Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:   Chaos in Lob City The assembled media at the Staples Center just wanted to do its job.  The Clippers had just lost to a Phoenix Suns team playing without Steve Nash or Grant Hill.  There […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  It was free basketball night in The Association Lots of free basketball played last night in the NBA, as four overtimes were played in three games.  The Lakers needed two of them to top the Grizzlies […]

Welcome to rumor season in the NBA.  Between now and March 15th, we’ll use this post as a constantly running thread of the latest trade rumors in the NBA.  Some of the bigger rumors might get featured on their own, but this is where we’ll keep running track of what the latest rumors are.  March […]

Let me start with saying that this may well be an overstatement or even false.  But Ric Bucher, I believe, is actually a reporter who wouldn’t go with a story if the source can’t be trusted.  Here’s the report, and we’ll go from there:  One source close to the situation told ESPN The Magazine’s Ric […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day.   1:  Gravity’s a bitch, ain’t it? There’s only a month and a half left in this insane NBA season, so we’re starting to get a better sense of who’s for real and who’s not in the […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  It’s a great rivalry… but…  The Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers engaged in an entertaining back-and-forth yesterday afternoon that showed all the signs of a classic rivalry. Neither team was able to pull away after […]

J.R. Smith has never been confused for Rhodes Scholar. He does a couple of things well: scoring the basketball and providing a canvas for America’s tattoo artists. Beyond that, he’s a bit of an ass.   That’s the easiest segue I’ll ever get in my writing career, because it’s a picture of one that earned […]

Every Sunday, the CC staff will get together to present our plays and players of the week. PLAYER OF THE WEEK Kevin Love 3 Games (2-1) 33.0 ppg16.3 rpg1.7 apg Philip Rossman-Rich:  This might be the last week we talk about the Timberwolves in a positive light after the injury to Ricky Rubio in Friday’s […]

Our nightly look ahead to the schedule with a couple of notes and story lines so you can plan out your NBA viewing.  All Times Eastern. Fire up the League Pass  8:00  LA Lakers @ Minnesota Timberwolves  Did you know only 2.5 games separate the Timberwolves from the Lakers out West?  The only teams better […]