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LeBron James is calm. That's the point of Dan Le Batard's Miami Herald column today. But it goes all kinds of interesting places digging deep into the idea that yes LeBron thinks he's the best player in the world, and yes he is and yes he has a "Chos...

Adonal Foyle says by this time of year it's not about coaching heroics or new plays. It's about keeping calm and doing what you know you can do. He also says the best thing LeBron James can do is show Roy Hibbert who's boss....

Former New York Times and current Grantland basketball writer Jonathan Abrams takes the time to do things right, digging in deep to tell us amazing stories, like one of the first and still the best Royce White profile, the definitive guide to Stephen...

Phoenix guard Kendall Marshall might have the NBA's best Twitter game, as we discussed with him on TrueHoop TV last week. In the second of two episodes we get the back story behind @KButter5 tweets like "So apparently yelling 'GET A BUCKET' is frowne...

At what age do you tell a highway it was adopted?- Kendall Marshall (@KButter5) February 25, 2013 Suns guard Kendall Marshall has a fine Twitter game. On TrueHoop TV, he joins us as we celebrate the best of his social media work. The first...

Four straight losses in the Finals, the trade of James Harden -- things felt a little wobbly for the Thunder faithful at the start of the 2012-2013 season. But at the halfway point? The best offense in the NBA and the popular pick as the best team in...

Two things stand out about Wizard Bradley Beal's game-winner against the Thunder, which gave the worst team in the NBA a victory over the best. How nice and slowly Beal's mind was working in the crucible of crunch time. Despite a double-team and ...

Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty ImagesOn the nights he performs best, Jeremy Lin lacks any instinct for self preservation.Jeremy Lin played out of his mind for 26 games last season and became a global sensation. Then he got hurt and missed the rest of the s...

Grantland's Chris Ryan did what we should all be doing: Spent an entire game watching nobody but Nick Young. It's the best of human drama. This is from the third quarter of his excellent chronicle: 4:15 - I don't want to read too much into minor ...

Dwight Howard does his best to do the impossible task of clearing up his messy Magic departure in a sit-down with Ric Bucher. "I can't make everybody happy," he concludes. That's very true, even if it's not the whole story. He does admit that he want...

David Ramos/Getty Images The battle is on to control stars like LeBron James and Deron Williams in the NBA offseason. David Stern has been musing for months: Maybe it's time to take a page out of soccer's playbook by holding the best players in the...

Rocky Widner/NBAE/Getty Images Steve Nash makes offensive magic in a system the Lakers likely won't run. Who will adjust? Steve Nash has a track record of getting the best out of his teammates -- high-percentage shots, team-first attitudes and big ...

J. Meric/Getty Images After what Kevin Garnett did to them in Game 5, Miami is cloaked in doom. LeBron James AND Dwyane Wade AND Chris Bosh, all the best free agents of the best free agent class ever, uniting on the same team -- in a comfy climate ...

Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty ImagesWe called Lavoy Allen the 500th best player in the NBA. We were wrong. During the great lockout of 2011, ESPN.com's NBA team put together a fun little project, which was ranking every player in the NBA. We did...

Berry Tramel of The Oklahoman: Young legs ran circles around veteran mettle. Thunder blue routed Laker purple. Rest trumped rust. And Russ trumped them all. Russell Westbrook was the best player on a court full of all-stars, Kevin Durant was right th...

HoopIdea began with the conviction that NBA basketball was the best game ever, but could be even better. To that end, we opened channels of communications to ESPN.com readers, to hear how they thought the game could be better. You know what they w...