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Whether or not Phil Jackson will eventually coach the Knicks has been a hot topic ever since he took the job. After he fired Derek Fisher several weeks ago, those rumors surfaced again, but he shot them down. Then, yesterday, it was reported that perhaps Jackson would be interested in coaching only the home games [...]

Brace yourselves: This marks the fifth consecutive week in which there is no change within the top seven of our NBA power rankings. We’re not even talking regardless of order, either. The streak would be longer if we cared not for the exact position of every top-seven team. But we do care, and the Golden State [...]

This was an exciting week in the NBA, with the Warriors continuing their record breaking season, the Spurs continuing to keep pace, and the rest of the pack battling for playoff positioning or relevance. This all means amazing plays, buzzer beaters, and performances. Check out THD’s Top 10 NBA Plays of the Week in the [...]

Good news Los Angeles Lakers fans: A bunch of rival NBA executives think your favorite team has a future star on its hands. Ken Berger of CBS Sports’ polled 12 league execs on the Lakers’ future, and many of them arrived at a similar consensus: Among about a dozen rival executives informally polled about the [...]

This sounds about right. During a front office panel at the Sloan Analytics Conference, ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan decided to press Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey about the future of Dwight Howard. The exchange was, predictably, awkward and awesome and, on some level, telling. Here’s how it went down, as relayed to us by SI.com’s [...]

And you thought the New York Knicks couldn’t become any more of a side show. There’s no use mincing words on this one. Phil Jackson is apparently as healthy as he’s been in a long time, and according to ESPN.com’s Ramona Shelburne and Ian Begley, he may consider coaching Knicks home games next season: Those [...]

Ben Simmons’ college career is likely over. LSU failed to make the NCAA tournament and the team has announced that they will not play in the NIT or any other post-season tournament. So, we won’t get to see Simmons on a large scale. Not until next year, that is. Whenever Simmons announces that he’ll enter [...]

Some good news came out of the Chicago Bulls morning shoot-around in preparation for their game against the Raptors Monday night. Bulls Head Coach Fred Hoiberg said that Bulls star wing player Jimmy Butler is feeling good and has been cleared to play. [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNNBA/status/709414631161393152] Butler told Chicago Tribune reporters that you have to “risk [...]

Jae Crowder is expected to be sidelined for a couple weeks as he recovers from a high ankle sprain, much to the potential detriment of the Boston Celtics. Evan Turner was taken by surprise twice with this news. First, there was the actual news itself, per Jay King of MassLive.com: [tweet https://twitter.com/ByJayKing/status/709091903397093377] Then, there was [...]

This side of an Achilles injury, Wesley Matthews’ four-year, $70 million deal with the Dallas Mavericks doesn’t look great. It doesn’t look horrible, to be sure. He is moving well on defense, still covering the toughest perimeter assignments. His three-point percentage has dipped, but he’s still hovering around 35 percent efficiency. And, most importantly, one [...]