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On Thursday night, the annual NBA draft took place in Brooklyn New York as young basketball prospects looked to be one of the lucky 60 selected from the class of 2019. Every year the draft springs surprises via trades, unexpected picks and the battle to be selected as the number one. This year contained the former two, but the latter …

On Saturday night the 2019 edition of the NBA Playoffs will get underway with the Brooklyn Nets hosting the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round opener. As the post-season begins, Pundit Arena breaks down everything you need to know ahead of this year’s NBA playoffs. _____ What Teams Made The Playoffs? The NBA playoffs consist of eight teams from the …

New Orleans Pelicans star Anthony Davis has asked to be traded to an NBA contender before the league’s February 7 transfer deadline, according to multiple reports Monday. The 25-year-old from Chicago, a five-time All-Star forward and member of the 2012 London Olympic gold medal squad, won’t sign a contract extension, his agent Rich Paul told ESPN Monday. “Anthony wants to be …

NBA superstar LeBron James, who has already missed four games with a strained left groin, will miss at least three more before being re-evaluated, the Los Angeles Lakers announced Friday. James suffered the injury on December 25 when the Lakers beat defending NBA champion Golden State 127-101. The Lakers have dropped three of four games without the four-time NBA Most Valuable …

Bogdan Bogdanovic made a three-pointer at the buzzer and the Sacramento Kings rallied from a 15 point deficit in the final quarter to stun Los Angeles 117-116 in the Lakers’ first game this season without LeBron James. Four-time MVP James missed the contest with a groin injury, ending his consecutive games played streak at 156. James was injured during the …

LeBron James left with a groin injury but the Los Angeles Lakers regrouped for a 127-101 blowout win over two-time defending champion Golden State that snapped an 11-game losing streak on the Warriors’ home court. “That was our most complete game of the season,” said Lakers coach Luke Walton. “We knew they were going to go on a run and …

NBA superstar LeBron James offered a scathing take on NFL team owners on the latest episode of his HBO show “The Shop” on Friday, saying the gridiron league is run by “old white men” with a “slave mentality”. James was chatting with his business partner Maverick Carter, Los Angeles Rams star Todd Gurley and actor/rapper Ice Cube about NFL player …

Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry backtracked on his moon-walk scepticism Wednesday, saying he was joking when he suggested the lunar landings were a hoax. “Obviously, I was joking when I was talking on the podcast,” Curry told ESPN on Wednesday, after his causal comments on the “Winging It” podcast sparked stratospheric reactions. “I was silently protesting how stupid it …

It won’t be long before the whole world knows who Aidan Harris Igiehon is. The young Clondalkin native is doing his very best to let everyone know, as soon as possible. Igiehon is considered one of the top 20 prospects ahead of the 2020 NBA Draft for which he will be eligible for after he completes a season at the highly …

Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry will make his return from injury against the Pistons in Detroit on Saturday, coach Steve Kerr has said. Kerr ruled Curry out of the two-time defending champions’ marquee matchup against the league-leading Raptors in Toronto on Thursday, despite the fact that Curry himself is “dying to play”. He said Curry, recovering from a left …

Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Tuesday for an obscenity-laced response to a heckler during a loss Saturday at Dallas. The violation, technically, for directing inappropriate language toward a fan, took place with 61 seconds remaining in the first quarter of the Mavericks’ 112-109 victory over the reigning NBA champions. A cell phone …

Every now and then an athlete comes along who isn’t like anyone or anything that has come before them. A once in a generation needle-mover that people pay the admission fee to arenas and stadiums just to say “I saw THAT guy live.” In a land far far away, in Durham North Carolina, Duke basketball looks as though they may well …

Philadelphia’s Jimmy Butler delivered the overtime dagger as the 76ers withstood 60 points from Kemba Walker in a 122-119 NBA victory over the Charlotte Hornets on Saturday. Another nail-biter saw the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors drop a 112-109 decision to the Mavericks in Dallas. Slovenian rookie Luka Doncic scored 24 points, including the jump shot that put Dallas …

Kevin Durant scored 29 points as the Golden State Warriors set aside their off-court discord to post a 110-103 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday. The NBA champions went into the game at the Oracle Arena against a backdrop of controversy, with power forward Draymond Green suspended following his bust-up with Durant 24 hours earlier. Durant and Green had …

Caris LeVert nailed a clutch shot with 0.3 seconds left to spoil a slump-breaking night by Nikola Jokic as the Brooklyn Nets defeated the Denver Nuggets 112-110 on Friday. Jokic got hot for a change, but the Nuggets still couldn’t cool off the Nets who have won four of their last five games. The 23-year-old Jokic is normally and dynamic …

Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant combined for 61 points as the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors won their seventh straight with a 116-99 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday. Durant delivered 33 points and 13 rebounds and Curry contributed 28 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. Klay Thompson scored 22 points and hit consecutive three-pointers 50 seconds apart …