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LeBron James: I don’t have energy to do [free agency] again

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“I don’t plan on going nowhere. I don’t have the energy to do it again. “It just hit me. Sometimes you just have a feeling. Sometimes you just kind of realize what’s going on, what’s happening. It just hit me. That’s why I was able to, through the letter, speak through the heart.” –LeBron James at his […]

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NBA Store offering refund for Andrew Wiggins Cavs jerseys

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Last week, it became a harbinger of things to come when the NBA Store pulled Andrew Wiggins Cavaliers jerseys off their store and they were no longer available for sale. Thursday Wiggins Cavaliers jerseys became a collector’s item — like my Steve Francis Vancouver Grizzlies card — when the Cavaliers traded the top overall pick […]

Team USA guards get sorted out

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As Team USA shifts its focus from Las Vegas to Chicago for its next pre-World Cup friendly (see what I did there soccer fans?), they are traveling a little bit lighter. The team officially cut John Wall, Bradley Beal and Paul Millsap, trimming the roster from 16 to 12 (Paul George is the other player […]

Why Becky Hammon will work

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The Spurs were not quite groundbreakers in hiring Becky Hammon as an assistant coach Tuesday. The Cavaliers had hired Lisa Boyer as a voluntary assistant in the early 2000s. She will not even be the first woman coaching for pay in a NBA-affiliated league. Groundbreaking women’s basketball player Nancy Lieberman coached the Texas Legends of […]

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Dan Le Batard buys trolling billboards, gets suspended

0 comments by on 8/7/2014

Dan Le Batard is a boisterous member of the media from South Florida. He unabashedly talks South Florida sports above all and his career took off from mere regional prominence to national prominence thanks to LeBron James. So when LeBron James left, you could imagine the shock-jock columnist would do something, well shocking. Shocking like […]

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NBA rookies select Jabari Parker as best of the class

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We waited for two years for this rookie class to take shape and make it to the NBA. Teams threw seasons away just for the chance to draft Jabari Parker and Andrew Wiggins. Fans of those teams spent a year debating which player would be better between these two wonder freshmen. When the dust settled, […]

NBA jerseys as soccer kits

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Every wonder what your favorite NBA team would like wearing a soccer kit? Curious what sleeved NBA jerseys with sponsors might look like? Well, wonder no more! Designer Jesse Nunez got to work designing a mock soccer jersey for each NBA team. Above is the defending champion Spurs. Here are a few more of our […]

James Ennis, back from Down Under

0 comments by on 8/6/2014

It is not easy playing basketball in Australia. It feels a whole different world away. It does not have the accessibility of the D-League. It does not have the notoriety or prestige of playing in Europe. It does not even have the commercial capabilities of playing in China. It is basketball nowhere. James Ennis had […]

Brian Scalabrine announces return to Boston, LeBron-style

0 comments by on 8/5/2014

It did not take too long for someone to start parodying LeBron James’ latest decision. Who would have figured that the person doing the best job of it would be none other than the “White Mamba” himself, Brian Scalabrine: Before anyone cared where I would play basketball, I was a kid raised in Enumclaw, Washington. […]

Kobe Bryant on Lakers’ goals: Championship

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http://youtu.be/XIJ31C2rae0 “Championship. Always. Always. That’s the ultimate. When you stand at the bottom of the mountain your goal is to get to the top of the mountain, you don’t just want to go half way. So, it’s always championship. “Whatever it is that you want to do, there’s always an opportunity to rise. Nothing is […]

David Blatt’s successful career in Europe gets tested as he comes to the NBA. Photo by David Richard-USA TODAY Sports

David Blatt on Israel-Gaza conflict: ‘This war is Israel’s most justified’

0 comments by on 8/4/2014

“Yoav Borovitch, Globes Online: Do you support the operation? David Blatt, Cavaliers coach: Absolutely. In my opinion, this war is Israel’s most justified war I can remember in recent years. I’m really sorry about what’s happening in Gaza, but there’s no doubt that we had to act there, so that Israel will have quiet there once […]

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