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It looks like the magic that was Joel Embiid’s rookie season in Philadelphia has officially come to an end. The team released a statement Wednesday saying that “The Process” will be sidelined for the rest of the 2016-17 season while doctors try to help him recover from his meniscus issue. [tweet https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/837034120559607808] Here is an [...]

Do not fear Kevin Durant’s absence, Golden State Warriors fans. Matt Barnes is here to save the day. According to ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes and Marc Stein, the Warriors plan to sign the 36-year-old Barnes, who was released by the Sacramento Kings following the DeMarcus Cousins trade, as a way of beginning to replace everything they [...]

George Hill’s return to the Utah Jazz next season is no longer a formality. It was assumed all along the two sides might reach an extension that prevents the underrated-turned-Jazz lifeline point gurad from hitting the open market this summer, but extension talks died ahead of Tuesday’s deadline, according to the Salt Lake Tribune‘s Tony Jones: [...]

The Washington Wizards had a whatever trade deadline. They dealt a first-round pick to the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for dumping Andrew Nicholson’s salary and acquiring Bojan Bogdanovic, a dude who can hit threes, doesn’t play great defense and will leave as a restricted free agent this summer. Blah, right? Even when you spin it in [...]

The 2017 NCAA March Madness tournament is upon us, and we’re here to prepare you for what’s to come. As the video illustrates, perfect brackets do not exist. You have more chance of winning the lottery. There are too many variables at play, most of them unpredictable. No program or astute mind can predict, for [...]

The Denver Nuggets’ quest to secure the Western Conference’s eighth and final playoff spot is getting a little harder. Kenneth Faried has missed five of the team’s last seven and is expected to sit out for the next seven to 10 days with a back injury, per the Denver Post‘s Nick Kosmider: [tweet https://twitter.com/NickKosmider/status/836629973859516424] Denver has [...]

Things were starting to look up for the Toronto Raptors as they had rebounded from their worst stretch of basketball in a year and a half and were the clear winners of the trade deadline, adding two pieces in Serge Ibaka and P.J. Tucker to help vault them back into eastern conference contention. That was [...]

The buyout market continues to be more active and interesting than the final 24 hours of the trade deadline was, as another title contender is looking to add a veteran guard to their roster. It appears the latest buyout asset projected to hit the market will be Los Angeles Lakers veteran point guard Jose Calderon, [...]

A signing that looked suspect and an impending albatross the moment the ink dried definitely doesn’t look any better today. Yesterday the Vertical tweeted that New York Knicks center Joakim Noah will potentially miss the remainder of the 2016-17 season or at the least the next 3 to 4 weeks to undergo knee surgery. [tweet [...]

After months of discussion about if and when 2016 No. 1 NBA Draft pick and potential future phenom Ben Simmons would debut in his rookie season, it appears we finally got our answer Friday and it is not the ideal one from a fan perspective. Ben Simmons will be out for the remainder of the [...]