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These days, Seattle is known more for football than basketball. Once upon a time, the NBA was really big in Seattle. This was back when the Supersonics were still a Seattle team. But then the franchise relocated to Oklahoma City, becoming the Thunder. It is Russell Wilson’s desire to reverse Seattle’s fortunes, though the US [...]

One of George Hill and Derrick Favors seems like they are going to get an extension from the Utah Jazz before this season is over. And it’s probably going to be Hill, according to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: The Utah Jazz currently possess more than $13 million in cap space, which makes them even more interesting [...]

Russell Westbrook is putting up some ridiculous numbers so far this season. With Kevin Durant’s departure, we saw this coming. Even so, 32.0, 9.7 and 9.9 are hard to fathom. He has to do it all for his team, and when he’s out of the game, the team is borderline unwatchable. The team is 7-5 [...]

Given how thin the Dallas Mavericks are on proven NBA contributors, they really can’t afford to lose any of their most dependable names. Which is why J.J. Barea’s calf injury sucks. Losing him would have always sucked, make no mistake. But it especially sucks now, with the Mavericks sitting at 2-8, their postseason hopes fading [...]

DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors has started the 2016-17 NBA season, hotter than any other player in the league. He’s scoring buckets at an incredible clip, and doing it all from within the three point line. Check out our spotlight mixtape on DeRozan’s start to the 2016-17 season…. Please enable Javascript to watch this [...]

The San Antonio Spurs are now 11 games into the post Tim Duncan era, a world in which they had not known since the 1996-97 season. They are 8-3 and mostly doing Spursian things but it still doesn’t feel right to not have Number 21 patrolling the middle and showing very little emotion outside of [...]

You know what the Denver Nuggets’ bottom-eight offense could really use? A healthy Gary Harris. Too bad the Nuggets won’t be getting a healthy Harris for around four weeks, per The Denver Post‘s Christopher Dempsey: [tweet https://twitter.com/chrisadempsey/status/798615857731485696] Harris already missed time this season with a partially torn groin muscle. His shooting percentages and scoring averages [...]

As if playing without Reggie Jackson isn’t enough of a headache, the Detroit Pistons now have Andre Drummond’s ankle to worry about. It was announced last minute that the 23-year-old seven-footer wouldn’t be facing off against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night. He has a sprained ankle that is serious enough to keep him [...]

Marcin Gortat is sorry—or at least that’s what he told his Washington Wizards teammates at the behest of head coach Scott Brooks. From The Washington Post‘s Ava Wallace: After Gortat proclaimed the team’s reserves “one of the worst benches in the league right now” following Washington’s seventh loss in nine games Saturday against Chicago, Brooks [...]

There isn’t a more uncomfortable position in sports than to be a considered a “bust.” Because for the rest of your life, no matter what you do, that’s how the masses will remember you. It’s unfair, but very true. You’re probably not ever going to be able to get a job with a team, or [...]