Stan Van Gundy has surprising admission about Dwight Howard

The Golden State Warriors are on the verge of booking a return trip to the NBA Finals, which is a testament to the dominance of this team with Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green at the core. But Steve Kerr’s role in the team’s success can’t be overlooked, and in one moment during the final stretch of the Warriors’ 109-100 win in Game 3 over the Dallas Mavericks, he showed who’s really in charge by blasting his team’s best player for a defensive lapse that led to a Luka Doncic triple.

Luka Doncic has already made countless defenders look bad over his first four NBA seasons, but it was the Dallas Mavericks star who was put on a poster during Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals on Sunday night. He handled it quite well. Andrew Wiggins threw down a vicious...

Jimmy Butler left Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Saturday night with a knee injury late in the first half and did not return. The Miami Heat star has been dealing with soreness in his right knee throughout the postseason, but many are wondering if a dirty play from a Boston Celtics player contributed to the latest issue.

Kevin Garnett could not help but get in a diss this week at one of his biggest career rivals. The retired Basketball Hall of Famer took to Instagram to clown the Los Angeles Lakers over their search for a new head coach. “Man are the lakers serious?” wrote Garnett with...

An incident involving Steph Curry on Sunday apparently created plenty of flashbacks to 2000s-era HBO. In the first half of Golden State’s Game 3 victory over the Dallas Mavericks, the Warriors star Curry tripped over what appeared an arena worker or vendor as Curry attempted to run up the court. Check out the video.

The Chicago Bulls may have a contingency plan in place in case Zach LaVine decides to dip this summer. Sean Deveney of Heavy.com reported this week that the Bulls have known interest in trading for Philadelphia 76ers guard Matisse Thybulle. Deveney notes that Chicago general manager Marc Eversley has had a fondness for Thybulle, dating back to Thybulle’s college days at Washington. Eversley had previously served as an executive in the Sixers’ front office and was reportedly instrumental in pushing for Philadelphia to draft Thybulle.

Magic Johnson is not exactly known for his hard-hitting analysis, and that continued this week with his latest take on the Los Angeles Lakers. The retired Lakers great Johnson spoke in an interview with David Aldridge of The Athletic and offered a suggestion for how the Lakers might be able to fix the Russell Westbrook situation. Johnson said that the Lakers needed to bring in the right coach and suggested they take Westbrook out for dinner.

Mark Cuban is not happy about having to write another check to the NBA. The league announced on Sunday that the Dallas Mavericks had been fined yet again, this time $100,000, for violating bench decorum rules. The infraction in question took place during Game 2 of their Western Conference Finals series against the Golden State Warriors.

The Los Angeles Lakers have conducted a wide search for their next head coach, but at least one candidate opted against being a part of it. Michigan head coach Juwan Howard turned down a request to be interviewed for the Lakers job, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reports. While Howard played with LeBron James on the Miami Heat and with Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka in college, he is content coaching the Wolverines.

Doc Rivers has been mentioned as a potential candidate to coach the Los Angeles Lakers next season. The Philadelphia 76ers seemingly put that talk to rest when they publicly committed to Rivers earlier this month, but apparently the Lakers are not convinced. NBA reporter Marc Stein wrote on Monday that...

Luka Doncic did not look like himself in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals on Wednesday night, and there were reports that the Dallas Mavericks star was quite ill afterward. That may be true, but the Mavs are not going to let it be an excuse. After the Golden...

It may be time to bring out the magnifying glass and the deerstalker hat when it comes to Zach LaVine’s free agency. TMZ caught up with the Chicago Bulls star LaVine in Los Angeles this week. When asked if he had a message for Los Angeles Lakers fans amid the recent rumors linking him to the Lakers, LaVine seemed to have a telling comment.

The Philadelphia 76ers still have not gone past the second round in over two decades, and it may be one particular player taking the fall this time around. Kyle Neubeck of PhillyVoice reported on Monday that 76ers guard Matisse Thybulle is not untouchable and that the team would entertain the idea of trading him this offseason. Neubeck adds that 76ers would not just dump Thybulle for salary-saving purposes however.

Andrew Wiggins had arguably the best dunk of this year’s playoffs during the Golden State Warriors’ 109-100 win over the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference Finals on Sunday. With the Warriors leading 91-83 in the fourth quarter, Wiggins caught a pass from Steph Curry behind the three-point...

The Boston Celtics needed to get off to a hot start in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat on Saturday. Knowing that the Heat would come out strong after losing Game 2, Celtics head coach Ime Udoka was not pleased with how his team reacted.

The Golden State Warriors have a 2-0 series lead heading into Game 3 of their Western Conference Finals series with the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday. But a key member of their team may be unable to play. The Athletic’s Anthony Slater reported on Saturday that Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins is...

Charles Barkley certainly knows how to make an entrance. Barkley arrived at TNT’s on-site pregame coverage Sunday in Dallas riding a horse. Naturally, the entire thing was broadcast, and somehow made for fantastic television as the analyst navigated through the Dallas crowd. Barkley can be heard dubbing himself the...

The Dallas Mavericks have once again been fined by the NBA over their enthusiastic bench antics. The NBA announced on Sunday that the Mavericks have been fined $100,000 for violating the league’s rules regarding bench decorum. According to the press release, NBA officials determined that players and coaches on the Dallas side were in places they should not have been during Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals on Friday night.

The Washington Wizards struggled on the court last season, but Bradley Beal still sounds committed to the future of the franchise. Beal can opt out of his current contract this offseason, and is expected to do so. At that point, he will be able to sign a five-year deal worth nearly $250 million with Washington, or a four-year pact worth around $180 million with any other team. In a new interview, Beal made it sound as though he still leans toward staying with the Wizards, though nothing is official.

The Dallas Mavericks’ bench has posed an issue for the NBA throughout the postseason, and video from Sunday’s game probably will not make the league very happy. The Mavericks have received multiple fines from the NBA for violations of bench “decorum” during the playoffs. Their violations have included standing on the court and in other prohibited areas during play. One allegation raised by Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr is that Mavericks reserve Theo Pinson, who does not dress for games, wore a white shirt that matched the Warriors’ uniform colors. According to Kerr, the shirt caused Pinson to mix in enough that Stephen Curry mistook him for a Warriors player and wound up passing the ball out of bounds.