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Kevin Durant has an important decision to make this offseason. Russell Westbrook may or may not play a role in shaping it. Per Anthony Slater of The Oklahoman: [tweet https://twitter.com/anthonyVslater/status/738051838813995009] You have to appreciate Durant’s candor. He isn’t always like this with the media. It’s almost surprising that he would deliver such an honest answer [...]

So about the Indiana Pacers being open to trading Paul George…It turns out they aren’t. Here’s Steve Kyler of Basketball Insiders: Not sure where the trading Paul George thing came from, but was laughed off the phone when I asked a Pacers source if it was a consideration. The Pacers are absolutely not looking at [...]

First Dwane Casey. Then DeMar DeRozan. And then Bismack Biyombo. Okay, we’re not sure about the other two, even though the Toronto Raptors are expected to retain DeRozan (player option) once he enters free agency. But they don’t need to worry about losing head coach Dwane Casey anytime soon. Per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/737826987675246592] [...]

Does Ben Simmons, the consensus top prospect in this year’s NBA draft, know something we don’t? Strike that. Does Ben Simmons know something we already suspect to be true? Though the Philadelphia 76ers have a ton of frontcourt players on their books—Joel Embiid, Nerlens Noel, Jahlil Okafor, Dario Saric—most are operating under the assumption they’ll [...]

Some NBA players shy away from giving compliments to their opponents. LeBron James is not one of those players—not even when the players in question represent the Golden State Warriors, the team the four-time MVP’s Cleveland Cavaliers will face in the NBA Finals. From USA Today‘s AJ Neuharth-Keusch: “They shoot the ball extremely well,” James [...]

Chris Bosh and the Miami Heat are finally on the same page regarding his health. We think. Maybe. The latter part of Bosh’s season was cut short this year due to another blood clot issue. He missed the end of the 2014-15 campaign for a similar issue. For a while, it wasn’t clear if he [...]

The Oklahoma City Thunder’s 2015-16 season is over, expectedly, in unexpected fashion. No, that’s not supposed to make any sense. But the Thunder’s postseason run didn’t make much sense. They weren’t supposed to beat the San Antonio Spurs, and they did. They weren’t supposed to jump out to a 3-1 series lead over the Golden [...]

DeMar DeRozan is going to get a max contract when he hits free agency this summer. And after much speculation, it seems like the Toronto Raptors are prepared to be the team footing such a bill. General manager Masai Ujiri, at least, sounds like a guy ready to pay his All-Star shooting guard, per James [...]

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Is Stephen Curry a good defender? He’s certainly not a terrible one. And there are times when he’s underrated, because criticism is so unnecessarily prevalent. Take the Golden State Warriors’ Game 5 Western Conference Finals win over the Oklahoma City on Thursday night. Curry didn’t see a ton of time on Russell Westbrook, but on [...]