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Paul Pierce is nearing the end of the road, but still signed a 3-year deal with the Clippers in his native Los Angeles. But just because he’s inked for 3 years doesn’t mean he’ll hang around the entire time. If the Clippers manage to pull it off this season, Pierce will hang ’em up. [tweet [...]

Derek Fisher’s first year as head coach of the Knicks didn’t go too smoothly. But that was to be expected. Phil Jackson was busy gutting the roster in order to make cap space for guys who ultimately didn’t sign in New York, so Fisher wasn’t coaching in a stable environment. Nonetheless, Fish has apparently asked [...]

New Orleans Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry isn’t messing around when it comes to Jrue Holiday. After missing just 14 games through the first four seasons of his career, all of which were spent with the Philadelphia 76ers, Holiday has missed 90 over the last two. Put simply, his time in New Orleans has not [...]

Paul George doesn’t want to play power forward. The Indiana Pacers, it seems, do not care. Head coach Frank Vogel is, per the Indianapolis Star‘s Candace Buckner, planning on trotting out a starting lineup comprising George Hill, Monta Ellis, C.J. Miles, George and Ian Mahinmi when the regular season tips off. That keeps in theme [...]

I grew up amidst the basketball eras of Magic, Bird, and Jordan, when finding a great European player in the NBA was about as rare as the L.A. Clippers making a good draft selection or the playoffs for that matter. I grew up in a time where the Lakers Vlade Divac was literally considered the [...]

There’s nothing worse than a high-profile rookie going down with a season-ending injury. We saw a couple of times last year with the most prominent one being that of Jabari Parker. The first-year man out of Duke suffered an ACL tear midway through, but is expected back for camp. Good news for Bucks fans, as [...]

Last season was a rough go for Kevin Durant. He barely saw the floor due to a broken foot and missed much of the season. He had to sit idly by while his Thunder missed the playoffs. But he’s back and ready to go. KD has been fully medically cleared and will be a full [...]

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Thompson’s months-long standoff with the Cleveland Cavaliers is truly shocking. Want to know why? Because of LeBron James. It’s not that Thompson is so valuable the Cavaliers should have bent to his max-contract demands already. It’s not that Cleveland is playing hard ball, when it’s not as if it can take the money allocated for [...]