It’s one of the most wonderful times of the year: March Madness. You have your bracket(s) ready. Your boss understands what you’ll be doing today. And your alma mater is (hopefully) ready for a deep tournament run. What about the players who will actually take the floor and decide the games, though? Are you up to speed with them? Don’t worry; no one could be expected to know every player in this year’s field. What’s really important is being able to hold your own in bar debates with your friends as we march toward the Final Four and a new national champion.

As college takes center stage with March Madness, we look at several NBA storylines, including a bunch of promising teams and players that have slowly grown frustrating.

Paul Flannery wrote about why the NBA trade deadline was so quiet in his latest Sunday Shootaround, and one piece of the theory has stuck with me: certain teams were hesitant to make blockbuster moves because their odds of actually knocking off the historic Warriors or the near-historic Spurs in the playoffs would remain nil.

Less than a week remains until the NBA trade deadline and there is still plenty of uncertainty about how much activity will actually take place before the clock hits 3 p.m. EST Feb. 18. Big names like Blake Griffin and Carmelo Anthony, despite the various levels of speculation around them at times, seem unlikely to be moved – though a […]

Blake Griffin was suspended four games without pay on Tuesday for punching a team staff member, and the Los Angeles Clippers will dock the star forward’s pay for an additional game because he broke his shooting hand. In all, Griffin will lose $859,442 from his season salary of $18,907,725.