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The Golden State Warriors have recently been playing like a team who can't wait until the NBA regular season end, but with the announcement that owner Chris Cohan is finally willing to sell the franchise, an air of hope now surrounds the beleaguered Warriors. New ownership raises a myriad of different possibilities, and one of the main ones is the shape of the roster, assuming management changes once the team ...

Intensity is the keyword for the teams looking to secure one of the final eight NBA playoff berths, and the presence or lack of intensity will likely determine their fate. The upper-echelon teams in the NBA have little trouble finding the neccessary intensity because the opportunity to obtain home-court advantage in the first round is motivation enough. But for the lower seeded teams intensity can be more difficult to sustain, because once ...

There are some assumptions made concerning the NBA which are so wrong that they are close to blasphemy. The one which says Kevin Durant is pushing LeBron James for the league's MVP award is one of them. The MVP award is without question one of the most subjective achievements in the NBA, but this season James has come as close to changing that perception since a player by the name of ...

The seedings for the NBA playoffs are far from settled, but the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Los Angeles Lakers are doing their best to remove any doubt from their positions. Current six-game winning streaks by each team have created a gap in their respective conferences which will be difficult, if not impossible, for any of the teams chasing them to bridge. The drama lies in positions 3-8, and this week's version of ...

To be honest, Brandon Jennings never should have fallen out of the NBA Rookie of the Year award discussion, but due to consistent performances by Sacramento's Tyreke Evans, and a strong second half of the season from Golden State's Stephen Curry, that's exactly what happened. After Jennings' 55-point explosion earlier in the season most observers were ready to hand him the award then, and people couldn't stop gushing about how his play ...

The Los Angeles Lakers have a hard enough time staying under the radar as it is, but at a time when the Lakers have began to show vestiges of the championship team of 2009, an injury to Andrew Bynum is the last thing you want to hear. The Laker faithful have been critical of Bynum and his inconsistent play, and some had even called for Bynum to be resigned to the ...

It's not hard to understand why the Cleveland Cavalier faithful have so much belief in their team, even though recent and distant history has shown us the Cavaliers' journey usually ends in failure and heartbreak. The picture of Craig Ehlo getting scorched by Michael Jordan in the Eastern Conference playoffs is forever etched in memory and is the type of defining moment a team would rather avoid. So too is the image of ...

Miami, Milwaukee, Dallas, Sacramento, Memphis, and Toronto—all last-second victims to Kobe Bryant, considered by some as the most clutch player of the last decade, and by others as not even worthy of being in the conversation. The debate has been fierce, and the statistics for Bryant's worthiness—especially against it—have been swift and steady, with his detractors clutching to numbers credited to a website and ESPN. Most are familiar with the website so I ...

I will be the first to admit, the idea of the Charlotte Bobcats qualifying for the 2010 NBA postseason was a foreign one to me, and even though I felt the Bobcats had taken positive steps, the playoffs still seemed like a long shot. Hiring Larry Brown as coach was the first step, and acquiring Stephen Jackson has proved to be the move which has spurred Charlotte from the throes of ...

There is no question Stephen Curry inherited his amazing shooting ability from his father Dell, who was quite an accomplished NBA marksman himself, but the younger Curry's game is more diverse than Dell's ever was. Dell was a great shooter, but his game was limited to that aspect, as he was poor in just about every other facet of the game, especially ball-handling and defense, which made his presence on the ...