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Just 43 games into Roy Hibbert’s California tenure, the Los Angeles Lakers may already be planning its abrupt end. Hibbert has always been considered a one-year stopgap. His contract comes off the books after this season, and the Lakers are going to be flush with cap space over the summer. He was supposed help bridge [...]

The New Orleans Pelicans’ season of misfortune is raging on. Tyreke Evans sat out during a Monday loss to the Memphis Grizzlies after, per a team announcement, experiencing pain in his right knee: Tyreke Evans experienced right knee soreness during his pregame warmup and consequently will not play in today's game at Memphis. — Pelicans [...]

The Chicago Bulls are apparently sending a message to the rest of the NBA. It reads: “Let’s make a deal!” With a crazy logjam in the frontcourt, the Bulls have started to gauge the values of bigs Pau Gasol, Taj Gibson and Joakim Noah around the league, according to Bleacher Report’s Ric Bucher, as transcribed [...]

The Denver Nuggets haven’t sent anyone to the NBA’s All-Star game since Carmelo Anthony was traded to the New York Knicks midway through the 2010-11 season. Current head coach Mike Malone thinks that should change this year, or next year, or sometime in the near future Danilo Gallinari has entered man-alive mode during the month [...]

By now you know the San Antonio Spurs are kind of good at this whole basketball thing. Though the Golden State Warriors’ pursuit of the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record 72 victories has justifiably earned much of the spotlight, the Spurs themselves are on pace to win 70 games, mostly because they’re the freaking Spurs, but [...]

Nicolas Batum seems pretty excited about hitting the NBA’s free agent market this summer. This is not to say he’s plotting his escape from the Charlotte Hornets, who acquired him from the Portland Trail Blazers over the summer, presumably with every intention of investing in him long term. But that investment is going to cost [...]

Michael Jordan is going to be pissed. Kobe Bryant, Jordan’s surrogate little brother, gave some encouragement to Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors following the Los Angeles Lakers’ 116-98 loss to the NBA’s best, per ESPN.com’s Baxter Holmes: “You guys have got to go ahead and make history,” Bryant told Curry. “I got to [...]

Gary Vitti, the Los Angeles Lakers’ head athletic trainer, wants Kobe Bryant to take a couple of weeks off. Clearly, he should know better. Vitti has worked with the Lakers since before Bryant, so he has been with the Black Mamba for his entire career. He knows by now that convincing Kobe to sit is [...]

J.J. Redick and Chris Paul are cool. But it wasn’t always like this. Paul played for Wake Forest in college, while Redick spent his time at Duke. Their collegiate careers overlapped for two seasons, so it’s only natural that they were arch rivals, because their schools are notorious enemies. “Arch rivals” might be putting it [...]

Next time you think about tweeting or writing something pertaining to any specific athlete, remember this piece of advice: Some of them are watching, perhaps ready to respond. A select few of those serial watchers are also ready to passive aggressively let you know they’re watching. Which brings us to C.J. McCollum, who recently liked [...]