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In the pantheon of surprise rumors, the Denver Nuggets being open to trading Ty Lawson ranks somewhere between “Oh” and “Yeah, we know.” Related: The Denver Nuggets are willing to trade Ty Lawson. On the heels of a since-deleted Instagram post that included Lawson waxing a desire to play for the Dallas Mavericks—or at least [...]

In the words of Kelly Clarkson: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. In the words of San Antonio Spurs Gregg Popovich (probably): What doesn’t kill you makes you drink a decades-old pinot noir. Once again, it looks like the Spurs’ followed Popovic’s lead over Clarkson’s. TMZ has video (h/t Complex) of the Spurs coming [...]

This year’s MVP race has got to be one of the closest that we’ve ever seen. All the candidates deserve to win the award, but unfortunately, there can only be one winner. And the winner is the Golden State Warriors’ All-Star point guard Stephen Curry, according to Monte Poole of the CSNBayArea.com: Warriors guard Stephen [...]

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Next week, we should find out who will be named the 2014-15 NBA’s Most Valuable Player. It seems like forever since there was actually intrigue leading up to the decision as it has often been a foregone conclusion at this point. There are pros and cons for Steph Curry and James Harden but if you [...]

James Harden has been a pseudo-signature athlete for Nike for the last two seasons. After starting the 2013-14 NBA season in the Nike Run The One, Harden made the transition into the current Nike Hyperchase. Despite none of those silhouettes having his name attached, all official Nike media surrounding last season’s Run The One and [...]

With Portland headed for an early off-season after being eliminated by the Grizzlies in five games (4-1), the franchise now needs to start addressing a number of things that mostly involve the immediate futures of their key players. One of them is obviously their perennial All-Star forward, LaMarcus Aldridge, who still has yet to make [...]

Sit down, because this might come as a shock: The Boston Celtics are in the market for good basketball players. I know, right? It’s so crazy, it almost makes sense. On the heels of the their first-round exit against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Celtics are thinking big. They made the playoffs in just the second [...]

Well, it’s official. Billy Donovan is leaving the University of Florida for the OKC Thunder. Traditionally, college coaches who make the leap to the pros don’t fair too well. But with all of that talent in OKC, Donovan would have to try extremely hard to mess this up for however long he ends up having [...]

LaMarcus Aldridge won’t show you his poker hand. With the Portland Trail Blazers officially out of the NBA playoffs following their Game 5 loss against the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night, any and all attention shifts to his impending free agency. Though the All-Star forward has intimated a desire to re-sign in the past, his [...]