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This Thursday is an important date for the 2016-17 NBA season. Not only is it the deadline for the league or its players to opt out of the current collective bargaining agreement, but it also marks the first day teams can trade free agents they signed...

Media days continue to go off with a bang around the NBA. As teams gear up for the 2013-14 regular season, they're facing questions about what comes next, what their expectations are and, in some cases, why they love defense so much. Players and franchise...

Offseason grades for the West For years, the Western Conference, as a whole, has been uniformly stronger than the East. That trend continued this summer. On Wednesday we graded out the entire Eastern Conference. With just one "A" and one "A-" it's...

In the classic war movie Apocalypse Now, Marlon Brando plays a decorated American colonel who has abandoned the war in Vietnam to set up his own dystopian military conclave in Cambodia that features random missions, animal sacrifices and human beheadings...

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