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Well, that didn’t take long. Kelly Olynyk was weighing the option of whether to have shoulder surgery as soon as possible or rest up, play for the Canadian national team and then get surgery sometime after. Either way, he was going to have surgery. Update: The Boston Celtics officially announced that he had surgery: The [...]

Back in December, news broke that LeBron James had signed a lifetime contract with Nike. It was record breaking, as this was the first time Nike has officially done such a thing. Sure, Nike and Michael Jordan are tied to one another from here to eternity, but nothing official on paper until LeBron. Aside from [...]

The Houston Rockets’ head coaching search is starting to…pretty much run in place. According to Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle, TNT analyst Kenny “The Jet” Smith is out of the running, as the team prefers to hire someone with sideline experience—a requirement that has led them to Ettore Messina, Jeff Van Gundy and Frank [...]

Channing Frye is busy draining threes and contending for a championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers. And that could have been Ryan Anderson. Speaking on the “Vertical Pod with J.J. Redick,” Anderson revealed to his former Orlando Magic teammate that the New Orleans Pelicans nearly traded his expiring contract to the Cavaliers at the trade deadline. [...]

What do you get when you guide a Portland Trail Blazers team that was supposed to finish in the bottom three of the Western Conference to the second round of the NBA playoffs? A fat three-year extension. Terry Stotts is, expectedly, sticking with Portland, per The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski: [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/732374381205291008] Kevin Arnovitz of ESPN.com [...]

And then there were four. The Conference Finals matchups are set. In the East, we have the Cavs and Raptors, and in the West, Golden State versus OKC. What has to happen in order for each team to be able to advance? Also, is Gregg Popovich’s treatment towards the media funny or has it now [...]

The Boston Celtics bowed out of their first-round playoff matchup with the Atlanta Hawks for many reasons. And the status of Kelly Olynyk was among the biggest ones. Yes, Jae Crowder wasn’t 100 percent. And sure, Avery Bradley’s absence killed the Celtics’ spacing. But Olynyk, when healthy, is Boston’s second-best two-way player, someone who stretches [...]

Not so fast, Kurt Rambis. Team president Phil Jackson isn’t ready to name you the New York Knicks’ permanent head coach just yet. As first reported by the New York Daily News‘ Frank Isola, Jackson met with former Indiana Pacers head coach to talk about the team’s coaching vacancy: Phil Jackson met face-to-face with with [...]

We’ve known for quite some time now that the NBA would be allowing advertising on the front of team jerseys. This will be a thing beginning in the 2017-18 season. The NBA is usually a trendsetter with marketing ventures, but it’s still up for debate as to whether or not this is a good thing. [...]

The Houston Rockets’ coaching search plows on. As expected, the team interviewed former Rockets guard and current TNT analyst Kenny “The Jet” Smith. And their meeting with him apparently went really well, per Fox Sports’ Mark Berman: Former Rockets guard Kenny Smith, who is an NBA analyst with TNT and a candidate to become the [...]