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Joel Embiid has had a noteworthy stretch of scoring performance over the last two days. The Process put up 42 points to beat the Hawks on Saturday, but Embiid saved his career-best performance for Sunday against the Utah Jazz. The former Kansas Jayhawk posted a career-high 59 points, 11 rebounds, eight assists, and seven blocks…

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SLAM 240 cover star Kawhi Leonard has been sidelined since Oct. 25 because of stiffness in his surgically repaired right knee. The organization is trying to be cautious with their superstar’s knee because he missed all last season with a torn right ACL, an injury he suffered in the second round of the 2021 playoffs.  …

The Miami Heat are off to a shaky 5-7 start to the new season because their defense is “not where we need it to be,” according to superstar Jimmy Butler. The team comes off a 117-112 overtime victory over the Charlotte Hornets Thursday night. In a game that featured the Heat forcing 20 turnovers, nine…

The Boston Celtics have always been in the mix of championship contention since the pair of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum was formed. Before last season, the perception was that the duo couldn’t co-exist enough to bring the prestigious franchise to the NBA Finals, losing their first two Eastern Conference Finals appearances in 2018 and…

SLAM 235 cover star Azzi Fudd is a superstar. We knew that three years ago when she became the first sophomore to win the Gatorade National Player of the Year high school award. We knew when she signed NIL deals with BioSteel, Chipotle, and Stephen Curry’s Under Armour-affiliated SC30 brand. In her freshman season at…

Commissioner Adam Silver recently said that he has “no doubt” that Kyrie Irving isn’t antisemitic after the two had a “direct and candid conversation” when the two figures met earlier this week at the League’s HQ in New York. Silver and Irving met two weeks after the embattled Nets guard posted an Amazon link to…

Like all native New Yorkers who witnessed the East Coast dominance of Patrick Ewing, Anthony Mason and Co., the moment John Starks turned the corner and rose up for his iconic poster dunk on Horace Grant and His Airness, the image of the 6-3 guard’s crisp white jersey flying through the air was seared into…

Derrick Rose is uncharted territory while dealing with an unexpectedly diminished role this season. The reduced role has left Rose feeling he’s in “the unknown.” The Knicks are 11 games in the 2022-23 campaign, and Rose is essentially at the fringe of head coach Tom Thibodeau’s rotation. This season, the former MVP is averaging 6.0…

Following Jacque Vaughn’s promotion from interim coach to head coach of the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday, a bit of unprecedented history was made. As of Nov. 9, most of the head coaches in the NBA are Black for the first time. To be exact, there are a record 16 African American head coaches. According to Statistica,…