For the second straight season, the Los Angeles Lakers’ record is better than what it “should” be if we evaluated them based on point differential. Through Sunday, the Lakers outscored their opponents by 1.4 points per game, a differential that ranks eighth in the West. But L.A. sits pretty comfortably in the top five in the standings. The […]

The Dallas Mavericks are at risk of forfeiting games if they fall below the minimum of eight active players required for teams to play, per ESPN’s Bobby Marks. It’s an incredibly complicated situation involving both the team’s shorthanded roster due to injuries and the league’s salary cap rules. Marks breaks it all down, but in […]

The Dallas Mavericks are challenging to project as an NBA franchise after shocking the world with the Luka Dončić trade. Anthony Davis (via the Los Angeles Lakers) looked incredible, briefly, before he was sidelined with an adductor strain. But the Mavericks’ season came crashing down when Kyrie Irving tore the ACL of his left knee. […]

Things are heating up in the final stretch of the NBA season. The Houston Rockets were hosting the Phoenix Suns at the Toyota Center Wednesday night when the intensity suddenly boiled over. The Rockets’ Steven Adams and Suns’ Mason Plumlee were involved in a scuffle and ejected during the first half of Houston’s 111-104 victory. Here’s what you need […]

– Former NBA player and billionaire businessman Junior Bridgeman has died after suffering a medical emergency. WAVE reports that one of its employees was at an event on March 11 in downtown Louisville at the Galt House when the 71-year-old grabbed his chest and said he thought he was having a heart attack. Medical personnel […]

It has been a difficult 2024-25 season for the Dallas Mavericks. Between injury concerns, the Luka Doncic trade and the recent Kyrie Irving injury, the season has not lived up to the expectations of a team coming off an NBA Finals appearance. Klay Thompson is not giving up on the Mavericks’ future despite the difficult […]

Stephen A. Smith and ESPN have agreed to a five-year contract worth at least $100 million, according to The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand. Per that report, the new pact “will result in Smith continuing to star on First Take on ESPN while scaling back some of his other required appearances on the network, which would free […]

In their desperate attempt to upgrade the roster before the trade deadline, the Milwaukee Bucks are acquiring Kyle Kuzma from the Washington Wizards in a package for Khris Middleton. Per ESPN’s Shams Charania, the Bucks will receive Kuzma, Patrick Baldwin Jr. and a second-round draft pick from the Wizards for Middleton, AJ Johnson and a […]

NBA superstar Luka Dončić has revealed that he was as shocked as anyone to hear that the Dallas Mavericks were trading him to the Los Angeles Lakers in one of the most stunning deals in NBA history. “Everyone was surprised, so you can imagine how surprised I was,” he said at a press conference introducing […]

The son of NBA legend and former Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan, Marcus Jordan, has reportedly been arrested in Florida because of a series of charges, per TMZ Sports. Marcus was put behind bars at the Orange County Jail on Monday according to TMZ after being arrested for DUI, cocaine possession and resisting arrest. A […]