Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Schizophrenic Knicks get it together The Knicks were getting absolutely crushed last night.  Demolished.  Picked apart by Kyrie Irving and the Cavs.  Internet commenters were cracking their knuckles and warming up their keyboards ready to trash […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Derrick Williams sure likes going home Derrick Williams rookie season as been what some might call “up and down.”  He’s certainly provided a few highlights, connecting with Ricky Rubio more than a few times.  But his […]

What Andray Blatche could be (or rather, should be) and what he is are vastly different things.  What Andray Blatche could be, if you took the best things that he’s done over six-plus years in the NBA and strung them together, would be a scary amalgam of inside and outside game with the length to […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Wade broke Kobe’s nose, gave him a concussion The game was, you know, an All Star game until the 8:48 mark in the third quarter when Kobe Bryant got past Dwyane Wade on the baseline.  Until […]

Every Sunday, the CC staff will get together to present our plays and players of the week. PLAYER OF THE WEEK Kevin Durant 4 Games (2-2) 35.7 ppg7.2 rpg4.7 apg3.2 spg Phil Rossman-Reich:  When 28 points is your “bad offensive” night of the week, something is going very right in your career. Durant scored a career-high […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Even David Stern has been Linfected Sorry.  As a paid member of the media, I’m contractually obligated to make one Lin pun a day for the rest of the month.   Not one to miss a […]

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 7:00  New York Knicks @ Miami Heat (TNT) I know you can do this with a lot of different things, but what if I […]

Washington Wizards center JaVale McGee has the talent to be a good player in the NBA.  He’s also a 24-year old kid whose head seems to be a little elsewhere at times.  Those lapses produce hilarious results for the rest of us, but it’s more faceplam than funny in Washington.   And with that I […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  The Nets <3 Dwight… maybe a little too much. The Magic beat New Jersey last night in a game that was secondary to the hype surrounding all the chatter about Dwight wanting to go to the […]

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 7:30 Atlanta Hawks @ New York Knicks  The Knicks and Hawks are two teams heading in opposite directions.  I don’t know if you’ve heard, […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Who does Gregg Popovich work for? There was some debate last night over a classic Pop move.  With the Spurs riding an 11 game winning streak, he sat Tim Duncan and Tony Parker with Manu Ginobili […]

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  Philadelphia 76’ers @ Memphis Grizzlies  We’re looking at a pair of teams on the verge of making that next step.  Both Philly and […]