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The Oklahoma City Thunder are not the Golden State Warriors or San Antonio Spurs, but they’re trying like hell to keep pace with them. And they’re doing a pretty good job. Oklahoma City has spent most of the season vacillating between being the third- and fourth-best team in the league. If and when the Thunder [...]

Kevin Garnett has no qualms with Minnesota Timberwolves interim head coach Sam Mitchell. He may be in the minority. Still, what the 39-year-old forward is saying matters. The Timberwolves essentially employ him as a player coach—that powerful voice and steadying presence who commands respect in the locker room and the ears of young stars. What [...]

Family first, basketball second. That’s the motto that most guys in the league live by. Tony Parker appears to be one of them. The Rio Olympics are right around the corner and guys love nothing better than to suit up for their homeland. That’s typically what the Spurs PG does every four years, but he [...]

The Clippers emergence without Blake Griffin is a head-scratcher, for sure. Who knows; they probably would’ve been just as successful with him in the lineup during this stretch, but it’s not a good look for him. Because of the success minus Blake, rumors are swirling about dealing him. One such rumor suggests that the Clippers [...]

I know every single NBA fan just re-read that headline three of four times as their eyes got bigger and then they made the Home Alone face… According to a recent report from NBA information breaker extraordinaire Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports in his “The Vertical” podcast, the Warriors are not only in the mix [...]

According to Yahoo Sports, Suns second-year forward T.J. Warren will miss the remainder of the 2015-16 season with a broken foot. [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/694635996265193472] Things continue to spiral downward for the Phoenix Suns as they continue to suffer through its most tumultuous year in its franchise history. Warren joins Eric Bledsoe as important players from the [...]

Watching the Los Angeles Lakers just became a lot less fun. It’s hard enough to watch them as it is, what with Kobe Bryant’s swan song dictating the ebbs and flow of the NBA’s second-worst offense. But it’s going to be nigh unbearable now without the super explosive Larry Nance Jr. to provide the occasional [...]

Al Horford, the three time All-Star power forward out of the Dominican Republic, might be looking to move out of Atlanta. He’s set to make $12 million in the final year of his contract, before heading to unrestricted free agency. The nine-year veteran has been a rock since the 2010-11 season, and this year he [...]

About the Miami Heat staying healthy…Yeah, that’s not going to happen. Not right now at least. Goran Dragic recently returned to the rotation, but now Miami’s backcourt must soldier on without sophomore Tyler Johnson, as he begins to recover from shoulder surgery, according to Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports: Miami's Tyler Johnson will undergo surgery [...]

The Phoenix Suns have a new head coach. Temporarily, at least. After firing head coach Jeff Hornacek on Monday, the Suns have decided to hand the reins to Earl Watson, per Marc J. Spears of Yahoo Sports: [tweet https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/694294168810577920] Interim head coaching labels are always sort of iffy. You’re coaching to keep your job as [...]