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Like you needed another reason as to why Dwight Howard left the Los Angeles Lakers. In a radio interview on ESPN 710 in Los Angeles transcribed by ESPN Los Angeles’ Ramona Shelburne (h/t ProBasketballTalk), Antawn Jamison, now a member of the Los Angeles Clippers, admitted that Kobe Bryant and Howard never trusted each other: What [...]

Before there was James Harden, there was Jeremy Lin. Remember that. Lin himself sure does. While at the “Dream Big, Be Yourself” youth conference in Taipei, Taiwan, Lin admitted that he believed he was going to be tasked with saving the Houston Rockets, according to The Gospel Herald’s Lauren Leigh Noske: I was ready to [...]

Turns out the Los Angeles Lakers don’t take too kindly to being slighted. Dwight Howard is more than a month removed from choosing the Houston Rockets over the Lakers and his decision is still making headlines. It will probably stay that way through next season or until Howard gets bored and becomes indecisive about another [...]

The summertime is a great stretch of time where you can consistently run basketball games outside. Since basketball never stops, Nike shows you how the summer is serious by running a pickup game in Brooklyn this Friday with teams chosen & coached by either Kevin Durant or James Harden. Both Harden and Durant picked 7 [...]

Oh what almost could have been for the Houston Rockets. Not that pairing Dwight Howard with James Harden wasn’t enough. For now—the Rockets still need one more star if they wish to contend for a championship—it is. But it could have been even better. According to ESPN Grantland’s Bill Simmons, Chris Paul threatened to leave [...]

LeBron James who? Derrick Rose hasn’t played in over a year and he’s fresh off having watched LeBron win his second straight championship and league MVP award. There’s bound to be some deep-seeded jealously there. Watching as someone else takes over the NBA, trouncing the competition as the league’s best player, while you just sit [...]

Chandler Parsons isn’t shy about telling the truth. Before the Houston Rockets’ courtship of Dwight Howard even officially began, Parsons was texting him, appealing to Superman’s championship side. Now that Howard is a officially a Rocket, he’s making sure everyone knows it may not have happened without him. Speaking with reporters at USA Basketball mini [...]

There’s still no escaping the Dwightmare. Dwight Howard has already chosen to play for the Houston Rockets, and Kobe Bryant continues to bleed Los Angeles Lakers purple and gold, but the two continue to dance around and toward each other. Speaking with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith about his decision to spurn Los Angeles in favor [...]

Summer is a great time to run games of basketball outdoors anywhere there is a rim. Nike looks to make your one of your pick up games at the park a lot more exciting by giving you the chance to play in a game on a team with either Kevin Durant or James Harden. The [...]

Dwight Howard was never going to re-sign with the Los Angeles Lakers if you ask Steve Nash. Speaking with the Los Angeles-based “Mason & Ireland Show” on ESPN Radio (via Eric Pincus of the Los Angeles Times), the Lakers point man didn’t believe the team had a chance at retaining Howard leading into that meeting. [...]