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It’s official: Kevin Durant’s season is over, the Thunder confirm. Hampered by a broken foot before the season began, Durant was barely able to see the floor this season. This is for the better because even if OKC were to get into the playoffs as an 8 seed, they’ll be bounced early. So this means [...]

To steal a line from Blink 182’s “Dammit”: Well I guess this is growing up. Dwight Howard’s ego is no longer calling the shots, assuming it ever was. He is ready to hand the Houston Rockets over to James Harden, a gesture he was unwilling to make for Kobe Bryant on the Los Angeles Lakers. [...]

How’s this for dedication? Last night, the Pelicans lost at home to the Rockets by two points in a game where Anthony Davis went 6-14 from the free throw line. Davis has improved his outside touch since entering the league so those eight misses really sat with him afterwards. After the game, Davis went back [...]

Rajon Rondo projects as one of the more interesting free-agency cases this summer. Especially if he’s looking to leave the Dallas Mavericks. Which he might be. From Basketball Insiders’ Steve Kyler: The narrative around Mavericks guard Rajon Rondo is that he is going to explore free agency. While Rondo has said several times that staying [...]

March 19, 2015 (TORONTO) – Greivis Vasquez’s player exclusive edition of the ClutchFit Drive, dubbed The North Six, celebrates the city of Toronto and the Toronto Raptors. A red GV logo adorns the tongue and a claw slash design on the white and metallic silver upper represents the speed and aggression synonymous with his team’s [...]

This morning The Hoop Doctors’ David Kenyon had an opportunity to chat with Greivis Vasquez in advance of his upcoming Under Armour player edition shoe launch, ‘The North Six’, this weekend (audio after the jump). The conversation began with a focus on the launch, but once the discussion moved to basketball related issues, Greivis was [...]

The 1996 draft class is legendary, but the NBA world was almost turned on its axis. The Timberwolves had the fifth pick that year and selected Ray Allen, then traded him to Milwaukee for Stephon Marbury. But the team thought about taking Kobe. What would a KG-Kobe pairing have looked like? “We teetered on the [...]

This play from last night’s Raptors loss to the Bulls is definitely going to make some NBA blooper reels for the season. Joakim Noah, whether intentionally or not, put on his white practice shirt and stood sideline when he was subbed out of the game. Raptors DeRozan took the bait and fed Noah with the [...]

LeBron James and Kevin Love reportedly aren’t in sync. According to the New York Daily News‘ Frank Isola, LeBron is frustrated with Love and his inability to adapt to the circumstances at hand. Isola also maintains that Love is, indeed, a free-agent flight risk: Kevin Love’s future in Cleveland is more uncertain not only by [...]

If it feels like John Calipari is always linked to an NBA return, that’s only because he is always linked to an NBA return. Those rumors never die down, not even now, with his Kentucky Wildcats in the thick of a March Madness tournament they’re favored to win. Even amid all this, he’s still thinking [...]