0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 10/8/2013
Ryan Anderson has had a clear upward trajectory for most of his career. Everything seemed to go right for the young power forward. After an average rookie year in New Jersey, he found the perfect fit with Dwight Howard and Orlando's shot-happy 3-point shooting offense. He parlayed it in to the NBA's Most Improved Player […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 10/7/2013
Dwight Howard has followed LeBron James into the NBA, into infamy, and now, he hopes, to redemption. The media and fans skewered Howard for his two year odyssey through free agency, making him persona non grata in the NBA world. Reclaiming his reputation as one of the NBA's funny guys, jokesters and light hearted players […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 10/5/2013
Yes, that is basketball you see on NBATV today. Real life basketball. With uniforms, starting lineups, fans, the whole thing! OK, maybe it is just preseason basketball. But an NBA team played another professional team for the first time this season as the Thunder opened play against Fenerbahce Ulker in Istanbul, Turkey. And there was […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 10/4/2013
The Clippers billed themselves as a fast-breaking, high-flying team of super athletes and the puppeteer in Chris Paul to pull the strings and run things. It was a renaissance for the franchise as the team went from laughing stock to real credibility really for the first time in frnachise history. Last year marked the first […]
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Roy Hibbert's summer was most likely a good one. He likely improved some part of his game, built some muscle and put on weight. His summer was incomplete however. Something he desperately wanted to do was left beyond his reach. Trying out for, being a part of and, eventually, playing for Team USA. That is […]
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Since we were talking about this anyway with Michael Jordan claiming he could be LeBron James one on one and Kobe Bryant stole all of his moves, why not ask another all-time great who the all-time greatest is. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was asked this very question on the Colin Cowherd Show and came up with an […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 10/3/2013
Our pals at Red's Army might have the perfect way to summarize Brad Stevens' first two days of Celtics training camp. Details. It is all in the details. This appears to be the way Stevens is approaching his work with the Celtics. It is the way he had to at Butler when he led the […]
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An innocuous tweet set the basketball Twittersphere on fire as two of the league's best perimeter players went at it over something us fans are usually left to argue over. It all started when Kevin Durant noted that Sports Illustrated had left James Harden off of its list of the top-10 players. Durant went a […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 10/2/2013
As Rasheed Wallace walked away from the media scrum in Orlando during Summer League in July, he had to do a double take when a media member referenced him as "Coach Wallace." Seeing a 6-foot-10 man do a double take, especially one with Wallace's history was a sight to see. He certainly did not look […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 10/1/2013
Most of us — read: all of us — will never be able to shoot like Stephen Curry. There are not many guys in the NBA who could even get in the conversation with Curry. Now, at least, we can all taste what Stephen Curry is tasting while he is shooting. That came out really […]
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When you go to Kentucky as a freshman, you know your time is limited. John Calipari's teams are a revolving door replacing talented youngsters with talented youngsters on a constantly repeating basis. If you do not make the most of your one year, that replacement is coming right behind you. Even though he played behind […]
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During the summer, Mark Cuban challenged Mavericks fans to design the newest Mavericks jerseys to be worn for the 2015-16 season. We were able to get a sneak peek at several of the designs submitted through the crowdsourcing site crowdSPRING during the summer and everyone seemed impressed with some of the designs. Now, Mark Cuban […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 9/30/2013
It has been a long journey for Amar'e Stoudemire in New York. His first year, he was a revelation. Given the keys to the marquee franchise in the NBA (or at least the loudest) and playing amazingly well. Stoudemire was an MVP candidate for crying out loud. That was a long time ago. The Knicks […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 9/28/2013
Media Days are getting set to kick off training camps all around the NBA. Well, if you are one of the teams going overseas for exhibition games like the Bulls or Thunder, the teams met the media for the first time as the season gets set to start and the real work gets set to […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 9/26/2013
The Phoenix Suns' offense from the mid-2000s has gained mythical status. Mike D'Antoni's Seven Seconds or Less book explaining the philosophy of the Steve Nash-driven fast-breaking offense ensured that his team, which never made the Finals, would live on forever. Fast-breaking teams around the league have tried to copy this initial success. Not even Nash though has […]
