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NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2017 – Defending champion Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors and 2013 winner Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers lead the list of four NBA All-Stars who will showcase their shooting range in the 2017 JBL Three-Point Contest on Saturday, Feb. 18 at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. The […]
The Orlando Magic’s Aaron Gordon, last year’s runner-up, and NBA All-Star DeAndre Jordan of the LA Clippers will take flight in the 2017 Verizon Slam Dunk on Saturday, Feb. 18 at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. Gordon and Jordan are joined in the four-player field by Derrick Jones Jr. of the Phoenix Suns and […]
If there ever was a time to be sure that the Cleveland Cavaliers’ epic three-game win streak to finish the NBA Finals and beat the Golden STate Warriors for the championship was a thing of a past, this week’s three-game losing streak — capped by a 111-105 defeat at the hands of the Chicago Bulls […]
The Los Angeles Lakers announced that point guard D’Angelo Russell is expected to miss a “minimum of two weeks” after receiving a PRP injection in his left knee this afternoon. Russell (16.1 PPG, 4.8 APG, 3.4 RPG in 2016-17) had missed two of the Lakers’ past three games and appeared to have limited mobility in […]
Rick Carlisle isn’t concerned that new Mavs max player Harrison Barnes shot 26.7 percent from the floor in the preseason. “Shooting percentages have never been an important thing to me,” Carlisle said. Source: Tim MacMahon of ESPN
It seems that the NBA’s players and owners are closing in on a new collective bargaining agreement. Here’s what we know.
Michael Scotto reports the Kings and Heat have talked about trading Rudy Gay and Darren Collison for Goran Dragic.
The NBA issued the following statement today regarding the 2017 NBA All-Star Game: “The NBA has decided to relocate the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte with the hope of rescheduling for 2019. “Since March, when North Carolina enacted HB2 and the issue of legal protections for the LGBT community in Charlotte became prominent, the NBA […]
Led by Jonas Valanciunas, who emerged in the fourth quarter, Toronto staged a comeback and eventually won 96-92 in overtime on Thursday night to even the best-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series with the Heat at 1-1. The Raptors are 4-0 in the 2016 playoffs following a loss. Game 3 is Saturday afternoon at American Airlines […]
The Golden State Warriors’ Steve Kerr, whose team won an NBA-record 73 games, is the recipient of the Red Auerbach Trophy as the 2015-16 NBA Coach of the Year, the NBA announced today. He becomes the Warriors’ first winner since Don Nelson in the 1991-92 season. Kerr, in his second season as Golden State head […]
