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Less than one month after undergoing surgery to repair a torn ACL in his left knee, Kristaps Porzingis is up and walking on his own accord. Celebrate your hearts out, New York Knicks fans. You know, provided you’re into celebrating such things. Porzingis himself confirmed his status on Monday, in a way that seemed neither [...]

As if there wasn’t enough widespread change across the NBA this season with the league’s transition to Nike as the major apparel sponsor, a few teams are going to mix up their look for the 2018-19 season. One of these changes is extremely minor and honestly to my untrained eye looks pretty identical, the Grizzlies [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers have been on a roll. They have gone 17-9 in their past 26 games and have a top 10 offense and defense in that time. They are quietly giving a glimpse into what the future can be with their core of Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram and Kyle Kuzma with a little [...]

With the way the current system is set up, if you are a team that is hovering in the middle of the NBA hierarchy and don’t have a transcendent star to become a contender, the best course of action is usually to blow up your roster and start to rebuild. In order to do that [...]

We can finally put this one to bed I suppose. There have been murmurs and social media posts for months that would hint that Hayward would be able to make a miraculous recovery from his compound fracture that was suffered on opening night vs the Cavaliers, his first game as a Celtic. Hayward even shared [...]

The NBA news cycle never takes any days off. Not even during the Oscars. And not even when the subject matter is more than a half-year old. Enter Kyrie Irving’s trade to the Boston Celtics last August. According to actor Lil Rel Howery, the All-Star point guard found out about the deal while filming the [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers lost more than the game when they fell to the Denver Nuggets over the weekend. They lost Tristan Thompson for a while, too. From ESPN.com’s Dave McMenamin: Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson suffered a sprained right ankle in the Cavs’ 126-117 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Saturday and will miss “multiple games,” the team announced Sunday. [...]

If the Golden State Warriors spent the first 75 percent of the regular season in cruise control, they’re ready to wake up for the final one-quarter of the schedule. Who do we credit with their decision to express a suddenly deeper interest in regular-season results? Definitely Klay Thompson, an understated competitor who visibly cares about [...]

Joel Embiid wasted little time in using the Philadelphia 76ers’ victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night to his advantage. On the heels of his team’s 108-97 deconstruction of the reigning Eastern Conference champs, the expert-Instagrammer subtly began his public courtship of LeBron James: [tweet https://twitter.com/JoelEmbiid/status/969435565472010240] Is this tampering? It feels like tampering. Even [...]

Things have not been all rainbows and lollipops for Kawhi Leonard lately. He has only appeared in nine games this season with a quad and shoulder injury and seems to currently be caught up in a bizarre and confusing situation surrounding his health. He has been cleared by the Spurs for weeks but hasn’t returned [...]