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Stephen Dunn/NBAE/Getty ImagesThe Lakers and Rockets played one of Wednesday night's few meaningful games. LOS ANGELES -- Give the Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets their due, the two teams played a frenetic, de facto playoff game. The Rockets ...

NBAE/Getty ImagesJust as their teams were hitting their strides, Marc Gasol and Ty Lawson went down.For a while, the Memphis Grizzlies were the Western Conference's most intriguing story. During the height of the season, they dealt their most prolifi...

What makes a cool job? Here's one feature: Being empowered to come up with creative ideas and then implement them. D-League president Dan Reed has been the president of the D-League since 2007. Over that five-year tenure, he has overseen an ...

LAS VEGAS -- Modernizing a game steeped in tradition is always a tricky course, but Thursday's NBA Board of Governors meeting in Las Vegas suggests that the league has grown increasingly comfortable with using technology and corporate sponsorship to ...

Last week, we toyed with the idea of abolishing the NBA draft in an effort to address tanking and other inefficiencies in the way talent is distributed in the league. We used Kentucky freshman center Anthony Davis as a case study because he's unan...

Mike Stobe/NBAE/Getty Images We know it's pretty. We know it's fun. But the draft isn't good for the NBA. A couple of weeks ago, thousands of med school graduates logged onto the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) website to find out where t...

Nobody can really tell you -- not the NBA scheduler, those who work in the NBA offices in New York, nor historians of the game. Stuck on 82 NBA teams played 80 games each beginning in 1961-62. The league added a game in 1966-67, bringing the tota...