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James Harden, by his own admittance, is in pain. He’s dealing with a left wrist injury, one that visibly factored into his 5-of-20 shooting performance during the Houston Rockets’ Tuesday night loss to the Golden State Warriors. Perhaps it’s a good time for him to take a few games off and get right for the playoffs. [...]

Do you want the good news or the bad news first, Atlanta Hawks fans? Let’s start with the bad news. Paul Millsap has missed each of the last five games with a knee injury, and it doesn’t look like he’ll be returning too soon, per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s Chris Vivlamore: Paul Millsap will be out at [...]

The Rockets have already done more than enough to protect their playoff positioning and establish themselves as the surprise (at least in my opinion) team in the NBA this season, currently at 51-22 and 3rd in the western conference. While all of the attention has been on the incredible season by James Harden, one of [...]

Joel Embiid has been shut down for quite some time now with another lower leg injury. In the time that he did play this season, he looked much better than expected, and light years ahead of what we last saw at Kansas. If he can stay on the court, he is going to be a [...]

The forgettable season for the Knicks has gotten even more crazy. Joakim Noah has been suspended for 20 games for violating the league’s anti-drug policy. Noah was thought to be a key addition by Phil Jackson last summer, but he hasn’t panned out as the team had thought or hoped. And now this. Joakim Noah [...]

Patrick Ewing may finally get his shot at being a head coach…with Georgetown. From The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski: Georgetown officials plan to consider the head-coaching candidacy of the university’s most legendary basketball alumnus, Patrick Ewing, sources told The Vertical. Ewing, the associate head coach of the Charlotte Hornets, has been an NBA assistant coach for [...]

In the last decade or so, the league has taken measures to punish players severely for things that haven’t always seemed as serious. The punishment doesn’t always fit the crime. That’s why it’s somewhat strange to learn that Robin Lopez and Serge Ibaka were only suspended one game for their altercation Tuesday evening. Their dust [...]

The Brooklyn Nets are riding high after Tuesday night’s victory over the Detroit Pistons and thinking big. Okay, truthfully, they were thinking big way before that win. They have a ton of cap space this summer, and as a team without draft picks and the need or ability to win now, they’re perfectly positioned to [...]

There have been very few general managers who had the level of success in professional sports (even less had Michael Jordan) as Jerry Krause. Krause was the general manager of the Chicago Bulls from 1985 through 2003, including winning six championships during the 1990s with Jordan and Pippen leading the Bulls teams. He passed away [...]

Serge Ibaka and Robin Lopez got into it during the Toronto Raptors’ Tuesday night overtime victory against the Chicago Bulls. The scene was so contentious, suspensions have to be coming. And Robin Lopez knows it, per the Chicago Tribune‘s K.C. Johnson: [tweet https://twitter.com/KCJHoop/status/844375305892646913] Jimmy Butler, who charged into the initial scrum but then took a step back, [...]