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In the Dallas Mavericks’ 107-80 Monday victory over the Charlotte Hornets, their 7-foot center from Germany—Dirk Nowitzki—reached an impressive milestone on being the fourth player in NBA history to tally 27,000 career points with a single team. With exactly 6:07 remaining in the third quarter, Nowitzki hit a jumper to clinch the 27,000 point mark [...]

Metta World Peace’s exit from the NBA was rather quiet and unceremonious. Without much fanfare, he’s no longer in the league, but is doing his think overseas. Just because he’s not visible on a daily basis doesn’t mean he still isn’t interesting. World Peace recently gave some accounts of his brief tenure with the Knicks. [...]

The NBA has announced today that the Sacramento Kings have filed a protest regarding their controversial 111-110 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on November 13 at the FedEx forum. With 0.3 seconds left in the game, Vince Carter through the inbound pass to Courtney Lee, which led to a buzzer-beating layup that sealed the game [...]

This nightmarish start to the season has only gotten worse for the Orlando Magic. Channing Frye and Victor Oladipo suffered early season injuries and Aaron Gordon, selected 4th overall in June’s draft, has suffered a broken foot and is out indefinitely. The injury came Saturday night in a win over Atlanta. The 6-foot-9, 220-pound rookie [...]

We all know the Los Angeles Lakers are in a grim situation right now—having only won 1 out of their first 10 games of the season. I guess the best thing for them to do now is to look towards the future already—specifically finding help for Kobe Bryant next season. But, it looks like Oklahoma [...]

Jordan Brand Players Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul are getting the first PE’s of the Air Jordan 1 High, and they are set to hit the market fairly soon. The ‘Melo PE is black and gold with a jumpman logo on the heel, and ‘Melo gets his logo on the tongue of the shoe. The [...]

Not even playing alongside LeBron James safeguards Kevin Love against Lakers rumors. The free-agent-to-be has been heavily linked to the Lakers since last season. He was born in Santa Monica (raised in Oregon), attended UCLA, unhappy in Minnesota and barreling towards the open market. It was only a matter of time before Love put on [...]

Rudy Gay this weekend reached an agreement with the Sacramento Kings on a $40M contract extension for the next three years. Gay still has one year left on his current deal, but decided to negotiate now with the Kings rather than wait out free agency. The extension begins with the 2015-16 season, and includes a [...]

It’s been more than a month since Washington Wizard guard Bradley Beal broke his left wrist (Oct. 10), but after a relatively quick recovery, he’s expected to return to practice this week. In fact he has hopes to make a season debut this Friday night against the Cavaliers, according to Jorge Castillo of the Washington [...]

Over the next several years, we will probably begin to see former players become owners of NBA teams. It would be good for the game and better than no-name billionaires who have no sports acumen. Kevin Garnett is likely in his last season and has his sights set on things beyond playing ball. KG would [...]