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It’s that time of year again. The field is set, the brackets are finalized, and college basketball fans are again in a frenzy for the 2014 edition of March Madness. The NCAA Tournament is easily the most anticipated postseason playoff system in all of sports as even the most casual hoops fan can’t resist filling [...]

Sorry, Mike Woodson. Despite Woodson still being in the New York Knicks’ employ, the team’s head coaching position has long been considered available. With Phil Jackson now running the show—or doing whatever it is he’ll actually be doing—that hasn’t changed. If Woodson is still haunting New York’s sidelines next season, it will likely be as [...]

Whoa. All we can say to this is, “Whoa.” Amid all this Phil Jackson and James Dolan business, some of us have forgotten about Carmelo Anthony’s impending free agency. Sort of. It’s been tabled, really. Anthony’s future cannot be dealt with until July, so there’s no use focusing on it now. More pressing things, such [...]

If Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck has his way, Rajon Rondo won’t be going anywhere. Speculation has run rampant with regards to Boston’s future. Trading Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce opened up the floodgates of conjecture. Would Rondo be next? Would the Celtics re-sign him? Would the point guard leave in free agency? Almost a [...]

Enough Phil Jackson talk. Let’s discuss Andrea Bargnani. You know Bargs. The bouncy-haired Italian who hasn’t played since Jan. 22. The one the New York Knicks gave up three draft picks, Steve Novak, Marcus Camby and Quentin Richardson for. Yeah, that Bargs. Well, according to Bleacher Report’s Howard Beck, Bargs is with the Knicks largely [...]

If Kobe Bryant’s will be done, then Mike D’Antoni’s tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers will soon be over. According to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney, Bryant wants the Lakers to hire a new coach before next season: ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith reported on Wednesday morning that he had heard D’Antoni would be out, and [...]

Phil Jackson apparently wants the world if he’s to sync up with the ever-dysfunctional New York Knicks. Rumors have flooded the airwaves, papers and Internet, most of them pointing toward the same thing: a union between the Zen Master and championship-starved, James Dolan-owned Knicks. But with all that’s going around, you’d have expected it to [...]

Could the next great NBA dyad already be planning an inevitable union? Don’t count on it, in part because Josh Smith and Rajon Rondo wouldn’t qualify as one of the great pairings; mostly because it’s just not going to happen. Before the Boston Celtics handed the Detroit Pistons another loss on Sunday evening, Smith openly [...]

New York Knicks head coach Mike Woodson isn’t happy that the Chicago Bulls’ Joakim Noah is trying to sell Carmelo Anthony on The Windy City. Because, duh. ESPN’s Chris Broussard brought word on Thursday that Noah started selling Anthony on Chicago while the two were in New Orleans for the NBA All-Star Game: Well, over [...]

Crap. Just crap. My apologies for ruining your day in advance, but according to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney—special thanks to Joe Flynn over at Bleacher Report—NBA league executives and “prominent” agents are expecting there to be another lockout in 2017: It is a little more than three years before the NBA’s current collective bargaining [...]