The Milwaukee Bucks are a perennial middle-of-the-pack team but were expected to make the playoffs last season in the weak Eastern Conference. Yet they’re back in the lottery, a big step back after a promising 09-10 campaign that featured the memorable “Fear the Deer” catchphrase. Injuries to multiple important players throughout the season didn’t exactly […]

   What’s a young coach to do immediately after losing his first NBA Finals series and searching for answers? For Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra, he was immediately visited by a coaching legend who knows a thing or two about winning rings. At today’s final media interview of the season, Spoelstra revealed how Riley […]

Could a reunion of the Detroit Pistons “Bad Boys” be on the horizon for the troubled franchise? Unfortunately, there isn’t a time machine available to bring back Bill Laimbeer and Isiah Thomas in their prime to help this team return to the playoffs but both are reported to be under consideration by former teammate Joe […]

The one and only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA All-Time Leading Scorer (a fact his own mail signature helpfully points out), penned an open letter directed to fellow Top-50 NBA player Scottie Pippen over his remarks last week concerning LeBron James one day possibly, maybe, could be just a teeny-weeny bit better than fellow teammate Michael […]

Multiple sources have reported that the NBA players union has fired off a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday alleging the NBA is engaging in unfair labor practices.  For the players, their collective bargaining agreement expires on June 30th and this new claim seeks to stop the NBA and the owners from […]

Western Conference Finals – Game 4: (3) Dallas Mavericks vs. (4) Oklahoma City Thunder, Oklahoma City Arena Final Score: Mavericks, 112, Thunder 105. The Thunder trailed through much of Game 3 and behind by as much as 23 points before making a late push to almost steal the game away. This time in Game 4, they […]

It’s a clash of Eastern Conference giants everyone wanted to see and now that the Miami Heat have finished off their hated rivals the Boston Celtics, their reward is facing the first seeded Chicago Bulls in Chicago. OK, so maybe everyone thought the Heat and Celtics would face off in the Eastern Conference Finals but […]

The NBA today announced the players selected for their annual All-NBA squads, as voted by a panel of 119 writers and broadcasters. Miami Heat forward LeBron James was the only unanimous selection with 119 1st team votes while Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose, the newly-crowned MVP, and Orlando Magic center Dwight Howard weren’t far behind […]

Former NBA forward Robert “Tractor” Traylor was found dead today at his home in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico where he was playing for the Vaqueros (“Cowboys”) de Bayamon, the club confirmed on Facebook. He was 34 years old. The much-maligned 6’8″ player battled weight problems throughout his playing career and was actually traded for Dirk […]

Game Three: (1) Chicago Bulls vs (5) Atlanta Hawks, Phillips Arena Final Score: Bulls 99, Hawks 82 The Hawks came back to Atlanta feeling pretty good about themselves after stunning the Bulls with a Game 1 victory and hanging tough for the majority of Game 2. That didn’t appear to sit well with Derrick Rose who took […]

Game Six: (8) Memphis Grizzlies vs. (1) San Antonio Spurs, FedExForum, Memphis, TN Final Score: Grizzlies 99, Spurs 91 The Grizzlies finally close out the series against the top-seeded 61-game-winning Spurs, only the second 8th-seed team to accomplish the feat in a seven-game 1st-round series after the Golden State Warriors memorably beat the Dallas Mavs in 2007.   […]