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The Cleveland Cavaliers started the season without star point guard Kyrie Irving and top reserve Iman Shumpert, but the roster can’t escape injuries. Fortunately for the team, the upcoming schedule favors the Cavs. On Friday, the franchise announced center Timofey Mozgov (shoulder) and point guard Mo Williams (ankle) will be sidelined for two weeks and [...]

Anyone pulling for the New York Knicks to unload Jose Calderon ahead of the NBA’s February trade deadline might want to invest their sporting hopes in something else. Rookie sensation/Dirk Nowitzki-DeAndre Jordan hybrid/Future Hall of Famer/Eventual 10-time champion/Inevitable 12-time MVP Kristaps Porzingis loves Calderon, so that means the 34-year-old floor general isn’t going anywhere. This [...]

Ty Lawson is mostly fine with playing among the Houston Rockets’ second-stringers. A lot is going to change in the aftermath of the Rockets’ decision to fire head coach Kevin McHale. One of those tweaks, it seems, includes moving Ty Lawson to the bench. He started in each of Houston’s first 11 games this season, [...]

For a short while on Thursday night, it looked like the Golden State Warriors, trailing by as many as 23 points to the Los Angeles Clippers, were going to lose. They didn’t lose. They fought back. They flew around on the offensive end in the second half. Stephen Curry went off. Andre Iguodala hit big [...]

About that rift between LeBron James and Cleveland Cavaliers head coach David Blatt… It doesn’t exist. Not right now at least. The relationship between the two has been described as tenuous at best over the last year-plus. David Blatt was new to the NBA coaching scene last season, assuming control of a team that was [...]

Rudy Gobert takes no prisoners on Twitter. Late in the fourth quarter of the Utah Jazz’s 93-89 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night, DeMar DeRozan drove his way past Gordon Hayward. That’s typically no big deal. The Jazz have a tendency to funnel ball-handlers into the paint, blatantly daring them to score on [...]

NBA commissioner Adam Silver, much like Santa Clause, is always watching. On Twitter. The Wall Street Journal‘s Jason Gay talked social media shop with the NBA commish, discussing everything from the Association’s new League Pass features to its willingness to let viewers run wild with highlight clips. Tucked within the story is this nice little [...]

Dear Philly, I appreciate the out-of-the-box thinking that you had with Joel Embiid. I think it’s lovely that you saw athletic potential in this young man, and decided to bring him over to the US to play basketball. I like that, I really do. But he’s failed in his capacity as a player in the [...]

After a poor 2-9 start to the season, including 0-6 against Western Conference opponents, the Lakers aren’t exactly looking like championship contenders. It is common in the NBA to fire coaches after poor starts, and not necessarily give them the time of day in a cutthroat corporate-driven league where money is king, and winning begets [...]

Well, this is sort of new. Sergey Karasev isn’t a household name. He’s in his third NBA season, second with the Brooklyn Nets, and hasn’t even played a total of 750 minutes for his career. He’s appeared in just two game this year, and the Nets declined to pick up his option for next season. [...]