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The Houston Rockets’ coaching search is over. After a weeks-long search that spanned numerous candidates and scores of rumors, the Rockets have settled on Mike D’Antoni to be their next head coach, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical: The Houston Rockets are finalizing a four-year, $16 million-plus deal to hire Mike D’Antoni as head [...]

After a long drawn out five-week process to name all of the NBA’s awards and honors for the 2015-16 regular season, the All-NBA teams has been announced. The All-NBA 1st Team features league MVP Steph Curry, the guy who is outplaying him in the conference finals in Russell Westbrook, Kawhi Lenoard, LeBron James and DeAndre [...]

What, did you think we were done talking about Draymond Green’s kick to Steven Adams’ groin in Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals? That’s cute. While the NBA elected not to suspend Green, and though the Oklahoma City Thunder dismantled the Golden State Warriors in Game 4, the kick is still having a lasting [...]

Seeing Joakim Noah come off the bench last year for the Bulls seemed very odd. Rookie head coach Fred Hoiberg made the decision to remove the fan favorite from the starting linuep. Perhaps that, along with a bunch of other miscues, played a role in the Bulls regressing to missing the playoffs. The 31-year-old will [...]

Raptors Head Coach Dwane Casey was firmly placed on the hot seat the second the Raptors lost Game 1 of their first round series against the Indiana Pacers at home. The Raptors had dealt with playoff letdowns the previous two seasons and looked to potentially be headed down that path again, not being able to [...]

Hey! Remember that one time Dikembe Mutombo loaned Bismack Biyombo the rights to his iconic, post-block finger wag? Mutombo doesn’t, either. From ESPN.com’s Mike Mazzeo: Toronto Raptors center Bismack Biyombo may not have gotten permission from Dikembe Mutombo to use the retired shot-blocking star’s finger-wag celebration, but Mutombo says Biyombo “really doesn’t need it.” “You [...]

Since joining the NBA as an expansion team in 1995, the Toronto Raptors have been able to get Canadians to fall in love with basketball, thanks to the heroics of players like Damon Stoudemire and Vince Carter. These days a new look Raptors team has done something neither former star player could do when they [...]

The conference finals have been somewhat highlighted by errant kicks and punches and Draymond Green and Dahntay Jones. A suspension was handed out for Jones, but will that be the case for Green? Golden State’s game 3 loss was very bad. How will they bounce back. And cause for concern in Cleveland after dropping game [...]

Is Bradley Beal a max-contract player in today’s NBA? Bradley Beal sure thinks so. As he told the Washington Post‘s Jorge Castillo: “I want to be valued the right way,” Beal, 22, said from Japan, where he visited as part of a promotional tour for the NBA and attended a playoff viewing party with fans. [...]

Kevin Love isn’t fine, but he’s going to be fine. He thinks. Love apparently injured his knee during the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 105-99 loss to the Toronto Raptors on Monday night, according to the Akron Beacon Journal‘s Jason Lloyd: [tweet https://twitter.com/JasonLloydABJ/status/734955514153607169] Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue didn’t even play Love during the fourth quarter. But that [...]