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J.J. Barea hasn’t forgotten how much he loved playing for the Dallas Mavericks. The point guard spent five seasons in Dallas, mostly as a backup, before signing with the Minnesota Timberwolves in the summer of 2011. His departure was and remains unsettling, since it came just after the Mavs beat the Miami Heat in the [...]

J.R. Smith has been in the headlines a lot for the Knicks this offseason. First it was regarding his contract, then his surprising knee surgery, and then for his hair color choices. Now he is causing a stir for more or less guaranteeing a Knicks championship this year. It’s great when a player does this [...]

During his playing days, Allen Iverson never failed to disappoint his fans, leaving everything he had on the court.  But, apparently his time away from the game hasn’t been so spectacular, as he may be headed towards another court date with his estranged wife over failure to pay child support. Despite everyone looking back at [...]

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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