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When Chicago Bulls Luol Deng, Joakim Noah, and Jimmy Butler met Sir Paul McCartney (PHOTO)

Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com

We have no idea how Chicago Bulls forward Jimmy Butler and Luol Deng teamed with center Joakim Noah and Sir Paul McCartney to create a photo that Kelly Dwyer will someday have tattooed onto his back, but we're very happy Luol took the time to share the …

nba.com

Kyrie Irving couldn't handle playing with just one hand. Now, it's the Cleveland Cavaliers turn.

Dan Devine, yahoo.com

I'm sure Scott Skiles thought he was pretty slick the first time he thought of pointing at his Milwaukee Bucks and saying, "I want you ... to work harder at defending the pick-and-roll." It was an especially nice touch to wear the hat and bear…

Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com

In the year leading up to and the season following LeBron James' insipid 'Decision,' the Cleveland Cavaliers went about things about as incorrectly as one franchise conceivably can. In the time since, luckily for northern Ohioans, the team is doing just…

CNNSI.com

Cavaliers' Irving to miss 4 weeks with fractured finger

Dan Devine, yahoo.com

One of the biggest plays in Monday night's entertaining and competitive — no, really! — contest between the Charlotte Bobcats and Milwaukee Bucks came late in the fourth quarter, with the Bucks holding onto a 96-93 advantage following a 14-6 Bobcats r…

Iam Thomsen, CNNSI.com

Last week I compiled a list of the NBA's top point guards. There turned out to be nine of them, headed by Rajon Rondo, and your responses focused on one player from Cleveland who didn't make the list. So let's get straight to your questions (and suggest…

Kelly Dwyer, yahoo.com

We take no great pleasure in kicking a team while it's down, but the flailing Washington Wizards just can't be ignored. The team still has yet to win a game in nine tries, following Monday night's failed comeback against the Indiana Pacers; but whatever…

Dime Magazine, dimemag.com

Maybe the Clippers are really this good? Or maybe the Spurs just aren’t THAT good? San Antonio has now lost two of their last three home games, and twice already this year to the Clippers. But we’re leaning to the Clippers being pretty good, because, …

grantland.com

Three weeks into the season and it's become clear the Indiana Pacers are in big trouble. An offense that ranked in the top third of the league last se...