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Through two games in the Miami Heat’s first round series with the Charlotte Hornets they are averaging 119 points per game, shooting 57.8 percent from the field and 52.9 percent from the three point range. Although those numbers are a bit of an aberration and can’t be maintained over a larger sample size, it should [...]

Tuesday night was a rough night to be an NBA fan. There were two playoff games on the docket, game 2 of the Hawks and Celtics in Atlanta and Game 2 of the Spurs and Grizzlies in San Antonio, neither offered much in the way of drama or entertainment. The Hawks beat the Celtics 89-72 [...]

For years there have been many guys, at any level of basketball, whether it be the NBA or even your local gym that will help a team win in non-traditional ways. Ways that don’t show up in a box score. Diving for a loose ball, stopping a fast break, helping on defense, setting screens to [...]

According to ESPN reporters Brian Windhorst and Darren Rovell, the NBA is expected to vote in favor of allowing NBA teams to have advertisements on their jerseys starting in the 2017-18 season. This opens up a whole new revenue stream for NBA franchises and the league and could generate anywhere from $4 million to $6 [...]

According to Bleacher Report Writer Ric Bucher, NBA owners are discussing and campaigning for a franchise tag to be added into the next collective bargaining agreement. This is currently in play as a part of the NFL collective bargaining agreement, where teams have the right to use the “franchise tag” on a player whose contract [...]

Today, in case you haven’t heard, is the 10 year anniversary of the launch of Twitter. Believe it or not there was a time when things such as mentions, hashtags, re-tweets and the always entertaining “Sliding in her DMs” weren’t a part of the cultural lexicon. A time where people didn’t have access to athletes, [...]

Statisticians have been working overtime in the 2015-16 season as the stat sheet has been stuffed to a level the NBA hasn’t seen in quite some time. With about a month left in the NBA season and most NBA teams having 15 or so games remaining, there have already been more triple-doubles in the league [...]

One word and one word only can sum up the 2015-16 NBA Trade Deadline – weak. Maybe, very weak. We saw that one coming though, right fellas? It’s always a game of ‘he said, she said’ after the deadline passes, so we’ll never truly know who was actually close to being on the move. There [...]

The Brooklyn Nets are bringing a little bit of the San Antonio Spurs to Barclays Center. No, it’s not Kawhi Leonard. Or Patty Mills. Or Boban Marjanovic. It’s Spurs assistant general manager Sean Marks. Brooklyn has officially hired him to be its general manager, per Jeff Zillgitt of USA Today: Nets have hired Sean Marks [...]

How’s the market for Dwight Howard, you ask? Not very good. The Houston Rockets remain motivated to move the 30-year-old Howard, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/700218509490425856] Cool. The issue? Getting a substantive return for his services. And judging by the deal that the Charlotte Hornets offered, according to Frank Isola of the New York [...]