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Gary Payton was an all-time great NBA player, but he was equally as good at trash talking. In the mid-90s when the Sonics and Bulls met in the Finals, there’s a classic play where Payton whispers something in Michael Jordan’s ear. Is his trash talk with MJ still continuing? In a recent Q&A with Yahoo!, [...]

Never fear, Carmelo Anthony isn’t going anywhere, or so J.R. Smith thinks. In an interview with Ian Begley of ESPN New York, Smith admitted that there was no timetable behind his return from left patella tendon surgery. But because he didn’t want to be completely emo in his assessment of the future, Smith also said [...]

It’s not unusual for an up-and-coming, former highly touted young baller to make some bold prediction about his future status on the highest level. We’ve seen it in the past as future greats like Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant once challenged and occasionally got the best of all time superstar Michael Jordan, like most memorably [...]

Like you needed another reason as to why Dwight Howard left the Los Angeles Lakers. In a radio interview on ESPN 710 in Los Angeles transcribed by ESPN Los Angeles’ Ramona Shelburne (h/t ProBasketballTalk), Antawn Jamison, now a member of the Los Angeles Clippers, admitted that Kobe Bryant and Howard never trusted each other: What [...]

Dennis Rodman never ceases to amaze. The Hall of Famer has more or less completely distanced himself from the game of basketball, because every time he’s in the news it has nothing to do with the game. For his next act, Rodman may make a triumphant return to North Korea. You remember the last time [...]

I’m not really sure this is what most people picture as ‘rehab’ from an achilles surgery, but in Kobe Bryant’s case it appears to be so. Kobe posted this to his Vine account last night as an example as to how far he has come since he first started running. Hey Kobe, terrible form, splash [...]

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Caron Butler was traded from the Clippers earlier this summer to the Phoenix Suns and he’s on the move again. He was just traded to the Milwaukee Bucks. Once a valuable starter, Butler has quickly become a dreaded NBA journeyman. However, with the Bucks roster in flux, he may serve a focal point on that [...]

Could Lamar Odom find himself donning purple and gold once more? According to Radar online (h/t New York Post) the Los Angeles Lakers have reached out to Odom and told him they’re prepared to sign him if he goes to rehab to kick whatever drug habit he has: The Los Angeles Lakers have told troubled [...]

Larry Sanders wasn’t always a favorite of the Milwaukee Bucks. Per the Racine Jouranl Times‘ Gery Woelfel (h/t/ ProBasketballTalk) the Bucks wanted to cut Sanders roughly one year ago. Larry Sanders ascent to being Bucks' highest paid player is remarkable. A yr ago some Bucks officials wanted to cut him. — Gery Woelfel (@GeryWoelfel) August [...]