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Through 6 games in the 2015-16 NBA season the Los Angeles Lakers are 1-5 and Kobe Bryant is averaging 16-3-2 in 29 minutes per game while shooting 32% from the field and 20% from three. It is clear that the Black Mamba has almost no bite left and it is becoming increasingly clear that the [...]

All is not well for the Sacramento Kings, and DeMarcus Cousins, aka Boogie, aka DMC knows it. Sure, they’re off to a 1-7 start, a troubling start to the season for obvious reasons. And yes, Cousins only just returned from an Achilles injury. But their issues stretch much deeper. That’s how Cousins made it seem [...]

Daryl Morey has more respect for the Golden State Warriors than Doc Rivers. I kid, I kid. Just not about Morey’s respect for the reigning champs. That’s real. While appearing on The Doug Gottlieb Show on CBS Radio (h/t Larry Brown Sports), the Houston Rockets general manager said nothing but good things about the NBA’s [...]

The Brooklyn Nets aren’t about to cry over a little 0-7 start to the 2015-16 season. General manager Billy King will, however, listen to various trade proposals. The Nets are enduring some seriously turbulent times to start the year. They’re significantly less talented on paper than they were last season, and the absence of Deron [...]

The NBA is always searching for new ground to mine its gold from. They’re always looking for new markets. League marketing efforts behind players like Yao Ming or Jeremy Lin, without wanting to reduce their talent, were in part motivated by an attempt to start marketing the game and finding players out of China. And [...]

Even before the 2015-16 NBA season began, Kobe Bryant’s future was already a very hot topic of discussion. He will become an unrestricted free agent in July and has yet to make a decision on whether or not he’ll retire or continue playing for the purple and gold, or maybe even some other team. But [...]

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Kobe Bryant says a lot of things – being a Tinseltown basketball personality, they tend to. And recently, there’s been a lot of talk about the Mamba’s future, at 37. Kobe’s been nothing but a detractor for the Lakers this year, and it pains me to say that, given that I wear the number 24 [...]

It looks like the post-Dirk Nowitzki era will still be under the guidance of Rick Carlisle. The Dallas Mavericks have secured Carlisle’s presence on the sidelines all the way to the 2021-22 season after successfully reaching a five-year, $35 million dollar extension. From Marc Stein of ESPN.com: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/662385751317811200] [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/662386201542815744] This doesn’t only mean [...]

Hello basketball purists and historians, every week I will pick a date in history and share some of the more memorable moments that happened on that date in NBA history. Here is this date in NBA history for November 6. November 6, 1971 The Los Angeles Lakers won the first of what would end up [...]