0 comments by John Karalis on 6/6/2011
Let’s get this out of the way up front. I hated the way LeBron James conducted himself last off-season. I hated “The Decision.” I hated the way the Miami Heat pre-celebrated a championship. I’m just like most of you. I hated all of it. I’ve been rooting against LeBron and Co. because I wanted them […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 6/5/2011
With the sale of the Detroit Pistons formally approved this past week, the team finally got down to the business of re-shaping its basketball operations. Step one, putting
0 comments by John Karalis on 6/4/2011
Yesterday morning, John Schuhmann of NBA.com cut his salary almost in half is asinine. Almost immediately, the Isiah Thomas jokes started. You couldn’t come within five feet of basketball-related content without someone making a snide Zeke comment. But they were all just jokes, right? Maybe not. Just hours after Donnie Walsh announced he was stepping down […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 6/3/2011
A little more than a month ago, it looked like the New York Knicks were going to do the right thing and keep Team President Donnie Walsh on to finish the job he started. Turns out, they didn’t. MSG Executive Chairman James Dolan said today: “Donnie Walsh and I have mutually agreed that he […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 5/28/2011
NBA players, and pro athletes in general, sometimes get criticized for not doing enough with their fame and fortune off the court to help people. And while that’s sometimes an accurate criticism, it’s not one that can be leveled at Andrew Bogut. The Bucks star helped stir up publicity about a missing teenager in Australia
0 comments by John Karalis on 5/27/2011
The Portland Trail Blazers are an absolute mess of a franchise right now. After going through two GM’s in less than a year, they’re now trying to figure out what to do with their former franchise player, Brandon Roy. Knee injuries have turned the former All-Star into a decent player who can occasionally drop […]
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According to Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Kevin McHale will be the next Houston Rockets coach once the final details are worked out over the long holiday weekend. I’m sure Kevin is sitting in some cabana with Rockets owner Leslie Alexander sipping on mojitos talking about how to use Luis Scola effectively and laughing about how many […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 5/25/2011
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How would you like to be Brian Shaw right now? You had the Cleveland Cavaliers job last season but backed out at the last minute… probably thinking that the Lakers job was just sitting there waiting for him once Phil Jackson retired. I guess it made sense. He had Kobe’s blessing. He’d been with the […]
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Are you ready for a Mavs-Heat Finals? Eastern Conference Finals – Game 4: (1) Chicago Bulls vs. (2) Miami Heat, AmericanAirlines Arena Final Score: Miami 101 – Chicago 93 (OT) Chicago had an 11 point lead early in the game and a six point lead early in the fourth quarter, but Dwyane Wade woke […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 5/24/2011
Barbara Walters etched her name in the fabric of pop culture back in 1981 when she asked Katherine Hepburn “if you were a tree… what kind of tree would you be?” It’s gone down as one of the most bizarre interview questions of all time. But Babs is in luck. Because she could dust that […]
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Detroit Pistons’ Rodney Stuckey just finished his fourth season in the NBA. And over his career he’s averaged a little less than 14 points, a little more than four assists, and a little more than one agent, per year. Stuck just ditched his fourth agent in four years to go with Leon Rose. Rose is […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 5/23/2011
Just days after it was revealed that Portland GM Rich Cho was contemplating suspending Brandon Roy for his comments about wanting more playing time… comes news that Cho has been fired. The team announced today that Director of College Scouting Chad Buchanan will become acting GM. Here’s some of the Blazers press release: “The fit […]
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Derrick Rose was about open more eyes with one comment than he did with his entire MVP season’s worth of play. When ESPN asked this question for its May 16th issue of ESPN The Magazine: “If 1 equals ‘What are PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs)’? and 10 equals ‘Everybody’s Juicing’ … How big of an […]
0 comments by John Karalis on 5/22/2011
Yao Ming is trying to come back from a stress fracture in his left ankle that cost him all but five game last season. He’s about five months removed from surgery to repair the ankle, and now he’s in the midst of a grueling rehab that may just be getting the best of him. His […]
