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If the Golden State Warriors are going to reach an NBA-record 73 regular-season wins, they’ll need to go through all of the San Antonio Spurs. Twice. Well, almost all of the Spurs. Gregg Popovich’s rest-and-relaxation program has been a source of spirited debate ever since the Warriors dropped two of three games at Oracle Arena, [...]

The 2015-16 NBA season will mark the first or second time since the late 90s that the eastern conference has been deeper than the western conference on the whole. There are years where a western conference team that was 10 or more games over .500 and yet still didn’t make the playoffs such as the [...]

The Golden State Warriors are ready for the playoffs to start. Having lost two of their last three games, both at home, on Oracle Arena’s floor, where they had previously remained unbeaten, the Warriors’ chances of breaking the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record of 72 victories has taken a substantial hit. They must win all four [...]

Kurt Rambis’ half-season audition with the New York Knicks is apparently about to pay off. According to ESPN.com’s Ian Begley and Marc Stein, Knicks president Phil Jackson is strongly in favor of hiring Rambis to indefinitely succeed the fired Derek Fisher: The New York Knicks are giving strong consideration to making Kurt Rambis their full-time [...]

Zach LaVine at the tender age of 21 is developing into quite the player on the court for the Timberwolves and quite the man off of it as well. LaVine donated his winnings for the 2016 NBA Slam Dunk Contest to build a new kitchen for the Metro Deaf School for children in St. Paul [...]

The complete list of people to be inducted in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame this September was announced Monday morning and was headlined by NBA superstars Shaquille O’Neal and Allen Iverson. [tweet https://twitter.com/AthleteTwittah/status/717071325710278656] Aside from Shaq and Iverson, the only other NBA players to make the HOF Class of 2016 were Yao Ming, who [...]

Shaquille O’Neal doesn’t just think it’s okay for Dwight Howard to return to the Orlando Magic in free agency this summer. He endorses it. As the Hall of Fame-bound tower said, per ESPN.com’s Calvin Watkins: “I think it would be good for the city,” O’Neal said Monday of Howard returning to Orlando. “First of all, [...]

With New York Knicks slogging through a meaningless final stretch of the 2015-16 season, Carmelo Anthony has, apparently, taken rookie Kristaps Porzingis further under his wing, teaching him about the game and, well, life in general. Take some time to read this excerpt from Ian Begley’s fantastic piece for ESPN.com: It’s late in the fourth [...]

Give Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue this: He isn’t afraid to mix it up with his best players. Including LeBron James. From ESPN.com’s Brian Windhorst: Tyronn Lue’s first statement as Cleveland Cavaliers coach appears to have been quietly made. Two weeks ago, Lue pulled LeBron James aside and, in so many words, told him [...]

James Harden and Kevin Durant, together again? Harden’s game. According to ESPN.com’s Calvin Watkins, last year’s MVP runner-up will be leading the Rockets’ recruitment of his former Oklahoma City Thunder teammate: The Rockets’ best player and leading scorer will become the main recruiter this summer in the franchise’s quest to sign Kevin Durant, whom Harden [...]