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Blake Griffin’s future with the Los Angeles Clippers may not be up in the air after all. Many expect the All-Star forward to, at the very least, explore all possibilities once he, presumably, exercises his early termination option next summer and becomes a free agent. But, according to Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders, that’s not [...]

Kevin Durant needed Team USA. He needed the time in Rio, at the Olympics, away from the NBA offseason chaos he left behind. He needed to get away from his decision to join the Golden State Warriors, the one he still stands by and is excited about but can’t quite escape. He needed that gold [...]

San Antonio Spurs legend David Robinson isn’t trying to rain on the Golden State Warriors’ superteam parade. He just wants you, and them, to know this feeling of Nirvana won’t last forever. As The Admiral told Complex’s Zach Frydenlund (h/t Bleacher Report): “It takes time, you look at what happened with LeBron, Wade, and Bosh. [...]

LeBron James cares not for the semantics of aging in the NBA. He gets it. He is 31 and entering his 14th NBA season. He is supposed to be on the decline, firmly planted in the back end of his career, conceding touches and statuses to the younger stars, both on and off his Cleveland [...]

LeBron James is not yet ready to take permanent leave from Team USA basketball. Shame on you for thinking he was. Just kidding. It makes sense that you would feel that way. LeBron is 31 and turned down an opportunity to play for Team USA this summer in Rio. He will be halfway toward his [...]

What, you didn’t think Derrick Rose was kidding about the New York Knicks being a superteam, did you? Rose ruffled a lot of feathers and shattered the boundaries of conventional wisdom when he identified the Knicks and the Golden State Warriors as the most talked-about superteams. We all got a good laugh out of it. [...]

DeAndre Jordan shared a pretty interesting opinion while being interviewed by the media in Rio on Wednesday. He said that in his view, winning a an Olympic gold medal is a bigger accomplishment than winning an NBA championship ring. [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNNBA/status/765924634701271040] When you take a step back and analyze the statement at a base level [...]

The Cleveland Cavaliers are going Hollywood. Sources confirmed to Cleveland.com’s Joe Vardon that LeBron James will host his usual pre-training camp workouts from Los Angeles some time in September: LeBron James will host his annual pre-training camp workouts for his Cavaliers teammates in Los Angeles in September, multiple sources told cleveland.com. Since James returned to [...]

Joakim Noah’s relationship with the Chicago Bulls is forever. It doesn’t matter that he’s now a member of the New York Knicks, or that he typically views anyone who doesn’t share his jersey color scheme as an arch enemy. It doesn’t even matter that his tenure in The Windy City ended in complete implosion, amid [...]

Carmelo Anthony said some things to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein that people will crucify him for. Let’s start there: “Most athletes don’t have an opportunity to say that they won a gold medal, better yet three gold medals,” Anthony said. “I would be very happy walking away from the game knowing that I’ve given the game [...]