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Nobody panic. While appearing on ABC’s NBA Finals broadcast Tuesday night—the Golden State Warriors are your 2015 champs, by the way—Dwyane Wade said something weird and unsettling. He talked about playing for the Miami Heat in the past tense. Here’s the clip (big h/t to SB Nation): https://vine.co/v/ee9dqYJwd2F “When I was in Miami…” Okay, fine. [...]

Jimmy Butler bet on himself earlier in October when he elected not to sign the contract extension the Chicago Bulls laid before him. Now he’s preparing to bet on himself again. That initial gamble paid off. The Bulls were slinging something like $10 million annually at the time, and Butler quickly established himself as a [...]

Even though they were up 3-1 to the Rockets in the second round and lost the series, many believe the Clippers fell because of lack of depth. Well, Doc Rivers has taken care of that by trading for Lance Stephenson. After his final season in Indiana, we haven’t heard much for Stephenson who had a [...]

The Nuggets coaching search has finally come to an end. It will not be Mike D’Antoni after all. Instead, it will be Mike Malone, who was surprisingly fired by the Sacramento Kings last season. Malone inherits a decent team in Denver who may have underachieved recently. Malone, who went 39-67 over parts of two seasons [...]

What if we’ve already seen the last of the 60-win Atlanta Hawks? It’s a crude thought. The East is still wide open after you account for LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Hawks aren’t the blow-shit-up type. They will also have ample spending power if all goes according to plan and could, in theory, add [...]

From start to finish, game five between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors did not disappoint. Both squads clearly played like it was their last game, as gaining that third win puts them just one final win away from becoming this years’ NBA Champions. As usual, leading the charge for their respective teams was [...]

You might drive a more expensive car than Matthew Dellavedova. Bask in that preeminent pittance for a second. Okay, the second is over. Dellavedova has taken the NBA Finals by storm. The Cleveland Cavaliers sophomore, who went undrafted in 2013, helped his team jump out to a 2-1 series lead by playing aggressive defense that [...]

This past season, Australian native Ben Simmons was the unanimous choice as the top high school prospect in the nation for 2015, and as a result will be taking his talents to LSU to be a star freshman for the Tigers. Now that Simmons, and fellow top tier 2015 recruits like Skal Labissiere(Kentucky), Brandon Ingram(Duke), [...]

The supposed payoff of the Philadelphia 76ers “tanking” the past few seasons, winning just 37 games since 2013, was going to begin to show some promise this upcoming season as former #3 overall Draft pick Joel Embiid was set to make his NBA debut following missing his entire rookie year rehabbing a stress fracture in [...]

Draymond Green is rare in that he’s an athlete who always tells reporters what’s on his mind. He’s very candid. Maybe even too much sometimes, but he’s a reporter’s dream. Following game 4, he opened up once again. Apparently, Green’s mother and grandmother have told him he’s complaining to the refs too much. That’s hilarious. [...]