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Never say Mike D’Antoni doesn’t have faith in his players. Nick Young has been everything the Los Angeles Lakers expected him to be. Or rather, what they should have expected him to be. Inconsistent, deadly, maddening—he’s been Nick Young, the player you can never quite comprehend. Magic Mike, however, is trying to put a label [...]

Anderson Varejao must consider himself an optimist. That, or he’s blissfully ignorant and overrating the allure of playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron James returned “home” on Thanksgiving eve, just in time to set the table in his Ohio mansion, baste the turkey and carve up his former team. The Miami Heat took down Kyrie [...]

As if you needed any more reasons to adore the towering Yao Ming. Yao technically spent nine seasons in the NBA, but foot injuries permitted him to play in only eight of those. Then, following a 2010-11 campaign in which played just five games, he retired. Foot injuries. More of them. Not fair. But while [...]

During his playing days, Jason Kidd was known as one of the most savviest ballers on the planet, every bit as cerebral as well as deft ball handler and pinpoint passer. That’s part of the reason Mikhail Prokhorov decided to sign Kidd as the Nets newest head coach following his retirement last season. But the [...]

Good news New York Knicks fans—Carmelo Anthony knows that Kobe Bryant is old. The Black Mamba has signed a fresh new two-year, $48.5 million extension with the Los Angeles Lakers, ensuring that he won’t join the NBA’s free-agent ranks this summer. What it’s also done is allow the Lakers to start thinking big picture. Before, [...]

Rajon Rondo is back. Almost. The Boston Celtics All-Star point guard has been sidelined since the middle of last season with an ACL injury, and his return has been uncertain. According to the Boston Globe‘s Baxter Holmes, however, that’s on the verge of changing. A source told Holmes that Rondo is dunking again in practice [...]

Well, that makes one of us. I jest. I’m actually with New York Knicks owner James Dolan on this one—shocking, I know. In a one-on-one interview with the New York Post‘s Mike Vaccaro, Dolan broke his media-averse silence and touched upon a number of things. From the Knicks and New York Rangers to his band [...]

It’s no secret around NBA circles that disgruntled Houston Rockets center Omer Asik and New York Knicks guard Iman Shumpert are the early favorites to be dealt by the NBA’s trade deadline. Although the league’s cut off point for trades isn’t until February 20th, I think it would be a safe bet that both players [...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder’s playoff and finals hopes collapsed abruptly when Russell Westbrook went down with a knee injury on April 24th in game 2 of the Thunder’s first round series against the Houston Rockets, after he was sideswiped by then rookie Patrick Beverly. Once James Harden was sent to Houston, many have proclaimed the [...]

Vince Carter is on to something here. Dwight Howard has been called a lot of things during his time in the NBA. With the Orlando Magic, he was a savior, superstar, cornerstone and, by the end, quintessential jackass. With the Los Angeles Lakers he was God, Satan and a coward. With the Houston Rockets he’s [...]