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As another wild and entertaining college basketball season starts to wind down, NBA Draft chatter will continue to pickup and a new crop “one and done” college players will start declaring their intentions to enter the NBA Draft. (If you want to see where the analysts think players will wind up, check out the NBA [...]

Anthony Davis will be back to playing basketball for the New Orleans Pelicans soon. So long as you consider three to four months “soon.” Davis is guaranteed to miss the rest of the New Orleans Pelicans’ dumpster fire of a season after undergoing surgery on his left knee. He is also dealing with a torn [...]

After watching LeBron James incredibly powerful and swift double pump reverse dunk in the lane Wednesday night it got me thinking about the top 10 dunks of his illustrious career, is last night’s dunk in the top 10? Being a 6’8″ 260 pound freight train of speed, power and athleticism has lent itself to some [...]

History is not destined to repeat itself in the NBA. Not this time. Or so it seems. Plenty of people have been worried about there being a potential NBA lockout in 2017, when both the owners and players have the right to opt out of their current. Commissioner Adam Silver, though, doesn’t think that’s going [...]

Speculation surrounding Carmelo Anthony’s future with the New York Knicks has stopped. Just kidding. It hasn’t stopped. And it’s not going to stop. No matter what happens, though, Melo doesn’t want you questioning where his loyalties lie, per Marc Berman of the New York Post: Carmelo Anthony says you can question certain things, but never [...]

Kyle Lowry belongs in the NBA’s MVP conversation, according to Toronto Raptors coach Dwane Casey. Casey reasoning? He’s no fool. Per MassLive.com’s Jay King: [tweet https://twitter.com/ByJayKing/status/712764403381305345] Let’s not mince any words here: This is awesome. The Raptors are so goddamn fun, it’s contagious. You can’t help but root for them to get out of the [...]

While everybody else has focused on the Warriors historical pursuit, potential drama in “The Land” and the shortcomings of the Thunder, Clippers and Rockets, the Hornets have quietly been playing really good basketball. On January 30, the Hornets were 22-25 and sitting in 9th place in the Eastern Conference. Today they are 41-30 and a [...]

Three years ago the NBA world was a different landscape, LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant ruled the basketball merchandise world and were far and away the NBA’s most popular players. Stephen Curry was seen as a second-tier marketable athlete in spite of leading the Golden State Warriors to the western conference semi-finals and [...]

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It has finally happened: There is movement within the top-most part of our NBA power rankings. The Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs still sit where they sit, and the Toronto Raptors refuse to relinquish fifth place. But chaos has been restored just about everywhere else, in large part because the Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte [...]