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According to a report from the Associated Press, the NBA has officially decided to move the 2017 NBA All-star Game and Weekend to New Orleans. [tweet https://twitter.com/SInow/status/766634841165205504] This will be the 3rd time New Orleans has hosted the game since 2008, also hosting the event just three years ago in 2014. As you may remember [...]

Raise your hand if you had the soon-to-be 39-year-old Jason Terry snagging a new contact before the 28-year-old Ty Lawson. It seemed, at times, that the 17-year veteran guard would be forced to retire this summer. We’re now in late August, a return to the Houston Rockets was clearly out of the question, and rumors [...]

Spain’s basketball team is on a roll in Rio. But their luck may have just run out. After dropping their first two Olympic matchups, ostensibly torpedoing their medal hopes, Spain has won their last four games, earning a date with Team USA in the semifinals. Deemed the biggest threat to the United States through the [...]

What, you didn’t think Derrick Rose was kidding about the New York Knicks being a superteam, did you? Rose ruffled a lot of feathers and shattered the boundaries of conventional wisdom when he identified the Knicks and the Golden State Warriors as the most talked-about superteams. We all got a good laugh out of it. [...]

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Nick Young has, apparently, found a way to forgive Los Angeles Lakers teammate D’Angelo Russell. The two made headlines last season when Russell secretly recorded Young talking about cheating on then-fiancee Iggy Azalea. The couple, amid rumors and anecdotes of further infidelity from Young, are no longer together. Young appeared unreceptive at best when Russell [...]

When you look at the Timberwolves, you see greatness on the rise. The team has so much promise and talent on paper. But we’ve certainly seen talent and promise on paper. You have to put it together on the court. And being in the West, that’s a tall order. But Andrew Wiggins in confident. The [...]

LeBron James has possibly had the best first 13 seasons to a career in NBA history. He has won four NBA MVP Awards, 3 NBA titles, 3 NBA Finals MVP awards, 10 All-NBA 1st Teams and has scored more points in the NBA than anyone since he entered in 2003. Despite all of this success, [...]

Stephen Jackson is serious about his NBA return, but he needs a team to take him seriously. He’s been out of the game for a few years, but he swears he has a couple years left in him. You hate to see this because if he doesn’t get a shot, he will not have left [...]

Carmelo Anthony has been as synonymous with Team USA and the Olympics as any other NBA player over the past decade plus. Whenever the Olympics roll around, you can be ‘Melo will be interested. He was a part of the 2004 bronze team following his rookie season (along with Wade and LeBron), and hasn’t missed [...]