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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, [...]

As the New York Knicks’ franchise cornerstone, Carmelo Anthony has an ostensibly simple and innocent request: please run the next coaching hire by him. That means you, Phil. From ESPN.com’s Ian Begley: Carmelo Anthony would like to have some input on the Knicks’ upcoming personnel decisions, including the club’s next head-coaching hire. “I think you [...]

Giannis Antetokounmpo is ready and willing to learn from LeBron James. So long as the King will have him. From Chris Haynes of Cleveland.com: If I had the chance, the opportunity to work with him, of course I would,” he said. “You’d have to work with him. He’s one of the best players in the [...]

Brooklyn Nets general manager Sean Marks sees Brook Lopez as an important part of the team’s future. This might surprise some, since many believed Marks would stage a full-scale roster teardown to begin his tenure in Brooklyn. But of the many roster casualties that are sure to follow the Nets’ 2015-16 season, Lopez isn’t expected [...]

The DeAngelo Russell, Nick Young fiasco may have died down a bit from a media standpoint, but the Lakers are still feeling it in the locker room. Who knows if anyone is even talking to Russell and can you imagine what Young is still going through? According to head coach Byron Scott, Nick Young has [...]