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If Kobe Bryant’s will be done, then Mike D’Antoni’s tenure with the Los Angeles Lakers will soon be over. According to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney, Bryant wants the Lakers to hire a new coach before next season: ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith reported on Wednesday morning that he had heard D’Antoni would be out, and [...]

Being the competitor that he is, you know that Kobe Bryant would like to play some more this year, even if it’s the final 5 games on a season going absolutely nowhere. But because of his age and nagging injuries, the Lakers are going to officially shut him down according to Yahoo. This makes sense. [...]

Despite all of the hype surrounding this season’s fabulous freshmen like Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker, and Julius Randle, a relative under the radar frosh named Joel Embiid has emerged as the frontrunner for the #1 selection in the 2014 NBA Draft. After playing organized basketball for all of 2 seasons prior to arriving on the [...]

The speculation is over. Phil Jackson has agreed to “oversee” the New York Knicks according to the NY Post. He will likely serve as team president, a role currently held by Steve Mills (however, Mills will remain with the team in a modified role). Details are still being ironed out, but you can safely assume [...]

Three cheers, eight fist-pumps and infinite twerks for movement. The NBA is rife with movement this week. Goliaths fell, Davids ascended and the enfeebled experienced success. Translation: It’s been weird in the NBA lately. (Spoiler alert.) (Seriously.) (Don’t read what comes next if you don’t want to ruin the below contents.) (I’m not joking.) (Okay, [...]

When Kobe Bryant hurt his knee after playing his sixth game this season, we were all led to believe that he’d be back right around the all-star break. Well, that has come and gone and still no sign of Kobe. With the season ending next month and the Lakers going no where fast, you have to [...]

If Phil Jackson takes this front office gig with the Knicks, as is being reported, his first order of business may be to hire his former Bulls player Steve Kerr, according to the New York Post. I’m not exactly sure what qualifies Kerr to be a candidate for such a high-profile job as a rookie head coach. [...]

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Shaquille O’Neal has more iPhones than you, and maybe even some Apple retail carriers. During an interview with USA Today‘s Jefferson Graham that is bound to change your life, Shaq revealed that he purchases 50 iPhones whenever a new one comes out…or something like that. That only seems excessive because you’re ignorant. Shaq has plenty [...]

Phil Jackson apparently wants the world if he’s to sync up with the ever-dysfunctional New York Knicks. Rumors have flooded the airwaves, papers and Internet, most of them pointing toward the same thing: a union between the Zen Master and championship-starved, James Dolan-owned Knicks. But with all that’s going around, you’d have expected it to [...]