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Washington Wizards head coach Scott Brooks isn’t shy about his expectations for Bradley Beal and John Wall. He believes they can be the best damn backcourt in the league, period. Sort of. During an interview with The Vertical’s Chris Mannix (h/t Bleacher Report), Scott Brooks offered up the following on his backcourt duo: “I think [...]

It wasn’t long ago it seemed like the NBA would successfully avoid its second lockout in less than seven years. Both the league and the NBPA can opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement in 2017, though the side that opts out must notify its counterpart by December. But that didn’t matter. It felt [...]

Draymond Green somewhat flew under the radar for the Warriors during their 2015 championship run. Not necessarily because of his play, but everything else. He wasn’t much of a factor when it came to extra curricular activities. But that certainly wasn’t the case during their failed quest for a title in 2016. Draymond Green was [...]

One of the chief complaints by NBA players, and non-NBA fans, is that the playoffs go on and on and on. This past year the first playoff game of the season tipped off on April 16, with the Cavaliers besting the Warriors in Game 7 of the Finals a full 65 days later. During that [...]

Draymond Green was arrested over the weekend for allegedly slapping a heckling fan in East Lansing, Michigan. As far as athletes getting in trouble with the law, we’ve certainly seen worse. But that doesn’t excuse his actions. Easier said than done, but he has to realize he’s a verbal target for fans and just ignore [...]

For whatever reason, there have been a record number of blowouts in the 2016 playoffs. Typically, when a team gets off to a hot start, that’s the tone for the game and the opposition does not mount a serious comeback. That was the case for Golden State last night. But in the first half of [...]

Hip Hop and the NBA have been synonymous almost since the its inception, as many of the inner city culture that spawned the birth of hip-hop has also been the breeding grounds of many of the better basketball players for generations. Rappers want to be athletes and athletes want to be rappers. Shaq, Allen Iverson, [...]

Dwight Howard is available for trade. Maybe. We think. We’re not really sure. The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Thursday that the Houston Rockets were acquiescing to a request/demand/general wonderment by Howard’s agents and dangling him in trades around the league. Both Howard and his agent denied such a request exists, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, [...]

The Cavs’ 34-point home loss to the Warriors is something they’d like to forget sooner rather than later. But how can they? Steph Curry boasted that he hoped Cleveland’s locker room still smelled like their victory champagne from last June, and Cleveland still came out and dropped a dud. The day after, there was a [...]

Gary Vitti, the Los Angeles Lakers’ head athletic trainer, wants Kobe Bryant to take a couple of weeks off. Clearly, he should know better. Vitti has worked with the Lakers since before Bryant, so he has been with the Black Mamba for his entire career. He knows by now that convincing Kobe to sit is [...]