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Ah, what could have been. Isaiah Thomas was apparently a wanted man during the 2014 NBA free-agency period. Well, not by the Kings. But the Lakers and (obviously) the Suns were both interested. And so, too, were the Celtics. Here’s Green Street’s Ben Rohrbach with more: Other than the late addition of Evan Turner at [...]

Nice calves. Dude, where’s your pogo-sticking vampire squid? The Spurs are interested in making a free-agency splash. Those are all things you don’t hear everyday. Lucky for you, today is not everyday. No, you don’t have nice calves. Get over it. And if you have a pogo-sticking vampire squid, hit me up on Twitter or [...]

In the Dallas Mavericks’ 107-80 Monday victory over the Charlotte Hornets, their 7-foot center from Germany—Dirk Nowitzki—reached an impressive milestone on being the fourth player in NBA history to tally 27,000 career points with a single team. With exactly 6:07 remaining in the third quarter, Nowitzki hit a jumper to clinch the 27,000 point mark [...]

The NBA has announced today that the Sacramento Kings have filed a protest regarding their controversial 111-110 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on November 13 at the FedEx forum. With 0.3 seconds left in the game, Vince Carter through the inbound pass to Courtney Lee, which led to a buzzer-beating layup that sealed the game [...]

Not even playing alongside LeBron James safeguards Kevin Love against Lakers rumors. The free-agent-to-be has been heavily linked to the Lakers since last season. He was born in Santa Monica (raised in Oregon), attended UCLA, unhappy in Minnesota and barreling towards the open market. It was only a matter of time before Love put on [...]

As the 2014-2015 NBA season gets underway, everyone already wants to know how it will end. Will the San Antonio Spurs repeat? Will Cleveland finally win one? When will big market franchises in the basement (Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks, and the Philadelphia 76ers) return to contention? Back on top, the Spurs [...]

It’s not what the Chicago Bulls -or their fan base- wanted to hear after Thursday nights 100-93 victory over the Toronto Raptors, but it seems to be the harsh reality facing this team. Star point guard Derrick Rose is injured again. He suffered a left hamstring injury with less than two minutes remaining in the [...]

NBA owners ’round the Association: Duck! Michele Roberts, the NBA Players Association’s Director, has her guns out…and she’s firing away. Since making history in July by becoming the first female union chief in major North American sports history, Roberts has been making waves. She’s been speaking out in favor of players and against a salary [...]

It’s better to have admired and lost than to have never admired at all. Remember that, Dwight Howard. Too much has been made of Howard’s decision to the leave the Lakers and, more pointedly, Kobe Bryant during free agency in 2013. The relationship between these two superstars has been painted as something either tenuous or [...]

Here we go again. Related: Ughhhhhh. It’s not every year the Knicks have cap space. Rare is the offseason they actually have it. If they’re supposed have it, they tend to pull the trigger on a cap-clogging deal (see: Carmelo Anthony in 2011). If they do have it, they dream wild dreams—whimsical ambitions that typically [...]