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The Toronto Raptors continue their streak of good decisions. Trading Rudy Gay sparked a movement, a playoff berth, a shift in culture. General manager Masai Ujiri and friends have been making awesome decisions—not trading Kyle Lowry, for instance—ever since. According to The Toronto Star‘s Doug Smith, they don’t plan to buck that trend anytime soon, [...]

Hopefully Stephen Curry enjoys surprises. The Los Angeles Clippers outlasted the Golden State Warriors Saturday night, won Game 7 and sent Mark Jackson’s squad home early. It happens. The Warriors advanced through to the second round as a sixth seed last season. They lost to a more talented Clippers faction this year. It just happens. [...]

Jermaine O’Neal playing meaningful playoff minutes in 2014 was an actual thing. He filled in admirably in place of the injured Andrew Bogut and looked like his old self. Based on what he did in the playoffs, you can see that he still has a lot left in the tank, but O’Neal may be considering [...]

Not only was the Sixers’ Michael Carter-Williams the best rookie this past season, but he was probably the most surprising one as well. Entering a season, you can sometimes tell who will be named rookie of the year and I don’t know that many had MCW tabbed. He was one of the few bright spots [...]

Kevin Durant will reportedly be named this season’s NBA MVP. Durant is laser focused on winning a title, but this has to feel good since he’s tired of always finishing second. For a while there, it looked like maybe he wouldn’t be on the court to receive the award. Typically, the award is presented to [...]

After losing their first two games at home, the Houston Rockets were in a bad place. Only three teams in NBA history have managed to win a playoff series after losing the first two games at home– the 1969 Lakers, 1994 Rockets and the 2005 Mavericks– and LaMarcus Aldridge had just joined Kobe Bryant (2001) [...]

The Brooklyn Nets dropped game 5 to the Raptors and if you ask Nets coach Jason Kidd, it had alot to do with flopping. Kidd was upset that the refs were rewarding the Raptors for flopping and sounded off afterwards: “If flopping is the way to go, then we have to maybe play that game,” [...]

Disgraced Clippers owner Donald Sterling is reportedly battling prostate cancer. The 80 year-old was thought to be near death a few years ago. The timing of this news is interesting, as it comes right after he was banned by commissioner Adam Silver. Disgraced racist Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is battling cancer — surprising [...]

Last year when the Miami Heat won their second consecutive NBA Title Nike capitalized off the occasion by releasing a second ‘Championship’ pack featuring a LeBron X Elite & LeBron X Low in celebratory colorways. That set was rare. Take a look at a even more uncommon set. Here we see the green ‘Championship’ Pack [...]

Steve Kerr is a smart man. Already the favorite to become the New York Knicks’ next head coach, Kerr is doing his due diligence, making sure that he’s not entering a dumpster fire beyond Phil Jackson’s repair. There have been reports that he’s vetting the franchise culture before making a decision out of concern for [...]