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As the NBA prepares to un-press the pause button on the season we asked some of our team site communities to list a few important things for fans to know. Here’s just a smattering of juicy tidbits to help us all reengage with the league and prepare for Bubble Ball. …

Nikola Vucevic hasn’t started to pack for the NBA’s elongated stay at Walt Disney World’s Wide World of Sports, but he has a list of things he wants to bring. He knows he’s going to bring a lot of casual clothing — it is Florida in the summer, after all— …

Remember those heady days of, like, three weeks ago when we were all excited for the NBA to return to Disney World and give us the much-needed dose of basketball we’d been craving? Yeah, that’s all gone to hell. In the past week the promise of the NBA season being …

Sports contracts are largely the worst thing we all discuss on a regular basis. We all fall into the trap of discussing the “worth” of players, what it means for salary caps and league-wide inflation. There’s an entire cottage industry of telling us what players are making, easy tools to …

In 2011 the Dallas Mavericks were on top of the world. A team in the truest sense of the word, veteran role players bolstered the stars. Dallas beat the Miami Heat, and their fancy big three, to bring home glory. But that championship team didn’t last. Nor did the glory. …

Have you ever played the original NBA Jam and wondered why the Pistons just seem so good when going up against the Chicago Bulls? It’s not necessarily because most copies of the arcade game have BJ Armstrong in the lineup instead of Michael Jordan, who initially didn’t grant his likeness …

On Friday evening, the NBA officially announced it’s 2019-2020 season return with each team’s eight game seeding schedule. Each of the 22 teams heading to Disney will play eight seeding games to determine the final 16 teams that will make the playoffs. The other six teams that will go home …

Malcolm Brogdon has tested positive for COVID-19, reports the Indy Star’s J. Michael. With players returning to market for mandatory testing ahead of the start of individual training workouts, Brogdon joins Denver’s Nikola Jokic as the first players to be specifically identified with the virus during Phase 1 of the …

DeMarcus Cousins was a name frequently brought up when speculating over players the Lakers could sign if Dwight Howard or one of their other big men decided to skip the NBA restart at Disney World, but it sounds like he isn’t going to make himself an option for them (or …

As part of the NBA’s efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic while restarting their 2019-20 season, the league will give players and essential staff members the option to wear smart rings. These rings, from Oura, will notify players if they’re within six feet of others and can potentially detect Covid-19 …