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About two weeks ago, Yahoo!'s Adrian Wojnarowski wrote that Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak was exploring trades that could help reduce the team's payroll. He wrote, "With a league high payroll of $91 million, the Lakers are looking again to shed salary off their bench, and GM Mitch Kupchak has told teams to take its pick of reserve playersùexcept for Lamar Odom of courseùto relieve the team of some ...

If the last few seasons are any indication, one of the NBA's golden eras might soon be coming to an end. From 1992-96 the NBA experienced five of it's greatest draft classes in terms of superstar talent and career longevity. Now that many of those stars have begun retiring, we have a large enough sample with which to gauge the average career span of the modern-day NBA superstar. There are a number ...

In light of Saturday night's events, you really have to feel for Greg Oden. Fran Blinebury of NBA.com points out that by the conclusion of this season, Oden will have played in just 82 of a possible 246 games to begin his career. That's exactly one full season of games out of three. While I'm not trying to say that injuries to athletes who are unlikable should be cheered, the fact ...

Don't get it twisted. Believe what you want about Kobe's infamous "Parking Lot Video" from 2007 but Kobe never really wanted Andrew Bynum traded. Well, he didn't exactly want Bynum traded. Go back and watch the video again. It's still easy to find. Go ahead. Watch it. Listen to what Kobe says. Does Kobe say "Ship his ass out!?" Of course he does. But pay attention to the context in which he says ...

The 2009-10 NBA season is almost two weeks old and already there are some things that have come as a surprise (The Cavs are 2-2 at home) and a few other things that shouldn't be considered shocking at all (Allen Iverson is unhappy in Memphis). Be that as it may, here are five things I've learned about this season so far: á The Miami Heat Will Bring It Every Night It's not just that ...

We hear it all the time about how regular season games don't matterùespecially a game on opening night. And for the most part it's true. What happens in October really doesn't have any bearing on how a team ultimately performs or how far they go in the playoffs. But like every rule there are exceptions. This particular off-season saw a lot of roster tweaking amongst the teams at the top. The rich got richer ...

Now I've never been one to spread gossip, but this particular item deserved a little attention. Sam Smith of Bulls.com wrote an article today speculating that LeBron James could be headed to the Lakers next summer. Smith acknowledges that the Lakers, owners of the NBA's highest payroll, do not have the sufficient cap space to sign LeBron outright. His rationale is that if LeBron has his heart set on going to the ...

Nobody hates it when writers and fans talk about teams winning 70 games before January more than I do. To be perfectly honest, it really doesn't make sense to talk about a team's chances of winning 70 games until the All-Star break. So before any of you call me a hypocrite just understand that this isn't my attempt at making a case for the Lakers winning 70 games as much as ...

If the title of this article looks familiar it's probably because I wrote an article with the same title just before the 2008-09 NBA season started. Just a few days after my article was posted, Chad Ford of ESPN.com wrote his own article with his own list. I'm proud to say that my list turned out to be more accurate than that of an ESPN expert. Of the ten players that I ...

The NBA preseason is just about a week old, which means we're one fewer week away from opening night. Preseason performances are just a notch above summer league performances when it comes to impressing me. IÆm not saying it isnÆt nice to see a rookie or an undrafted free agent playing well in the preseason. What IÆm saying is that it has no bearing on whether or not that player ...