Month: February 2019

1:19 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dallas Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki and Miami Heat legend Dwyane Wade said goodbye to the All-Star Game stage in style as both future Hall of Famers were honored during Sunday night’s Team LeBron 178-164 victory over Team Giannis. Nowitzki and Wade were added to the All-Star pool of players
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Last week, the NBA’s trade deadline finally came and went — along with plenty of worthwhile fireworks of their own — and buyout season is officially in full swing. But as franchises continue bolstering their roster ahead of the postseason (or lottery-bound future efforts), another deadline occurred recently without much fanfare. In January, the cutoff
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Dell Demps and the Pelicans were going to have to part ways eventually. But why now, when he seemed to be executing ownership’s plan properly? The New Orleans Pelicans parted ways with long-time GM Dell Demps this morning, ending the ninth longest GM tenure currently active in the NBA. Demps’ tenure was a rocky one,
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8:44 PM ET Betting on LeBron James to make the postseason has been a wise (and profitable) move historically. Since missing the playoffs in his first two seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers, James’ teams have made the postseason 13 consecutive times. But will his Los Angeles Lakers make the playoffs this season? One Las Vegas
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As his Boston Celtic teammates got some shots up to prepare for a morning practice in Cleveland, Gordon Hayward sat in a chair on the baseline watching. Quicken Loans Arena held a particular place in his mind. Not because of a championship memory, nor for any individual accomplishment. But because nearly five months after an
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After a demoralizing loss in Orlando last week, the mood was predictably heavy in the Boston Celtics locker room. Players hunched over their leather seats, blankly staring forward as their thoughts remained on the missed opportunity from just minutes before. Terry Rozier sat numbly in his stall, finally on the same page as his teammates.
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3:18 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — With Michael Jordan hosting All-Star weekend as the only former player to serve as the principal owner of an NBA team, LeBron James said that while team ownership is a goal for when he’s finished playing, it’s not his singular focus. “It’s not that it’s intoxicating to me, and
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The Utah Jazz’s second-half surge is not necessarily a reprise of last season’s stunning playoff push. Quin Snyder isn’t interested in looking backward. “This whole season, I think we’ve tried to get away from the whole idea of déjà vu,” he told reporters after a recent game against Golden State. The resemblance between this season
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12:51 AM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry is used to pulling off trick shots that make fans go crazy and videos go viral — but Friday it was his mother, Sonya, who delivered the kind of moment her son has perfected. As part of a Curry Family Foundation event at
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4:26 PM ET Adrian WojnarowskiESPN The New Orleans Pelicans have parted ways with general manager Dell Demps, the team announced on Friday, clearing the way for a new top basketball executive to oversee the Anthony Davis trade talks. Demps had been Pelicans GM for nine years, which included three trips to the playoffs, but advancing
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