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The Los Angeles Lakers are in no rush to replace Mike D’Antoni. While plenty of other NBA teams are in a mad dash, searching feverishly for their next head coach, the Lakers are going to take it easy and really dig into to this entire process. That’s the plan, anyway. General manager Mitch Kupchak sat [...]

Amar’e Stoudemire may, at some point over his last three decades of life, have stayed at a Holiday Inn one night. But that doesn’t mean he parades around claiming to know things he doesn’t. Because he doesn’t. Speaking on ESPN Radio’s The Herd with Cowerd, the New York Knicks forward was asked if he thought [...]

Everyone has one of those days, when at the end of it, all you want is a nice, tall, cold water. Er, I mean beer. Or bourbon. Or vodka. Any alcohol really. And why the hell not? Consumed in moderation, cocktails can help alleviate stress. I think. Maybe. For some people, most definitely. Los Angeles [...]

Stop what you’re doing. Stop everything you’re doing. This is important. Before the Portland Trail Blazers tipped off Game 2 of their second-round playoff series against the San Antonio Spurs, sophomore forward Thomas Robinson found an “intruder” in their locker room. It was a rattlesnake. True story. Heather Cox of ESPN elaborated on the situation [...]

Relationships between NBA coaches and players will never be the same. Not in Phoenix at least. During an interview with kosarka.si—the english transcription of which comes courtesy of HoopsHype—Suns point guard Goran Dragic revealed that he has an unconventional relationship with head coach Jeff Hornacek: Goran Dragic: Very special relationship. We spend a lot of [...]

Allow us to start with the truth: Neither Chris Bosh nor LeBron James is going to leave the Miami Heat in free agency. But it’s fun/interesting/perfectly normal/necessary to speculate. And that’s just what we’re doing here. According to FOX Spors’ Sam Amico, Bosh and the Los Angeles Lakers share interest in one another: I do [...]

For a team that got better each year that Mark Jackson was the Head Coach there sure was a lot of animosity and weird stuff being leaked from the Warriors camp. Assistant coaches were fired left and right and apparently at some point, according to BleacherReport.com, Head Consultant and Hall of Famer Jerry West was [...]

Another NBA team may be trying to pry Mike Krzyzewski from Duke. No, this isn’t a rumor from 2004. Or 1994. According to BasketballInsiders.com’s Steve Kyler, the Los Angeles Lakers reached out to Coach K, among a few other collegiate head honchos, about coming to Hollywood: The Lakers plan to be extremely thorough in their [...]

Not even 48 hours after falling to the San Antonio Spurs and being ousted from the NBA playoffs, the Dallas Mavericks are thinking big. Really big. The goal has been to keep Dirk Nowitzki’s championship window open for as long as possible. He’s a free agent this summer and is expected to accept a rather [...]

The Toronto Raptors continue their streak of good decisions. Trading Rudy Gay sparked a movement, a playoff berth, a shift in culture. General manager Masai Ujiri and friends have been making awesome decisions—not trading Kyle Lowry, for instance—ever since. According to The Toronto Star‘s Doug Smith, they don’t plan to buck that trend anytime soon, [...]