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Jeremy Lin is injured again, only this time, the setback isn’t considered serious. From the New York Post‘s Brian Lewis: When Jeremy Lin landed awkwardly on his ankle during Sunday’s game against the Mavericks, he couldn’t help but think the worst. After all, that’s the way his nightmarish, injury-riddled season has gone since it began, with [...]

The Orlando Magic are currently sitting in 14th place in the eastern conference at 25-45 and will miss the postseason for the fifth straight season. Not exactly what the organization or fan base was hoping for when you consider the fact that the Magic went all in to make the postseason this year, by trading [...]

The Miami Heat’s playoff hopes have taken another blow: Dion Waiters suffered an ankle during Friday night’s win over the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the team has no idea when he’s going to return. X-rays were negative, per the Miami Herald‘s Manny Navarro, but head coach Erik Spoelstra said the team doesn’t have a timetable for his [...]

If you want to know what was potentially the worst free agent signing this past summer with all of the funny money that was thrown around, you have to look no further than the Memphis Grizzlies and Chandler Parsons. The Grizzlies gave Parsons a massive four-year, $94 million contract this summer despite all of his [...]

The MRI results came in and they weren’t good for 35-year-old Bulls star guard Dwyane Wade, he will miss the remainder of the season to recover from a broken elbow [tweet https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/842419405468311553] Wade’s homecoming hasn’t exactly been anything special as the Bulls are currently 10th in the east at 32-36. Wade has the ability to [...]

The experiment in the Big Easy hasn’t been an easy transition for Anthony Davis and Demarcus Cousins thus far. The Pelicans, who were 2.5 games out of the No. 8 seed at the All-Star break when they made the blockbuster deal, are now 5.5 games out and basically eliminated from postseason contention. That does not [...]

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 [...]