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Carmelo Anthony received a firsthand look at a real NBA title contender on Wednesday night. That glimpse was not provided by his New York Knicks, who remain as futile as ever. It came courtesy of the Golden State Warriors, who handed the Knicks a 121-85 loss, barely even breaking a sweat. Afterward, ‘Melo was predictably [...]

How far in the playoffs are the Los Angeles Clippers built to go without Blake Griffin? It’s a question head coach and president Doc Rivers may have to start asking. Griffin is out with a fractured right hand he suffered after punching a team equipment manager, and he’ll have to serve a four-game suspension once [...]

Kevin Durant has been relatively mum on the free-agent front this season. He, like many before him, isn’t entertaining the same “are you leaving or staying?” questions every freaking night. Reports have instead needed to get creative in asking Durant free-agency questions. The latest came in Boston, ahead of the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Wednesday night [...]

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Damon Stoudamire, the former Blazers and Raptors point guard wrote a piece for The Players Tribune today which was a letter to his 12-year-old self. Stoudamire played 13 seasons in the NBA and has been working recently as an assistant coach at the University of Memphis, however recently accepted an offer to become the head [...]

Statisticians have been working overtime in the 2015-16 season as the stat sheet has been stuffed to a level the NBA hasn’t seen in quite some time. With about a month left in the NBA season and most NBA teams having 15 or so games remaining, there have already been more triple-doubles in the league [...]

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 [...]