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Twenty-seven up, 27 down. Can the Heat add one more win to their historic winning streak?

Our 5-on-5 crew discusses the best landing spots for five trade targets.

The bloggers of the TrueHoop Network have voted: Most Valuable Player Player, points (first votes-second votes-third votes-fourth votes-fifth votes) LeBron James, 460 (46-0-0-0-0) Kevin Durant, 272 (0-23-21-2-0) Chris Paul, 259 (0-23-17...

Something funny happened last Wednesday. It looked, for a game, like the Pistons might be tanking: They deactivated Tayshaun Prince and Ben Wallace. They started Austin Daye, who had spent much of the season on the bench. They played Vernon M...

"I'm not smart enough to do the math." - Jeff Van Gundy From an analytic expert's perspective, the ideal coach understands all the numbers. He gives minutes to the team's most productive players in the ideal lineup combinations. He plays the o...

WASHINGTON -- Blake Griffin said Thursday he doesn't plan to participate in the slam-dunk contest, which he won last year. But one of his teammates isn't convinced. "I really don't believe that Blake's not going to be in it," DeAndre Jordan sai...

WASHINGTON -- Chauncey Billups had already heard Kenyon Martin's questions. Does this organization want to win? Is there a need for him? They were the same questions Billups asked when the Clippers claimed him off amnesty waivers in December. B...

Kobe Bryant said he hasn't spoken to Turkish club Besiktas in "weeks."

ESPN.com writers and experts have weighed in on the end-of-year awards. The TrueHoop Network's bloggers have also voted and, huge thanks to Dan Feldman of PistonPowered, here are the findings (scoring explained below): Most Valuable Player Dwi...

Issac Baldizon/NBAE/Getty Images Dennis Rodman says he has been told that he will be inducted into the Basketball HOF. AUBURN HILLS, Michigan -- Dennis Rodman isn't built for the present. His game, so prolific, the Detroit Pistons retired his No...

Tom Pidgeon/Getty Images Sport A preference for veterans has carried Joe Dumars' Pistons to the top, and now near the bottom. Dan Feldman, founder of the TrueHoop Network's PistonPowered blog, examines how the Pistons -- until recently, a model NB...

By Dan Feldman of Piston Powered With its first complete regular-season of blogging about the NBA in the books, the TrueHoop Network decided to announce its own awards. Everyone in the Network was eligible to vote for the awards, which mimic the N...

How do you manage only 64 points against Toronto? Detroit's effort last night was painfully familiar to Dan Feldman of PistonPowered. Instead of composing a fresh recap, all he had to do was dust off the one from the previous game against Charlotte: ...

An amazing tale of Rod Thorn and his remarkable father. Dan Feldman of PistonPowered on the Pistons, who lost "The Larry Brown Cup" to the Bobcats: "The Pistons aren't a good team right now. We can debate all we want how much better they'll be when...

Talk with ESPN.com and the TrueHoop Network about the 2009-10 Detroit Pistons.

Dan Feldman of PistonPowered, with some real insight into the Allen Iverson/Rip Hamilton problem. It appears it was mainly a problem of both being good, but not together: "Pistons with Iverson and not Hamilton: 6-2 (.750, equivalent to 62 wins d...