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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...

Tackling is not allowed in the NBA, so why is it so common come playoff time? Because it works, writes Henry Abbott in ESPN The Magazine.

David Sherman/Getty Images The NBA won't have David Kahn to kick around anymore. David Kahn's contract has not been renewed. The most common reaction is, what took owner Glen Taylor so long? (Be warned: that link's to Twitter, and this is Kahn. ...

Patrick McDermott/Getty Images Sport A long-tense relationship explodes. Back in the lockout, a common theme was that David Stern was looking to massacre, destroy or otherwise obliterate the National Basketball Players Association. It was never ...

There was a common refrain during the lockout, which was: Doesn't the NBA realize that whenever they get back in business, the fans won't be there waiting? Not so, evidently. The first 325 games of this NBA season averaged attendance of 17,094....

People insist on believing the hot hand is common -- evidence be damned! It's consistent with something else researchers have uncovered about the human psyche: We often see patterns where, in fact, there is randomness. I'll give you an example....

Vin Baker is one of those stories. He was an All-Star making $13 million a year, but now he's talking about alcoholism, financial disaster and how tough life is. How does this happen? And why is this story so common? Baker was on the Stan Simps...

Bill Baptist/NBAE via Getty Images This kind of complaining has been rubbing people the wrong way. For the upcoming season, NBA referees have been instructed to call automatic technical fouls when players do some things that are very common to the ...

A very common complaint among TrueHoop readers is that there is no time, at an NBA game, to relax. There's hyper music and promotions and videos and races at all times. Especially when basketball is not being played! If you're going to the arena to w...

Last night I asked how common it was for a player like Ray Allen to make seven straight 3-pointers. Was he hot? Or is that just the kind of run good shooters have once in a while? Research has never found the hot hand to be anything like as common...

Amid reports that George Shinn may be selling his majority stake in the New Orleans Hornets to minority owner Gary Chouest has Ryan Schwan of Hornets247 affixing his research hat. First, he found that the most common criticism of Shinn -- that he'...

How many times have we heard it? Granted, it's not all that common, but it certainly is a known quantity. NBA players sometimes say, into the microphones of reporters, that they would like to be traded. Kobe Bryant, for instance, has done just th...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Kevin Martin & Adam Dunn: What do these two guys have in common? (Rocky Widner, Mitchell Layton/NBAE/Getty Images) There probably isn't a slugger in Major League Baseball more polarizing than Adam Dunn. I...

We're deep into the first round series -- let the advanced game of adjustments begin. Carmelo has finally arrived, while the Hawks bounced back from oblivion. And what do the Washington Wizards and Thora Birch have in common? Jeremy Wagner of R...

ESPN's Chris Sheridan wrote up a memo he'd love to see from the desk of NBA Commissioner David Stern: To: All NBA owners, players, referees and fans. From: Commissioner David Stern Re: Referees, instant replay, and common sense F...

There is a busy San Antonio Spurs message board called SpursTalk.com. When news hit that Manu Ginobili was out for the season, there were several early reactions. None were optimistic, and the most common reaction was a single four-letter word that s...