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The San Antonio Spurs are still good, but they’re also hurting. Excuse me if I’m telling you something you already know; I just felt compelled to remind everyone. Because they’re good. Really good. Second-best-record-in-the-NBA good. A few jokesters (idiots?) probably predicted their demise. And by “probably,” I mean definitely. It happens every year. People mistake [...]

Kevin Love believes. Talk of 2015, when Love will be a free agent and likely courted by the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers, among others, kind of makes you forget that there’s another team who will be competing for Love’s services—the Minnesota Timberwolves. Minny’s quest to retain Love has already started. David Kahn [...]

Barely two weeks in the and Knicks are on the verge of making a major move. Iman Shumpert has been a pleasant surprise for the team for the past couple of years and his perimeter defense has been refreshing. But in order to compete in the East, management apparently feels a move is needed. Shumpert [...]

Before the end of November a new adidas D Rose colorway will release called the ‘Chicago Nightfall’. Said to gets its inspiration from the colors of a Chicago sunset, the purple represents Lake Michigan as well as the night sky, the yellow comes from the reflection of a setting sunlight off of Lake Michigan and [...]

Recently, Oregon Ducks basketball players Ben Carter and returning starting PG Dominic Artis are ineligible to play in nine games this season after school officials were made aware that they sold Player Exclusive team apparel within the past year. Even though specific pieces of sportswear weren’t named, it is widely believed that among what was [...]

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The great Steve Nash may be falling apart right before our very eyes. He’s already likely to sit out the second game of most Laker back-to-backs, and now he’s out for a couple of weeks with back pain. Luckily for L.A., they’ve gotten off to a surprisingly decent start, thanks in large part to their [...]

Expectations are a funny thing. Did I say funny? Sorry, I meant to say that expectations are a cruel-hearted, unshaven bastard. Especially in the NBA. Early on, we cannot escape them. They’re with us always. Always, always, always. And they screw around with our power rankings. At heart, weekly evaluations should be impulsive and read [...]

LeBron James isn’t superhuman, he just plays like he is. The Chosen One has demolished opposing defenses on a nightly basis for over a decade. We’ve grown accustomed to it. Expect it. Assume it’s going to happen every second of every game. Understandably, all of us who don’t hate the greatest NBA player alive—sorry, MJ—were [...]

The college basketball season is officially underway, so let the salavating over this young crop of freshmen begin. Next year’s draft class is already being touted as one of the best in the last few decades, as freshmen Andrew Wiggins (Kansas), Jabari Parker (Duke) and Julius Randle (Kentucky) should all be millionaires a year from [...]