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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, [...]

Hopefully Stephen Curry enjoys surprises. The Los Angeles Clippers outlasted the Golden State Warriors Saturday night, won Game 7 and sent Mark Jackson’s squad home early. It happens. The Warriors advanced through to the second round as a sixth seed last season. They lost to a more talented Clippers faction this year. It just happens. [...]

After losing their first two games at home, the Houston Rockets were in a bad place. Only three teams in NBA history have managed to win a playoff series after losing the first two games at home– the 1969 Lakers, 1994 Rockets and the 2005 Mavericks– and LaMarcus Aldridge had just joined Kobe Bryant (2001) [...]

Nothing readies NBA players for the grind of up-and-down basketball like a piping hot cup of cocoa. Said no one ever. Except Washington Wizards point guard John Wall. The 23-year-old All-Star has a weird tradition: He drinks two McDonald’s hot chocolates every day. Every day. Even in the summer? Well, duh. The Washington Post‘s Dan [...]

Steve Kerr is a smart man. Already the favorite to become the New York Knicks’ next head coach, Kerr is doing his due diligence, making sure that he’s not entering a dumpster fire beyond Phil Jackson’s repair. There have been reports that he’s vetting the franchise culture before making a decision out of concern for [...]

Wave goodbye to Carlos Boozer at your own risk. Long considered an inevitable amnesty casualty, Boozer may have played his last game for the Chicago Bulls. At 32 and due nearly $17 million next season, he doesn’t fit into the Bulls’ plans long term, nor does he provide the offensive boon they once valued him [...]

Sometimes, dinner can be the most important meal of the day. That’s how it was for the New York Knicks on Tuesday night, when team president Phil Jackson and star free-agent-to-be Carmelo Anthony discussed the latter’s future while breaking bread, according to ESPN New York’s Ian Begley: New York Knicks president Phil Jackson met with [...]

Donald Sterling is out. Floyd Mayweather wants in. Because, of course. New NBA commissioner Adam Silver dropped the hammers of all hammers on Tuesday afternoon when he banned the Los Angeles Clippers owner for life while laying out his intent to force Sterling into selling the team. All of this comes after Sterling was recorded [...]

“Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been,” Author and former Professor Angela Davis said during an interview in 1999. On the heels of the racially charged and offensive comments made by Nevada Cattle Rancher Cliven Bundy, [...]