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ESPN.com's Tom Haberstroh has been digging into the numbers and finds this year's Heat are the second best crunch time team since new stats started being recorded in 1997. Despite LeBron James' reputation, the best team in those 17 years was another ...

From ESPN TV's NBA Coast to Coast on Tuesday evening:...

Layne Murdoch/NBAE/Getty Images The Thunder point guard calls his own number even when Kevin Durant is wide open. Maybe you have heard about Kobe Bryant's past habit of ball hogging late in games, passing up wide open looks for his teammates, dragg...

Our HoopIdea talk of tanking has focused on a number of moving pieces, most notably: The really good players who get drafted highest. The strategies front offices use to get those life-saver players, which often involves losing. What the leag...

It is universally acknowledged that there is something odd about teams being rewarded for playing badly, as we have discussed when HoopIdea first addressed tanking. But it's not a simple problem to solve. In that spirit, we present a number of differ...

It is universally acknowledged that there is something odd about teams being rewarded for playing badly, as discussed when HoopIdea first addressed tanking. But it's not a simple problem to solve. In that spirit, we present a number of different prop...

It is universally acknowledged that there is something odd about teams being rewarded for playing badly, as we have discussed when HoopIdea first addressed tanking. But it's not a simple problem to solve. In that spirit, we will present a number of d...

Drew Hallowell/NBAE/Getty Images Jeremy Lin showed again, against the Sixers, that he is not afraid to call his own number in crunch time. Howard Beck in The New York Times on the Knicks' win over the Sixers, which featured Jeremy Lin scoring the l...

Why are Warrior fans so fed up with Joe Lacob? Threatening to take the team to San Francisco, boasting but not backing it up, making some silly moves ... Been messing with NBA.com's new secret stats tool. There's a way to say this with numbers and ...

Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News: It started as a growl, probably a few dozen fans intent on booing Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob as he finished the ceremony to retire Chris Mullin's jersey number. Just a growl. Loud, unruly, but not overwhelm...

Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel: Actually, it was a horrible business decision. All the ESPN insiders and NBA numbers geeks and incredulous sports agents just could not comprehend what Dwight Howard did Thursday. They couldn't grasp the concept ...

Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty Images Another big win, this time against some of the NBA's best. Justin Kubatko, of Basketball-Reference, doesn't mess around with numbers. He doesn't get all excited about things that don't matter. And the other day...

Tim Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: While injuries are a big part of any NBA season, a compacted schedule increases the number of games lost to aches and pains that ordinarily might be nursed on days off. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram coun...

NBA owners were meeting Tuesday to discuss revenue sharing between high-revenue and low-revenue teams, sources said.

John Smallwood of the Philadelphia Daily News: "Something is going to have to change for the NBA owners to end this lockout. And that something is ultimately going to come out of the players' side of the agreement. I don't care about the numbers. You...

Reports continue to suggest that Ricky Rubio will be playing for the Timberwolves next season. Rubio's numbers have been down in recent years. In a conversation with Benjamin Polk of A Wolf Among Wolves, David Thorpe points to Rubio's Barcelona co...