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Isaiah Thomas is happy to be a member of the Los Angeles Lakers…for now. After this season, though, all bets are off. In the most fundamental sense, both Thomas and the Lakers may be traveling two different paths. They’re trying to max out two superstars, including LeBron James, Thomas’ former teammate. The 5’9″ point guard, [...]

So, um, this is a little depressing. Worrisome, too. Kyrie Irving left the Boston Celtics’ Sunday loss to the Indiana Pacers with soreness in his left knee and is expected to miss some time as he rests up for the playoffs. That’s fine in a nutshell. The Celtics won’t catch the Toronto Raptors for first [...]

The eastern conference appears to be more wide open than it has been in a long time this season. The Celtics are dealing with injury issues and have not looked like the team that came out of the gate hot over the last few months, the Raptors are playing the best basketball in the history [...]

Kristaps Porzingis isn’t worried about his road to recovery from a season-ending ACL injury. He’s sure he’ll return to the New York Knicks as an All-Star. From ESPN.com’s Ian Begley: “I believe that I’m going to come back better and stronger,” Porzingis said Tuesday in his first public comments since he suffered a torn left [...]

The Cavaliers are meandering along around .500 at this point, trading wins with bad teams and loses with decent teams as they maintain their status in the middle of the eastern conference playoff standings at 38-28. LeBron James is feeling out his new teammates and doing so while continuing to seemingly reach new heights as [...]

We will not be seeing Kawhi Leonard return from a right quad injury and rescue the San Antonio Spurs’ playoff hopes. Not this week anyway. Though Leonard seemed like he was set to play in his first game since mid-January when the Spurs take on the New Orleans Pelicans this Thursday, his return has since [...]

LeBron James? LeBron James Jr.? In the NBA? At the same time? It could happen. And LeBron senior is hoping it does: [tweet https://twitter.com/espn/status/973268661325746177] This would be cool. As the LeBron Wire’s Chris Ross pointed out, the James boys would be the first father-son duo to play in the NBA together. That’d make for a [...]

The San Antonio Spurs haven’t missed the playoffs since 1997, and Chris Paul doesn’t see their decades-long streak of postseason berths ending now. Not even after they dropped to 10th place in the Western Conference following a loss to Paul’s league-best Houston Rockets. From the San Antonio Express-News‘ Tom Orsborn: “It is strange, real strange,” the [...]

The hits just keep on coming for the Boston Celtics. First, Kyrie Irving leaves their Sunday night loss with a knee injury that’s expected to keep him out of the lineup for at least a few games. Then, according to Yahoo Sports’ Shams Charania, they get word that rookie Daniel Theis will need season-ending surgery [...]

Luke Walton has a very high opinion of his Los Angeles Lakers. At six games under .500, the boys in purple and gold are displaced from the NBA’s playoff picture. They have not been mathematically eliminated just yet, but FiveThirtyEight gives them less than a one percent chance of joining the springtime fray. In an [...]