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Fourteen games remain on the Chicago Bulls’ schedule, and it’s fair to wonder whether Dwyane Wade will be available for any of them. The 35-year-old suffered a right shoulder injury during the second half of the Chicago Bulls’ Wednesday night loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. He exited the game midway through the fourth and didn’t [...]

What originally was thought to potentially be a huge blow to the San Antonio Spurs title aspirations and shot at a No. 1 seed in the western conference, thankfully has only proven to be a brief concern. Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge has been cleared by team doctors for his heart arrhythmia, which caused the star [...]

Any team that has soon-to-be free agents with undefined market values better beware the Brooklyn Nets. They have mountains of cap space, plus the incentive to overpay fringe stars both in the short and long term as they schlepp their way through an extensive rebuild. The assumption has always been they would throw max offers at [...]

While the Los Angeles Lakers, owners of the NBA’s second-worst record, are already projected to keep this year’s top-three protected first-round pick, they aren’t taking any chances. They’re shutting down both Luol Deng and Timofey Mozgov for the rest of the year, according to Ramona Shelburne of ESPN.com: The Los Angeles Lakers have effectively shut [...]

If the injury bugs have their way, we may never know how good this Utah Jazz team can be. Sure, they have the fourth-best record in the Western Conference, but they could be even better. They rank in the top five of the league in value lost to injuries this season, according to NBA Man [...]

Larry Sanders is officially a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Though his name was tossed around the rumor mill a few weeks back, the Cavaliers ultimately landed Andrew Bogut, who had been traded from the Dallas Mavericks to the Philadelphia 76ers, then was bought out. But, 58 seconds into tenure with Cleveland, Bogut suffered a season-ending [...]

Chandler Parsons’ first season with the Memphis Grizzlies has been one to forget, and it’s unlikely we’ll remember it any more than we do now. Because he’ll hardly played. The Grizzlies announced on Monday night that Parsons has a partial meniscus tear in his left knee and would be out indefinitely. According to Tim MacMahon [...]

By the end of the 2015-16 regular season, just after Stephen Curry was named the first unanimous MVP in NBA history, it seemed like we had a legitimate, and pertinent, question on our hands: If we were to start an NBA team from scratch, with the sole aim of winning immediately, who would we rather [...]

With Kevin Durant going down with a bum knee, the Spurs were no doubt licking their chops, as the #1 seed in the West seemed to be theirs for the taking. But that possibility has taken a hit with this recent news that LaMarcus Aldridge will be out for an indefinite period. The 31-year-old big [...]

Back in the 1970s hall of fame baseball player Reggie Jackson was known as “Mr. October” for his legendary clutch moments in the playoffs as a member of the New York Yankees and the Oakland Athletics. I think it is time we start referring to Russell Westbrook as “Mr. Triple Double.” Westbrook registered his incredible [...]