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As you may (or may not) know, the rules and stipulations around the creation of the NBA All-Star teams changed this off-season. Instead of the teams being separated by conference affiliation, they will be chosen by the leading vote getter from each conference who will serve as a team captain. Each captain will have a [...]

With the departure of Carmelo Anthony this off-season, the New York Knicks officially became Kristaps Porzingis’s team. Porzingis has handled that pressure well, posting a career-high in points per game at 23.8 and keeping the Knicks on the edge of the playoff picture at 18-20. Dealing with being “the guy” and recurring elbow and ankle [...]

Gregg Popovich’s run as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs has been as great as any run a coach has had with any professional sports team ever. He has been with the team in a front office capacity since 1994 and took over as head coach 18 games into the 1996-97 season. He has [...]

DeMar DeRozan continues to elevate his game and improve every season and is playing the best basketball of his career right now for the Toronto Raptors. DeRozan had the best night of his career on Monday night, when he rode a hot hand and a 21 point first quarter to a new franchise-record, 52 point [...]

The Houston Rockets just became Chris Paul’s team for the next few weeks. The Rockets superstar shooting guard and potential MVP favorite at the moment, James Harden, will miss at least two weeks of action as he recovers from a grade 2 hamstring strain suffered in the Rockets-Lakers game on Sunday night. [tweet https://twitter.com/TheRocketsWire/status/947997919784980481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] This [...]

Gregg Popovich always keeps it 100, as the kids say (do they still say that?). He also has no problem speaking his mind about an issue with his team, the NBA in general, or even society and politics. He is a very intelligent human being and an all-time great coach. He can be a very [...]

Any knowledgeable or logical fan of the game of basketball would likely tell you the two best players in the world right now are LeBron James and Kevin Durant. They also happen to be leading the two best teams in the league at the moment (Sorry Spurs and Rockets) and squared off once again on [...]

Playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder, as we know, was not Carmelo Anthony’s first choice. His list of preferred trade destinations initially included the Cleveland Cavaliers and Houston Rockets, before eventually, at one time, consisting only of the latter. As time went on and the New York Knicks neared training camp, though, he opened his [...]

Everyone knows the Houston Rockets are built in the image of a squad supposed to beat the Golden State Warriors. Sure, you can tell that just by looking at their depth chart. Yes, you can also tell by looking at some of the lineup combinations head coach Mike D’Antoni runs out. Indeed, the number of [...]

As backwards as things seem to be in this country right now, you still have to remember that things could be much different if we lived in an actual dictatorship. In these sort of societies, activism and dissension are not only discouraged, they can be illegal. Enes Kanter has been very vocal with his disapproval [...]