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Kevin Love believes. Talk of 2015, when Love will be a free agent and likely courted by the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers, among others, kind of makes you forget that there’s another team who will be competing for Love’s services—the Minnesota Timberwolves. Minny’s quest to retain Love has already started. David Kahn [...]

Barely two weeks in the and Knicks are on the verge of making a major move. Iman Shumpert has been a pleasant surprise for the team for the past couple of years and his perimeter defense has been refreshing. But in order to compete in the East, management apparently feels a move is needed. Shumpert [...]

It isn’t exactly a great time to be a New York Knicks fan after just a few weeks into the regular season. It’s only mid November, but the Knicks are sitting with a sub .500 record and are riddled with injuries like Amare Stoudemire’s rapidly deteriorating knees and news that Tyson Chandler is out 4-6 [...]

Before the end of November a new adidas D Rose colorway will release called the ‘Chicago Nightfall’. Said to gets its inspiration from the colors of a Chicago sunset, the purple represents Lake Michigan as well as the night sky, the yellow comes from the reflection of a setting sunlight off of Lake Michigan and [...]

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Mike D’Antoni hasn’t sugarcoated anything since joining the Los Angeles Lakers. When he was coaching the Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks, you could never really get inside his head. Not like you can now. In Phoenix, there was an air of bravado in the way he spoke and confidence in his step. With the [...]

When thinking of Real Madrid from Spain, our minds traditionally go toward the highly successful and wildly popular and prestigious soccer club that is annually among the World’s best. But they also are a very accomplished basketball club in Europe that has won numerous European Cups and has featured several future NBA stars in years [...]

The great Steve Nash may be falling apart right before our very eyes. He’s already likely to sit out the second game of most Laker back-to-backs, and now he’s out for a couple of weeks with back pain. Luckily for L.A., they’ve gotten off to a surprisingly decent start, thanks in large part to their [...]

Expectations are a funny thing. Did I say funny? Sorry, I meant to say that expectations are a cruel-hearted, unshaven bastard. Especially in the NBA. Early on, we cannot escape them. They’re with us always. Always, always, always. And they screw around with our power rankings. At heart, weekly evaluations should be impulsive and read [...]

LeBron James isn’t superhuman, he just plays like he is. The Chosen One has demolished opposing defenses on a nightly basis for over a decade. We’ve grown accustomed to it. Expect it. Assume it’s going to happen every second of every game. Understandably, all of us who don’t hate the greatest NBA player alive—sorry, MJ—were [...]