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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 [...]

Though Paul George remains with the Indiana Pacers following the NBA’s trade deadline, the Denver Nuggets did their darnedest to make him one of their own. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein and Chris Haynes: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/834842800067792897] [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/834843094398824448] It’s unclear what the Nuggets were offering, but according to ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe, they were reluctant to include [...]

Well the year long saga of whether the Philadelphia 76ers would trade Jahlil Okafor or Nerlens Noel has finally come to an end. Adrian Wojnarowski reported Thursday that the 76ers agreed to trade Noel to the Mavericks for Andrew Bogut, a 1st round pick that is top 18 protected in 2017 and Justin Anderson. [tweet [...]

YOU GUYS: The Utah Jazz might be getting—pauses for effect—healthy(!!!!!!). No team except for the Los Angeles Clippers have been more adversely impacted by injuries. And where the Clippers’ issues can be isolated to freak, albeit protracted, absences from Blake Griffin and Chris Paul, the Jazz have suffered losses at pretty much every position since [...]