Thursday, the Suns signed Michael Redd to a one-year deal, picking up the often-injured shooting guard hoping to add… more shooting. That has been how to define the Suns in recent years. Offense, offense and more offense. The championship window for Steve Nash and the Suns closed a while ago and it seems every move […]

Everyone was doing their best not to make too much of a big deal out of Thursday’s matchup between Dwight Howard and the his supposed top landing spot, the New Jersey Nets. Avery Johnson’s focus was on adjusting his lineup to get better starts — Sundiata Gaines and Memo Okur moved into starting roles Thursday […]

It might surprise you to know Andray Blatche is a team captain for the Washington Wizards. The sometimes moody Blatche is a middling player, averaging a career-high 16.8 points per game and 8.2 rebounds per game, although he shot just 44.5 percent from the floor and seemed to favor his mid-range jumper more than any […]

The New Jersey Nets have high hopes this season. With Deron Williams on board for a full year, New Jersey was thinking playoffs and probably a little bigger thanks to Dwight Howard making it known Brooklyn is his favored landing spot. Williams has all but told Billy King and Mikhail Prokhorov he will stay with […]

The NBA can be a whirlwind. This lockout turned it into an all-out hurricane. Even on the eve of the beginning of the season, several NBA veterans were without new homes and were still out on the free agent market. Some were still waiting for buyouts from Europe, others simply had not found the deal […]

The question will trail the Magic everywhere they go, whether they want it to or not. The broadcasts of Sunday’s matchup between Orlando and Oklahoma City offered that stark contrast in the story and where the team wants its focus and where the national media seems desperate to take it. While Doris Burke and the […]

The NBA’s shortened offseason has seemingly been about the inevitable departure of superstars from the teams that drafted them. Chris Paul was already traded from the Hornets to the Lakers Clippers and a Dwight Howard trade seems inevitably on the block and out of Orlando for greener pastures. Much like last summer when Kevin Durant […]

The New Jersey Nets have Brook Lopez in their plans — both immediate and long-term. Immediately, he is the center for the Nets, the guy who can balance the offense and maybe anchor the defense for the Nets. In the long-term (and that long-term lasts until the end of the season) he is the critical […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are at one of those rare moments in their franchise’s history where the team is at a crossroads. The team has a new coach, is eyeing its next superstar acquisition and is dealing with the reality of their star’s mortality. The failure in the Western Conference Semifinals sweep to the Mavericks […]

Kobe Bryant will sit out the epic preseason rematch between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers tonight and is listed as day-to-day after he tore a ligament in his right wrist. Bryant injured the wrist in the third quarter of Monday’s game when he fell to the floor following a block from DeAndre Jordan. […]

We still do not know what a 66-game season will look like. Even just a week away from this crazy journey beginning. Will players be ready to go immediately or will the first six games or so still look like preseason? Is two weeks of training camp enough for good basketball? Will players succumb to […]

Richard Hamilton has been well known for wearing his mask with the headband firmly draped across it to hold it in place. The Chicago Bulls have not been well known as a team friendly to headbands. The team has had a policy banning the head bands unless medically required for a while now. Remember even […]

Kris Humphries has been in the news for the reasons he does not want to be. Then again, that might be what you get when you marry and then divorce a reality star. Usually he would have basketball to distract him from all the off-court drama he has filled his life with, but as a […]

DeMarcus Cousins knows how to make a joke. He would be a junior in college this year after all if he had elected to stay at Kentucky. The sophomore player though sometimes let the joke invade a little too much of his play. Cousins was part of that crazy baby freshmen class at Kentucky that […]

The New Orleans Hornets have been hurtling toward the news from Wednesday that sent its all-star point guard to the not-quite-as-bright lights of the Los Angeles Clippers. The Hornets devolved into a sense of madness as the supposedly independent team management desperately sought the league’s approval on a Chris Paul deal. They appeared to have […]