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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 [...]

Expensive rentals suck, which is why the Cleveland Cavaliers hope to be more than a means to a different ending for Luol Deng. Cleveland traded Andrew Bynum’s contract and an assortment of draft picks to the Chicago Bulls for the two-time All-Star, in a deal announced by the Bulls themselves. That almost never happens. But [...]

This past June, the Portland Trailblazers were looking for another key piece of the puzzle to accelerate their rebuild and get back to being one of the premier teams in the Western Conference. To their amazement, star senior guard CJ McCollum, who has been favorably compared to an even better shooting Steph Curry, fell into [...]

Trade rumors can be a nasty business. The uncertainty they bring is just absurd, and no one has faced more uncertainty than Pau Gasol since 2011. The Los Angeles Lakers have dangled him every which way possible, forcing him to spend most of his days in limbo, waiting for word that his tenure in purple [...]

Moments like these are weird. You know the kind. Awkward, mean, pessimistic—the whole nine yards. This particular one has everything, courtesy of the Dallas Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki. Following Dallas’ loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, Nowitzki’s frustration culminated in a brutal admission, according to ESPN Dallas’ Tim MacMahon: “It’s a game we can’t lose,” Nowitzki [...]

Well, this is awkward. Kendrick Perkins, resident useless guy for the Oklahoma City Thunder, is cheesed off. Why you ask? Hint: It has nothing to do with the fact that the phrase “cheesed off” is outdated. Hasheem Thabeet met up with a bunch of OKC’s players and posted a photo of their festivities on Instagram. [...]

Drama, drama, drama. You knew this season was going to be tough for the New York Knicks. Not 10-21 and tied-for-the-third-worst-record-in-the-Eastern-Conference tough, but tough enough. Speculation was bound to ensue with Carmelo Anthony preparing to explore free agency for the first time of his career. You just knew it. But it wasn’t supposed to be [...]

This year’s prized crop of potential one-and-done immediate impact freshman like Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker, and Julius Randle have been every bit as good as expected. What we didn’t see coming is just how good some of the returning upperclassmen like Marcus Smart, Doug McDermott, and Shabazz Napier could be. Players like Kansas freshman Joel [...]