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Staring down the barrel of Kevin Love’s departure, the Minnesota Timberwolves are eyeing Thaddeus Young as his potential replacement. Because, sure. Marc Stein of ESPN.com has the juicy deets: The Minnesota Timberwolves have expressed interest in Philadelphia 76ers power forward Thaddeus Young as a potential replacement for Kevin Love, according to sources close to the [...]

Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson don’t think the Warriors are going to trade Klay Thompson. #MindMelting (#NotReally) Speaking with Yahoo Sports’ Marc J. Spears, Thompson addressed the Kevin Love trade rumors that continue to envelop Golden State, often at the expense of Klay himself: We got a good core. I feel we have one of [...]

Derrick Rose is still brimming with confidence. Two campaign-crippling injuries later, the Chicago Bulls point guard could be timid. He’s played in 50 games—regular season and playoffs—since 2011-12. He’s spent the last two years or so riding the pine. There is reason for doubt, for fear. Not everyone believes he will return to form, or [...]

After deciding between No. 6 and No. 23 as his jersey number for next season, the King has finally made the decision to return to his old number with the Cleveland Cavaliers. He made this announcement via twitter and instagram. [tweet https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/493440487957622786] It looks like all those Cleveland fans who burnt their old LeBron jerseys [...]

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After easing into retirement from professional basketball, Shaquille O’Neal still remains very relevant to the basketball community thru his current focus of being an on-air personality for the NBA as well as a partial team owner. His footwear choices from the early 1990s helped shape the current signature sneaker landscape as well know it now. [...]

Not sure why this took so long. Mike D’Antoni unceremoniously quit as Lakers coach on April 30, and nearly three full months later, they’ve finally offered someone the job. That someone is Byron Scott, who has been the reported frontrunner for a while now. Even though Kobe is on his way out, he publicly endorsed [...]

The Chicago Bulls will want to remember this moment—the moment when we find out why Marc Gasol didn’t recruit his brother, Pau Gasol, to play for the Memphis Grizzlies. Speculation began early this year about the two reuniting in Memphis. Pau was a free agent. The Los Angeles Lakers were sucking wind. Zach Randolph might [...]

Given the breakout season he just came off of, John Wall’s exclusion from the Team USA list of invitees for this summer’s World Cup was a bit surprising. Granted, the point guard position in the NBA is stacked these days, but Wall’s game lends itself well to that international style of competition. Wall has now [...]

When the Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets meet next season, playing nice is out of the question. Crap is going to get real brutal, real quick. Tensions are going to boil over. They're already boiling over. Since leaving the Rockets for the Mavericks, Chandler Parsons has been vocal about the entire process, commending Dallas and [...]