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Stephen Curry is the NBA’s foremost pioneer. He is changing the way the game is played, impacting the on-court virtues and skill sets coaches and teams and analysts and fans value in a superstar. You might say he’s the Steve Jobs or Bill Gates of the Association. And if you won’t say that, Dallas Mavericks [...]

New York Knicks sophomore Cleanthony Early was shot in the right knee and robbed in the early-morning hours of Wednesday. He is expected to be OK. Thomas Tracy of the New York Daily News broke the story and offered the following details: New York Knicks forward Cleanthony Early was shot in the right knee in [...]

Golden State Warriors All-Star guard Klay Thompson says he’s the best shooting guard in the NBA today, a drum he’s been beating the last few years, especially since the physical decline of the great Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. When asked about his starting five at each position today, Klay named Curry at [...]

Given the success he had in a short period of time in Chicago, Tom Thibodeau’s dismissal at the end of last season came somewhat as a shock to most. The word was that the locker room was fractured and the team had tuned him out, despite their success on the court. Reportedly, on the team’s [...]

As if this 12-21 campaign for the Suns couldn’t get any worse, now this. The team is reporting that Eric Bledsoe will be lost for the remainder of the season after undergoing successful surgery to repair a torn meniscus. First, there was the offseason drama with the Morris twins, then the team recently got rid [...]

For a bona fide championship contender, the Cleveland Cavaliers sure hold a lot of irregular team meetings. Irregular, of course, meaning specifically called confabs, not everyday powwows—such as the one Cavaliers coach David Blatt held before Cleveland’s Monday night win over the Phoenix Suns. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s Chris Haynes: Before the Cleveland Cavaliers [...]

Goodbye, 2015. It’s been real, often fun. Sometimes even real fun. But it’s time we bid you adieu. Just not before we send you off with one last batch of NBA power rankings. The Association is niche-y as ever these days. The championship contender pool contains only Cleveland, Golden State and San Antonio, with Oklahoma [...]

John Wall is having the best December of just about any player in the NBA. His Wizards are 14-14, but he has 15 double-doubles so far on the season. He’s has truly played as one of the league’s best PGs so far this season. But, of course, that doesn’t always translate into all-star love. A [...]

Harrison Barnes is just about ready to play. But not quite. The Golden State Warriors combo forward has missed the last 13 games, including Monday night’s blowout win over the Sacramento Kings, as he tends to an ankle injury. Some speculated that he might return for the team’s Christmas Day square dance with the Cleveland [...]

Kevin Martin probably hasn’t played his last game for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Then again, he just may have. Martin registered his third straight “Did Not Play” in Monday night’s loss to the San Antonio Spurs, and although he’s healthy, he shouldn’t expect to see more playing time—or any playing time—in the future, per Jerry Zgoda [...]