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![OKC's Sam Presti is an overrated draft savant](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/f002b6a355d75af2daef0f10c0e821d9.jpg)
![5 increasingly unhinged solutions to the NBA All-Star Game](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/3b3e0920de6073a0e347775b6eadef11.jpg)
5 increasingly unhinged solutions to the NBA All-Star Game
As the NBA has observed its golden era of efficiency proliferate from more streamlined offenses to load management run amok, elements of the league have fallen by the wayside. Marquee hoopers play fewer minutes, fewer games and now they barely expend energy or cross halfcourt during All-Star Weekend...
![As the Thunder return to contention, let's not forget the Supersonics](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/1ea193a86fdeae9377f78c2634626b0c.jpg)
As the Thunder return to contention, let's not forget the Supersonics
The Oklahoma City Thunder have executed one of the shortest rebuilding periods in NBA history. Since the breakup of the Kevin Durant/Russell Westbrook pairing, leading into the current Thunder 2.0, only lasted three seasons of extreme tanking. Those losing efforts netted them the sixth pick in the ...
![The Knicks are back after 2 decades of James Dolan terror and ineptitude](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/a1dfe0854d0f122f35979f6aed9c7042.jpg)
The Knicks are back after 2 decades of James Dolan terror and ineptitude
The New York Knicks won the NBA trade deadline, fleecing the Detroit Pistons for Bojan Bogdanović and Alec Burks. They added the backup playmaker and off-the-bench scoring they were missing to reach championship contention. Fully healthy, and despite their recent injury-induced hiccup, the Knicks ca...
![Steph Curry won’t stop hogging Dame Lillard’s limelight](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/f216e57a151d06f0253d00b50dcf61f7.jpg)
Steph Curry won’t stop hogging Dame Lillard’s limelight
Damian Lillard cannot catch a break when Steph Curry is in the building hogging all the limelight. Lillard has to have developed either a chip on his shoulder or an inferiority complex, after adding another notch to his Hall of Fame belt by being crowned 3-point contest champ for a second consecutiv...
![Draymond Green tried to play matchmaker with LeBron and Steph, and who could blame him?](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/44535b9cdcb21effb93fee2ed0cd31c4.jpg)
Draymond Green tried to play matchmaker with LeBron and Steph, and who could blame him?
Closed mouths don’t get fed, and Draymond Green took that philosophy to heart. This time around, Green took it upon himself to take the type of clumsy desperation heave he usually takes in games and wedges between the rim and backboard....
![Warriors unsuccessfully tried to pair LeBron and Steph Curry](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/422e24e2e7407cd2a9504e4dc5cfcbe9.jpg)
Warriors unsuccessfully tried to pair LeBron and Steph Curry
A dreary deadline almost saw a seismic transfer of power in the West, as ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Ramona Shelburne reported that the Golden State Warriors unsuccessfully tried to trade with the Los Angeles Lakers to acquire LeBron James. ...
![The ghost of Golden State is starting to make some noise](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/65fc4d0707cff47322eda247216a4c48.jpg)
The ghost of Golden State is starting to make some noise
Steph Curry’s high-arcing game-winner to sink the Phoenix Suns on Saturday night only strengthened his runaway case as The Association’s Most Clutch Player of the Year. An ensuing win over Utah on Monday positioned the Warriors back above the .500 mantle for the first time since Dec. 23. ...
![NBA trade deadline winners & losers; Doc Rivers already starting to lose Bucks players; Jalen Brunson the best PG in the league?](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/b56cf1d642e73893b7d36d3ca99d342e.jpg)
NBA trade deadline winners & losers; Doc Rivers already starting to lose Bucks players; Jalen Brunson the best PG in the league?
So, now that we’ve had a couple of weeks to digest things and get all the Doc Rivers 3-1 lead jokes out of our systems, it’s time to get down to business. Now that Milwaukee has played a few games and had some time with their new head coach, it’s painfully clear that this catastrophe is the definiti...
![The NBA trade deadline was a bit of a dud, but here's a look at who won and who flopped horribly](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/b7d3f74ce17384dec3c134d441080c4b.jpg)
The NBA trade deadline was a bit of a dud, but here's a look at who won and who flopped horribly
After last year’s insane trade deadline, which featured Kevin Durant being dealt to the Phoenix Suns, this year brought a bunch of smaller, shrewd moves that moved teams into contention. We have tracked the trades and broken them down by time-tested winners and losers rubric to track how the day wen...
![The 2024 NBA trade deadline is DOA](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/6f0c12e0b64efea51f2b40c00ee90fad.jpg)
The 2024 NBA trade deadline is DOA
Please for the love of God stop reading this. The 2024 deadline has absolutely no pulse. Do not confuse the volume of trades made with value. I repeat. Do not confuse the volume of trades made with value. This is the Al Capone’s vault of trade deadlines. Instead of Woj Bombs, Adrian Wojnarowski is d...
![Kyrie Irving says NY mayor to blame for lackluster Nets tenure](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/64bb2be2c6684aa659414a3a4c75f1ee.jpg)
Kyrie Irving says NY mayor to blame for lackluster Nets tenure
Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving made his return to the Barclays Center for the first time since being traded. With Irving’s 36-point outburst in the Mavericks’ 119-107 win over Brooklyn, it bears wondering why one of the guard’s best performances ever in the Barclays Center is coming while in a ...
![Sorry, Knicks fans. LeBron James is just not that into you](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/f39b8cbb785642967f1fa0da3ac84618.jpg)
Sorry, Knicks fans. LeBron James is just not that into you
LeBron James sure does love stringing Knicks fans along. It wouldn’t be a pre-agency year for the all-time scoring champ if he weren’t using the Knicks as leverage. In 2010, the Knicks thought they had him. Donnie Walsh had Mike D’Antoni installed as head coach, the cap room to Carmelo Anthony, the ...