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Every year General Mangers take part in a survey where they predict who they think will win certain awards such as the NBA Championship, MVP and Rookie of the Year. Overwhelmingly, the Spurs are favored to repeat, LeBron will win another MVP and Jabari Parker will run away with the ROY. Hard to argue with [...]

With the new season just around the corner, the Los Angeles Lakers have decided to sit out their 36-year-old superstar Kobe Bryant for the rest of their scheduled games in the preseason, according to Mark Medina of the LA Daily News. [tweet https://twitter.com/MarkG_Medina/status/525069970456465408] The Lakers will be facing the Portland Trailblazers tonight in Ontario and [...]

Sacramento’s loss is Phoenix’s gain. Instead of re-signing the diminutive 5’9″ Isaiah Thomas over the offseason, the Kings signed and traded him to the Suns, electing to roll with free agents Darren Collison and Ramon Sessions. This surprised some. Many, even. Just not Thomas himself. Said the point guard while speaking with Basketball Insiders’ Alex [...]

The Orlando Magic and their center Nikola Vucevic have reached a four-year, $54 million dollar extension, according to Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports. Vucevic, 23, certainly has a lot of potential yet to be maximized within him and the Magic want to assure of his services for the next few years while he grows [...]

The NBA will have to eradicate tanking another day. According to Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, proposed changes to the league’s current draft lottery system were voted down Wednesday: [tweet https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/524938287324991488] [tweet https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/524940675746254848] [tweet https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/524939718065000448] These results represent a stark change. As recent as Tuesday, Wojnarowski said the league was preparing to vote on a draft [...]

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Blame for the Los Angeles Lakers’ devolution from title-toting titan to fallen giant is available in excess, ready to be dispersed unto anyone and everyone responsible for the trying—and perhaps lasting—times that lie ahead. This includes Kobe Bryant. But not only Kobe Bryant. Rushes to diagnose the Lakers’ uncharacteristic landslide have, quite predictably, oversimplified and [...]

When battling back from an injury, some players have a tendency to rush back while others take their sweet time. It all depends on the individual and their state of mind. Sounds like we can lump Kevin Durant in the category of a guy that will take his time. KD is in no rush to [...]

A taste of the much-awaited commencement of the 2014-15 NBA season was in showcase awhile ago when the Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls faced off against one another. But for almost the entirety of the match—it was basically a duel between the best point guards in the league right now—Derrick Rose and Kyrie Irving. Rose [...]

There are plenty of people who think the Cleveland Cavaliers are favorites to win the Eastern Conference. LeBron James, once again a Cleveland Cavalier, isn’t one of them. Ahead of the Cavaliers’ preseason matchup against the Chicago Bulls, LeBron declared that his opponents were the better team right now, per ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst. “[The Bulls] [...]