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Man, the New Orleans Pelicans cannot catch a break. Well, I guess that’s not entirely true. They’re just catching the wrong breaks. Tyreke Evans, the team’s second-leading scorer last season, will miss some time after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his right knee, per Brett Dawson of the New Orleans Advocate: Source: Pelicans Tyreke Evans had [...]

If Jimmy Butler doesn’t understand the concept of monitored minutes, he’s about to. Rather than work Butler, 26, to the bone during the regular season, new Chicago Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg is preparing to do something new: cut Butler’s minutes. From CSNChicago.com’s Vincent Goodwill: At first it was Luol Deng but now Butler has [...]

Carmelo Anthony clearly doesn’t see a repeat of the 17-win dumpster fire that the New York Knicks called a 2014-15 season. Nor does he see only marked improvement. Considering his reaction to record projections floating around the social-media sphere, he expects the Knicks to be so, so, so, so much better than they were last [...]

When the Golden State Warriors begin their title defense next Tuesday, they may do so without sophomore head coach Steve Kerr. Steve Kerr is apparently suffering from a spinal fluid leak after having two offseason back surgeries. Assistants Luke Walton and Ron Adams have been holding down the fort in the interim, and according to [...]

For almost the entirety of Al Jefferson’s 11-year NBA career, he’s been known as “Big Al.” Now, he is Big Al no more—at least not to Charlotte Hornets teammate Marvin Williams. In an attempt to keep up with the shifting style of today’s NBA, Al Jefferson, who is listed at 265 pounds on Basketball-Reference, apparently [...]

Breathe easily, and freely, Cleveland Cavaliers fans. LeBron James will be in uniform when his team opens up the 2015-16 regular season next Tuesday in a road tilt against the Chicago Bulls. If you didn’t know his status was maybe, quite possibly in doubt, well, where the hell have you been? According to the Akron [...]

Anyone worried that the New York Knicks might not start Kristaps Porzingis to begin the 2015-16 season needn’t fret anymore. It looks like he will indeed begin the season as their starting power forward. Per Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News (h/t ProBasketballTalk): Fisher started preseason with Porzingis as the starting power forward, [...]

Over the weekend, Lamar Odom’s situation took a turn for the better. He regained consciousness and began breathing on his own. He still has a long road to recovery, but it appears that he’s on the right path thankfully. Odom has not experienced any setbacks after breathing without the help of a ventilator in the [...]

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Oh what could have been… Former #1 NBA Draft pick Greg Oden had the size, athleticism, mobility, and defensive prowess to potentially be one of the best to ever play the game coming out of college in 2007. The 7 footer was so dominant as a freshman at OSU, that he, along with HS teammate [...]