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Minutes before the 2015 NBA trade deadline, the Utah Jazz shipped a disgruntled player to a team looking to rid itself of one. “I just didn’t see me as a fit there,” former Jazz forward Enes Kanter told Anthony Slater of The Oklahoman. “I just wanted to go to a different team.” Utah found a [...]

This nightmare of a season can’t get any worse for OKC. Or, maybe it can. With Kevin Durant sidelined with a bum foot and Russell Westbrook playing with a protective mask after denting his face, we learn that Serge Ibaka will need knee surgery. He has missed the last two contest for OKC and there’s [...]

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This week Los Angles Times’ Jim Peltz relayed Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant’s message that “There was never a question for me whether or not I was going to play next year.” Here are 24 reasons he might want to think twice. 24 was how old Kobe Bryant was when he played a career-high [...]

Having all but wrapped up the #1 seed in the East, the Atlanta Hawks have been resting players here and there as they gear up for the playoffs. Last night vs. the Lakers, Paul Millsap, Al Horford and Jeff Teague were all given the night off. Maybe Kyle Korver wishes he sat out too. In [...]

On Sunday night, Clippers power forward Blake Griffin made his return after a long 15-game absence in repairing a staph infection that required surgery. However, his return would be spoiled by the visiting Houston Rockets, who were able to get a much needed road victory at their expense (100-98). James Harden was marvelous as always—with [...]

To all NBA playoff-bound squads, to all postseason hopefuls, to all those teams scrapping and clawing and battling through injuries as the league’s Big Dance nears, the San Antonio Spurs have a message: They don’t care. Just 2.5 games separate the Spurs from a top-four playoff spot. Only 3.5 stand between them and the Western [...]

In the minds of most hoop heads, Shaquille O’Neal is most closely connected with the Lakers, but we cannot forget his time in Orlando. In his four years in central Florida, he put the Magic on the map (along with Penny Hardaway) and helped lead the team to a Finals appearance. Despite leaving in 1996 [...]

Shortly after signing LeBron James during the offseason, the Cleveland Cavaliers shipped No. 1 overall pick Andrew Wiggins to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for Kevin Love. The acquisition was supposed to make the new-look Cavs a dominant club in the Eastern Conference, though that expectation for immediate success was certainly unfair. Nevertheless, Love’s 2014-15 [...]

On Thursday night, Kyrie Irving was unstoppable against the defending champions—San Antonio Spurs. No matter how heavily Irving was guarded, who was matched up with him, and whatever defensive tricks and tactics the Spurs tried on him—he was still able to put up a dazzling performance dropping a career-high of 57 points, on 20-of-32 shooting, [...]