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Will J.R. Smith ever learn? Vince Carter doesn’t care. Early in the fourth quarter of the Dallas Mavericks 110-108 victory over the New York Knicks Monday night, Smith yanked Carter’s headband as he was running down the court. Why? Because he’s J.R. Smith, headband-tugging, shoelace-untying extraordinaire. Video of the “incident” can be seen below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1lvd2VtY5Q#t=10 [...]

Rajon Rondo isn’t making tons of friends this week. That is, unless there are people inside and outside the Boston Celtics organization in love with the idea of miscommunication and stubborn refusals to provide explanations. News surfaced last weekend that Rondo skipped the Celtics’ trip to face the Sacramento Kings per The Boston Globe‘s Gary [...]

Danny Granger may be on the move. Again. Upon being traded from the Indiana Pacers to Philadelphia 76ers, you got the sense Granger, a former All-Star, wouldn’t be sticking around for long. And according to The Inquirer‘s Keith Pompey, that’s still expected to be the case: Danny Granger’s status with the 76ers could be resolved [...]

Oh, Knicks. Some bad things you believe will get better. The New York Knicks aren’t one of those bad things. Leading up and into the Feb. 20 trade deadline, the Knicks were unable to broker a deal, though not for lack of trying. Iman Shumpert, the injury-prone third-year guard who routinely falls out of favor [...]

Kenneth Faried knows how to handle trade rumors. Leading up to the Feb. 20 trade deadline, the third-year forward was linked to plenty of scuttlebutt. Nothing ever came to fruition, so he remains a member of the (slumping) Denver Nuggets. Still, incessant rumors can damage a player’s psyche. Look at Iman Shumpert of the New [...]

This is kind of awesome. P.J. Tucker of the continuously surprising Phoenix Suns was fined $5,000 by the NBA for his second flopping offense, the league announced on Wednesday. Video of his flop can be seen below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNOwlxIi2kI Funny thing about Wednesday, though: It was also the day before the NBA’s Feb. 20 trade deadline, [...]

Take that, Iman Shumpert’s market value. The New York Knicks’ third-year injured shooting guard was dangled just about everywhere leading up to the NBA’s trade deadline. Thursday’s 3 p.m. ET deadline came and went, however, and Shumpert was left with the Knicks (and still injured). Shumpert’s continued presence wasn’t for lack of trying to ship [...]

Kevin Love is really good at pointing out the obvious. During an interview with GQ‘s Steve Marsh, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ 2015 free-agent-to-be was of course asked about his future, which was of course tied to the Los Angeles Lakers, so of course Love was forced to address the issue and of course his response was [...]

Congratulations everyone! We haven’t forced you to slog through Dwight Howard- and Los Angeles Lakers-centric drama in quite awhile. Like all good streaks, though, this one too must come to an end. Now. Before returning to Los Angeles for the first time since signing with the Houston Rockets in free agency, Howard was naturally asked [...]

Wow. The New York Knicks are a mess. Let’s not mince words. They’re 12 games under .500, outside the Eastern Conference’s ugly playoff picture and now pursuing unrealistic trades like a child pursues oversized lollipops in a candy store. But don’t worry, because at least Mike Woodson is safe(ish). Raymond Felton, on the other hand, [...]