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It won’t be today or tomorrow, but there will come a time when Mavericks fans will get over the DeAndre Jordan fiasco. Time heels all. But no guarantees on Mark Cuban getting over it, which is understandable. For the first time since flirting with the Mavs before ultimately going back to the Clippers, Jordan openes [...]

Kobe Bryant will retire as a shooting guard. Next season, though, he’ll probably log most of his minutes at small forward. Some of his minutes might even come at the 4, too. Wait, what? The Lakers just have too many damn guards. Players will have to, well, play bigger than they stand. That’s the only [...]

It’s good to know that Daryl Morey always has James Harden and Dwight Howard on his mind. Well, maybe not always. But certainly before he pulls off a blockbuster trade, like the one he brokered Sunday night, when he acquired embattled Ty Lawson from the Denver Nuggets for a lottery-protected first-round pick in 2016 and [...]

When you know you’re wrong, you know you’re wrong, and J.R. Smith knows he’s wrong. Sort of. Rather than opting into the last year of his contract that would have paid him well north of $6 million next season, the Cleveland Cavaliers’ volume chucker elected to hit unrestricted free agency, probably thinking that he, like [...]

The 2014-15 New York Knicks won 17 games, and it’s not hard to see why. Injuries, specifically that to Carmelo Anthony, played a big role. So too did the lack of talent on the roster. The Knicks, quite simply, weren’t very good. But they were also needlessly dysfunctional, especially before team president Phil Jackson blew [...]

At the beginning of the off-season, the Clippers had already been making changes. They have unveiled their new logos and uniforms, which arguably garnered both praise and criticisms from many. And now, the Clippers have revealed their newly designed court, which surprisingly has an abundant usage of black in the mix of their usual colors [...]

For months, both the Denver Nuggets and their point guard Ty Lawson have been wanting to part ways with one another. The Nuggets have been patiently looking at, and weighing all the options for them to find the best deal they could get. To no one’s surprise, several teams (Rockets, Lakers, and Pistons) showed enormous [...]

John Henson will be a restricted free agent next summer if he and the Milwaukee Bucks do not reach an agreement on a contract extension by October 31. Related: John Henson won’t be a restricted free agent. According to the Journal Sentinel‘s Charles F. Gardner, the Bucks and Henson are on the brink of striking [...]

One of these summers, the New York Knicks are going to stay out of the unflattering rumor mill. Not this summer, though. For a team that’s having an understatedly good offseason, even though they failed to nab another superstar in free agency, the Knicks just cannot escape the negatively charged conjecture bugaboo. This is mostly [...]

It’s mid-July, so that must mean it’s time for Gatorade’s Athlete of the Year Program to take center stage. Each year, Gatorade honors the nation’s top high-school scholar-athletes and it’s an event The Hoop Doctors have had the pleasure of covering for a few years now. THD’s Kevin Burke had a chance to chat with [...]