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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 [...]

Everything is totally fine with the Sacramento Kings. Just kidding. DeMarcus Cousins just wrapped up a one-game suspension that the Kings handed down after he yelled at head coach George Karl. Or was that suspension levied by Karl himself? Per Marc J. Spears of Yahoo Sports: [tweet https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/709181823507509248] Yikes. And then there’s this, per Bryan [...]

The 2016 Printable Bracket for NCAA Tournament March Madness will be updated below with a version that has all the team names on the evening of Sunday, March 13th. So be sure to bookmark this page and check back in the evening of Selection Sunday to print your bracket and select your teams. Click the [...]

Although we never got to see the dream NBA Finals match up of Kobe vs. LeBron that we desired for almost a decade, last night was still substantial as it was the last time the two greatest wing players since the Jordan era would ever square off on a basketball court. It was a fun [...]

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