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Los Angeles Clippers guard Bradley Beal has injured his hip and will undergo season-ending surgery. Shams Charania of ESPN shared the news on X. Just in: Los Angeles Clippers guard Bradley Beal has a fracture in his hip and will undergo season-ending surgery, sources tell ESPN. The Clippers signed Beal to a multi-year contract in […]
Tonight, the NBA odds are lighting up with a pair of must-watch Western Conference matchups that are crucial for both the playoff hunt and betting slips. The action starts with a marquee Lakers vs Thunder showdown as the streaking Lakers, with Luka Doncic putting on an absolute clinic, visit the powerhouse Oklahoma City Thunder and SGA. This one promises MVP-level drama and a ton of points. Later, we get a fascinating David vs. Goliath-type battle, height-wise, with Stephen Curry and ...
There are very few authors whose releases I count down the days for. Chuck Klostermann is one of them. Shea Serrano is undeniably the other. I’ve been familiar with Serrano’s work for a while now, his trilogy on basketball, hip-hop Continue reading Book Review: “Expensive Basketball” by Shea Serrano →
To me, there will never be an era in the NBA that replaces the ‘90s. From the players, to the uniforms, to the rivalries, basketball has just never been the same. Sure, we got the NBA on NBC back this year, but Vince Carter, Melo, and T-Mac are no Ahmad Rashad, Marv Albert, or Bob […]
Cleveland Cavaliers All-Star guard Darius Garland was sidelined for multiple playoff games and missed the start of this season due to an injury to his left great toe. He had surgery on his toe this summer. Garland made his season debut last week in the Cavs’ win over the Philadelphia 76ers. He played two more […]
For much of this young 2025-26 season, the Dallas Mavericks have been a complete disaster. The beatings kept coming as morale steadily declined. However, morale is up these days after the news of yesterday, which saw Nico Harrison fired as the team’s general manager. Does that mean the Mavericks can pull their way out of […]
Noa Essengue did exactly what he was supposed to do in his G League debut. Assigned to the Windy City Bulls on Tuesday, the 18-year-old made the trip up to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to the affiliate’s second regular-season game of the year. The organization chose to hold him out of the season opener this past weekend, having him travel with the team for their two-game road trip. He failed to appear in either outing, making it 10 straight contests without a second on the court for the No. 12 ove...
Following the Miami Heat’s most exciting win of the 2025-26 season on Monday, they will again host the Cleveland Cavaliers on the second leg of a back-to-back set between each other. Although it will be a rematch, the Cavs will look drastically different in this one. They are resting both All-Star starters Donovan Mitchell and […] The post GAME PREVIEW: Heat host Cavaliers for second straight game searching to extend win streak appeared first on Hot Hot Hoops - Miami HEAT NBA Blog .
Joe Torre once said a good manager can add maybe five wins to a team’s total over 162 games, but a bad manager can torpedo an entire season. Last night’s 133-120 Knicks’ win over the Memphis Grizzlies offered two rebuttals to Torre’s take, via a coach whose approach could net his team far more than […]
Things keep progressing positively for LeBron James as he prepares for his return to the basketball court. LeBron will now reportedly be practicing with the South Bay Lakers. There appear to be no restrictions on James, as this practice also includes 5-on-5 action. LeBron has yet to make his season debut with the Lakers. He […]
Here’s the latest evidence that the Dallas Mavericks (3-8) need to chuck the two-timeline nonsense out the window and focus on the team’s young core of players. Amid all the torment and injury struggle, all the insincere win-now rhetoric and the roster construction favoring tall men with long arms, one of the only effective offensive […]
Will the Knicks ever lose a game again? Will New Yorkers ever watch their team drop one inside MSG? We don’t know about that, but we surely heard the protagonist of yet another home win talk a bunch in the past few hours. Mike Brown On Ja Morant and the Grizzlies: “[The Grizzlies are] really […]
The NBA has announced a change to February’s All-Star format, pitting the best from the US against the world’s top international talent. In the 2026 NBA All-Star Game, two teams of U.S. players and one team of international players (known as the World team) will compete in a round-robin tournament featuring four 12-minute games. The […]
The Portland Trail Blazers look to regain their swagger versus the New Orleans Pelicans on the third game of a five-game road trip. The team rolls into the Crescent City, licking its wounds after dropping two winnable games against the Miami Heat and Orlando Magic. This Pelicans team is banged up and trying to find […]
Another tough loss that could very easily been a win with better execution at the end. Sixers fans are terrible. They trash their team and everyone on it. They were hating on Oubre and wanting him out of the game before he hit that last shot and then suddenly he is clutch. I agree with the comment that the announcers just didn't talk about the game. I really hate that about national games. There is no play by play. Just talking about every...
Desperate to snap a three-game skid, the Chicago Bulls will face the same team that kicked off their 5-0 start. A 4-game road stretch starts tonight in Detroit. ⏰ 6 pm CT 📺 @CHSN__ 📻 @670TheScore 💻 https://t.co/0Gl3hZ96l1 pic.twitter.com/7uGafKmFeV — Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) November 12, 2025 While the final score was 115-111, Chicago was in complete control for the majority of that opening night game. They were up by as much as 23 points and outperformed the Pistons...
When the Mavericks announced the firing of General Manager Nico Harrison, it felt as if a storm cloud had finally cleared over the Dallas Mavericks. This came after an utterly miserable 9 months following the Luka trade, filled with anger and resentment. But now we can move forward as Mavericks fans, and begin to look […]
In last night’s 102-100 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers, the Celtics reached clutch minutes for a seventh time this season, tied for the fourth most 5-under-5 situations in the league. Of their five clutch losses, two of which have now come at the hands of the Sixers with their three matchups decided by a total […]
On Monday, ESPN’s Bobby Marks highlighted 12 potential free agents who’ve gotten off to a hot start in the 2025-26 season as his “Contract-Year All-Stars.” He excluded players who’ve previously made an All-Star or All-NBA team, which automatically disqualified the likes of LeBron James, James Harden and Trae Young. That opened the door for two […]
New York, Cleveland, and Orlando. Those three teams, in varying orders, were who many thought would be at the top of the Eastern Conference come playoff time. About 12% into the regular season, New York, which enters tonight second in the conference, has held up their end of the bargain. Cleveland, who has dealt with […]
The shot, a three-pointer from the right wing, looked like nine of the first 10 VJ Edgecombe attempted Tuesday night. Which is to say, it appeared to have no shot at all. “It hit back rim,” the Sixers’ rookie said. “I was like, ‘Ahhh.’” Then the ball bounced high in the air. “I was like, ‘OK, maybe […]
Trotsky. Ceaușescu. Khrushchev. Sadat. Gorbachev. Hussein. Gaddafi. And now, Harrison. Figureheads come and figureheads go, am I right, comrades? But the Great Eagle, immutable, clean and bright, continues to soar overhead. We here at the Great Adelsonian Politburo, and in particular those of us in the upper echelon of the Mavericks State Media Apparatus, wish […]
In a preview before Friday night’s NBA Cup game, the 7-4 Milwaukee Bucks head to the Spectrum Center to take on Rookie of the Year candidate Kon Knueppel and the 3-7 Charlotte Hornets. The Bucks have shown a tendency to play to their opponent’s level—good and bad—so tonight’s game is a chance to right that […]
Rather than ride the momentum of a second straight road win, the Celtics left Philadelphia reflecting on a missed opportunity on Tuesday night. Hours before tip-off, word broke that 76ers star Joel Embiid would sit out Philadelphia’s rivalry matchup with Boston due to right knee soreness, giving the Celtics an immediate advantage. But instead of […]
For nearly three quarters in Chicago on Monday, Victor Wembanyama looked ordinary – well, at least for his extraordinary standards. The 7-foot-5 forward moved carefully, probing but never truly penetrating the Chicago Bulls’ defense. He came into the game on a slump, averaging just around 17 points per game over the previous three games. His […]