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The surprise isn’t that JR Smith was fined by the league for untying the sneaker of an opponent. Rather, the surprise is that it was only $50K. Shawn Marion was the first victim two nights ago, and he tried the same on Greg Monroe (unsucessfully).  Ok, enough, JR. This falls in line with Jason Kidd telling one [...]

In the short term, the Cleveland Cavaliers appear to be the immediate winners of this week’s Andrew Bynum for Luol Deng trade. For at least the rest of this season, the Cavs get an All Star caliber small forward in Deng that quite possibly could help get Cleveland back into the Playoffs for the first [...]

15 time NBA All Star Kobe Bryant has undoubtedly been going through the roughest stretch of his career, first rehabbing from a torn Achilles sustained late last season and now is out for a length of time with a fracture in his left knee. After coming back sooner than expected from the original injury Kobe [...]

We’re back. After a brief—okay, not so brief—holiday hiatus, your favorite version of NBA Power Rankings written by a left-handed someone named Dan with an affinity for em dashes is back. Try to curb your enthusiasm, as I only packed enough adult diapers for myself. Anyway, a lot has happened since we’ve been gone. Russell [...]

LeBron continues to make it tough for his detractors to remain his detractors. He routinely does things to engage fans and show that he’s truly a good guy. His latest such example came last night as the Heat hosted the Pelicans. After being fouled, LeBron slowly wanders over near where fans are sitting a give [...]

Expensive rentals suck, which is why the Cleveland Cavaliers hope to be more than a means to a different ending for Luol Deng. Cleveland traded Andrew Bynum’s contract and an assortment of draft picks to the Chicago Bulls for the two-time All-Star, in a deal announced by the Bulls themselves. That almost never happens. But [...]

This past June, the Portland Trailblazers were looking for another key piece of the puzzle to accelerate their rebuild and get back to being one of the premier teams in the Western Conference. To their amazement, star senior guard CJ McCollum, who has been favorably compared to an even better shooting Steph Curry, fell into [...]

A few games ago, Ryan Anderson of the Pelicans was involved in a collision with Gerald Wallace of the Celtics and had to leave the game on a stretcher for precautionary reasons. You always hate to see that. Today, we learned his fate which is that he’s out indefinitely with a herniated disc. Tough blow [...]

Trade rumors can be a nasty business. The uncertainty they bring is just absurd, and no one has faced more uncertainty than Pau Gasol since 2011. The Los Angeles Lakers have dangled him every which way possible, forcing him to spend most of his days in limbo, waiting for word that his tenure in purple [...]