Chris Palmer of ESPN.com on Russell Westbrook’s needed areas of improvement: “Clearly, Westbrook needs to reevaluate his approach. He’ll get his points but needs to become a savvier game manager and embrace the role of

KD is one of many athletes to vote on what their favorite Derek Jeter was. It’s all promo stuff for Gatorade, you see. Howard Bryant of ESPN.com talking sense: “Instead of learning from baseball,

Matt Moore of CBSSports.com on things that should get you pumped about next year: “Let’s start with the Thunder. Durant will have had the entire lockout to stew over that playoff loss, to struggle

Kurt Helin of PBT takes on my hard cap small market thing: “Which is to say, the NBA’s middle class will go away. What drives up the Lakers payroll is less Kobe and more

Happy Freedom everyone. Enjoy your toasty Fourth of July wherever you may be. Here’s a video of KD and Russ representing the red, white and blue well. Serge Ibaka might consider playing in Spain:

The NBA may be locked out, but life goes on. No games have been lost yet. We’re just not enjoying free agency right now, which isn’t that big of a deal. Don’t panic until

D-Day for labor negotiations. More than likely, owners will vote to lock players out today in Dallas. Ken Berger of CBSSports.com though has an excellent piece that unfortunately no one will listen to: “A

There was an odd piece on Grantland yesterday talking about stats. Tom Scocca of Deadspin wrote about it: “Yes, if you want to get technical about it, J.J. Barea did have a teammate who