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Pat Riley is an optimist. For this summer at least. Good ol’ Riles isn’t one to sugarcoat his opinion. He tells shit like it is, just as he did after the Miami Heat’s 2014 NBA Finals loss to the San Antonio Spurs, delivering a purposeful, albeit subspoken, message to his Big Three, the entirety of [...]

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The NBA has long since outgrown its divisions, and it’s starting to show. Though there are still divisions, the first step in marginalizing, if not eradicating, them will begin next year when the seeding of conference playoff teams is decided by record. Kurt Helin of ProBasketballTalk was the first to bring confirmation: It's official: NBA [...]

This Friday the Naismith Hall of Fame once again will open their doors to induct another quality class featuring elite shot blocker Dikembe Mutombo, longtime NCAA and NBA coach John Calipari, 7 Time NBA All Star Jo Jo White and WNBA superstar Lisa Leslie. Undoubtedly the funniest moment of the night will probably come when [...]

Kevin Durant probably feels like he has a lot to prove this year. Coming off of a campaign where he only played 27 games and had to watch his team narrowly miss the postseason, he no doubt can’t wait to get back out there. All signs point to him being ready to go at the [...]

New York Knicks rookie Kristaps Porzingis is in Carmelo Anthony’s good graces. That is, so long as being allowed to play five-on-five with Melo at Melo’s gym constitutes as being in Melo’s good graces. We’re going to assume it does. Anyway, here’s the brief low-down from the New York Post‘s Marc Berman: Porzingis said he’s [...]

LeBron James doesn’t give two flying brown-colored bowel movements that NBA training camps aren’t quite ready to open. His Cleveland Cavaliers are getting work in now. Or soon. According to Northeast Ohio Media Group’s Chris Haynes, LeBron isn’t quite over Cleveland’s loss to the Golden State Warriors in last June’s NBA Finals and has “summoned” [...]

Kyrie Irving fractured his knee cap towards the end of game 1 of the Finals and the Cavs were doomed from that point on. Initial reports suggested that Kyrie wouldn’t be back on the court until January, the recent reports suggest that he’ll be back sooner than that. Given his history of injuries, the Cavs [...]

Kevin Garnett has rookie Karl-Anthony Towns’ back. The 19-year-old Towns, who was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the first over pick in this year’s draft, was born a little bit after the 39-year-old Garnett made his NBA debut, and now they’re teammates, which is flipping cray and just out of this world. Towns himself [...]

Hey! Psst. Hey, you! Did you know Markieff Morris wants to be traded from the Phoenix Suns? Of course you did, because you’ve haven’t been living on Pluto these last few months, and even if you were, you’d probably still know. I’m not sure how, and I know it’s impossible on every front ever, but [...]