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The Basketball Tournament (TBT), the $2 million, winner-take-all summer basketball event broadcast live on ESPN, announced today the schedule and venue locations for its fifth annual tournament, bringing the summer’s premier basketball event to Columbus, Ohio and Richmond, Va. for the first time, while returning to Atlanta, Baltimore, Brooklyn and Los Angeles. The ESPN networks [...]

Damian Lillard’s recruitment of Carmelo Anthony continues. Whether this particular continuation is deliberate or inadvertent, contrived or genuine, remains to be seen. But Lillard is now among the players who have taken issue with ESPN ranking Anthony as the 64th-best player in the league. As he told NBA.com’s David Aldridge: “I do think that ranking [...]

One of the most common topics that takes place in any barbershop or local watering hole around the country that is full of NBA fans is who are the most overpaid and underpaid NBA players. ESPN decided to take that discussion to a analytical level to determine who the best value, or in other words, [...]

Because TNT’s yearly coverage of the NBA concludes for the season with the Western Conference Finals, we don’t get to see the likes of Chuck, Kenny, Ernie, Shaq or Craig Sager during the Finals. The ESPN/ABC crew of Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy, Mark Jackson and Doris Burke do a very solid job, but the [...]

ESPN released a list of the 25 players in professional sports history who for a number of reasons whether injuries, on or off the field or court, caved to the pressures that were somewhat out of their control. You should probably not read the rest of this article if you’re a Blazers fan. The top [...]

It is no secret that the Golden State Warriors are one of the better teams in NBA history. They are justifiably garnering much of the attention as we all track their every move and watch in awe as they annihilate the rest of the NBA. It is also no secret that Steph Curry has usurped [...]

Since retiring, we’ve seen Tracy McGrady play minor league baseball and serve a stint as an NBA TV analyst. He was also all over the place during TNT’s all-star weekend telecast. McGrady’s next stop will be ESPN as an analyst. He joins ESPN’s roster of Jalen Rosen, Chauncey Billups and other former players. Former All-Star [...]

With all the talk about where Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James will end up this summer, money and salary are on the minds of NBA GM’s as usual, but it got us thinking about the richest players in the NBA today. 10-T. Shawn Marion 35-year old 4-time All-Star Shawn Marion has made about $10 million [...]

Should the Clippers trade Blake Griffin for Carmelo Anthony? Stephen A. Smith suggests the struggling Knicks should send future free agent forward Carmelo Anthony to the Los Angeles Clippers in return for Blake Griffin, but here are 3 really good reasons you don’t pull the trigger on that trade if you are the Los Angeles [...]

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