BOSTON -- For the first time since his press conference to address to the Ime Udoka situation on Sept. 23, Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens spoke to the media on Friday following the team's shootaround. In...
The Indiana Pacers and Myles Turner have opened negotiations on a contract extension, according to The Athletic's Shams Charania. Turner can become a free agent after the season, and while the Pacers were initially expected to move...
Kevin Durant, even by his stratospheric standards, is playing out of his mind this season, and the Brooklyn Nets are humming to the tune of a seven-Game winning streak. Entering Friday night's tilt with the Milwaukee Bucks, Brooklyn...
We need to make two things about Trae Young clear from the start:The Atlanta Hawks star guard is almost certainly not getting traded this season. The closest thing we have to a precedent for a 24-year-old All-NBA guard getting traded...
Amateur numerologists must be in seventh heaven about the current state of the NBA. As of Friday, six teams in the Western Conference -- yes, six -- had exactly 19 wins. That means the first-place Denver Nuggets had won the same...
Blow. It. Up. They are NBA Twitter's three favorite words, but they tend to be far less realistic than critics want to accept. Fans think in terms of the championship binary. They want teams to either be directly comPeting for one...
Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. says he plans to make his return on Friday against the Portland Trail Blazers. Porter Jr. has not played since Nov. 22 due to a heel injury that the team was officially calling a contusion. Nuggets...
Before the season, a Toronto Raptors victory over the New York Knicks hardly would have qualified as news. The Knicks were coming off of a lottery season. The Raptors looked like an ascending contender. But based on just the last several...
In this week's edition of NBA Rookie Rankings we've got a statement performance from the No. 1 pick against one of the top teams in the East, a role player further down in Atlanta solidifying his spot in the rotation on a squad that...
If you'd like to enlighten people who don't pay attention to the NBA until Christmas Day, tell them that the league has achieved something resembling parity, the referees are calling Traveling violations, the terrible "take" fouls...
Kevin Durant will forever be tied to the Golden State Warriors after winning two championships with them, but on Wednesday, he and his Brooklyn Nets laid a historic beating on his former team. Though things calmed down significantly...
The NBA announced Wednesday afternoon that it will strip the New York Knicks of their 2025 second-round pick due to an investigation into tampering with Jalen Brunson this past offseason. The league determined that the Knicks engaged...
For being one of the youngest teams in the NBA, the Memphis Grizzlies surely do not lack confidence. Led by 23-year-old Ja Morant, the upstart Grizzlies have gone from a promising young team two years ago to a bona fide title contender,...
The NBA just opened fan voting for the 2023 All-Star Game set to take place in Salt Lake City, Utah on Feb. 19, so there's no better time than now to take a look at who will be the 10 starters suiting up for the annual contest. As...
The LeBron James GOAT coronation just got complicated.For LeBron, this season was always going to be largely defined by his pursuit of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record -- a mark, at this rate, he should surpass around mid-February....
Welcome back to NBA Star Power Index: A weekly gauge of the players getting the most buzz around the league. Inclusion on this list isn't necessarily a good thing -- it simply means you're capturing the NBA world's attention. This...
Did we jinx the Los Angeles Lakers? It's entirely possible. Two weeks ago, we argued that their recent improvement would likely prevent the New Orleans Pelicans from stealing Victor Wembanyama. And then on Friday, Anthony Davis suffered...
Travis Schlenk, the Atlanta Hawks president of basketball operations, is moving into a senior advisory role with the team, the team announced Wednesday. The team is set to promote current general manager Landry Fields to Schlenk's...
The Chicago Bulls are in freefall.This wasn't going to a title-contending season, but it wasn't supposed to be this either. They're 11-18, coming off a 150-124 loss -- yes, really -- to the Minnesota Timberwolves, which followed a...
It seems as though the Houston Rockets may finally be willing to part with veteran guard Eric Gordon. The Rockets have held onto Gordon despite the fact that they've been in the midst of a rebuild since trading James Harden to the...
A week after tearing his right hamstring in practice, the Dallas Mavericks announced Tuesday that big man Maxi Kleber had surgery and will begin rehab immediately. Last week, The Athletic's Shams Charania reported last week that Kleber...