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If the Boston Celtics began training camp right now, both Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward would be ready to rock. This is not speculation…unless you consider team president Danny Ainge a questionable source. Here’s what he had to say, per ESPN.com’s Chris Forsberg: “I don’t want to hype it up too much, but I’m saying [...]

The NBA’s 2018 rookie class has spoken, and the consensus is in: LeBron James is their favorite player. Results from the league’s rookie survey were officially released, and LeBron received the largest share in this department, edging out Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant by a wide margin. Here are the results, per NBA.com’s John Schuhmann: [...]

Dwyane Wade has yet to decide whether he’ll return for a 16th NBA season, which means, despite a report to the contrary, he most definitely has not come to terms on a new deal with the Miami Heat. Twitter was momentarily sent aflutter by this newsbreak: [tweet https://twitter.com/AdamSpolane/status/1029492153121001472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1029492153121001472&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fclutchpoints.com%2Fheat-news-dwyane-wade-and-miami-both-deny-new-deal%2F] HoopsHype’s Alex Kennedy then debunked said rumor: [...]

Kobe Bryant was one of the more successful and accomplished basketball players on the court in NBA history (and a notoriously bad teammate most of his career) and he is proving to be one of the most successful athletes off of the court as well. He has already won an Oscar (seriously) for the animated [...]

If you didn’t already know that the Clippers dream outcome in the 2019 off-season is to acquire Kawhi Leonard, this story confirms it. The Clippers have employed former San Antonio Spurs defensive deterrent Bruce Bowen for a few years as a TV analyst and he made some disparaging remarks about Leonard and how he handled [...]

The NCAA has dealt with a lot of scrutiny in recent years (fully warranted) and after the FBI probe of college basketball it is fully aware that its archaic institution is in some need of change. That process has started as the NCAA announced that it will now allow undrafted players to return to college [...]

NBA schedule #SZN is here! Though the NBA will release the entire schedule for the 2018-19 season on Wednesday evening, but part of its slate has already started trickling out. And why would we expect anything else? This is the NBA we’re talking about. Actual dates and deadlines do not matter. We always get armed [...]

We have officially entered the quiet time of the NBA off-season (if that still exists) as all of the major moves have more than likely occurred and NBA training camps are still a month and a half away. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t still some player movement behind the scenes and one of the [...]

The Pacers were the surprise darling of the the NBA last season as a team many projected to be near the top of the lottery finished with 48 wins and the 5th seed in the eastern conference. Victor Oladipo flashed the star potential that made him the No.2 pick in the 2013 NBA Draft and [...]

Dwyane Wade is nearing the end of his first-ballot hall of fame career that includes three NBA championships a Finals MVP and a scoring title. He has said publicly that he wants to play for no other team besides the Miami Heat for the remainder of his career. Does that restriction extend to international teams? [...]