed recovery method for a while, but the diagnosis has since [...]
December 16, 2015
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Kyrie Irving is almost back, which is not to be confused with him actually being back. Because he’s not back. Only almost back, sans a concrete return date. We apparently needed that explanation, because no one can quite get a hold of when the Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star is returning. Irving has spouted off all the [...]
December 16, 2015
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According to Dwight Howard, Dwight Howard isn’t looking to move on from the Houston Rockets. You read that right. Rumors have started to surface that he isn’t entirely happy playing second fiddle to James Harden. This scuttlebutt sounds all too familiar to the hearsay emanating out of Staples Center back in 2012-13, when Howard was [...]
December 16, 2015
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If you have taken a look at the eastern conference standings lately you will notice 10 of the 6 teams in the conference are over .500 at this point which is a marked improvement from recent years as more than half of the conference has finished over 500. once since 2000. More than half of [...]
December 16, 2015
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Jerry Colangelo isn’t wasting any time in his attempt to reinvent the Philadelphia 76ers’ rebuild. Though some, including general manager Sam Hinkie, have acted like Jerry Colangelo’s installment is but a small piece to a bigger puzzle still being put together by Hinkie, it doesn’t take a recognized genius to see that substantial changes are [...]
December 16, 2015
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A word of advice to Uber drivers working in the Bay Area: Transport Andre Iguodala, Golden State Warriors swingman and last year’s NBA Finals MVP with care. If you don’t, your car is about to smell real bad real quick. Iguodala apparently had a less-than-flattering experience during an Uber ride of some sort. It’s not [...]
December 16, 2015
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