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Listen hard enough and, through the Miami Heat’s fits of laughter, you’ll hear that they have no plans to trade Hassan Whiteside. Chris Sheridan and Michael Scotto of Sheridan Hoops separately reported on scenarios that could see the Heat unload Whiteside as part of a deal for Dwight Howard of the Houston Rockets or DeMarcus [...]

Minnesota Timberwolves rookie Karl-Anthony Towns plans on rivaling New York Knicks newbie Kristaps Porzingis for years to come. Make that decades to come. Following the Knicks’ Tuesday night victory over the Timberwolves, a game the marked the first time these two Rookie of the Year candidates squared off, Towns waxed optimism at the thought of [...]

Greivis Vasquez may have already played his last game for the Milwaukee Bucks. The 28-year-old point guard, whom the Bucks acquired in an offseason trade with the Toronto Raptors, hasn’t played in a game since late November while nursing an ankle injury that, per Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe, officially required surgery: #Bucks announce [...]

Brandan Wright has made seven appearances for the Memphis Grizzlies, and he won’t be making his eighth anytime soon. The 28-year-old forward-center, whom the Grizzlies signed over the offseason, has been on the sidelines tending to a knee injury. Rest and rehabilitation was the prescribed recovery method for a while, but the diagnosis has since [...]

Kyrie Irving is almost back, which is not to be confused with him actually being back. Because he’s not back. Only almost back, sans a concrete return date. We apparently needed that explanation, because no one can quite get a hold of when the Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star is returning. Irving has spouted off all the [...]

According to Dwight Howard, Dwight Howard isn’t looking to move on from the Houston Rockets. You read that right. Rumors have started to surface that he isn’t entirely happy playing second fiddle to James Harden. This scuttlebutt sounds all too familiar to the hearsay emanating out of Staples Center back in 2012-13, when Howard was [...]

Jerry Colangelo isn’t wasting any time in his attempt to reinvent the Philadelphia 76ers’ rebuild. Though some, including general manager Sam Hinkie, have acted like Jerry Colangelo’s installment is but a small piece to a bigger puzzle still being put together by Hinkie, it doesn’t take a recognized genius to see that substantial changes are [...]

A word of advice to Uber drivers working in the Bay Area: Transport Andre Iguodala, Golden State Warriors swingman and last year’s NBA Finals MVP with care. If you don’t, your car is about to smell real bad real quick. Iguodala apparently had a less-than-flattering experience during an Uber ride of some sort. It’s not [...]

Brandon Jennings is not for sale. Well, no more so than anyone else on the Detroit Pistons roster. Marc Berman of the New York Post posited that Jennings was “available now,” a development that Pistons coach and president Stan Van Gundy has since denied, per MLive.Com’s Aaron McMann: The New York Post on Sunday identified [...]

Feel that? It’s the sensation of the NBA’s trade season taking over. Most of the league’s trade restrictions were lifted on Tuesday, increasing the pool of movable talent by a considerable margin. The rumor mill is already alive with speculation and reports, officially beginning the pre-February 18 deadline frenzy. But the New Orleans Pelicans and [...]