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Boris Diaw will not be suiting up with the San Antonio Spurs for a little while. From Project Spurs’ Paul Garcia: [tweet https://twitter.com/PaulGarciaPS/status/717115973405282304] Three games is three games, yada, yada, yada. The Spurs are locked into second place in the Western Conference, and head coach Gregg Popovich probably would have rested Diaw for one or [...]

The Memphis Grizzlies have seen better seasons. Marc Gasol is already done for the year, and Mike Conley hasn’t played in nearly a month. The war-weary Grizzlies are not expected to get much healthier in time for the playoffs, either. On Monday, head coach Dave Joerger all but ruled out Conley’s return, per The Commerical [...]

News broke from Bleacher Report Monday morning that 7’0″ five-star high school phenom Thon Maker has declared for the 2016 NBA Draft. [tweet https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/716977435632406528] Thon Maker was a YouTube sensation and has had a great deal of hype surrounding him for years. He’s a 7’0″ high school player that has great quickness, ball handling skills [...]

Brandon Knight is on the sidelines again, this time for the rest of the season. The Phoenix Suns have elected to shut down their point guard for the remainder of 2015-16 as he rehabilitates a sports hernia that may require surgery, according to Paul Coro of AZCentral Sports: uns guard Brandon Knight’s season is ending [...]

Brook Lopez and Thaddeus Young have played their final games for the Brooklyn Nets this season. Mike Mazzeo of ESPN.com first brought word of the news: The Brooklyn Nets will shut down Brook Lopez and Thaddeus Young for the rest of the season, Brooklyn interim coach Tony Brown said before Sunday’s game against the New [...]

James Harden and Kevin Durant, together again? Harden’s game. According to ESPN.com’s Calvin Watkins, last year’s MVP runner-up will be leading the Rockets’ recruitment of his former Oklahoma City Thunder teammate: The Rockets’ best player and leading scorer will become the main recruiter this summer in the franchise’s quest to sign Kevin Durant, whom Harden [...]

While Steph Curry continues to be the most underpaid athlete in all of sports (currently on a 4-year, $44M deal), the Warriors are able to keep everyone in place and happy. But when Curry is up for new money, will the Warriors still look the same? Time will time. But for the immediate future, they’ll [...]

Plenty of people thought that Aaron Gordon, not Zach LaVine, should’ve been named the NBA’s Slam Dunk Champion at this year’s All-Star Weekend in Toronto. Paul George of the Indiana Pacers is, apparently, among them. Ahead of the Pacers’ Thursday night loss to the Orlando Magic, George, who has participated in the dunk contest himself, [...]

Here’s something you don’t hear everyday. Jason Terry, though still playing for the Houston Rockets, interviewed with the University of Alabama at Birmingham to become their next head coach, as relayed to us by Terry himself through Mark Berman of Fox 26 in Houston: Terry said the interview took place on Thursday in Houston, site [...]

Let the Chicago Bulls’ rumor mill churn on. Pau Gasol is expected to decline his player option for next season and enter unrestricted free agency in July. Though his name popped up at will ahead of the trade deadline, it was assumed once he wasn’t moved that he would remain with the Bulls beyond this [...]