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LeBron James isn’t the only one who doesn’t feel great about the Cleveland Cavaliers offseason. Kyrie Irving is right there with him. Asked by SI.com’s Maggie Gray about how different the Cavaliers could look in the next couple years given that LeBron is a free agent in 2018, Irving gave a less-than-reassuring answer: SI‘s Maggie [...]

Blake Griffin is confident the Los Angeles Clippers didn’t just hand him a five-year, $173 million contract to begin next season on the bench. So, yay(?) Griffin’s 2016-17 campaign ended less than three games into the Clippers’ first-round playoff matchup with the Utah Jazz due to a right big toe injury. While the timetable for [...]

Always at the forefront of technology and new ideas, the NBA is at it again. In addition to unveiling jersey patches for the 2017-18 season, the new partnership with Nike to create NBA team uniforms moving forward has come with another first, no more designated home and road uniforms. [tweet https://twitter.com/NBA/status/887346381089894402] Nike is creating four [...]

While many thought the hall of fame caliber (you can debate it but he will be inducted) career of Manu Ginobili came to an end in Game 4 of the western conference finals in May when Gregg Popovich paid his respects to Ginobili by starting him and the whole arena had the feel of a [...]

NBA fans that have been complaining about the length of games have a reason to rejoice. The NBA heard their complaints and have decided to speed up the game by reducing the number of timeouts that teams have. If you want to bet on NBA games, check out next season’s NBA betting lines. The NBA [...]

The Houston Rockets are all in on doing one thing this summer: build a team to challenge the Golden State Warriors. The Rockets, somewhat surprisingly, were a mid 50 win team last season behind James Harden’s historic season and incredible success at point guard. It was clear in the postseason that they didn’t have enough [...]

The New Orleans Pelicans added a little play making, veteran presence and let’s be honest, ornery-ness to their roster for the 2017-18 season by signing Rajon Rondo to a one-year deal. [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/886249142967824384] Rondo averaged 7.8 points, 6.7 assists and 5.1 rebounds for the Bulls last season and got them to a surprising 2-0 lead [...]

The start of the NBA season has traditionally coincided with Halloween or the last few days of October, but has slowly been creeping up in recent years as the NBA tries to limit taxing back-to-back games or four games in five nights stretches for NBA teams. They took a big step forward to that end [...]

One of the major traditions associated with NBA All-Star Weekend every year is the proliferation of NBA trade rumors, those days are officially over. Traditionally the NBA trade deadline is the Tuesday after the NBA All-Star Weekend, but now the deadline has been moved up to February 8. [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/885182731868528640] This is a smart move [...]

When the Chicago Bulls begin the 2017-18 regular season, head coach Fred Hoiberg expects Dwyane Wade to be on the team and part of the rotation. And that, in turn, means no buyout is forthcoming. General manager Gar Forman and vice president of basketball operations John Paxson were extremely up front about this in June, [...]