The end of Friday night's Game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Charlotte Hornets probably isn't what Dr. James Naismith envisioned when he invented the modern Game of basketball. The final minute of the Lakers' 134-130 loss was...
James Harden is one of the most prolific passers of his generation, but the star guard never recorded more assists in a single game than he did against the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night. In 40 minutes of action, Harden tallied...
Luka Doncic scored 50 points on 30 shots on Friday, and the Mavericks needed every one of them to fend off the Rockets in a 112-106 victory. Doncic added 10 assists, eight rebounds and three steals for fun. Doncic, in just his fifth...
DeMar DeRozan hasn't been as brilliant in the clutch this season as he was the last, but by just about any other standard he's still been great. Entering Friday's Game against the Knicks, DeRozan trailed only Shai Gilgeous-Alexander...
Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green called out the team's mental fortitude on Friday while speaking to reporters after practice. The Warriors are back in San Francisco after a disastrous road trip, during which they went 1-5...
Anthony Davis initially got hurt last Friday, when the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Denver Nuggets. Reports indicated that Davis was expected to miss around a month, but there was no diagnosis for his exact injury. Well now, a week...
The Charlotte Hornets and restricted free agent forward Miles Bridges are in talks over a new contract, and both sides are optimistic that a deal can be agreed to in the near future, according to Adrian Wojnarowski. If and when he...
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...
