Nets star Kyrie Irving said Kevin Durant was the first teammate he trusted to take clutch shots. That was either an intentional slight of LeBron James (which Irving denied) or an unintentional slight of LeBron (which isn’t great either). Trust Irving...
When the NBA season tips off, a handful of teams will have some fans in their arenas to cheer them on, while most will not. Is that fair? It’s a global pandemic, absolutely nothing is fair. When announcing their season schedules, the San Antonio Spur...
In three weeks, when the NBA season tips off, James Harden will be wearing the jersey of… The Houston Rockets. Probably. There is still plenty of trade buzz around Harden, including from Golden State (more on that later), but his attempt to pull an A...
After four seasons in the NBA, Thon Maker is headed to Cleveland on a training camp deal where he will try to convince coach J.B. Bickerstaff and the Cavaliers front office they need to carry a third center behind Andre Drummond and JaVale McGee. Tha...
The NBA preseason tips off in two weeks. Like everything with the 2020-21 NBA season, it has come on fast and is condensed. The NBA officially announced its preseason schedule on Saturday. Games will begin on Dec. 11, with teams playing between two a...
LeBron James has ushered in the player-empowerment era, usurping control from ownership and management. But it’s not just LeBron vs. Dan Gilbert or LeBron vs. Riley. When leaving the Heat for the Cavaliers in 2014, LeBron left teammates in the dark,...
The Jazz keep trading second-rounders to dump salary. Attaching two second-rounders to unload Ed Davis (on the Knicks, who flipped him to the Timberwolves) and another second-rounder to unload Tony Bradley (on the Pistons, who flipped him to the 76er...
The Lakers added Gasol and won a championship. Will it work again? Twelve years after trading for Pau Gasol and winning the 2008 title, the Lakers are signing his brother Marc Gasol (who was drafted by the Lakers and sent to the Grizzlies in the Pau...
Cavaliers forward Kevin Love explained his depression while with the Timberwolves in 2012: The future started to feel meaningless. And when it gets to the point where you lose hope, that’s when the only thing you can think about is, “How can I make t...
Tonight’s NBA Draft is going to be a wild ride. With no clear-cut No. 1 pick — and more than enough time for teams to delve deep into studying the process during the coronavirus hiatus — there are more questions than answers heading into the 2020 NBA...
