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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] [...]

Nobody knows what Kobe Bryant’s game will look like when the season rolls around. Kobe says he’s even unsure. What we do know is that he won’t be the same. New Laker coach Byron Scott has plans for how he plans on using Kobe. As a way to preserve the legs of his aging superstar, [...]

Not too many people around the Association have been happy with the way that the Philadelphia 76ers have been using the so called “tanking” method in order to do an entire rebuild of the roster. But a knowledgeable hoops fan has to give GM Sam Hinkie credit for turning over a once mediocre team devoid [...]