As expected, Metta World Peace hasn’t played much this season, but he’s reportedly been a strong influence so some of the Lakers’ young player. That type of mentoring is something he hopes to do long tern. MWP says he would like to get into coaching one day. The fact that he played the game with [...]
December 7, 2015
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Still looking for a way back into the NBA title conversation, the Houston Rockets have apparently taking a liking to the Phoenix Suns’ Markieff Morris. From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: The Houston Rockets have trade interest in Phoenix Suns forward Markieff Morris, who made multiple trade demands this past offseason, according to league sources. Sources told [...]
December 7, 2015
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With every great scorer, there’s always somebody who is perceived as being the best at shutting him down. Or, at least coming close to it. Now that Kobe has decided to call it career at season’s end, he sat down with TNT’s Ernie Johnson to reflect on certain aspects of his career. Among the many [...]
December 7, 2015
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Rajon Rondo, apparently, will be among those in play to receive a max contract during free agency this summer. To which I say: Oh. Here’s the low-down from Sporting News’ Sean Deveney: “I don’t know whether he will quite get the maximum, mostly because we don’t know what the max is going to be,” one [...]
December 4, 2015
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Chris Bosh thinks that Kobe Bryant is the best player of his generation. Which is weird. And wrong. On so many different levels. Bosh offered the following sentiments while making an appearance on NBC Sports’ The Dan Patrick Show (h/t ProBasketballTalk): He’s the greatest player of my generation. He was that guy after Mike that [...]
December 4, 2015
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Harrison Barnes’ left ankle sprain wasn’t supposed to sideline him for that long. But it might. Speaking on 95.7 The Game, Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers revealed that the fourth-year swingman could miss way more time than initially expected. Per Diamond Leung of the Bay Area News Group: Bob Myers told 95.7 The [...]
December 4, 2015
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The uniforms for the 2016 NBA All-Star Game in Toronto were unveiled by Adidas last night. The 2016 NBA All Star game will be held on Valentine’s Day 2016 and the style that Adidas chose for the uniforms is simple, yet very sleek and stylish and has little homages to it’s host city all over [...]
December 4, 2015
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Stephen Curry’s pregame preparation is a spectacle unto himself. What, you didn’t think the reigning MVP was just lazily good, did you? Curry makes world domination look easy, but it’s actually really hard, and he puts in a lot of work so that he can destroy galaxies for 30-plus minutes every game. Here is some [...]
December 4, 2015
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Dwight Howard still isn’t playing both sides of back-to-backs for the Houston Rockets. Around the time that Houston canned Kevin McHale, it was believed Howard’s limitations were coming to an end. But, as Dwain Price of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram noted, the Rockets are still taking extra precautions: #Rockets C Dwight Howard won't play Fri. [...]
December 4, 2015
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DeMarcus Cousins’ fantasy basketball stock, already ridiculously high, just exploded. Rookie Willie Cauley-Stein, whom the Sacramento Kings have often tried to play beside Cousins, is expected to miss a huge chunk of time after suffering a right index injury in Thursday night’s loss to the Boston Celtics. Marc J. Spears came bearing the bittersweet news: [...]
December 4, 2015
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