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In the rush to figure out why, and how, the Cleveland Cavaliers began the 2017-18 season losing a bunch of games they should have won, fans and analysts have been quick to cite a relative lack of interest. The Cavaliers are Eastern Conference favorites! They’re locks to make a fourth straight NBA Finals! They have [...]

There have been mixed reviews on the Lonzo Ball experiment thus far in Tinseltown, but one thing that is very apparent though is that Ball is a special talent at passing the basketball and utilizes his height and instincts to already be one of the best rebounding point guards in the NBA. He used those [...]

The NBA All-Star game is headed back to Chicago…in 2020. ESPN.com’s Nick Friedell brought word on Thursday that the league and the Bulls will be announcing plans to put 2020’s superstar meetup in The Windy City. Shams Charania of The Vertical relayed more details: The NBA All-Star Game is returning to Chicago in 2020. (AP) [...]

We are currently experiencing somewhat of a changing of the guard in the NBA and in the eastern conference especially. While there are still the established superstars performing at a high level as per usual, many of the players leading the league in many categories are young stars on the cusp of entering their prime [...]

Just when it seems the Boston Celtics might experience a semblance of what it feels like to be at full strength, a minor-to-major inconvenience strikes. Al Horford entered the NBA’s concussion protocol on Wednesday, prior to the Celtics’ victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. It is unclear when he’ll be returning to the lineup. Here’s [...]

Things between Blake Griffin and Chris Paul were absolutely as awkward and combustible as you think they were. Paul is now a member of the Houston Rockets, so this doesn’t matter anymore. But the two spent more than a half-decade together on the Los Angeles Clippers, ostensibly jostling for alpha status. And while the tense [...]

Paul Pierce believes the Eastern Conference has a new top dog at shooting guard: Bradley Beal. During an appearance on the Wizards Tipoff podcast, the future Hall of Famer, who spent one year playing for the Washington Wizards, talked about the rise of his former teammate (via NBC Sports Washington’s Chase Hughes): “It’s playing with an [...]

Kyle Lowry isn’t having a good year. He doesn’t look like himself. He’s averaging just 11.9 points per game, his lowest total since 2012-13. He’s shooting 37.6 percent from the floor, the second-worst mark of his career. His three-point percentage has dropped from 41.2 percent in 2016-17, to 32.7 percent this year. So what gives? [...]

It appears the Eric Bledsoe saga in Phoenix has come to a merciful end. According to Adrian Wojnarowski and Zach Lowe of ESPN, the Suns have agreed to trade Bledsoe to the Milwaukee Bucks for Greg Monroe and the Bucks 2018 1st Round Pick. [tweet https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/927920904037916672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] This is an incredible deal for the Bucks as [...]

Welcome to another edition of “LaVar Ball said what about Lonzo Ball?!?!?” The latest, per Complex Sports, has Pops saying that social media can make his son “bigger” than Kobe Bryant: [tweet https://twitter.com/Complex/status/926959350215667712] So, like, on the LaVar scale of talking points, this take is pretty tame. Lonzo has about a half-million followers on Twitter to [...]