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Iman Shumpert has missed the past four games with a left knee injury, and the Cleveland Cavaliers shouldn’t expect him back anytime soon. The team announced prior to Thursday’s win over the Atlanta Hawks that Shumpert’s injured knee will require surgery: Cavaliers guard Iman Shumpert (left knee effusion) was reevaluated following Tuesday’s game by team physicians Dr. [...]

Things continue to get worse in Memphis. Losers of nine straight games and fresh off firing their head coach 19 games into the season, they received the unfortunate news on Wednesday night that their starting point guard Mike Conley will miss two to three more weeks to recover from his sore Achilles and heel. Here [...]

Hassan Whiteside’s left knee is acting up again, and he isn’t happy about it. The seven-footer missed five games earlier in the season with what was deemed a bruised left knee and has played in every game since. But he’s been limited to under 25 minutes in four of the last five tilts, and the [...]

The tale of Ben Gordon, not long ago one of the best scorers off of the bench and pure shooters in the NBA, has become a sad and frankly bizarre one. Gordon, who has been out of the NBA for over two seasons now and attempted a comeback last season with a short stint with [...]

Back injuries are supposed to have ended Michael Porter Jr.’s lone season at the University of Missouri before it really started. The 19-year-old, who was in heavy contention to be selected first overall in next June’s NBA draft, isn’t supposed to play again before his professional career tips off. He underwent a microdisectomy of the L3-L4 spinal discs, which [...]

More bad news for Blake Griffin and the struggling and short-handed Los Angeles Clippers: Griffin will miss the next two months while he recovers from a sprained MCL. [tweet https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/935601533021913088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Griffin suffered the injury in the 4th quarter of the Clippers 120-115 win over the Lakers on Monday night when a tumbling Austin Rivers landed [...]

John Wall is a member of the top five point guards in the NBA (in my opinion) that gets talked about the least. He is a lightning quick guard with elite athleticism who pushes the paces and does almost everything at a high level at the position, averaging about 20 points, 10 assists and four [...]

There are three things that are absolute certainties in life: death, taxes and the San Antonio Spurs making the playoffs. That is of course a play off of the quote by current Washington Wizards Head Coach Scott Brooks, who said a version of that a few years back, which is a play on the quote [...]

The Nuggets chances to return to the playoffs in 2018 just took a big hit. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Nuggets veteran power forward and big-time free agency acquisition is expected to miss 3 months of actions after undergoing surgery on his injured wrist. [tweet https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/933124886742134784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Paul Millsap suffered the injury in the 2nd [...]

And now for some really crappy news. The Missouri Tigers announced on Tuesday that freshman Michael Porter Jr., one of the candidates to be selected first overall in the 2018 NBA draft, will miss the rest of this season due to a back injury that will require surgery. SI.com’s Chris Chavez relayed some of the [...]