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John Wall is averaging a career-high 23.6 points per game. He is shooting at a personal-best clip from three-point range and from the floor overall. He is playing as many minutes as he did last season. And he’s not even 100 percent. From NBA.com’s David Aldridge: And Wall is playing remarkably well for someone who [...]

If the Chicago Bulls want to re-sign Taj Gibson this summer, they won’t have to sell him on a return. He already wants to come back, per K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune: Taj Gibson has survived near-annual trade rumors to become, in his eighth season, the longest-tenured Bull. He’s also poised to become an [...]

The dance between Donatas Motiejunas and the Houston Rockets is finally over. Per Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical: [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/807251998928240640] [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/807253559817502720] And so ends one of the more bizarre player-team sagas in recent memory. Houston tried to deal Motiejunas to the Detroit Pistons ahead of last year’s trade deadline, only to have him fail [...]

Ian Mahinmi is injured again. The big man, fresh off signing a four-year, $64 million deal with the Washington Wizards, has been limited to a single appearance due to injuries in both his right and left knees. And now his right knee needs another MRI, according to CSN Mid-Atlantic’s J. Michael: Ian Mahinmi, who has [...]

The world’s injury bugs have not been kind to the Boston Celtics. Jae Crowder, Al Horford, Kelly Olynyk and Marcus Smart have all missed time, and now Isaiah Thomas seems slated to miss some time with a groin injury for which he needed an injection, per Chris Forsberg of ESPN.com: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNForsberg/status/806864451681058816?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet] Boston’s offense goes [...]

It appears that the fractured relationship between stretch big man Donatas Moteijunas and the Houston Rockets, which worsened during the bizarre drawn out contract hold-out, has not improved now that he has a new four-year, $37 million contract with the team. He was a no-show for his physical Tuesday, and appears to be upset that [...]

The Indiana Pacers may be ready to move one of their key pieces. For all you hope-drunk folks out there, it’s not Paul George. It’s Monta Ellis, per Basketball Insiders’ Steve Kyler: Not sure there is much the Pacers have to offer without ripping up the core, which I do not see them doing. I [...]

Breathe Memphis Grizzlies fans. Something is finally going right. Sort of. If everything were actually going right, Chandler Parsons, the team’s $94 million investment, would be fully healthy and on the court contributing. But he has appeared in just six games this season and been on the sidelines since Nov. 18 tending to a left [...]

Anthony Davis may be dinged up yet again. Following Sunday night’s loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, a game in which the New Orleans Pelicans scrapped and clawed until the very end, Davis apparently needed to undergo an MRI on his right foot, according to ESPN.com’s Royce Young and Justin Verrier: New Orleans Pelicans star [...]

Here’s hoping Nerlens Noel fancies Voodoo Doughnut. The Philadelphia 76ers big man has been available for basically forever. The team has a frontcourt logjam with him, Joel Embiid and Jahlil Okafor all needing time at center. If it wasn’t for left knee surgery that has prevented Noel from playing this season, he would probably already [...]