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The Orlando Magic hasn’t been doing well this season. Currently 15-34 this season, they’re in 13th place in the Eastern Conference and improvements are needed post-haste to turn things around before the summer break if they hope to be an attractive landing spot for available talent. Reports have been swirling that their current head coach—Jacque [...]

Last year as a second year player, Damian Lillard was selected by the coaches to be an all-star reserve in the Western Conference. Since that had already been established, it seemed only logical that with Portland being third in the West, and Lillard having better numbers this year than last year at this time, he’d [...]

Question of the week: Do any of the NBA’s Eastern Conference fringe playoff teams actually want to make the postseason? Asking for a friend or 50 here. Seriously, once you leave the East’s top-six teams—Hawks(!), Raptors, Wizards, Bulls, Cavaliers and Bucks—it feels like you’ve entered the “Let’s try and suck as much as possible in order to [...]

The summer of 2016 can’t get here soon enough. The race for Kevin Durant won’t quite match 2010’s hysteria, but it will be up there. Kevin Durant has sounded open to the possibility of playing for his hometown Wizards, but he also seems very attached to the OKC community. But are the Knicks in play [...]

Someone needs to explain the Denver Nuggets to me. We’ve already talked about their purported interest in the Brooklyn Nets’ Brook Lopez—an injury-prone big man who may help their offense, but not their defense, and one who is overkill considering JaVale McGee, J.J. Hickson and Jusuf Nurkic are on the roster.  Now, they’re at it again. [...]

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Last week, we reported that he Rising Stars Challenge would be changing formats this year. It will showcase the top first and second year players in a “Team USA vs. The World” type of set up. Guys usually play harder when they have their country on their chest, so I expect the intensity to be [...]

After signing former All-star power forward Kenyon Martin to two consecutive 10-day contracts—it looks like the Bucks have been pleased with his performance and are now planning to secure his services for the rest of this season, according to Marc Stein of ESPN.com. Martin, 37, has contributed significantly to the team this season despite having [...]

The Golden State Warriors finally fell back down to earth on Tuesday night, as the Chicago Bulls ended their 19-game home winning streak and handed them just their seventh loss of the season in a 113-11 overtime victory. Throughout the game both teams were neck and neck and clearly neither of them was letting this [...]

Bank on DeMarcus Cousins being named to the Western Conference’s 2015 NBA All-Star roster. It feels good to write those words in that particular order. Statistically speaking, Cousins should have been All-Star last season. He’s become a 20-point, 12-rebound, three-assist, one-steal, one-block guy. Those players make All-Star teams, even if they play center, which has [...]