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George Karl’s seat cushion is cooling off. All signs pointed to the Sacramento Kings firing him not 48 hours ago. Now, the Kings are Kings-ing, changing their minds in true Kings fashion. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein (h/t ProBasketballTalk): ESPN sources say that the Sacramento Kings, in a dramatic about-face, have decided to keep George Karl [...]

This is not the New Orleans Pelicans’ year. Anthony Davis has been banged up, Eric Gordon is injured, Omer Asik is useless, the supporting cast is underwhelming and the playoffs are officially a pipe dream. Things just can’t get any worse. Except they just did. Tyreke Evans will most likely miss the rest of the [...]

Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov is still championing the same cause that buried his team beneath a pile of rubble from which they cannot escape. Let’s see how that works out for him. Howard Beck of Bleacher Report dropped some knowledge for anyone hoping the Nets, who don’t have the rights to their own first-round [...]

Blake Griffin hasn’t suited up since Christmas, and that’s not changing anytime soon. The Los Angeles Clippers, in conjunction with the NBA, released a statement detailing Griffin’s punishment for punching the team’s assistant equipment manager, an incident that left him with a fractured right hand. Here’s the press release, courtesy of ProBasketballTalk’s Kurt Helin: The [...]

From winning an Eastern Conference best 60 games last season, to considering a miniature teardown this season, the Atlanta Hawks have come a long way. The wrong way. According to ESPN.com’s Kevin Arnovitz and Brian Windhorst, the Hawks are weighing whether they should sell off three of last year’s four All-Stars: The Atlanta Hawks are [...]

Jimmy Butler left Friday’s game vs. the Nuggets after an apparent knee injury. It didn’t look good, as he needed help exiting the court. Today, the Bulls received terrible news in that they will need to be without him for about a month. Butler is also an all-star reserve and his teammate, Pau Gasol, will [...]

Shaquille O’Neal didn’t quite play four full seasons in Miami as a member of the Heat, but some people within the organization think he did enough to have his number 32 jersey retired by the organization. Sure, Shaq played a key role in the Heat winning the 2006 NBA Finals, but make no mistake, that [...]

According to rumors that surfaced just over a week ago, the Hawks seem to be willing to move their longest tenured player and leader Al Horford if the right deal presents itself. [tweet https://twitter.com/CBSSportsNBA/status/694392460080844800] According to other reports, the Celtics have been aggressive in pursuing Horford and have inquired about point guard Jeff Teague as [...]

Kevin Durant signing with the New York Knicks in 2016 free agency is a pipe dream. Russell Westbrook joining New York as a free agent in 2017? Now that’s possible. Supposedly. Here’s Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports: The Knicks have a real chance to sell Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook in 2017 – New York and [...]

What, you didn’t think the Sacramento Kings were going to let the New York Knicks have all the fun, did you? Head coach George Karl has been on the hot seat for a while and, apparently, won’t have to wait much longer for a decision to be made on his future. The Kings have already [...]