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For most of the night, the Boston Celtics controlled the tempo and the scoreboard. But the moment everyone talked about after Boston’s 112–93 win over the Sacramento Kings wasn’t a …

The most controversial moment in the Denver Nuggets’ 122–109 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday didn’t come from a made shot. It came from an airball. Late in …

There are coaches who use the summer to decompress, and then there’s Joe Mazzulla, apparently dialing players on their birthdays just to remind them the league is doubting them. On …

Derrick Rose has never sounded especially comfortable with the language of permanence. Even as his legacy in Chicago has moved from complicated to canonized, Rose continues to treat the biggest …

The Lakers left Rocket Arena with a blowout loss, but the bigger concern came from a detail that has nothing to do with shot-making or schemes: the floor itself. After …

The Dallas Mavericks finally lifted Mark Aguirre’s No. 24 into the rafters on Thursday night at American Airlines Center, but the most unforgettable scene didn’t come with the banner. It …

If the Bucks’ willingness to “listen” on Giannis Antetokounmpo cracked open a door, the league has immediately started measuring who can actually walk through it with a credible offer. Right …

Former NBA forward Matt Barnes never built his media persona on subtlety, and he didn’t start now. Speaking on All the Smoke, Barnes used deliberately crude language to question whether …

As the NBA’s latest Giannis Antetokounmpo shockwave rippled across the league, one former Milwaukee player chose a single inflection point, and he didn’t use lowercase to make it. Jae Crowder …