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Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard (12) and Denver Nuggets forward Danilo Gallinari (8) from Italy, reach for the ball during the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

NBA Moments: Denver finds another gold Nugget against Houston

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When we last checked in with the Houston Rockets, they had defeated the Los Angeles Clippers in Staples Center. They left the previous weekend with a justifiable sense that — four-game winning streak in tow — they had begun to turn the corner. One weekend later, that notion lies in ruins, as the Rockets — […]

The Lakers and their slow-motion trainwreck, in 2 tweets

0 comments by CC Locker on 11/11/2015

The Los Angeles Lakers are in more trouble than their record indicates, if that’s possible. Columnists and opinion-givers are always shouting about how this coach stinks and that coach should be fired. Everyone has an opinion. With the Lakers, it’s becoming objectively difficult to say that keeping Byron Scott on the job is even remotely […]

3-game losing streaks define a very fragile November

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It is the afternoon of Wednesday, November 11, just two full weeks into the new NBA season. Teams have generally played seven to nine games at this point. Naturally, any team with a 1-6 or 1-7 record has lost at least three games in a row. Yet, what’s utterly fascinating about the young season, just two […]

The night the NBA began to worry

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That’s an admittedly alarmist title, but it’s not exactly untrue. Tuesday night was the night the NBA began to worry… about the health of many of its best players. Bradley Beal did not play in what was one of the most anticipated early-season games on the schedule, the clash between Beal’s Washington Wizards and the […]

Home is not very sweet in the young NBA season

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Home sweet home? In Cleveland and Oakland, yes… but not in many other places. The NBA we see today is not a place where home-court dates lead to happy fans leaving an arena’s gates. This is not a new revelation. However, the extent to which the young season has reaffirmed this truth might come as […]

NBA moments: Drummond, Reggie, and a remarkable fourth quarter

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The stats and the scenes from Portland told the story on Sunday night. The Detroit Pistons’ greatest win in the state of Oregon was their Game 5 triumph in the 1990 NBA Finals, which clinched a second straight world championship. Sunday night’s game, in the first weeks of a new season, won’t acquire earth-shattering significance… […]

NBA moments: Bazemore and the Hawks do more against the Wizards

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When the Atlanta Hawks fended off the Washington Wizards last spring in the Eastern Conference semifinals, the result was more the product of the John Wall injury and the erratic Washington frontcourt than anything the Hawks did. It was a close call, of course — Atlanta did plenty of things to earn the series. Al […]

NBA moments: The Rockets win in Staples Center

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It might sound hokey — it might even be hokey — but NBA seasons are filled with moments that stand out a little more than others. Good teams play other good teams. Bad teams play other bad teams. They criss-cross and face opponents on the other side of the tracks. Everything matters to some degree, […]

Bradley Beal sinks the Spurs in D.C.

0 comments by CC Locker on 11/4/2015

Brad is a bad man. Bradley Beal of the Washington Wizards, his veins made of ice, splashed this three with 0.3 seconds left to defeat the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night:

The Timberwolves lost because of a horrible basketball rule

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Monday night, the Minnesota Timberwolves — having paid tribute to Flip Saunders — wanted to make the moment count in their home opener against the Portland Trail Blazers. Andrew Wiggins wanted to make a moment, period. In the final minute of regulation, he did… for the wrong reasons. With the Timberwolves trailing, 103-101, Wiggins did […]

Monday night was Grisly for Memphis

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Well, Memphis, at least your college football team still has a chance at a championship this season. Harsh? Yes. Uncharitable? Yes. Inaccurate? I don’t think so… which is why that needed to be said. You could put forth dozens of different reasons why Monday night’s 50-point win by the Golden State Warriors over the Memphis […]

Showtime Steph Curry against the Grizzlies

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No one’s playing better basketball in the NBA than Stephen Curry… and no one’s having more pure fun, either. It’s his world, one week into the season, as the Golden State Warriors destroyed the Memphis Grizzlies Monday night with plays such as this one:

2016 NBA championship forecast

0 comments by on 10/27/2015

We’ll revisit this topic when the playoff brackets are set in mid-April, but surely, any NBA site has to make a championship prediction before tip-off on Opening Night of a new regular season. Will the city of Cleveland finally win a professional sports championship, and will the Cavaliers finally win their first NBA crown? Here’s […]

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The 5 biggest storylines of the 2015-2016 NBA season

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What are the five biggest storylines of the NBA season which begins tonight? You’ll find out soon enough. Merry Hoopmas, from all of us here at Crossover Chronicles. * SEAN WOODLEY 1 – The Thunder. New coach, Durant’s return from injury, the best and deepest supporting cast this team’s big three has ever had, Enes […]

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