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NBPA executive director Michele Roberts talks retirement

May 21, 2021
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NBPA executive director Michele Roberts has a very discrete definition of retirement. The search for Roberts’ successor as head of the NBA union was announced last year... before the pandemic quickly ended any hopes of a painless sendoff. Roberts’ term as the union head extends to next summer, when she’s expected to finally end what would be an eight-year tenure.

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Unpredictable NBA season created excitement - Sports Illustrated

May 20, 2021
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We make a lot of predictions in this business, for obvious reasons: Predictions are fun! Fans love debating them! And, well, you keep clicking on them! Predictions are wonderfully cheap content. Getting them “right” is almost immaterial—no one remembers, no one cares (least of all me).
But it’s been a rough year for the NBA’s prediction-industrial complex, with a compressed schedule, fanless games, player quarantines, injured superstars and general weirdness from the moment the season tipped off Dec. 22. Take a look at the standings. Very little this season was predictable.

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Suns' Cam Payne's career is back from the dead - Sports Illustrated

May 13, 2021
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We all know the NBA season was hanging in the balance about a year ago. But even before the league’s coronavirus-related stoppage, Cam Payne’s NBA career seemed to be hanging by the flimsiest of threads, too.
By the summer of 2020, it had been almost a year and a half since the point guard had played in an NBA game. His last stop had been a January '19 stint with the Cavaliers, where he was let go after a pair of 10-day deals. Leading up to that point, between foot injuries and poor, inconsistent play, the former first-rounder had been an inefficient disappointment, washing out with both the Thunder and the Bulls.

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Russell Westbrook isn't slowing down - Sports Illustrated

May 11, 2021
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Russell Westbrook wanted to talk about anything other than Oscar Robertson’s triple-double record as he approached the milestone in recent weeks.
Every probe from reporters was met with a chuckle or an admonishing shake of the head, followed by a quick dismissal. Westbrook made sure to note his reverence for the Big O, but frankly, more pressing concerns awaited. For perhaps the most singularly focused player in league history, triple-double No. 182 didn’t necessarily hold any special significance.

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De'Aaron Fox, Kings have promising future - Sports Illustrated

May 10, 2021
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Over the last three weeks, De’Aaron Fox has endured headaches, body aches, chills and a serious case of restlessness, while helplessly watching his Kings fade from the playoff race without him.
A particularly potent strain of the coronavirus walloped Fox on April 22 and has kept the Kings’ star point guard quarantined at home ever since. (He is expected to be cleared for basketball activities soon, assuming he passes NBA protocols.) In the meantime, Sacramento lost rookie stud Tyrese Haliburton to a season-ending knee injury.

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LeBron James, Lakers should be in panic mode - Sports Illustrated

May 7, 2021
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Nobody is going to feel bad for the Lakers. Not after blind exceptionalism seemingly landed them LeBron James. Not after Anthony Davis willed himself to Los Angeles after a dragged-out public saga. Not after they got their pick of veterans like Andre Drummond in the buyout market. And not after they just overcame a different set of obstacles en route to a championship in 2020. But watching the Lakers limp to the finish line of this oft-incomprehensible NBA season—and be in some danger of missing the playoffs due to the combo of injuries and the new play-in tournament—it’s hard to separate their struggles (as well as those of most of the conference finalists from last season) from the anomalous circumstances of this year, the consequences of which we may not understand for years to come.

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Brooklyn Nets are most intriguing team in title chase

Apr 9, 2021
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Kevin Durant, James Harden and Kyrie Irving still need to catch up to P.J. Tucker, John Wall and Victor Oladipo—in minutes, that is. That’s how little the Nets’ star trio have actually played at the same time this season. KD, Kyrie and Harden have appeared in only 186 minutes together across seven games in 2021, an existence so fleeting that lineups that don’t even exist anymore still have a comfortable lead in minutes played. Brooklyn will already be attempting a particularly novel championship run this summer thanks to its “go ahead and score, we can get it back easily” defense. On top of that the Nets are running an even more fascinating contender experiment: Can Brooklyn win it all even if its stars barely see the court before the playoffs?

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NBA season headed for unpredictable finish - Sports Illustrated

May 6, 2021
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Between the short offseason, the shorter schedule, an enduring coronavirus and the playoffs’ being structured differently this year, there was never much chance of the 2020–21 NBA campaign being “normal.”
As a result of the chaos, we’re approaching perhaps the most unpredictable finish in league history.
The reigning champs are in an absolute brawl to avoid having to participate in the postseason’s play-in round. The Knicks, usually left for dead this time of year, have been among the hottest teams in the association, taking blowtorches to defenses a number of times in recent weeks. One borough over, the Nets possess the NBA’s most talented trio but, despite establishing that group months ago, have only seen its core together in seven games, making them the equivalent of a Mario Mystery Box. Arguably the best, most stable club all year has been the Suns, which will be making its first playoff appearance in a decade.

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Zion Williamson is a challenge for refs - Sports Illustrated

Williamson's unprecedented blend of aggression, explosion, size, and strength makes him one of the hardest players to officiate.

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Ja Morant's rise showcased in Promiseland docuseries

About six minutes into
Promise Land, a new film documenting the rise of Grizzlies star Ja Morant, the camera takes us into his childhood bedroom, its walls decked with NBA iconography. It stops briefly on the space over his door frame, where a quote from LeBron James has been painted: “You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed.”
It’s as good a place as any to start, and it pretty well captures the audacity, ambition and competitive drive of the Grizzlies’ dazzling 21-year-old guard. From the moment Morant arrived in the NBA, as the No. 2 pick of the 2019 draft, through a pandemic-altered rookie year, through a lockdown and a restart, through six weeks in the NBA bubble and a surprising playoff push that fell just short, fearlessness has been his primary calling card.

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