NBA

This year’s MVP race has got to be one of the closest that we’ve ever seen. All the candidates deserve to win the award, but unfortunately, there can only be one winner. And the winner is the Golden State Warriors’ All-Star point guard Stephen Curry, according to Monte Poole of the CSNBayArea.com: Warriors guard Stephen [...]

With Portland headed for an early off-season after being eliminated by the Grizzlies in five games (4-1), the franchise now needs to start addressing a number of things that mostly involve the immediate futures of their key players. One of them is obviously their perennial All-Star forward, LaMarcus Aldridge, who still has yet to make [...]

Sit down, because this might come as a shock: The Boston Celtics are in the market for good basketball players. I know, right? It’s so crazy, it almost makes sense. On the heels of the their first-round exit against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Celtics are thinking big. They made the playoffs in just the second [...]

LaMarcus Aldridge won’t show you his poker hand. With the Portland Trail Blazers officially out of the NBA playoffs following their Game 5 loss against the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night, any and all attention shifts to his impending free agency. Though the All-Star forward has intimated a desire to re-sign in the past, his [...]

Doesn’t Charles Oakley know that, contrary to his playing days, the NBA is like one big band of loving brothers exchanging hugs and fist bumps and laudatory pleasantries? Sure doesn’t seem like it. The former New York Knicks bruiser is now on record as questioning Carmelo Anthony’s superstar status. Seriously. From the New York Post‘s [...]

As most predicted, the NBA’s rookie of the year is going to be Minnesota Timberwolves swingman Andrew Wiggins. An officially announcement will be made on Thursday, according to various league sources. Wiggins played the entire 82 games this season and averaged 16.9 points, 4.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 36 minutes per contest. [tweet https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/593551506533527555] The [...]

It seems the New Orleans Pelicans are still riding that “Hey! We made the playoffs for the first time since 2011” high. Being on the wrong end of first-round sweep isn’t something to typically celebrate—especially when, in all honesty, you probably wouldn’t have even made said postseason appearance if not for Fate tearing the Oklahoma [...]

DeAndre Jordan wants to be friends with Mark Cuban. With the Dallas Mavericks’ officially ousted from the NBA playoffs, they’re free to start planning for yet another crucial offseason. Dirk Nowitzki is pushing 37, Monta Ellis and Tyson Chandler are both free agents and the Rajon Rondo trade was bust. If the Mavericks plan on [...]

Chauncey Billups knows what we all know, but what the New York Knicks inconveniently do not know: Carmelo Anthony isn’t a vocal leader. Here’s what Melo’s former teammate had to say, per ESPN New York’s Ian Begley: Chauncey Billups, an ESPN analyst who played with Anthony for three seasons in Denver and New York, said [...]

A lot of criticism has been bombarding Nets’ point guard Deron Williams regarding his ability to be his old dominant self—the one who was once hailed as one of the top three point guards in the league. On Monday night, Williams came back to life with an explosion of 35 points in their game four [...]