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Next summer, if and when Kevin Durant re-signs with the Oklahoma City Thunder in free agency, it won’t necessarily be because they give him the best chance to win. Instead, it might be out of fear for what Russell Westbrook will do—or, rather, say—if he were to leave. Durant is chilling with Team USA at [...]

The looming NBA CBA negotiations are the only labor situation that needs to be worked out in the NBA. The one between the league and the referees is another. The National Basketball Referees Association’s current deal expires at the end of next season, but a new seven year agreement was met. The NBA and the [...]

Carmelo Anthony just isn’t that into you. But he’s definitely into the triangle offense. Part seven of Charlie Rosen’s Phil Files dropped for ESPN.com, and in this edition, New York Knicks president Phil Jackson talked shop on the team’s individual players. And when it came time to rap about Melo, he not only compared him [...]

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is as fiercely loyal to his team as owners come. He lives and dies with the Mavericks’ success, and the sense of obligation he feels to franchise cornerstone Dirk Nowitzki is, at its core, truly admirable. But when you’re a practicing fan, you tend to complain a lot, no matter [...]

Boris Diaw knows the deal: Tim Duncan is forever. The 39-year-old Duncan is prepping for his 19th NBA season with the San Antonio Spurs. He will be just the third player in league history to spend at least 19 years with one team, joining John Stockton and Kobe Bryant. Though he signed a two-year deal [...]

Fire up the ESPN ticker. Michael Jordan is throwing shade at LeBron James. OK, fine. No, he’s not. But he is showing immense confidence in his previous abilities, even though the peak of his NBA career is roughly 20 years in the past. Jordan answered a bunch of questions on Saturday at his Michael Jordan [...]

I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you. Sorry, I was channeling my inner Markieff Morris for a second. Things have been weird between he and the Phoenix Suns for a while now. The team traded his brother, Marcus, to the Detroit Pistons, and both of the Morris [...]

The NBA is doing Christmas Day 2015 right. Most likely. Schedule details are starting to trickle out ahead of the league’s official release, and, naturally, it’s the Association’s slate of Christmas Day tilts that are being dispersed first. On Thursday, ESPN.com’s Marc Stein brought word that the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors will be [...]

To highlight the newly-released Jordan Super.Fly 4, Marvin the Martian recently made the trip to earth to compete against Blake Griffin, All-Star PF of the Los Angeles Clippers in a slam dunk contest. There will be a shortened version of “The Dunk to End All Dunks” commercial on TV, but to fully enjoy the collaborative [...]

We’ve thankfully all but forgotten about Donald Sterling at this point, but he’s making waves again. Sterling has filed from divorce from his wife Shelly after nearly 60 years of marriage. The two have been estranged for a while as it has seemed like a strange arrangement for quite some time now. Former Los Angeles [...]