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Los Angeles Lakers coach Byron Scott is not on the hot seat. Right now, it seems his seat is actually pretty comfortable. Despite coaching the Lakers toward one of the NBA’s worst records, and despite allowing Kobe Bryant to shoot himself into the unflattering history books, and despite doling out insufficient playing time to Los [...]

Initially thought to be on the hot seat entering the 2015-16 regular season, Charlotte Hornets coach Steve Clifford is now sitting pretty. Through 2018-19. According to the Charlotte Observer‘s Rick Bonnell, the Hornets and Clifford, who was slated to be a coaching free agent, have come to terms on a contract extension that will keep [...]

Amar’e Stoudemire, even now, as a member of the Miami Heat, thinks that he and Carmelo Anthony could have made sweet basketball music together with the New York Knicks. You know, if it weren’t for those meddling coaches. Prior to the Knicks’ 95-78 loss to the Heat on Monday night, Stoudemire reflected on his time [...]

Hassan Whiteside blocks a lot of shots for the Miami Heat. In the eyes of opponents, he’s blocking too many shots. He’s sending back a league-leading 4.8 per game, with a block percentage (12.9, per Basketball-Reference) that’s through the roof. While those numbers may be unsustainable over the life of an entire 82-game NBA schedule, [...]

Kobe Bryant is not having a good season, and he knows it. He also knows that the Los Angeles Lakers are, collectively, plagued by more misfortune, and he would like us all to know it. Here’s what the Black Mamba had to say on the heels of the Lakers’ 111-77 to the still undefeated Golden [...]

Things got weird in the Denver Nuggets’ loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday night. Late in the game, Nuggets head coach Mike Malone exchanged verbal jabs with both Blake Griffin and his own rookie, Emmanuel Mudiay. The two incidents kind-of-sort-of happened simultaneously. First, Malone received a technical for getting into it with Griffin [...]

Some NBA players cannot come to grips with their age, let alone the limitations that come as a result of that age. (Shout-out, Kobe Bryant.) LeBron James, though, is not one of those players. As he approaches his 31st birthday (December 30), he has never been more accepting, or more obvious about accepting, that he [...]

Come one, come all, you’re just in time to take part in the first NBA power rankings of the holiday season! This is big stuff, I know, so we’ll get right to it. A lot is happening now that the 2015-16 season is hitting its stride. The Warriors are still the Warriors; the Pacers are [...]

Anyone pulling for the New York Knicks to unload Jose Calderon ahead of the NBA’s February trade deadline might want to invest their sporting hopes in something else. Rookie sensation/Dirk Nowitzki-DeAndre Jordan hybrid/Future Hall of Famer/Eventual 10-time champion/Inevitable 12-time MVP Kristaps Porzingis loves Calderon, so that means the 34-year-old floor general isn’t going anywhere. This [...]

Ty Lawson is mostly fine with playing among the Houston Rockets’ second-stringers. A lot is going to change in the aftermath of the Rockets’ decision to fire head coach Kevin McHale. One of those tweaks, it seems, includes moving Ty Lawson to the bench. He started in each of Houston’s first 11 games this season, [...]