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The New Orleans Pelicans are trading Jrue Holiday to the Milwaukee Bucks for Eric Bledsoe, George Hill, three first-round picks and two pick swaps according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Last season, Holiday averaged 19.1 points and 6.7 assists per game and just missed the all-defensive team. Holiday’s versatility gives the Bucks another shot creator that…
The NBA and NBPA have agreed on a deal to start the next NBA season on December 22. With the season now fast approaching teams will be ready and waiting to make changes to their rosters to get them in order as quickly as possible. With so much going on around the league, it’s likely…
The Philadelphia 76ers have hired Daryl Morey as their President of Basketball Operations, as reported by The Athletic’s Shams Charania. The move to Philadelphia comes just two weeks after Morey stepped down from his role as General Manager of the Houston Rockets, a position he had held since 2007. In his time with the Rockets,…
NBA basketball may be back much sooner than expected. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the NBA board of governors has been discussing when the next NBA season will begin. The current plan is to start the season just before Christmas. Initially, the NBA sought to delay the season until fans would be allowed back into…
On Sunday, the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Miami Heat 106-90 in game 6 of the 2020 NBA Finals to win the series 4-2. The Lakers The championship marks number 17 for the Lakers, tying the Boston Celtics for the most in NBA history. LeBron James averaged 29.8 points on nearly 59 percent shooting to…
Houston Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni informed the team on Sunday that he will not be returning next season, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. D’Antoni’s contract with the team ended after the Rockets second-round loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. In D’Antoni’s four seasons in Houston his team went 217-102 giving them the best record…
The Philadelphia 76ers have announced they have fired head coach Brett Brown. Brown posted a 221-344 record in Philadelphia and made the playoffs in three of his seven years with the team. In their three postseason runs, Philadelphia never made it past the second round of the playoffs. After being swept in the first round…
On Sunday, the Philadelphia 76ers lost their fourth straight game to the Boston Celtics completing one of the most disappointing seasons in recent NBA history. After coming into the season as a favorite to make the finals out of the East, the 76ers getting swept in the first round can only be seen as a massive…
The Phoenix Suns are currently the only unbeaten team in the NBA restart with a 5-0 record in Orlando. As the 13th seed, the Suns were the last team brought back to play in the Western Conference and are now just a game behind the Portland Trail Blazers for the 9th seed and a play-in…
The restart to the NBA season didn’t go as planned for Boston Celtics’ 22-year old star, Jayson Tatum. In the Celtics first game back, Tatum had a nightmare shooting night going 2-18 from the field with just five points. Whether it was the rust of the NBA suspension or Milwaukee’s tough defense, Tatum looked off-balance…
While it doesn’t have a ton of star power, the 2020 free agency class is full of quality players, some of whom have tremendous upside. While no team will be getting their franchises savior this offseason, plenty of contenders will be able to stock up on solid role players. Here are some underrated players who…
The Los Angeles Lakers announced point guard Rajon Rondo suffered a broken right thumb in a team practice on Sunday night. Rondo will miss six to eight weeks of basketball and will likely return early in the playoffs. With Avery Bradley opting out of the restart due to family concerns, the loss of Rondo could…
The 2010s were a tough decade for the Detroit Pistons and their fans. Over the decade, the Pistons were tied with the New York Knicks for worst record in the Eastern Conference, and have yet to win a playoff game since 2008. They’re rarely in the spotlight of the media, with exception to DeAndre Jordan’s…
The wait is almost over. On March 11 the NBA season was suspended indefinitely after Utah Jazz Center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19. Last Friday, after nearly five months of waiting in withdrawal and hoping beyond hope that basketball would return the NBA has announced its official schedule to restart the 2020 season. After…
Last week, the National Basketball Players Association held a conference call to discuss and vote on the restart of the NBA season. In the call, Brooklyn Nets star guard and NBPA Vice President Kyrie Irving led a group of players in voicing their concerns about restarting the season due to COVID-19 and current social issues,…
The 2020 class doesn’t have the best free agents ever but it certainly involves some valuable players, some of whom will almost definitely be making a change of scenery. Here are some predictions for each of the top 2020 NBA free agents’ potential destinations. Andre Drummond: Charlotte Hornets 2019-2020 Stats: 17.5 PPG, 15.3 RPG, 2.7…
On Tuesday, Carmelo Anthony signed a deal with the Blazers. The news of a deal between Anthony and the Blazers was first reported on Thursday night. After passing his physical, Anthony will suit up for the Blazers as he embarks on a new journey. Since last season, Anthony’s NBA future was a topic of conversation.…
The Toronto Raptors have had an interesting year. They won their first championship in franchise history in June and lost their Finals MVP to the Los Angeles Clippers. The loss of a player like Kawhi Leonard is difficult for almost any team to recover from, and the Raptors must do so as they prepare for…
Free agency may have slowed down, but there are still a few free agents that can help a team. In fact, one of them recently signed a deal with a Western Conference contender. According to Marc Stein of the New York Times, veteran guard/forward Thabo Sefolosha has signed a deal with the Rockets. The deal…
With the NBA preseason later this month, there are a few notable free agents. One of them is a player that has been in free agency since last season, and his name always comes up in rumors. That player is Carmelo Anthony. Anthony’s name has been attached to numerous teams. However, every time the rumors…