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Folks, you made it. Congratulations. The NBA regular season is over. It’s done. Finished. Finito. And good riddance. Don’t get me wrong, this season was crazy. Downright exciting. But it also sucked. It sucked so freaking hard. More than it’s sucked in the past few years. Did it rival the 2011-12 lockout-truncated season? Shit, I [...]

This has been an absolutely forgettable season for the Lakers and Kobe Bryant. After playing only 6 games this year, you have to wonder what Kobe will look like next year. The entire roster (coach included) for that matter. Needless to say, Kobe is probably frustrated at the whole thing. Rather than waiting for his [...]

The Milwaukee Bucks have a rich NBA tradition, dating back to the days of Lew Alcindor but they franchise has been down for a while now. They’ve made the playoffs here and there recently, but nothing to get too excited about. Well maybe this news will jumpstart the team. According to ESPN, the Bucks have [...]

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Is Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge above premature attempts to drum up a player’s trade value? I’m not sure. Kidding. Or am I? No, I’m definitely kidding. But that doesn’t make Ainge’s infinite faith in Rondo any less weird. Speaking with The Boston Globe‘s Gary Washburn, Ainge made it crystal clear he expects big [...]

Thanks to the ever trending YouTube, seemingly every day a new video pops up of supposedly the next great adolescent hoops star. While it may be cute to see these pint sized ballers imitate their favorite pro athletes in rec league action, crossing over opponents and doing Kevin Durant’s “free throw shake”, these talented youngsters [...]

There’s nothing like seeing a multimillion-dollar investment go up in flames at the worst possible time. Why yes, we are referencing the Golden State Warriors’ relationship with the injury-prone Andrew Bogut. How did you know? The Warriors announced on Monday that Bogut has been diagnosed with a rib fracture and will be sidelined indefinitely. Official: [...]

When Lamar Odom pouted his way out of Dallas, it effectively ended his NBA career because he was never the same on the court and the perception of him changed. He has since gone through some pretty public personal issues and made a trip overseas to play ball. But is he on his way back [...]

I give up. When it comes to matters of Mike D’Antoni and the Los Angeles Lakers, I give up. Their relationship is complicated, compounded by being a big-market team in the midst of the worst season in franchise history and playing host to an overwhelming number of rumors and speculation and questions and various other [...]

I usually read too deep into everything, but it would be fair to take from the Jordan ‘Tailored For Flight’ campaign that Russell Westbrook will be debuting a new Air Jordan sneaker. Seen here in this new commercial is Russell Westbrook walking down a city street into “Jeffrey & Sons” store (EST. 1985) which is [...]