John Wall and the new-look Houston Rockets are coming off their fourth win in a row, the fifth win overall since the James Harden trade. The team beat the Portland Trail Blazers 104-101 on Thursday night, improving their record to 5-3 since moving Harden to the Brooklyn Nets. After the game, Wall was asked what […]
It didn’t take long for Brooklyn Nets’ guard James Harden to get acquainted with his new surroundings becoming the first player to score a 30-point triple-double in a debut with a new team. Harden racked up 32 points, 14 assists, and 11 rebounds, in a 122-115 victory over the Orlando Magic. Former Thunder teammate and […]
It has been 24 hours since the biggest trade news in recent memory dropped, as James Harden headlined a massive four-team trade, when he was shipped from the Houston Rockets to the Brooklyn Nets. Harden, a perennial all-star, and generational scoring talent, had expressed discontent with his situation at the Rockets before the season even […]
It feels like Christmas is just around the corner, doesn’t it?! I mean, it literally is, but it feels like we’re all now beginning to get that internal buzz that hits you a few weeks before the start of a new NBA season. That feeling was only heightened with the NBA’s release of the first […]
Ahead of their Game 7 blockbuster against the Boston Celtics, it’s worth taking a quick look back at how the Toronto Raptors have remained so good without Kawhi Leonard. Before the season began, the Raptors were given long odds to make a deep postseason run. Truth be told, it was hard to blame the pundits […]
Never before has one free agency period spiced up the NBA quite like this. The entire landscape of the league has changed, and instead of one clear-cut contender standing head and shoulders above the rest, we now have seven of them. Let’s take an early look at each one. 7. Utah Jazz The Jazz are […]
Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka appear to be willing to make some big moves in order to lift the Lakers out of ninth spot and into the playoffs. If the Lakers are still outside playoff contention when the February 7 trade deadline rolls around, we could be in for some fireworks. What kind of fireworks? […]
After months of complaints, training incidents and seemingly endless staring contests, the Minnesota Timberwolves have finally traded Jimmy Butler to the Philadelphia 76ers — and NBA Twitter lost its mind. The deal will send Butler and Justin Patton to the city of cheesesteaks, while Robert Covington, Dario Saric, Jarryd Bayless and a 2022 second-round pick […]
The biggest snubs from SI.com’s Top 100 NBA players of 2017 QUICKLY Big names like Derrick Rose, Jabari Parker and Evan Turner just missed the cut on SI.com’s Top 100 NBA players of 2017. Creating a defined list inevitably leads to snubs, the likes of which run deep with our ranking of Top 100 NBA […]
