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Brace yourselves: More Sacramento Kings chatter is en route. Rumors have flooded the Internet over the past few days, once again painting a portrait of chaos inside the Kings’ organization. General manager Vlade Divac, however, is here to tell you that everything is cool, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein and Brian Windhorst: Sacramento Kings general manager [...]

Life is, by all appearances, good for the Cleveland Cavaliers. They are winners of seven straight leading into Friday night’s bout with the New York Knicks and own the Eastern Conference’s best record. LeBron James is playing defense like it’s 2010 and balling out on offense when he feels like it. (Though, I must ask, [...]

On Thursday night, as the buzzer sounded on the Suns’ 118-104 victory over the Clippers, Austin Rivers had a few choice words for Mirza Teletovic. I think. See, inside 15 seconds to play, with the shot clock turned off and the Suns already leading 115-104, Teletovic drilled a wide-open three. Rivers, the son of Clippers [...]

It’s not all that hard to figure out why DeMarre Carroll signed with the Toronto Raptors. It had to be because they offered him the most money ($60 million), right? Possibly. But it also could have been because they were the first ones to offer him any money at all. Carroll took some time to [...]

Golden State Warriors assistant coach-turned-interim head coach Luke Walton has a message for his team. Don’t get bored. It’s a message he delivered specifically during the Warriors’129-116 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves Thursday night, but it’s also a sentiment they should carry with them as the season progresses. Here’s what Walton had to say, with [...]

Jason Kidd has faith in Emmanuel Mudiay and is not afraid to show it. How much faith? Enough to predict that the Denver Nuggets’ rookie point guard will be better than most floor generals—including himself. From Christopher Dempsey of The Denver Posts: “At 19 years old, he’s very talented,” Kidd said. “He’s running the team, [...]

Well, this sucks. According to Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, the Denver Nuggets’ Wilson Chandler, who hasn’t played at all this season, will miss all of 2015-16 after undergoing hip surgery: Denver Nuggets forward Wilson Chandler will undergo hip surgery and miss the season, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Chandler has been diagnosed with a labral [...]

Who had “early November” in the “When will DeMarcus Cousins and Sacramento Kings head coach George Karl first butt heads in 2015-16” pool? OK, well, you won. Sources told The Big Lead’s Jason McIntyre that Cousins went on a profanity-packed rant aimed at Karl following the Kings’ 106-88 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on [...]

Karl-Anthony Towns is a monster. We knew the Minnesota Timberwolves selected a special talent at No. 1, someone who projected as the future of all big men, that three-point-shooting, rebound-wrangling, shot-blocking machine. But it was unclear how long it would take for him to develop into the complete package. He was mostly used as a [...]

Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs, it seems, owe Miami Heat president Pat Riley some sort of assorted wine and cheese and movie gift basket. It’s slightly because of him that LaMarcus Aldridge decided to leave the Portland Trail Blazers, spurn overtures from the Phoenix Suns and Dallas Mavericks, among others, and sign in [...]