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Warriors coach Steve Kerr walked away from his 15 year NBA career with a career free-throw percentage of 86.4%. Through his first five seasons, Stephen Curry is at 89.6% from the stripe. After practice yesterday, the two decided to engage in a FT shooting contest that Curry ultimately won. You’ll recall that former Warriors coach [...]

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Remember in 2008 and 2012 when participating in the Olympics was cool again? Well, it sometimes has that uncool 2004 feeling at times. While many guys, such as Kevin Durant, says he’s down for 2016, LeBron James is on the fence. No surprise here. LeBron realizes he’s no spring chicken anymore and he’d probably like [...]

Three cheers for backtracking! Or rather, context! Yay, context! Carmelo Anthony created quite a stir at Knicks media day when he apparently said the following to ESPN.com’s Chris Broussard: [tweet https://twitter.com/Chris_Broussard/status/516643510192439296] For shame, Melo! For shame! How dare ye incite such bedlam weeks before the regular season, and mere weeks after the New York Knicks [...]

Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Scott Brooks has been having a great run in the city, having been able to appear in the conference finals three times in four seasons. These achievements would not have been possible without his best players—and one of them is named Russell Westbrook. During the team’s media day, Brooks made [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers held their open scrimmage last night. The highlights offensively were fast and furious. All eyes were on Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving, and of course Lebron James. And the trio didn’t disappoint the crowd. Check out this move where Kyrie Irving shakes his defenders with multiple spin moves for the step back jumper. [...]

Fascinating. The Detroit Pistons have been fascinating since the end of last season. From hiring Stan Van Gundy as president and coach to the personnel they paid and overpaid to their inability to lock up Greg Monroe long term, everything about their summer has been, for better and worse, fascinating. Monroe’s situation is especially interesting. [...]

Lebron James is not only a gym rat that has tremendous physical abilities, but its been widely accepted that he has one of the best mental capacities for the game of basketball. Some even think he’s got a photographic memory or is a savant for ‘systems’, that can even apply to memorizing video game manipulations. [...]

Quietly, David West is 34 years old. While that’s young enough to play a few more years, West have been thinking about retirement for quite some time now. In fact, a 33 year old West was ready to walk away if the Pacers won the 2012-13 championship. During media day, West sounded very down and [...]

Kobe Bryant doesn’t handle rejection well. That, or he handles it really well. It depends how you look at it. Someone asked Kobe about Kevin Love being traded to Cleveland Cavaliers, presumably mentioning the many ties to the Los Angeles Lakers he had via the ever-churning rumor mill last season. Kobe responded in kind. Per [...]