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The Atlanta Hawks have re-signed two-time all-star power forward Elton Brand to a one year, $2 million dollar contract, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. Brand, 35, produced 5.7 points and 4.9 rebounds in an average of 19 minutes per game last season for the Hawks. Despite his growing age, he can still be [...]

Paul George did a dumb thing. Yes, it was dumb. Very dumb. He took to Twitter with his thoughts on the Ray Rice and Janay Palmer situation. It’s a chilling debacle, one which should already know about. Rice punched his then-fiancee, now-wife and knocked her out cold. He was initially suspended two games, but then [...]

Everyone has an opinion when it comes to the Atlanta Hawks and Danny Ferry. That includes league commissioner, Adam Silver. While in Spain for the FIBA World Cup, Silver was asked his thoughts about the whole situation and he doesn’t feel that Ferry should lose his job over this. Based on these comments, don’t expect [...]

Everything and anything about Derrick Rose continues to incite strong responses. When he struggles, the walls are closing in, his knees crumbling like cake, his future dark and dreary, toeing the line of hopeless. When he thrives—even if only for one game, one play or a warmup dunk—clouds part, birds sing, the harrowing reality of [...]

After 17 glorious season, Chauncey Billups has decided to retire. A former Finals MVP he was probably one of the most underappreciated PGs of his era. Primarily because he wasn’t blessed with world-class athleticism. Nonetheless, he was as effective and efficient as they come. His Hall of Fame candidacy will be an interesting topic. Some [...]

After being honored by having a wax statue of himself at Madame Tussauds wax museum in San Francisco last month—the Los Angeles Lakers point guard Jeremy Lin recently decided to pull out one of the funniest pranks by pretending to be a wax statue which scared a lot of fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNBIVUeMrvU This is definitely one [...]

Two Dragons are better than one. The Phoenix Suns are one of the teams that have expressed interest in acquiring Goran Dragic’s brother, Zoran Dragic, according to ESPN.com’s Marc Stein. The team still doesn’t know on whether or not their guard Eric Bledsoe will remain with the team for next season, and if ever he [...]

Carmelo Anthony fancies himself a trend-setter. During an interview with former New York Giants great Michael Strahan for Adweek, Anthony was asked whether LeBron James’ decision to sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers influenced his return to the New York Knicks. He, of course, said it was the other way around. From Newsday‘s Al Iannazzone: “Honestly, [...]

While bigoted NBA owners damage the NBA’s brand severely, a far more fundamental problem with how the NBA is played today is destroying the game from the inside. You know what it is before I even type it: the block/charge call, the most controversial call in basketball. I watched the game before and after this [...]

The Detroit Pistons will be missing the services of their 6-foot-11 center Greg Monroe for the first two games this coming regular season. He has been officially suspended for two games without pay by the NBA after pleading guilty to driving under the influence in Michigan, according to Marc J. Spears of Yahoo!Sports. [tweet https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/509395556981309442] [...]