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Lamar Odom is ready to end his marriage with Khloe Kardashian long before the reality TV star filed for divorce.

The New York Knicks might be looking to trade All-Star small forward Carmelo Anthony as the team continues to implode this season, a league source disclosed on Tuesday.

Former Los Angeles Lakers player Lamar Odom and reality TV star Khloe Kardashian aren't getting back together. Yet, the two are always spotted attending events here and there.

Before the season started, the New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls were full of hope and promise that they are going to be top contenders in the Eastern Conference foe 2013. A little over a month and a half have gone in the regular season, and both has varied team issues that is causing them to underperform so far.

The highly-anticipated Kobe Bryant’s return happened Sunday night at the Staples Center against the Toronto Raptors and it was overhyped to say the least. The Black Mamba wasn’t himself (or was) in the 104-to-96 loss to Toronto finishing with just 9 points on 2-of-9 shooting and also had 8 turnovers.

Forget about the rest of the teams in the East, only two teams, the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers will challenge for the conference crown. The defending champions Heat (16-5) visit the league-best Pacers (18-3) Tuesday night in what could be a preview of the East Finals this season.

Veteran free agent Stephen Jackson is returning to the NBA after signing a contract with the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday.

Cats are dogs by 5.5 points at home? The books are severely underrating Charlotte here. The Warriors are the better team but these cats should challenge them all the way.

Two hundred forty days after the first major injury of his career, Kobe Bryant will be back in uniform when the Los Angeles Lakers host the Toronto Raptors on Sunday night at the Staples center.

Kobe Bryant who? According to Lakers head coach Mike D’Antoni he’ll limit Bryant to just less than 20 minutes. With Kobe back of course, D’Antoni won’t be making the decisions. This is a Raps team that was destroyed by Bryant countless times before so this is the perfect comeback game for the Black Mamba and his torn Achilles.

A day after beating the defending Western Conference champions San Antonio Spurs, the Indiana Pacers bring league-best record against yet another powerhouse team from the conference in the Oklahoma City Thunder, which have yet to lose at home this season.

Twenty-eight-year-old Simon Bradley from San Diego, California, would rather watch the Black Mamba return from play after missing the last few months because of a torn Achilles surgery, rather than start the new life with his future wife.

Finally one of New York’s teams will be getting a W! The Knicks look to snap a nine-game losing streak while the Nets want some consistency too—Brooklyn isn’t faring any better over their rivals losing eight of their last 10 games.

As if he really needs a lot of money, NBA superstar Michael Jordan will not take anything less than $13 million for his 56,000 square foot mansion in Chicago, reported by TMZ.

Criticisms of the Portland Trail Blazers’ good start in the 2013-2014 NBA regular season were ripe in the early part of 2013 when they raced to a 12-2 record against seemingly weaker teams. They stopped these critics on their tracks after beating the league’s top team in the Indiana Pacers on Monday.

Rajon Rondo could make his return from an ACL injury very soon after reports that the Boston Celtics point guard has already participated in first days of practice.

The NBA’s 21st game in Mexico will feature the San Antonio Spurs and Minnesota Timberwolves. This should feel like the home game for the Texas team, who owns one of the league’s best records at 15-3 and will be playing in Mexico City for the fifth time in franchise history. The Timberwolves will be strutting their stuff for the first time south of the border.

The United States Sports Academy (USSA) annually gives honours and awards to sports personalities for their successes and accomplishments in their respective fields.

This is not what the Toronto Raptors planned entering the 2013-2014 NBA regular season. After 16 games, the Canadian franchise is four games below 0.500, and on Tuesday they look to avoid their longest losing streak of the season when they visit the Golden State Warriors, a team which is also struggling having lost five of their last seven games.

The Cleveland Cavaliers are still aggressively pushing hard to trade second-year shooting guard Dion Waiters in exchange for picks or another dynamic young player, a reliable league source disclosed last weekend.

Already mired in a disappointing start to the 2013-2014 NBA regular season, the Brooklyn Nets will be missing the services of veteran forward Paul Pierce because of a non-displaced fracture of the third metacarpal in his right hand. The injury will likely to cause him to miss at least two weeks and at most, a month.

We did not expect the New Orleans Pelicans to win straight-up nor did we expect game against the Chicago Bulls to go (way) over, but we’ll take it since it helped us improve our NBA prediction win-loss to 14-5 overall after Monday’s average day picks where we hit six of ten picks—no thanks to Indiana Pacers loss to the Trail Blazers which went way over the total too.

Up to an 8-3 record for the year and we've already made our picks in the Orlando Magic-Washington Wizards game; time for the wagers for the rest of the NBA Monday schedule.

Washington’s franchise player is starting to turn the corner on his way to being a superstar while his team, the Wizards are starting to turn it around having won four of their last five games and have climbed the East rankings. They are just 8-9 for the season but still good enough for fifth-best in the weak conference.

The Indiana Pacers were pegged as one of the top contenders for this season after a successful campaign last year. Not much hype was given to the Portland Trail Blazers but they own one of the best records in the league so far in the 2013-2014 NBA regular season.

Hollywood was left stunned by the untimely passing of Fast and the Furious star Paul Walker.

NBA Superstar Michael Jordan is going to be a father again.

All-Star point guard Tony Parker believed he can have a 20-year playing career with the San Antonio Spurs, the French floor general said in a recent interview with San Antonio Express news.

The Golden State Warriors good start is a thing of the past after struggling in their recent games because of a slew of injuries. The Oklahoma City Thunder are starting to get healthy and appears to be back in contender form after a string of wins.