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Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images Play a ton of minutes in the regular season, like Stephen Curry, and injuries are common. A while back I found that players who play a ton of minutes don't win NBA titles anymore. It used to happen all the ti...

Michael Jordan was one of the first NBA players ever to have his own trainer, and Tim Grover was his guy. Grover's access to Jordan has long been as good as anybody's, and now the trainer to Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade and others has just rel...

We have had Marc Stein on the show. We have done rapid fire on the show. But somehow this is the first time we have done rapid fire with Marc Stein. He got himself on rapid fire probation with one incredibly un-rapid answer, but all in all, of cou...

Jamal Crawford has scored 40 points or more eight times in his career. In a little TrueHoop TV game show, Kevin Arnovitz resolved to test Crawford's memory of those games -- Crawford came up with eight answers, and a nice little Michael Jordan anecdo...

Issac Baldizon/NBAE/Getty ImagesThe Heat could lose at any time. Who they're playing is secondary. The Heat's winning streak -- 23 and counting, second longest in NBA history -- has touched off a parlor game for NBA fans and Vegas bettors. Which ...

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Kent Smith/NBAE/Getty Images Learning more than ever about the thoughts of an icon. Hanging over All-Star weekend in Houston is Wright Thompson's must-read exploration of Michael Jordan's mind at 50 -- almost certainly the most insightful thing eve...

Doug Pensinger/Getty ImagesThe NBA isn't doing everything it could to prevent blows like this one. For a "noncontact" sport that allegedly doesn't have a concussion problem, basketball sure does feature a lot of blows to the head. A partial list ...

It's not going to be simple for a major pro athlete to come out of the closet. Strong stuff from Kevin Arnovitz in The Advocate: "The world is never entirely prepared for social change. When our gay player comes out, there will be no parades, no plen...

Question on Twitter from Ross Siler. On the anniversary of Kobe Bryant's 81-point game, "name the three players (not Kobe) who have scored the most points in a game since then." We've launched a series called Working Bodies which is about keeping N...

Kyrie Irving, Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, John Wall, Ty Lawson, Eric Bledsoe, George Hill, Jrue Holiday, Damian Lillard ... David Thorpe on the next generation of NBA guards....

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Royce Young of Daily Thunder talking James Harden with Rahat Huq of Red94: "He knows how to fit, how to gel, how to work with teammates. But I'm not sure he's mastered consistently taking over games without having a hand in it from somewhere else. It...

I know, they're manipulative tycoons and all that, but there is something touching about the genuine-seeming friendship between Mikhail Prokhorov and Bruce Ratner. They're on Charlie Rose talking about the Barclays Center and a lot of other stuff, an...