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The Golden State Warriors have lost three of their last five games. Kevin Durant is sidelined with an MCL sprain. The San Antonio Spurs are 1.5 games back of the Western Conference’s No. 1 seed, with two more meetings against Golden State to go. Knowing all this, might Warriors head coach Steve Kerr abandon pursuit [...]

Joel Embiid is done for the season after suffering a torn meniscus. Ben Simmons, who has yet to make his NBA regular-season debut, joins him on the sidelines with a broken foot. When will we see them play again, preferably together? The summer league, perhaps? The Philadelphia 76ers aren’t sure. From Calkins Media’s Tom Moore: [...]

Shoutout to Washington Wizards head coach Scott Brooks for wanting Bradley Beal to shoot all the three-pointers. Yes, this is apparently a thing. Beal revealed on BradleyBeal.net that his head honcho has basically encouraged him to launch 20 treys in single game: He’s really encouraging, too. We played against Cleveland back in early February and lost [...]

Has an MVP talent ever flown under the radar quite like Kawhi Leonard? Yes, he’s the reigning two-time Defensive Player of the Year. And sure, it was him who finished as a runner-up in MVP voting last season, to Stephen Curry, who had just wrapped up one of the best individual campaigns the NBA has [...]

Larry Bird and Magic Johnson are considered the two greatest rivals in NBA history, from their classic showdown in the final of the 1979 NCAA Tournament as members of Indiana State and Michigan State respectively, to their east coast, west coast rivalry that overtook the NBA in the 1980s and resurrected the league from a [...]

Mark Cuban is back to belittling Russell Westbrook. Maybe. The Dallas Mavericks owner said the point guard wasn’t a superstar last May, and now, apparently, he doesn’t believe Westbrook is in the mix for league MVP, per ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon: [tweet https://twitter.com/espn_macmahon/status/838544941915631617] If Cuban’s sentiment is that Westbrook isn’t as valuable as James Harden and [...]

If you’re looking for a silver lining amid the New York Knicks’ crummy season, head coach Jeff Hornacek kind of has one. You know, maybe. Following practice on Saturday, Hornacek made it clear team president Phil Jackson has not asked him to run the triangle all the time, per ESPN.com’s Ian Begley: Jeff Hornacek says Phil [...]

Remember how so many complained about LeBron James’ open distaste for the Cleveland Cavaliers’ “top-heavy” roster? And how many more assume the team, specifically general manager David Griffin, would be unhappy with his demeanor? About that: The Cavaliers are actually happy LeBron said what he said, even if they weren’t thrilled in the moment, according [...]

Steph Curry, by his own standards, had a bad outing in the Golden State Warriors’ Thursday night loss to the Chicago Bulls, going for 23 points on 10-of-27 shooting, including a 2-of-11 clip from downtown. He is now 4-of-31 from deep over the last three games, through which the Warriors are 1-2. If you think [...]

Joel Embiid is less than 40 games into his NBA career, and the Philadelphia 76ers already have to start thinking about paying him more money. Though the team shut him down for the rest of the season due to swelling in his knee, Embiid will be extension eligible this summer. Conventional wisdom suggests the Sixers [...]