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The Chicago Bulls have just five games to play and Derrick Rose continues to sit on the sidelines. Something must be wrong. And there is. It’s Rose’s knee. Not his relationship with the organization. With the former NBA MVP still out of action, fans and pundits have grown impatient. He’s cleared to play and we’ve [...]

Max contracts usually solve everything, just not in the case of Eric Gordon. After receiving a four-year deal worth $58 million from the New Orleans Hornets this past summer, Gordon has pouted, been injured and, most recently, engaged in a shouting match with head coach Monty Williams. Oh, and he’s essentially been put back on [...]

Pretty much everything we know about the Los Angeles Lakers’ Metta World Peace defies sheer logic, so it should come as no surprise that he’s planning on returning to the court soon. Really soon. Like now. Okay, it’s still surprising. Per Sam Amick of USA Today,World Peace plans to suit up and ultimately play in [...]

Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before, because I know you have. With the Dallas Mavericks unlikely to make the NBA playoffs this season, and Dirk Nowitzki eligible to become a free agent after next year, it’s about time we turned his future in Big D into a hot mess. Okay, it really [...]

Gary Payton’s election to the Basketball Hall of Fame is a fitting final chapter for one of the greatest guards in NBA history. A product of Oakland, California, Payton was maybe the grittiest defender and greatest trash-talking point guard of all-time. During his 17-year career (1990-2007), Payton, also known as “GP” and “The Glove,” averaged: [...]

More fuel has been added to the “Fire Byron Scott” fire in Cleveland. When asked if he supports the Cleveland Cavaliers’ head coach, Kyrie Irving declined to go into any detail (via Tom Reed of The Plain Dealer): There’s ample speculation about the future of coach Byron Scott with the Cavaliers, but his star player [...]

Who is your ‘Top NBA Point Guard of All-time’? [...]

It’s been a tremendous regular season in the NBA when it comes to winning streaks. Early in the year, it was the LA Clippers and OKC Thunder that made the double digit winning streak en vogue.  Then it was the reigning NBA Champion Miami Heat that made a legitimate run at the LA Lakers’ all [...]

Kevin Durant would like to bestow the NBA’s scoring title upon Carmelo Anthony. Okay, that’s a bit much, but he doesn’t mind if Anthony winds up winning it. Per Royce Young of dailythunder.com, Melo can have the scoring title if he wants it: KD on the scoring title race with Carmelo Anthony: “He can have [...]

Well, this doesn’t look pretty. Late in the second quarter of the Denver Nuggets’ eventual win over the Dallas Mavericks, Danilo Gallinari took Dirk Nowitzki off the dribble with his left hand when suddenly, what seemed like an open path to the basket turned into a potentially season-ending injury. Gallo’s left knee buckled in toward [...]