Manu Ginobili played only five games this season before breaking his left hand. He had been averaging 17 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 assists per game, and the Spurs were 3-2 in the games that their Argentinian superstar appeared. He had scored at least 23 points in three of those five games though, while only […]

Coming off his NBA Finals win last June, Dallas Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki is currently averaging 17 points, 6 rebounds, and 2 assists per game so far this season. A stat line that’s certainly good, and especially solid for a guy in his 13th NBA season, but maybe not the All Star numbers you’d expect from […]

If this season has taught us anything so far, it’s that everybody loves tall guys. Even if you’re twenty-nine, injured, and love hunting as much as Chris Kaman does. We first referenced the New Orleans Hornets effort last week to trade their newly acquired Center, by way of the Chris Paul to LAC deal, and yesterday morning […]

It wasn’t too long ago that Chauncey Billups was kinda bent about the idea of becoming a Los Angeles Clipper. He didn’t want to be amnestied by the New York Knicks, talked about maybe not even showing up to camp in LA, but he eventually did and is now asking his friends to come join […]

The good news is for the Los Angeles Lakers that they’re still only 12-9. They just beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 106-101 to improve to that mark, in a game where Andrew Bynum went for 21 points and 7 rebounds alongside fellow big man Pau Gasol who finished with 28 and 6. Also good news. Depending […]

GQ caught up with Ricky Rubio recently, for a conversation with the the Minnesota Timberwolves’ rookie, and in the article they later published the author wrote that Rubio is “the January Front-runner for Rookie of the Year”.  Rubio’s playing real well this season, and his 11 points, 9 assists per game averages are indicative of […]

Kobe Bryant will make $53.2 million this year in the business of basketball. That sound you hear is me pounding my head on my desk in frustration with myself for not learning each and every teaching point offered in The Kobe System earlier. It was all right in front of me, and I didn’t listen […]

Luol Deng had been playing pretty well so far this season, and so had his Chicago Bulls. I mean, just look at the picture below if you don’t believe me. They’ve won just about every game that the versatile and improving forward has played in this year, and currently sit in a pretty solid spot […]

It has always paid to be tall. Take it from me, a guy who isn’t. In today’s NBA though, where players like Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, and even a step down to the Brad Daugherty’s of the world are long since retired, it really pays to be tall. Especially if you can couple even a […]

The smartest man in every room he has ever set foot inside sat down for a Q + A with Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel over the weekend, and his answers did appear laced with a relatively high volume of snark. Even for David Stern’s standards. Maybe he’s trying to re-brand himself as being […]

When NBA’ers offer cliche’ filled soundbyte packages during postgame pressers or whatever we have the tendency to respond with a collective eye roll. It’s boring, and sounds like that teacher Charlie Brown had after a while. So many times we can almost recite a response before a particular player even starts talking. We left it […]

The Memphis Grizzlies seemed to have just about everything in the NBA Universe trending their way heading into this season. Zach Randolph had appeared to be reborn as not only a quality locker room guy but also a Top-10 NBA player at the close of last year. He was about to team-up again with Marc […]

The Milwaukee Bucks haven’t won a road game yet this season in eight tries, and things didn’t go too well in their last home date either. After previously being undefeated in their first four chances at home, the Bucks lost in Milwaukee on Tuesday to the visiting Denver Nuggets 105-95. In that loss, Shooting Guard […]

The answer to that question, regarding the Boston Celtics and their “Big Three” as they stumble out the gate this season with a 4-8 record, is I guess, yeah, possibly. While I personally didn’t think we’d be engaging in this type of conversation at all this season, or at least not this early, I suppose […]

Dwyane Wade sprained his right ankle on Friday against the Denver Nuggets. He hasn’t practiced since sustaining that injury, and as a result the Miami Heat announced late Tuesday morning that Wade will be not be participating in Tuesday night’s clash with the San Antonio Spurs. When’s he coming back then you ask? Nobody really […]