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According to Yahoo! Sports, The Oklahoma City Thunder have traded Sixth Man of the Year James Harden to the Houston Rockets after not being able to agree to a contract extension with the guard. Rockets will send SG Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb and future draft considerations to the Thunder for Harden, sources told Y! Sports. [...]

David Stern has had a tremendous run at the top of one of the largest associations in professional sports. The game has changed (some say for the better) under his leadership. Even if you don’t like the rule changes he has made under his rule, making the game ‘soft’ in some fans opinion, you can’t [...]

The Dallas Mavericks will certainly raise a few eyebrows around the league with the timing of waiving guard Delonte West, but the kicker will be the quick turnaround to pick up center Eddy Curry off waivers. The Mavericks announced that they have been awarded free agent center Eddy Curry on a waiver claim. “We are [...]

David Stern has come under fire of late (particularly during the lockout), but he was instrumental in making the NBA popular in the 1990s. During the lockout, he said that this would be his last collective bargaining agreement, signaling the end was near. He will retire on the 30th anniversary of when he became commish. [...]

It seems that basketball fans in China remember Tracy McGrady more for his legendary exploits as a member of the Orlando Magic and his first couple of years with the Rockets. McGrady just inked a new deal with the Qingdao Eagles of the CBA. Watch fans greet McGrady as he arrives at Qingdao airport. Evidently, [...]

The Knicks can’t seem to get out of their own way so far this preseason, and injuries certainly don’t help. Amar’e Stoudemire is out 2-3 weeks with a ruptured cyst in his knee and now Tyson Chandler, the anchor of their defense, is out too. Chandler went down in last night’s preseason tilt vs. the [...]

New York, New York – October 24, 2012 – With the preseason soon concluding, the 2012-2013 NBA Regular Season is filled with a great deal of story lines which the masses are sure to follow. Year in and year out, one of the more popular trending topics happens to be the performance of the NBA’s [...]

Championships are won inside-out. Typically, anyway. If you have LeBron James and Dwyane Wade roaming the perimeter, I guess that rule doesn’t apply. But if you ask Wade, he still feels as if the Heat are vulnerable down low. “Yeah, we have weaknesses,” said Wade, whose Heat went 46-20 during the 2011-12 lockout-shortened campaign, an [...]

The NBA has decided to address the concerns raised over the years about having players like Tim Duncan, Chris Bosh, Kevin Garnett, etc. choose between being listed as a forward or center for all-star balloting purposes. This hurt lots of deserving power forwards who were not selected for the game because guys playing the majority [...]