NBA

To steal a line from Blink 182’s “Dammit”: Well I guess this is growing up. Dwight Howard’s ego is no longer calling the shots, assuming it ever was. He is ready to hand the Houston Rockets over to James Harden, a gesture he was unwilling to make for Kobe Bryant on the Los Angeles Lakers. [...]

Rajon Rondo projects as one of the more interesting free-agency cases this summer. Especially if he’s looking to leave the Dallas Mavericks. Which he might be. From Basketball Insiders’ Steve Kyler: The narrative around Mavericks guard Rajon Rondo is that he is going to explore free agency. While Rondo has said several times that staying [...]

If it feels like John Calipari is always linked to an NBA return, that’s only because he is always linked to an NBA return. Those rumors never die down, not even now, with his Kentucky Wildcats in the thick of a March Madness tournament they’re favored to win. Even amid all this, he’s still thinking [...]

Good lord, the NBA playoff picture is a mess. Last week’s power rankings aren’t irrelevant, but they kind of are. The top- and bottom-most teams tend to stay put, but it’s the other 20 or so teams sandwiched in-between them that keep moving up and down, then up, then down, the ladder. In the Western Conference, [...]

Marc Gasol and the New York Knicks’ dance around and toward each other continues. Actually, it’s not so much a two-party dance as it is one-sided stalking. One party (the Knicks) is obviously gunning for the other, while the targeted party (Gasol) tries to elude their grasp, at least for now, amid a heated NBA [...]

These Tom Thidodeau rumors just won’t die. It’s incredibly odd that they exist at all. Thibodeau is by no means a perfect coach, but the Chicago Bulls seem utterly unhappy with him, even after he’s led them to recurring playoff berths despite a host of injuries to key players over the last four seasons. He’s [...]

Welcome to Bizarro World. Population: Dallas Mavericks. Mark Cuban’s crew has been in something of a tailspin since the Rajon Rondo trade in December. They’re still in the hunt for a top-three Western Conference playoff seed, but their offense is no longer historical, and they’re now one of the West’s few pretender candidates. Plenty of [...]

Wrapping your head around the San Antonio Spurs making a major free-agency splash is difficult. But you must do it. Because it may happen. The Spurs delayed re-signing Kawhi Leonard to an extension in order to preserve cap space. And with Tim Duncan’s and Manu Ginobili’s futures uncertain, rumors have been floated this way and [...]

Fuhgettabout March Madness. The NBA playoffs are almost here. Sure, you could watch college kids, some of them highly touted Association prospects, soak up late-winter, early spring spotlight as they sap 30 seconds off the 35-second shot clock trying to score, only to usually not score, en route to securing or losing a national championship [...]

Brook Lopez, who speaks fluent cowabunga, is building a house on the Disney World grounds. Not near or around or in the general vicinity of. ON. From the New York Daily News‘ Stefan Bondy (h/t Eye On Basketball): Nets center Brook Lopez, 26, a longtime Disneyphile with a Goofy figurine in his locker, told the [...]