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Adam Silver is finally realizing that G League Ignite was always doomed to fail
You miss 100 percent of the shots you donât take. But the only way to improve your jump shot is through shot correction. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is realizing that a shot his league took a few years ago â that many thought looked good when it came off their hands â was always going to be an airb...

The top 10 winningest coaches in NCAA basketball history
UConn head coach Geno Auriemma passed Mike Krzyzewski for second place on the all-time wins list. While he surpassed the former Duke coach, Auriemma still trails Stanfordâs Tara VanDerveer. In addition to those three legendary coaches, here are the all-time NCAA Division I basketball coaching leader...

The Knicks are back after 2 decades of James Dolan terror and ineptitude
The New York Knicks won the NBA trade deadline, fleecing the Detroit Pistons for Bojan BogdanoviÄ and Alec Burks. They added the backup playmaker and off-the-bench scoring they were missing to reach championship contention. Fully healthy, and despite their recent injury-induced hiccup, the Knicks ca...

The NBA dunk contest is crapshoot that lacks star power
NBA All-Star Saturday was a hit once again, but one of the main events may have missed the mark. The slam dunk contest at one time was the highlight of the entire weekend. Now itâs hit or miss, year-to-year, whether weâll be talking about it for weeks or if itâll be forgotten by Monday afternoon. Th...

See it: Steph Curry drills insane full-court shot from tunnel
The Golden State Warriors may not look like their usual, dominant selves, but Steph Curryâs still got it. ...

Remember that time Michael Jordan wore No. 12?
Michael Jordan is synonymous with the No. 23. Sure, he wore 45 when he returned with the Washington Wizards, but he always had the same jersey number with the Chicago Bulls â except for a lone game against the Orlando Magic 34 years ago today. ...

Ex-NBA player arrested after allegedly punching, choking woman
Former NBA player Bryn Forbes was arrested on a family violence charge on Tuesday after allegedly assaulting the mother of his two children....

The ghost of Golden State is starting to make some noise
Steph Curryâs high-arcing game-winner to sink the Phoenix Suns on Saturday night only strengthened his runaway case as The Associationâs Most Clutch Player of the Year. An ensuing win over Utah on Monday positioned the Warriors back above the .500 mantle for the first time since Dec. 23. ...

The Dallas Mavericks did not just go all-in for PJ Washington and Daniel Gafford
The NBA trade deadline was unsurprisingly mundane except for one team: the Dallas Mavericks. Sitting at 29-23, good for eighth in the West, GM Nico Harrison jettisoned Richaun Holmes, Seth Curry, Grant Williams and draft picks in two separate trades for PJ Washington from the Charlotte Hornets, and ...

It still doesn't feel like Kobe Bryant is dead
It is still difficult to grasp that Kobe Bryant has not been alive to experience the majority of his post-NBA career enshrinements. He was not here for his Basketball Hall of Fame induction, the NBA All-75 team, or the Thursday unveiling of his statue outside of Crypto.com Arena. ...

The NBA trade deadline was a bit of a dud, but here's a look at who won and who flopped horribly
After last yearâs insane trade deadline, which featured Kevin Durant being dealt to the Phoenix Suns, this year brought a bunch of smaller, shrewd moves that moved teams into contention. We have tracked the trades and broken them down by time-tested winners and losers rubric to track how the day wen...

Tyrese Maxey is learning that life as Trae Young is harder than it looks
Life as Tyrese Maxey has been an auspicious existence. He entered an ideal scenario as an ancillary piece in Philadelphia behind Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid, and James Harden. Heâs been able to grow into his role as the second option, and this season has become Robin to Joel Embiidâs Batman. ...

The 2024 NBA trade deadline is DOA
Please for the love of God stop reading this. The 2024 deadline has absolutely no pulse. Do not confuse the volume of trades made with value. I repeat. Do not confuse the volume of trades made with value. This is the Al Caponeâs vault of trade deadlines. Instead of Woj Bombs, Adrian Wojnarowski is d...

The Knicks and Ryan Arcidiacono are the cure to the NBAâs scoring surge
Somehow, the New York Knicks are MacGyvering their way to the top of the East in a super soldier league in a manner we havenât seen since the â04 Pistons. OG Anunobyâs arrival has fortified Tom Thibodeauâs defense into the NBAâs Fort Knox, and once Mitchell Robinson returns, the paint in Madison Squ...

Kawhi Leonard has entered the chat in the NBA MVP conversation
For fans who tend to skip over much of the NBA regular season, youâve probably missed the recent uprising in talk about Kawhi Leonard having a claim in the MVP conversation. Most years, Leonardâs numbers are great. But since he blossomed into a star toward the end of his run in San Antonio, âThe Cla...

These are the current and former NBA players who need their own podcast
A decade ago, who would have thought that current and former players would be the best analysts and commentators in the NBA? A novel idea, eh? Former players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jacksonâs âAll The Smokeâ and Gilbert Arenas were early purveyors of player-run podcasts. Itâs since evolved to includ...

Ben Simmons is the hero the NBA Players Association didnât know it needed
Ben Simmons shows up to work, posts up on the bench in vibrant fits, shades, and quietly monitors the Nets from afar. The Netsâ well-compensated point forward has one of the best desk jobs in the NBA. Simmons being back on the shelf to rest another affliction once made him a maligned figure, but he ...

Joe Dumars turns his back on NBA defenses
NBA executive vice president Joe Dumars has to say everything is fine while standing in front of a fiery explosion of scoring. And, of course, heâs going to be anti-load management. He is a shill for the league and has to toe the company line on the state of the game. However, itâd just be nice to a...

The case for â and against â Joel Embiid for MVP
Joel Embiid, the worldâs best regular-season player, is closing in on his second consecutive MVP if he remains upright. When active, Embiid is a force of nature, bending defenses to his whim and simultaneously wielding an unduly influence over Philadelphiaâs defense....

Luka Doncic does what players never do: Apologize to heckler
During an appearance on TNTâs NBA Tip-Off, Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic apologized for getting a heckler thrown out of Wednesdayâs loss to the Phoenix Suns....