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The Los Angeles Lakers are struggling, but blowing this team up shouldn’t be an option. Though it’s tempting to look at the age of Los Angeles’ core and their subsequent record, and then conclude that this isn’t working, making any brash decisions on the fate of this convocation is still premature. Why? Because there’s still [...]

The front court struggles of the Miami Heat has been well chronicled. They got by last year, but have teams figured them out yet? If so, will Greg Oden help? Nearly a year removed from his latest knee surgery, former No. 1 overall pick Greg Oden has decided to resume his playing career but is [...]

It’s still unfortunate that Tracy McGrady has to play in China, but nothing lasts forever. He is a rockstar over there, but that doesn’t mean he can get away with just anything. Especially now criticizing officials. CBA suspended Tracy McGrady one game for criticinzing officiating on his Weibo account after the game. The [chief referee] [...]

With Chinese New Year being February 10th, adidas is ready for the for the Zodiac change with this edition of the Rose 3.5 basketball sneaker.  The black upper is designed to give off the appearance of snake scales with a metallic gold SPRINTFRAME midsole.  Most interestingly seen in this picture is the sticker stating that [...]

There’s dumb, there’s stupid, there’s completely insane and then there’s the idea that the Los Angeles Lakers should trade Dwight Howard to the Dallas Mavericks for Dirk Nowitzki. You might think I’m an idiot for mentioning it—and I may very well be—but just know my crime is only acknowledging that the concept exists. According to [...]

When we found out that Carmelo Anthony was looking for Kevin Garnett after the most recent Knicks-Celtics game, we knew the league would take action. Anthony was waiting for KG by the Celtics locker room, then again by the team bus. Melo and KG got involved in some trash talking towards the end of the [...]

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Recovery time for torn ACLs used to be a full year, no questions asked. But since athletes are built differently now versus a few decades ago, that process is expedited. The Bulls may have the services of Derrick Rose soon, who has returned to practice and is dunking again. “It’s just great to see him out [...]

The plot continues to thicken for the Memphis Grizzlies. As soon as it became known that the Grizzlies were willing to deal star forward Rudy Gay in favor of some salary cap relief, all proverbial hell broke loose in Memphis. First, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reported that the Grizzlies and Phoenix Suns were attempting [...]

This video has surfaced on TMZ.com showing the altercation between Knicks Carmelo Anthony and Celtics Kevin Garnett in front of the Celtics team bus after the game this week between the Knicks and Celtics. Melo and Garnett both got double technicals during the preceding game after Garnett went a bit too far in his trash [...]