The Magic appear ready to move on from Dwight Howard, and step one of rebuilding the franchise is finding a new coach and leader. Doing that has taken a bit longer than expected as likely the top candidates are waiting to see what Orlando puts together in a Dwight Howard trade package. Rob Hennigan though […]

At long last, the final player in the Dwight Howard saga seems ready to make something happen. After more than seven months of half-hearted efforts and clinging to dreams, the Magic seem ready to make good on their promise to move on from the Dwight Howard saga and trade the superstar center. Things came to […]

The New Orleans Hornets have had the biggest makeover of any team in the league so far this offseason. Not that many teams can do anything until the signing moratorium is lifted on July 10. The Hornets drafted Anthony Davis as their franchise pillar with the top pick in the draft and then added Austin […]

Surprise, surprise. Dwight Howard has not backed off his trade demand and told new Magic general manager Rob Hennigan he wants to be traded in a face-to-face meeting in Southern California on Friday, preferrably to the Brooklyn Nets. The Magic appear finally to be ready to trade Howard and end this crazy saga. Of course, […]

There are few jobs that are as polarizing as NBA GM. There are some great ones and there are some awful ones and few in between. There are few announcers who say what they think like Charles Barkley. While Barkley has had an incredibly successful run as the loudmouth opinion machine on TNT’s Inside the […]

By now, everyone knows the NBA Draft is an inexact science. For every Dwight Howard, there is a Kwame Brown. For every Curtis Borchardt, there is an Al Jefferson. And so on and so forth. The point is, there are plenty of players with lots of talent who get passed up for whatever reason — […]

Draft night is getting a close inspection in Orlando. This will be Rob Hennigan’s first chance to show Magic fans what the team is going to be about. It is also the time when assets are flying about and those highly coveted, and extremely cheap, draft picks go flying out the door. Many suspect that […]

David Stern hit some hot water during the Playoff in an interview with Jim Rome. Rome, in his ever-confrontational, smack-driven way, asked Stern how he would respond to those fans and observers who suspect the league rigs the lottery to get a result it wants. Few are able to spar with Stern and come out […]

Brandon Jennings’ career has always had a big-fish, small-pond feeling (well, at least in his own head). Remember on Draft night three years ago, Jennings elected to skip attending the Draft because he and his agent were afraid he was not going to be picked in the lottery and then showed up late after the […]

Turning on ESPN or talking with casual fans (or even die-hard fans) about the 2012 NBA Finals leads to one conclusion: this one is LeBron James’ title. It has cemented his legacy and achieved status as an all-time great. Now it is just about rank-ordering him, but at least we can have those conversations. ESPN […]

The champagne probably has not dried off of LeBron James’ jersey yet after his masterful triple double to close out the Oklahoma City Thunder and win his first NBA championship. There will be a lot of time to bask in championship glory throughout the offseason. There is still another prize to be won though. Team […]

The Orlando Magic have their man to lead them into whatever comes next. The team announced late Wednesday that Oklahoma City assistant general manager Rob Hennigan will be the team’s general manager. The exhaustive search comes at just the right time as the team has a week to prepare for the Draft and begin figuring […]

The basketball World Cup does exist already. It is the FIBA World Championships that take place every four years (the next one is in 2014 in Spain). For the U.S., the Olympics are the be-all and end-all for international basketball. Thanks to the compilations of “Dream Teams,” the Olympics captured American fans’ imaginations. That era […]

Jason Terry has been a staple off Dallas’ bench for the last eight season. Before the 2011 season, Terry boldly got a tattoo of the Larry O’Brien Trophy and then was a critical player off the bench as the Mavericks made good on that promise and won the franchise’s first NBA championship, exorcising some demons […]

The Bobcats had reportedly whittled their list of general managers to three names — Brian Shaw, Jerry Sloan and Quinn Snyder. So it figures that the team that had the worst record in NBA history went away from that list for a young coach with little NBA experience. Bonus points if you know who Bobcats […]