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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 [...]

At the tender age of 39, Dirk Nowitzki is still building upon his 1st ballot hall of fame NBA career and moving his way up the all time ranks. He is currently 6th in NBA history in scoring with more than 31,000 points and he moved to 8th on the all-time field goals list over [...]

Kobe Bryant can add another groundbreaking accomplishment in a life full of them. Not only did he have a hall of fame basketball career, he also won an Oscar on Sunday night. Bryant’s film, “Dear Basketball” was given the award for Best Animated Short Film at the 90th Academy Awards beating out Negative Space, Lou, [...]

More injury woes for a Clippers team fighting to make the postseason. Starting forward and oft-injured Danilo Gallinari is back on the shelf again for the next few weeks. [tweet https://twitter.com/MikeSGallagher/status/969755657061609472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Gallinari has only appeared in 19 of a possible 61 games this season, averaging 15.9 points per game after signing a three-year, $64 million [...]

Marc Gasol was not a happy camper on Wednesday, with the Memphis Grizzlies entering their tilt against the Phoenix Suns having lost 10 straight. He’s not about to feel any better now, knowing they lost again, to make it 11 straight letdowns. Here’s what Big Spain had to say, per the Commercial Appeal (via Bleacher Report’s Tyler [...]

Brandon Ingram has been good lately. How good, you ask? So good, he has certain people around the NBA believing he’ll be better than Rookie of the Year favorite Ben Simmons. From The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor (h/t Lakers Nation): Brandon Ingram is rolling. A few execs told me at @SloanSportsConf they think Ingram will end [...]

Everything is cool between Hassan Whiteside and Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra. Finally. Whiteside and the Heat entered the All-Star break traversing what appeared to be a slippery slope. He was averaging under 25 minutes per game in the nine contests leading into the midseason sabbatical and was, by many appearances, visibly unhappy with [...]

LeBron James is 33 years, in his 15th season in the NBA and he still is playing at an elite level. He is averaging the most assists of any year of his NBA career with 9.0 and the second most rebounds per game at 8.4. He also just became the 1st member of the 30k-8k-8k [...]