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Starting 5: No Apologies

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Jrue Holiday makes up for ET's missed FTs Evan Turner stepped to the line late in Sunday's 104-101 win over Phoenix with a chance to send everyone home happy not only with a win, but […]

Video: Barnes’ facial on Pekovic is simply nasty

You knew something quite humiliating was coming at Minnesota's Nikola Pekovic when Warriors rookie Harrison Barnes came barreling towards him in the paint. And by "humiliating," I mean Barnes absolutely made Pekovic look silly for even attempting to get in his way. Check out Barnes' nasty one-handed dunk over the big man and giving him […]

Shootaround: Happy Homecomings

Boston Celtics (7-6) vs. Orlando Magic (5-7) 6 p.m. Glen Davis has been looking forward to this game for a while now. Not only are the Magic in the midst of a five-game home stand, one that could very well set their season in one direction or another. OK, maybe most people expect it to […]

Starting 5: Flying Death Machine

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Heat get hot The Miami Heat are affectionately known as the Flying Death Machine on the Twitter-verse. Simply because when the Heat are at their best, they come at you from all sides at blazing […]

Shootaround: Is ATL for real?

Los Angeles Clippers (8-4) vs. Atlanta Hawks (7-4) 7 p.m. The Clippers lost last night to the Nets, getting "overrated" chants rained down upon them from the hipster-y crowd in Brooklyn. Los Angeles is most likely not overrated. This team is very very good and very very deep. The Clippers are not going away any […]

Starting 5: Issues

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: Problems with Los Angeles? Things seemed very peachy. Mike D'Antoni's offense was taking hold, Los Angeles was scoring and everything seemed to work. Memphis has a way of changing that. The Grizzlies are looking like […]

Shootaround: Class of the Southeast?

Atlanta Hawks (6-4) vs. Charlotte Bobcats (6-4) 7 p.m. What is It old you the matchup above had Playoff implications and meant something in the Southeast Division? OK, so maybe it is too early to be talking about such things considering it is still late November and so many things can and will change before […]

Felton not so much a fan of Jeremy Lin comparison

Since he arrived for his latest go around with the New York Knicks, Raymond Felton has been compared to last year’s point guard Jeremy Lin. Those comparisons seemed to have gotten to Felton who told the New York Post ahead of tonight's match up in Houston that he does not really get the comparisons between […]

Darko Milicic leaves the NBA

The Boston Celtics announced they have waived Darko Milicic, likely ending one of the oddest and most disappointing careers in the NBA's history. Milicic started his career as the second pick in the celebrated 2003 Draft. The expectations that came from being that pick in that draft. He could never live up to Carmelo Anthony, […]

Finley, Dixon and McDyess all preparing for NBA comebacks

Last week it was Juan Dixon. Now Michael Finley wants to call it a comeback. Apparently age is nothing but a number to guys like Dixon (34 years old) and Finley (39 years old) as they still feel like they have something to offer to NBA teams around the league besides a chance to increase […]

Rondo doesn’t care about stats

  For those who like watching records fall or just enjoy following stats, their eyes are surely following the box scores of Rajon Rondo as he approaches the all-time record for consecutive games with 10 or more assists.    Rondo logged 15 assists against the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday, giving him 35 games in […]

Doctors recommend Roy retire

Earlier this week, we reported on Minnesota's Brandon Roy going under the knife for the seventh time in his NBA career to repair a right knee injury. And though the procedure was successful, the original report went on to infer this might be the final hoorah for Roy in the NBA. Well it seems medial professionals are now […]

Nothing but heartbreak in Love’s season debut for Minnesota

Wearing a black brace on his left wrist and hand, Kevin Love made a surprising season debut for the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night but the result was the same as it has been in the previous two games. "I told my teammates," Love said about playing in his first game in about five weeks. […]

Starting Five: Happy Thanksgiving!

Every morning, we will give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: So Close In a trio of overtime games, three different teams came extremely close to scoring pretty substantial wins. Unfortunately the three underdogs with the chance to get those wins failed to do so despite […]

Dirk out longer than originally thought

The Dallas Mavericks were hoping they’d get their franchise player back by early December, but it looks like Dirk Nowitzki is having some complications after knee surgery. The surgery was a month ago, and the Mavs and Dirk were hoping he’d be back on the court after six weeks, but after a few setbacks in […]

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