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Kevin Love is reportedly looking ahead. Really, really far ahead. According to NBA.com’s Sam Smith, Love already has a list of preferred 2015 free-agency destinations that includes the Knicks and Lakers: Now the Timberwolves face the issue teams have with LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Deron Williams and Dwight Howard: Trade him now or this summer [...]

Andrew Bynum is quite the headline-grabber these days. After his stint went horribly wrong with the Cleveland Cavaliers, he was traded to the Chicago Bulls, who subsequently waived him. Now he’s an unrestricted free agent, able to sign with the team of choosing, likely for a minimum salary. How did we get here? Seriously, how [...]

One of the biggest surprises of the season has been the top-seeded Portland Trailblazers. We even shone some light on them in our weekly THD Video series. 7-year veteran LaMarcus Aldridge has expanded his game, and, as a result, he’s enjoying his best professional season. His running mate and partner in crime is 2nd year [...]

Mark Cuban is going to love this one. After New Orleans Pelicans’ Austin Rivers was hammered by Dallas Mavericks Monta Ellis on a game tying three point attempt Saturday night in the closing seconds of the Mavs 110-107 victory, the internet basically exploded. Minds were blown, as the clear foul which could be seen clearly [...]

LeBron James has been here before. Playing great basketball for a team not quite good enough, all the while refusing to provide assurances about his future as he prepares to enter unrestricted free agency—LeBron’s been here before, where Carmelo Anthony is now. To an extent, LeBron himself is there now. Or rather, he should be. [...]

Far from lost in the excitement of the New York Knicks’ victory over the Miami Heat was J.R. Smith, the ever-erratic shooting guard turned punchline. Quite literally, he was lost. For the entire game. Knicks coach Mike Woodson didn’t play Smith Thursday night following his latest gaffe, a $50,000 fine for “recurrent instances of unsportsmanlike [...]

Don’t you just love a feel-good, we’re-miles-apart-but-still-stay-in-touch-story? Jeremy Lin and Mike D’Antoni are still friends, in case you had any doubts the coach who paved the way for Linsanity was out of touch with one of his former pupils. Speaking with reporters ahead of the Houston Rockets’ 113-99 win over the Los Angeles Lakers, Lin [...]

Impossible might not be the perfect word, but it’s pretty damn close. The New York Knicks are reportedly shopping J.R. Smith, the mercurial shooting guard and reigning Sixth Man of the Year who was just fined $50,000 for a peculiar shoelace fetish, according to ESPN’s Marc Stein and Ian Begley. From ESPN New York: While [...]

In the short term, the Cleveland Cavaliers appear to be the immediate winners of this week’s Andrew Bynum for Luol Deng trade. For at least the rest of this season, the Cavs get an All Star caliber small forward in Deng that quite possibly could help get Cleveland back into the Playoffs for the first [...]

15 time NBA All Star Kobe Bryant has undoubtedly been going through the roughest stretch of his career, first rehabbing from a torn Achilles sustained late last season and now is out for a length of time with a fracture in his left knee. After coming back sooner than expected from the original injury Kobe [...]