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Ever since firing Derek Fisher part-way through the season, Phil Jackson has been non-committal on his next head coaching move. He has endorsed Kurt Rambis as the coach, but it has never come across as too convincing. In particular, Tom Thibodeau’s name has been raised but Jackson hasn’t said as much. But is David Blatt [...]

Jrue Holiday’s road back to the basketball court is officially underway. Again. The New Orleans Pelicans announced on Monday that their point guard underwent successful surgery on his right eye, per Brett Dawson of The Advocate: [tweet https://twitter.com/BDawsonWrites/status/719673130013356032] Holiday, a former Eastern Conference All-Star, has battled a ton of injuries since arriving in New Orleans. [...]

James Harden has asked Kobe Bryant for a favor. Following the Houston Rockets’ 130-110 shellacking of the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday, Harden and Kobe shared a private a moment, per Mark Berman of Fox 26 in Houston: [tweet https://twitter.com/MarkBermanFox26/status/719301215532613632] All of us are always wondering what happens during these postgame confabs between stars, especially [...]

Pau Gasol’s roller coaster relationship with the Chicago Bulls is intact. First, he was trade fodder at the deadline. Then, he was a pivotal part of this team’s immediate future. Now, he’s not sure what he is to the Bulls, or what the Bulls are to him. From ESPN.com’s Nick Friedell: After the Bulls’ 106-98 [...]

That didn’t last long. The internet had some fun with what Kendrick Perkins said about Kevin Durant’s impending free agency. Now a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Perkins spent parts of five seasons playing beside Durant with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Recently, he was asked about the 2013-14 MVP’s free-agency thought process, and his answer [...]

Jay Wright is the hottest coaching name in basketball right now after leading a small, not supremely talented Villanova team to the national championship. Unsurprisingly with a slew of NBA head coaching vacancies this offseason, his name has surfaced in the NBA coaching rumor mill. [tweet https://twitter.com/hoopshype/status/718103049626103809] The Suns fired former head coach Jeff Hornacek [...]

There was once a time in the NBA where taking end-of-quarter heaves actually happened before the buzzer sounded. Nowadays, players tend to care a little more about their shooting percentage. Thus we typically see the majority of players try to squeeze in three, four or even five dribbles before they launch a half-court prayer that [...]

Former Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan has somewhat been out of the spotlight in recent years and perhaps that’s been by design. Sloan has revealed that he is suffering from Parkinson’s Disease and dementia. Sloan is 74 years old and is the third winningest coach in NBA history. But obviously, none of that matters [...]

Lost in the smiles and handshakes and bro hugs, buried deep beneath a jovial demeanor of a man basking in the final moments of his NBA dream, is the reality of Kobe Bryant’s farewell: The Los Angeles Lakers aren’t good, and that still doesn’t sit well with him. As he said of the imminent end, [...]

If the Golden State Warriors are going to reach an NBA-record 73 regular-season wins, they’ll need to go through all of the San Antonio Spurs. Twice. Well, almost all of the Spurs. Gregg Popovich’s rest-and-relaxation program has been a source of spirited debate ever since the Warriors dropped two of three games at Oracle Arena, [...]