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The Basketball Tournament (TBT), the $2 million, winner-take-all summer basketball event broadcast live on ESPN, announced today the schedule and venue locations for its fifth annual tournament, bringing the summer’s premier basketball event to Columbus, Ohio and Richmond, Va. for the first time, while returning to Atlanta, Baltimore, Brooklyn and Los Angeles. The ESPN networks [...]

Expect the Phoenix Suns to be busy bees this summer. During a Facebook live session on Monday, general manager Ryan McDonough tipped his hand on some of the team’s offseason plans. Scott Bordow of AZCentral.com relayed the most juicy takeaways, including this gem about the forthcoming coaching search—which interim head coach Jay Triano will indeed [...]

The Detroit Pistons are not going to make the playoffs. That much has become clear. Their chances were already plummeting, but they cratered even further following a loss to the Miami Heat. They then imploded after getting waxed by the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night. And coach-president Stan Van Gundy doesn’t care. On the heels [...]

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. [...]