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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 [...]

Here’s something you don’t hear everyday. Jason Terry, though still playing for the Houston Rockets, interviewed with the University of Alabama at Birmingham to become their next head coach, as relayed to us by Terry himself through Mark Berman of Fox 26 in Houston: Terry said the interview took place on Thursday in Houston, site [...]

With April on the horizon, so too are the NBA playoffs. And the league’s power structure is getting topsy turvy as a result. The Golden State Warriors are still chasing history, because, well, the Golden State Warriors chase history. The San Antonio Spurs, Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder have all entered rest and relaxation [...]

There are only eight games left during the Toronto Raptors 2015-16 regular season, and DeMarre Carroll, who hasn’t played since Jan. 3 as he recovers from knee surgery, hopes to play in one of them. Here’s what he told Raptors.com’s Holly MacKenzie : “I understand there’s been a lot of speculation, a lot of assumptions [...]

Rajon Rondo is playing through the tail end of his one-year deal with the Sacramento Kings. He will enter free agency this summer, at which point, after the disastrous season Sacramento has had, he’ll most definitely leave. Or maybe not. Per Sean Cunningham of ABC 10 in Sacramento: [tweet https://twitter.com/SeanCunningham/status/715406757166587904] Oh, okay then. At first [...]

Yahoo and “The Vertical” writer Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Yao Ming will be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame this September. [tweet https://twitter.com/TheVertical/status/715208085304963073] Ming was the 1st pick of the 2002 NBA Draft and averaged 19 points, 9.2 rebounds and just under 2 blocks in his eight-year NBA career before nagging foot and [...]

Lakers players are angry at rookie D’Angelo Russell. A video of Russell taping a private conversation with Nick Young was recently leaked. In the video, D’Angelo Russell asked Swaggy P, who recently got engaged to Iggy Azalea, about being with other women. His actions has caused his teammates to lose trust in him and according [...]

When Reggie Jackson was traded from the Oklahoma City Thunder to the Detroit Pistons, it meant that he was no longer Russell Westbrook’s friend by association. And on Tuesday night, at the end of the Pistons victory over the shorthanded Thunder, he experienced the full wrath of being disassociated from Oklahoma City’s mutant. Westbrook apparently [...]

It would be presumptive to say that the Boston Celtics called any and every team with an incumbent superstar ahead of the trade deadline in search of a blockbuster move. But, to the best of our knowledge, it wouldn’t be grossly inaccurate, either. Celtics president Danny Ainge was active at the deadline. We know this. [...]