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The NBA has released the first half of the 2020-2021 regular season schedule. The first half of the NBA season will tip-off Dec. 22, 2020 and end March 4, 2021. The All-Star break will take place March 5-10. The second half of the season will span from March 11 to May 16 and games will…
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…
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…
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 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,…
Last Thursday, NBA Owners approved a plan to send 22 teams to Orlando, Florida to resume the NBA season. All 22 teams would play-out an eight-game regular season, with a play in tournament for the 8th seed, should the 9th seed be within four games of the 8th seed by the end of the regular…
Last Friday the NBA held a Board of Governors call to discuss a survey on possible playoff formats taken by all 30 owners. This Thursday, the NBA will hold a vote between four possible scenarios for concluding the season, the playoff format options for the NBA playoffs are as follows: 16 Teams This option would…
It’s been over a month since the NBA season was suspended due to COVID-19 and although there’s no sign of a return coming anytime soon, the entire league is still holding out hope that we will get a conclusion to the 2019-2020 season. Just this weekend would’ve been the start to the 2020 playoffs and…
