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Did New Jersey Nets rookie Mason Plumlee just leak the team’s plans to retire Jason Kidd’s jersey this season? Via The Basketball Jones from a transcription of a Bleacher Report interview with incoming NBA Rookies on how they will select their jersey numbers: “Mason Plumlee – I wanted 5, 5 is what I wore in [...]

Jeanie Buss doesn’t want Kobe Bryant to leave the Los Angeles Lakers. Previously, Buss told ESPNLA 710 in a radio interview that it was important for Kobe to get healthy and not do anything that jeopardizes his future. Asked to expand on those comments by Ramona Shelburne of ESPN Los Angeles, Buss made it clear [...]

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It’s typical for guys to make adjustments part-way through their careers, but even this may be a bit extreme. Tristan Thompson from the Cavaliers is undergoing a change this offeason. He will change the hand in which he shoots with. That’s right, he will now shoot free throws and jumpshots with his right rather than [...]

Greg Oden will not be asked to score for the Heat. Coming in, his role is clearly defined. After three consecutive trips to the Finals, the Miami Heat roster works, even though it’s flawed. But Oden is supposed to rid the club of that flaw by adding size in the frontcourt. In his first comment [...]

When I first saw a headline that read Philadelphia 76ers big man Spencer Hawes scores 58 points in Jamal Crawford’s Seattle Pro-Am, I’ll admit my first thought that it must be a typo. But then came the following video evidence of the chronically underachieving former Lottery pick dominating the competition to notch the highest scoring [...]

Surprise, surprise. Paul Pierce recently admitted that neither he nor Doc Rivers nor Kevin Garnett was prepared to endure a rebuild for the Boston Celtics. Shocking right? Not exactly. Speaking with SLAM Magazine’s Adam Figman, The Truth was very candid about what went down in Beantown: Well, I know the insides with everything that’s going [...]

Greg Oden is a large individual, which means he’ll eat up alot of real estate on the defensive end, and will also alter shots and grab rebounds. But he’s never been that polished of an offensive player. Perhaps working with the likes of Alonzo Mourning will help that. Since retiring, Zo has remained affiliated with [...]

Don’t figure on LaMarcus Aldridge being traded from the Portland Trail Blazers. Talking with Craig Birnbach of KATU (via Ben Golliver of Blazers Edge), general manager Neil Olshey said that the Aldridge trade rumors were fabricated by the media: “I think it comes from all you [media] — everybody fighting to be first with inaccurate [...]

When Brandon Jennings was traded to the Pistons, the logical assumption was that he’d be the starting PG. But hold on. That may not be the case necessarily. The Pistons have four PGs on their roster and one of them is named Chauncey Billups. Even though Chauncey is older, his game was never based on [...]