CBS Sports NBA guru Ken Berger minces no words when describing what is going on with the Los Angeles Lakers at the moment.  With Pau Gasol publicly fretting about his status with the Lakers and Kobe Bryant going public with his desire to have the chatter end, eyes have turned to the Lakers front office. […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1: DERONSANITY!!!  No, that’s no good. DERONCREDIBLE!!!  Ugh… no. DERON… ummmm oh Deron Williams was awesome last night. Lin is a much easier name for puns. Since this was under such a spotlight, let’s just cut to the […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Gods of Thunder   The Oklahoma City Thunder pulled one off for the ages last night.  Their 124-118 overtime win was a pretty good hard-fought game.  The Nuggets got to 118 by having seven players hit […]

Every Sunday, the CC staff will get together to present our plays and players of the week. PLAYER OF THE WEEK LeBron James 4 Games (4-0) 27.3 ppg8.8 rpg5.2 apg1.8 spg Kyle Boenitz:  We’ve been down this road before. It seems like LeBron is winning Player of the Week all the time, and it’s for […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day.   1:  The Blazers free fall continues A month seems like, well, a lot longer than a month in this insane NBA season.  And it has only been a month since the Blazers were the best team […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Lin keeps on rolling with another career high This time, it’s in the assist column.  Lin dropped 13 dimes to continue the insert-name-pun-here roll he’s been on… a roll so amazing he’s even captured President Obama’s […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Let’s not get too Linsane here Let’s start with what everyone is talking about.  The Jeremy Lin saga gets kicked up a notch.   It’s an amazing story.  What he did last night was unreal.  And […]

Crossover Chronicles is a relatively new blog, so we decided it was a good idea to introduce you to the crew. We’ve been doing that in a new feature called “Writer-Palooza.”  Over the past few days, we’ve featured one writer, introducing him to you via an original piece, his favorite basketball video, and a wildcard […]

Crossover Chronicles is a relatively new blog, so we decided it was a good idea to introduce you to the crew. We’ve been doing that in a new feature called “Writer-Palooza.”  Over the past few days, we’ve featured one writer, introducing him to you via an original piece, his favorite basketball video, and a wildcard […]

Every morning, we’ll give you five things from the night before in the NBA to start your day. 1:  Caron gets his ring, Mavs get the win The Dallas Mavericks are in a perpetual championship celebration.  Every time one of their former players comes to town with another team, they hold a nice little ceremony […]

Crossover Chronicles is a relatively new blog, so we decided it was a good idea to introduce you to the crew. We’ve been doing that in a new feature called “Writer-Palooza.”  Over the past few days, we’ve featured one writer, introducing him to you via an original piece, his favorite basketball video, and a wildcard […]

Every Sunday, the CC staff will get together to present our plays and players of the week. PLAYER OF THE WEEK Jeremy Lin 4 games (4-0) 27.3 ppg8.3 apg4.0 rpg2.2 spg Jeremy Lin’s game right now exits at the nexus of ability, effort and underestimation.  The underestimation part will go away shortly.  Lin has taken […]

Anderson Varejao has suffered a fractured wrist, an MRI reveals. Tough blow for Cavs and him. Many teams had been anxious to trade for him. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA)