The NBA was close to losing Kevin Garnett. Nearly two decades deep into his career, the 37-year-old had plans to call it quits if he wasn’t playing under one non-negotiable condition: next to Paul Pierce. During a recent interview with China’s Sinas Sports (via Celtics Life) Garnett said he would have retired if he hadn’t [...]
September 6, 2013
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For Antawn Jamison, there was only the Los Angeles Clippers. No really, there was no one else. At least that’s what he says. “In my heart I really didn’t want to go anywhere else,” he said, according to Eric Patten of Clippers.com. Hopefully he didn’t say something similar to the Los Angeles Lakers last year [...]
August 29, 2013
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Mark Cuban refuses to let the Dallas Mavericks enter rebuilding mode. Er…what exactly would you call this, Mark? Asked about whether this upcoming season would be considered a rebuilding year for the Mavericks, Cuban told The Dallas Morning News rather eloquently that it wasn’t. Oh no. Hell no. Don’t even go there. Look, there’s no [...]
August 26, 2013
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Paul Pierce can kiss the words written across Raymond Felton’s chest. Or at the very least, he can read them. The “New” and the “York” scrawled in succession on Felton’s No. 2 jersey are important. They mean that the concrete jungle is the New York Knicks’ territory. And Felton wants Pierce and the Brooklyn Nets [...]
August 19, 2013
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Surprise, surprise. Paul Pierce recently admitted that neither he nor Doc Rivers nor Kevin Garnett was prepared to endure a rebuild for the Boston Celtics. Shocking right? Not exactly. Speaking with SLAM Magazine’s Adam Figman, The Truth was very candid about what went down in Beantown: Well, I know the insides with everything that’s going [...]
August 9, 2013
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Mark Cuban’s not sorry that he’s not sorry. Since his Dallas Mavericks won an NBA title in 2011, Cuban has taken a lot of flack for the decisions he’s made or simply allowed to be made. After Dirk Nowitzki led them to a championship over the Miami Heat, the team was essentially dismantled. Just like [...]
August 7, 2013
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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 [...]
August 1, 2013
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After a first round playoff sweep at the hands of the San Antonio Spurs and Dwight Howard taking his talents to Houston, the Los Angeles Lakers are a team in transition and turmoil. The franchise centerpiece future Hall of Fame shooting guard Kobe Bryant faces the toughest challenge of his epic career, returning from a [...]
July 25, 2013
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Metta World Peace may be headed to the New York Knicks. After clearing waivers on Sunday, the World Peace sweepstakes began. As with all things Metta, his free agency is bound to be an adventure. According to Marc Berman of the New York Post, it’s one that may lead him right to New York to [...]
July 15, 2013
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