Less than 24 months ago, Warriors rookie Harrison Barnes was the projected number one pick in the 2011 NBA Draft. After a great freshman year, Barnes and the rest of UNC's starters opted to return to UNC for a run at the NCAA Championship. His sophomore season showed little improvement over his freshman one and […]

The Philadelphia 76ers had a quite the summer.  They were a game away from playing the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Finals and still decided to overhaul their roster, acquiring Andrew Bynum and Jason Richardson in the Dwight Howard deal, surrendering Andre Iguadola in the process. At the same time, the team was (and […]

The Houston Rockets more than likely are going to be pretty bad this coming season.  They have too many power forwards masquerading as small forwards, or vice versa, it's unclear.  They also only have one true center, Omer Asik, who has shown promise but also only averaged 13 minutes a game.  Still, they're going to […]

One of the best trends of the last decade or so in the NFL is the increasing number of college basketball players that have been converted to tight ends.  It started with Tony Gonzalez, then Antonio Gates, now Jimmy Graham from the Saints.  Right in the middle of the athletic basketball playing tight end explosion, […]

With the exception of the Las Vegas oddsmakers, most people are writing the Chicago Bulls out of playoff contention for this season thanks to Derrick Rose's torn ACL and MCL.  But are they still playoff contenders in what is a lopsided Eastern Conference?  Reserve power forward Taj Gibson think told ESPN Chicago he thinks the […]

Remember last year when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar complained about their not being plans to build a statue of the artist formerly known as Lew Alcindor outside of Staples Center?  Well Jabbar has one less thing to complain about.  Yardbarker reports the Lakers will unveil a statue of the NBA's all-time leading scorer sometime during this coming […]

The core of the reigning champion Miami Heat's formation is one of the most hated stories in the NBA. First Dwyane Wade announced he was staying in Miami and Chris Bosh, sitting right next to Wade, announced he would be joining the Heat.  Simple enough.  The next night LeBron James did the Decision and everyone […]

Remember Andrew Bogut? Tall, Australian, plays basketball. It is OK if you don't remember him.  It has been a tough few years for Bogey. First he had that horrific elbow injury that we have all seen one too many times. Then that same injury took so long to heal that it messed up his offensive […]

This is not news to anyone, but the Los Angeles Lakers have one of the richest histories in the NBA. They took a big step in making sure that history continued when they traded for Dwight Howard and Steve Nash. They also made sure that the richest payroll in basketball got richer.  As Larry Coon […]

If Miami Heat forward LeBron James has had the best year a basketball player can have, New Orleans Hornets forward Anthony Davis has probably had the most surreal.  One went from Finals goat to MVP, Finals MVP, NBA Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist.  Pretty great year overall.  Davis went from high school graduate to National […]

The Dwight Howard trade didn't come as a total surprise.  We all knew something was going to happen, we just did not know when and which of the handful of teams that were vying for him would get him.  As you have heard and read by now, it was the Los Angeles Lakers that got […]

With the exception of one of the greatest playoff upsets ever, the Golden State Warriors have been a Western Conference doormat for the better part of the last two decades.  Last year, head coach Mark Jackson was introduced to the media and said the Warriors would make the playoffs.  Before that, new owner Joe Lacob […]

The Lakers and Andrew Bynum's camp have both known for some time that he'd be eligible for an extension starting this summer.  They've also both know, probably since midway through this season at the latest that he's a max contract player.  Despite knowing these two things, Ben Bolch of the Los Angeles Times writes that […]