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Hello again. After a brief holiday respite, during which a crap ton of NBA-related things happened, The Hoop Doctors’ power rankings are back. We know it’s been tough, slogging through these last two weeks without the ability to incessantly check and read and cherish and tell your friends about updated power rankings. But the wait [...]

Can’t believe we’re talking about this, but here it goes. As (probably baseless) rumors circulate about LeBron James’ future with the Cleveland Cavaliers, there has been limited uproar about some words he possibly shared with Dwyane Wade on Christmas Day. Below is a the video that started everything. Start watching around two and a half [...]

The New York Knicks aren’t ready to give up on their 2014-15 season. Which is weird. At 5-28, the Knicks are off to their worst start in franchise history. They have the most losses of any NBA team, and they look like a patented shit show. Mathematically, at 9.5 games back of eighth place, they’re [...]

Breaking: The Brooklyn Nets are still odd. Stuck in the throes of a season that has them contending for eighth place in the Eastern Conference, the Nets find themselves in a tough situation, footing an extravagant salary and luxury-tax bill for a mediocre product. Their next move, then, is obvious: Blow stuff up. Shop Deron [...]

Sure. Mike Malone is no longer the coach of the Sacramento Kings for stylistic reasons, mainly the fact that ownership and management want the team to run fast. So, naturally, in the post-Malone era, that’s led them to targeting a trade for the Brooklyn Nets’ Deron Williams, a former All-Star with paper ankles and spongy [...]

When the Sacramento Kings decided to give Mike Malone the shaft, almost everyone was surprised. Including Malone himself. Sure, the Kings were under .500 at the time and in the midst of a 2-7 stretch, but they had shown progress under Malone, beginning 2014-15 at 9-5, their best start in nearly 10 years. Malone’s dismissal [...]

Andrew Bogut’s health continues to betray him. The big man has missed 65 games combined in each of the two previous seasons and has already missed five of the Golden State Warriors’ first 25 contests for 2014-15. And he’s going to miss more. How many more? We don’t know. From the Bay Area News Group’s [...]

Isaiah Thomas has fired his agent. Nobody panic. From AZ Central’s Paul Coro: With news of Thomas firing his agent, Andy Miller, two weeks ago and with him becoming trade-eligible this week, the dot-connectors went to work after Thomas’ comment to cbssports.com last month that the Suns situation “was not what I expected.” Miller negotiated [...]

Rajon Rondo apparently isn’t considered untouchable within the Boston Celtics organization. But you already knew that, of course. He’s been linked to trade rumors for years—since before Anthony Davis had his driver’s permit. Hell, it isn’t a season until Rondo has reportedly been made available. To wit: It’s officially a season. According to ESPN.com’s Marc [...]

Here’s to stability. Never before, in the year-plus since we’ve been doing these power rankings, has there been less movement within a week. Twelve teams are right where they were last week, which is pretty freaking incredible. That’s almost half the Association, and that never happens. And, somewhat surprisingly, it’s the league’s best teams that [...]