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After all the New York Knicks have been through, Carmelo Anthony probably wants to leave. Derrick Rose doesn’t. He reiterated as much while speaking with The Undefeated’s Lonnae O’Neal: “I would love to stay here,” Rose said of New York. “I love my teammates, I love the coaches, I love the front office. But this will [...]

We have talked a lot about Manu Ginobili in this space over the last year. Stances on whether he’ll retire have changed, not daily, but they’ve moved. The latest: He’s undecided about whether he’ll return to the San Antonio Spurs in 2017-18. Per the San Antonio Express-News’ Jeff McDonald: It is a sentence no true Spurs fan [...]

A lot went wrong with the Detroit Pistons this season. Reggie Jackson dealt with knee issues and didn’t play up to snuff when he was on the floor. Andre Drummond looks like he has peaked. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was sensational for most of the year, but he trailed off near the end. Stanley Johnson didn’t find [...]

If Rudy Gobert is even half as talented at recruiting free agents as he is at playing basketball, Gordon Hayward won’t be leaving the Utah Jazz. Gobert, one of the NBA’s foremost frontrunners for the Defensive Player of the Year award, plans to pull out all the stops to get his teammate, who owns a [...]

We may have to wait until the start of the NBA’s 2017-18 to see Ben Simmons play basketball again. The rookie has missed all of 2016-17 with a right foot injury, and the Philadelphia 76ers don’t yet know if he’ll be partaking in the summer-league festivities. Or maybe they do know, and they’re just not [...]

It would be understandable if the Portland Trail Blazers were relieved that they made the NBA playoffs. For a while, it looked like they wouldn’t. Even after they got hot, Jusuf Nurkic went down, and it kind of seemed like they might be done, too. They’re weren’t. They’re in the playoffs, having clinched a spot [...]

Over the weekend, Russell Westbrook officially clinched a triple-double season average, and passed Oscar Robertson for most triple-doubles in a season with 42. That’s once heck of a weekend. Then to top it off, on Sunday night, he has his 3rd 50-point triple-double of the season, which included a buzzer-beating game-winning three-pointer over Denver. On [...]

The 2016-17 season has truly been Russell Westbrook’s masterpiece. He is still only 28 and this is only his first season as the alpha dog for the Oklahoma City Thunder. He has plenty more success in front of him, one would assume, but he will never recapture the magic or the wonder and bewilderment of [...]

The New York Knicks are scheduled for an early offseason vacation, and Kristaps Porzingis’ getaway might begin earlier than that. The 7’3″ skyscraper is dealing with back spasms that have kept him out of the Knicks’ last two games. And following the team’s Thursday night loss to the Washington Wizards, head coach Jeff Hornacek intimated that [...]

So much for the NBA’s second epic salary-cap spike. When projections for the 2017-18 cap first came out, people were shocked at how low they were. All season, they’ve hovered around $102 to $103 million, less than $10 million above this year’s ceiling. Make no mistake, it’s still a sizable increase. But many were expecting [...]